For those trying to find affordable housing in Miami Beach, it’s been a long wait: More than 500 households have been on the city’s waitlist since 2015, while the Beach’s nonprofit affordable-housing provider has 1,200 people in its backlog.
After sub-hurricane-force winds blew out vast swaths of South Florida’s electrical grid for days when Hurricane Irma hit last September, residents began asking what seemed like an obvious question: Why hasn’t Florida Power & Light, the state-regulated electricity monopoly, buried more power lines underground to protect them from tropical storms?
James “Michael” Montgomery thought he was going to get hit when a Miami cop pulled in front of his scooter at a busy intersection and tried to make a left turn, despite a sign indicating left turns weren’t allowed. As traffic built up behind him at the green light, Montgomery frantically honked his horn and yelled, “No left turn!”
In January, the Florida Immigrant Coalition shared two videos of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents storming onto Greyhound buses in the Sunshine State, where they asked passengers for their citizenship “papers” and hauled some away. In one case, agents removed a Jamaican grandmother, and in another they apprehended…
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has bombed the entire nation to pieces, starved its citizens via a blockade, caused a deadly cholera outbreak, and allegedly attacked innocent people by using illegal chemical weapons such as white phosphorus. The United Nations has repeatedly said the attacks amount to crimes against humanity.
Yesterday Donna Shalala’s campaign told Politico that the congressional candidate’s “name is synonymous with the Democratic Party.” But her record of political donations sure isn’t. Politico’s Marc Caputo revealed that Shalala, the Clinton ally and former University of Miami president now running as a self-proclaimed “progressive”…
With fewer than a dozen games left in the season, the Heat seems a virtual lock to make the playoffs after a one-year hiatus from the postseason. What seed the Heat will capture and the identity of Miami’s first-round opponent, though, are still very much up in the air. Whichever team the Heat draws…
James Taylor works for the Heartland Institute, a hard-right think tank funded by oil companies, carbon polluters, and other rich robber barons who pay them to promote fake science that supposedly debunks climate change. Heartland’s pay-for-play shtick is well documented and so simple a child could understand what it’s up to.
Crafting propaganda programs for political campaigns sure is lucrative. Cambridge Analytica, the British-American “internet messaging” outlet caught on hidden-camera footage this week bragging about blackmailing candidates, bribing people, and coordinating with the Trump campaign, seems to have tendrils snaking all over the world, from the U.K. Brexit campaign all the way to Kenya’s last major election in 2017.
The career path of Dr. Hervé Damas has been unorthodox. He has been a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills, a professor and wellness director at the College of New Jersey, and an interventional radiologist at Mount Sinai. Most recently, though, he has taken on the mantle of marijuana doctor.
The City of Miami Beach admitted last year that asking local developers to build affordable housing for poor and working-class people had totally failed over the past decade. But the effects of that failure on local residents haven’t been completely clear — until now, and the results seem bleak.
Why did Florida International University’s new bridge crumble onto traffic on SW Eighth Street, killing six people last week? That’s a question investigators will spend months trying to answer. But one enterprising and extremely entertaining YouTuber might have already solved the mystery.
Barely a day after Florida International University’s pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle told multiple news stations she had already all but ruled out charging anyone with crimes over the deaths. She made that flabbergasting statement without even interviewing a single witness, while rescuers were still working to pull bodies from the rubble.
Bridges don’t usually crumble into dust. So when a pedestrian walkway at Florida International University collapsed Thursday, killing six people and crushing eight cars, people were rightly horrified and confused. Workers had installed the bridge overnight only five days before the disaster. FIU even blasted out videos and news releases…
It’s now clear that the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed and killed six people after engineers put it through some kind of “stress testing” earlier in the day. According to Sen. Marco Rubio, the bridge’s internal support cables were being “tightened” just as the bridge crumbled onto traffic below, crushing eight cars under 950 tons of concrete and steel.
To Miami-Dade County insiders, it was no shock when Munilla Construction Management (MCM) beat out three other competitors to win a $14.2 million bid to build a high-tech pedestrian bridge at Florida International University. That’s because Munilla is not only one of the biggest contractors in South Florida but also one of the most politically connected thanks to years of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to campaigns.
Four people have died in the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University’s Modesto Maidique Campus, Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Chief Dave Downey said in a late-evening news conference.
Two of the biggest firms that built the Florida International University pedestrian bridge that collapsed today have recently been accused of unsafe practices. In one of those cases, another bridge project toppled onto workers.
A new, $14.2 million pedestrian bridge on the Florida International University Modesto Maidique Campus in West Miami-Dade has collapsed. People are reportedly trapped under the rubble. Police have confirmed multiple deaths but didn’t say exactly who or how many. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is en route to the site.
Cheryn Smilen seemed like someone who cared deeply about South Florida’s stray cat population. She helped the Cat Network with its sterilization efforts, fed cats for friends while they were out of town, and ran her own rescue where she listed dozens of cats available for adoption.
Two days before Hurricane Irma lashed Florida, Bernika Blocker packed up her home in Miami, took some cash out of the bank, and evacuated north to Atlanta with her father. The storm followed them to her brother-in-law’s home in Georgia, and on Monday, September 11, Blocker called work to say she wouldn’t be able to make it to her job as a City of Miami Beach recreation leader.
A federal judge Tuesday cleared the way for a developer to bulldoze 88 acres of critically endangered Miami pine rocklands. One of the last shreds of an ecosystem that does not exist anywhere else on Earth will soon become an apartment complex with a Chili’s, LA Fitness, and Walmart attached.
