Each time someone books a $200 hotel room in Broward, the county collects 12 bucks in the form of a tourism tax. But for years, if you rented a house or apartment through online services such as Airbnb, you could pretty much skip out on paying.
The U.S. Senate seems close to rolling back many of the banking protections adopted after the 2008 financial crisis. A bill derisively nicknamed the “Bank Lobbyist Act” would roll back consumer-protection and monitoring rules for some of the biggest banks in America and even make it easier for banks to hide racist mortgage-lending discrimination.
In National Rifle Association-dominated Florida, the extremely modest gun-control measures Florida’s legislators just passed apparently count as revolutionary. The state Legislature recently voted to send a bill to Gov. Rick Scott’s desk that raises the minimum gun-buying age from 18 to 21 and institutes a three-day waiting period for gun purchases. The bill, HB 7026…
Asking why this country makes it extremely easy for deranged teens to by military-style rifles clearly doesn’t persuade politicians to enact basic gun control laws after yet another mass killing. Florida lawmakers, in particular, aren’t really moved by appeals to their hearts, morals, or consciences, and it’s debatable whether some or…
At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, students are only in their second week back in class since the massacre that killed 17 classmates and teachers. It’s still a powerfully emotional time for the hundreds of survivors trying to return to normalcy in the place where they lived through the worst day of their lives.
Stormy Daniels’ attorney made the rounds on morning talk shows today to demolish any doubt about whether President Trump slept with the porn star while he was married to Melania. “Did she have a sexual relationship with the president?” a Today show host asked Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti. “Yes,” he replied.
Wade should play at least one more season with the Heat. Here’s why.
Charles Murray is best known for his book The Bell Curve, which tries to use so-called science to argue that individuals from some races (the whiter ones) are more intelligent than those from others (the darker ones). Actual scientists have called out the book as racist and stunningly dishonest and odious.
Only one road lets cars enter and exit Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus. The Arch Creek East Environmental Preserve pens in the rest of the area’s western border — and sometimes creates a traffic bottleneck that backs up through the campus.
Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio stood on the Senate floor and announced a plan he said could prevent mass shootings like the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead. Despite weeks of pleas from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors, his pitch had nothing to do with gun control.
Every public school teacher in West Virginia is on strike. This fact has, rightfully, brought cheers from a certain sector of the progressive left. But some of the nation’s more center-leaning pundits have found odd ways to scold the demonstrators. MSNBC host and full-time Twitter troll Joy Ann Reid opined that the striking workers apparently deserve their situation for not voting enough Democrats into office.
By day, they arrive on red double-deckers and luxury coaches, tourists from Tokyo, Toronto, and Teaneck who hit the streets of Little Havana hungry for a taste of Cuban Miami. Poking their heads into the shops and cafés on Calle Ocho, they linger for a cafecito, buy a cigar or…
Florida’s Senate is backing off its ludicrous post-Parkland massacre plan of arming school teachers, so your child might end up getting accidentally shot by a math teacher after all. But a librarian, school nurse, or guidance counselor might still accidentally wind up pulling a gun on your children. During a debate…
In 2003, Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Defense Minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín fled to Miami amid roiling protests in La Paz. The two had enraged indigenous Bolivians by trying to sell off the country’s natural gas reserves to private corporations and then had responded to peaceful protests by ordering out the army, which killed 58 civilians and wounded more than 400 people.
The absolute worst thing you can ask Florida’s current cadre of politicians to do is solve a problem. Tallahassee is, by design, filled with barely literate Cro-Magnons who basically just put their name on whatever bill a lobbyist places between them and a free sandwich. Floridians saw the worst of…
Rick Ross, one of Miami’s all-time great hip-hop acts, seemed to be on a health kick lately. He melted 100 pounds off his infamously round frame between 2014 and 2016 and told anyone who would listen he had proudly adopted “RossFit” (a play on CrossFit) as a way to “save his life” from the ills of obesity.
“Excited delirium” is not an officially recognized medical condition. The term was invented in Miami to describe why so many cocaine and crack addicts were dying in the city’s streets during the 1980s, but many medical experts say the condition — when someone’s brain basically short-circuits due to a combination of drugs and stress…
In his 15 years with the Florida East Coast Railway (FERC), Natale Sacco performed many jobs. From 1986 to 2001, he fueled and maintained trains at the Hialeah yard and along the railway from Miami to Jacksonville, working as a switchman, engineer, conductor, hostler, and trainman.
In 2015, Jessica Mooney sat next to her fiancee at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal as he filmed Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez slapping a homeless man in the face. The In 2015, Jessica Mooney sat next to her fiancé at a Fort Lauderdale bus terminal as he filmed Fort Lauderdale Police Officer Victor Ramirez slapping a homeless man in the face.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvahlo will, improbably, remain in his job for the foreseeable future. After flying to New York City for multiple dinners with Mayor Bill de Blasio, being offered a prestigious job running America’s largest public school system, and even being formally welcomed into the post yesterday, Carvalho did a 180 this afternoon.
Go back and watch the CNN town hall on the Parkland massacre — you know, the one where Marco Rubio was repeatedly owned so hard that he could barely stutter out his canned lines — and the survivors and victims’ families repeatedly make three demands of the senator: Reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons, ban high-capacity magazines, and stop taking money from the Nation Rifle Association.
Skateboarding came to Cuba in the early ’80s, when Soviet soldiers, doctors, and students brought boards to the communist island. Intrigued, kids in Havana soon began riding, using boards handmade from plywood or smuggled in from abroad. Though the sport was seen as rebellious and countercultural even in America, and the Cuban regime frowned upon it, a small but vibrant skate scene took hold.
