Last month, Tampa-based strip club pioneer Joe Redner successfully sued the state for the right to grow his own medical marijuana. Now Redner is going after the state to undo its hilariously restrictive licensing rules, which have allowed only a handful of politically connected companies into the game.
Long before he voted for it, economists and policy experts warned Marco Rubio that Republicans’ giant tax cut for the wealthy would not help the American working class. Barely a week after voting for the cuts anyway, Rubio admitted those experts were right, telling the Southwest Florida News-Press he didn’t think the bill would “create dramatic economic growth.”
A federal grand jury today unsealed multiple criminal charges against Antwan Johnson, a guard accused of encouraging a group of young inmates to beat up 17-year-old Elord Revolte, a detainee at a juvenile facility. As first reported in the Miami Herald’s Pulitzer-nominated investigative series Fight Club, Revolte died August 31, 2015, from what appear to be injuries sustained during the beating.
In 2015, Spanish-language pop icon Alejandro Sanz appeared on Mexican television and in Mexican newspapers to promote his wife’s new venture: A school in Midtown Miami called the Rainbow Cultural Garden, which purported to train toddlers to speak as many as seven languages at once. In response, sisters Loreta and…
Every year for nearly a decade, Fred Guttenberg took the stage at his daughter Jaime’s dance recital for a routine called “Dancing Dads.” The number featured all of the dance dads doing their best to follow choreography and ended with all of the girls joining their fathers onstage.
This past Friday, New Times reported that a tiny school in midtown Miami, the Rainbow Cultural Garden, has obvious ties to NXIVM (pronounced “Nexium”), an alleged sex cult run by Albany, New York’s Keith Raniere, who was arrested in March on sex-trafficking charges. Raniere’s alleged confidant, former Smallville actress Allison Mack, was arrested…
Al Crespo has never been shy about his past. Before he became a pugnacious blogger, he robbed banks and served years in prison. So when Crespo watched Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo publicly shame a city employee last night over an old arrest record, he became so irate he hopped into his car and sped to Dinner Key to lambaste Carollo in front of the commission.
In 2015, Raquel Perera, wife of 17-time Latin Grammy winner Alejandro Sanz, debuted a school called the Rainbow Cultural Garden in posh midtown Miami. Speaking to Univision, Perera bragged that by immersing toddlers in as many as seven languages at once, the school would revolutionize teaching. Univision credited a New York guru named Keith Raniere with developing the unusual plan.
Leading up to the NFL Draft, there was massive speculation the Dolphins might be in the market for a quarterback in the first round if things went their way. With Ryan Tannehill coming off 19 months on the shelf after a pair of knee injuries, and his contract only getting pricer…
Since 2014, a colony of homeless sex offenders has been rapidly growing by the railroad tracks near Hialeah. Nobody wants them there, including the dozens who call the ramshackle camp home. Everyone, from the Homeless Trust to the ACLU to the county commission, agrees the encampment is a public health and safety hazard. But for years, the sex offenders have said that restrictive county laws mean they have nowhere else to legally live and that county officials have failed to solve the problem.
When former Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega was hired to run the cop shop in North Bay Village in 2015, he set out to hire a trusted veteran without local ties to head the internal affairs department. That person would also tackle sensitive political cases if they arose. Noriega chose Sam Bejar, a retired MBPD vet with decades of experience.
Last week, dozens of protesters picketed a payday lenders’ conference at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral to highlight an industry they say preys on the poor. Around the same time, some Miami-Dade commissioners voted to sign a contract with a payroll loan company that wants to do business with county employees — and that has showered commissioners with thousands in donations.
For 26 years, Gustavo Falcon lived the mundane life of a middle-aged suburban-Orlando dad. He jogged, he worked an ordinary job, and — unbeknownst to all of his new friends and neighbors — he kept one eye over his shoulder for the federal agents he knew one day would catch up to him.
This Thursday, the 83rd-annual NFL Draft will kick off at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which means the Miami Dolphins are about to add some new employees. For Fins fans, the draft sparks both good and bad memories. There’s getting Dan Marino in 1983, and then there is, well, nearly everything else.
The morning of April 17, Wilbur Cauley left all of his belongings in their usual place: stacked by a fence under the I-395 overpass at NW First Court and 13th Street. It was in the middle of a four-block area where about 30 homeless Miamians live. That morning, Cauley, an Army veteran in his late 50s who served three years in…
Last week, Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv visited a gun range with his dad and practiced shooting an AR-15. He later posted about the experience on Twitter, where he uploaded a video of himself firing at a silhouette target.
When Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida in 1992, the Category 5 storm destroyed much of Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Miami, a prison that houses 1,000 inmates near Zoo Miami. So whenever serious storms have threatened since then, the feds have evacuated inmates. In 2004, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) moved inmates out as Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne moved in.
When a group of Coral Springs Police officers rushed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High this past February following reports of an active shooter, one officer says he arrived to find Broward Sheriff’s deputies taking cover behind cars and a tree — despite knowing that shooter Nikolas Cruz was still inside firing on students.
Miami’s Democratic Socialists of America brought together former Florida state Sen. Dwight Bullard, United We Dream activist Maria Bilbao, National Nurses United representative Millicent Bowerbank, and Miami midwife Jamarah Amani, who phoned in from a live birth, to discuss a health-care plan that would work for everyone and how to push for it in Florida.
Of 193 countries on the planet, only a handful do not offer paid job leave for new parents: Suriname, Papua New Guinea, a few island nations in the Pacific — and the United States, the richest country in the world and only “developed” nation on the list. In light of how many other countries have solved this problem, fixing the issue should be easy.
As the white Chevy Tahoe hurtled toward Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward schools Superintendent Robert Runcie jammed an iPhone to his ear. Between a never-ending stream of calls from reporters and school staffers and politicians asking questions he couldn’t yet answer, he dialed Sheriff Scott Israel. Just a few hours…
Miami New Times’ managing editor has won a Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award in non-deadline reporting for his story “Hooked: How a Floating Bale of Cocaine Led to the Florida Keys’ Worst Murder in Decades.”
