If you were to strip away all the trappings of President Donald Trump’s inherited wealth — the planes, the superglued combover, the spray tan — it’s not hard to imagine our nation’s president could have easily wound up filtering down to the Keys and living a life of low-rent hucksterism. He loves the Florida coastline!
Florida governor, former white-collar criminal, and U.S. Senate candidate Rick Scott seems to have tiptoed extremely, oh-so-perilously close to breaking federal anti-corruption laws earlier this year, and, depending upon which government ethics experts you contact, he might have outright broken Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) law.
It looks like 4/20 will be a big day for marijuana in Miami Beach. The island’s first cannabis dispensary will open on South Beach tomorrow, just over a year after city commissioners agreed on four zones where marijuana establishments would be allowed to set up shop.
Few pockets of Miami-Dade are more hellishly clogged with hair-rending traffic than West Kendall. So passions ran hot when Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez held a town hall there yesterday. Fresh off a trip to China, where Gimenez cooled on his dreams of a new high-tech bus system, the county mayor was…
As an educator with more than 30 years in the field, Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa has kept a depressing tally of the increasing number of Miami-Dade children plagued by gun violence. In 2016, more than 30 minors were fatally shot. Last December alone, a 2-year-old, three 16-year-olds, and a 17-year-old lost their lives to guns.
From early Reefer Madness panic to the ’70s hippie weed cult that took over Star Island to the glory days of ’80s smuggling in Everglades City, Florida has a long, deep, and complex relationship with marijuana — as New Times explores in this week’s cover story. Though Florida has finally legalized medical pot, full-blown, Colorado-style recreational dope still feels a long way away in the Sunshine State.
If you work your way to the food court of Concourse D at Miami International Airport, you’ll find a narrow corridor running alongside a TGI Fridays. Most days, few people enter the small strip — it’s dark and a dead end — but if you do, you’ll see a two-and-a-half-story public installation called Años Continuos by Miami artist Maria Martinez-Cañas…
As payday lenders from across America converge on Miami this week for the industry’s annual conference, they’ll be greeted at the airport by signs protesting their arrival.
Many NFL teams have made regrettable draft picks, but if you ask Miami Dolphins fans, no team has made more draft blunders than their team. For as long as Fins fans can remember, the NFL Draft has represented an annual shot of hope that predictably comes with months of disappointing chasers.
Just four days before he was sworn into office as a North Miami Beach commissioner, Anthony DeFillipo was cruising north on Collins Avenue through Surfside in a white Buick SUV when a local cop pulled him over for a broken taillight. The officer quickly noticed a “strong smell of marijuana,” according to a police report. He asked whether the 41-year-old property manager had any pot.
Florida’s fast-developing medical marijuana market is little explored or understood. Beginning today, Miami New Times and New Times Broward-Palm Beach are partnering with a national cannabis information company, Herban Planet, to bring you more about product-specific dispensaries, delivery services, local farms, attorneys, and more.
Today, legal marijuana flourishes in fields and greenhouses from Homestead to Tallahassee. Every day, new cannabis clinics hang green neon crosses in their windows, while millions of dollars pour in from global investors looking to get into the Mary Jane business. Weed has finally gone legit in Florida. So it’s…
Festivals draw droves of music lovers to parks and fairgrounds across the nation for a variety of reasons: the hours of live music, the feeling of community, the outdoor ambiance. And, yeah, some revelers show up to get high with the beats.
Nearly two years after a North Miami cop shot an innocent, unarmed black man lying on the ground with his arms in the air, the city’s police department is still reeling. The cop who shot Charles Kinsey, who was just trying to help an autistic man that bystanders mistakenly through had a weapon, has been charged with two felonies and the North Miami Police chief was fired.
No one wants to get anywhere near Donald Trump right now. His former aides and confidantes keep flipping to help the federal investigation into his campaign’s Russia ties. He can’t buy an attorney to defend him in the wake of the FBI’s raid of Michael Cohen’s office. Post-Stormy Daniels, even Melania keeps swatting his hands away.
It is entirely possible to disagree with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High students behind the #NeverAgain movement and the March for Our Lives without making a total clown out of yourself. Step 1: Don’t spread insane conspiracy theories about the survivors of a massacre. Step 2: Don’t make Nazi comparisons…
BodyRx, an anti-aging clinic that offers testosterone and other hormone treatments, fills an unassuming office on the ground floor of a Coral Gables apartment complex. The lobby is pristine, with gray floors, ornate shelving, and delicate upholstery that wouldn’t seem out of place in a wedding planner’s office. As patients wait to be seen, a TV on the wall plays one testimonial on repeat.
In 2016, the City of Miami sued the owners of several neglected apartment buildings in the West Grove. For years, tenants had lived in squalid conditions, forced to reckon with mold, raw sewage backups, caved-in ceilings, and other code violations that were never fixed. The city hoped to force the landlords to pay to relocate their renters to alternative housing that was affordable and safe.
Ever since Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior David Hogg began pushing for gun control in the wake of the massacre at his high school, he’s been a target for conservatives. An aide to Republican state Rep. Shawn Harrison called Hogg a crisis actor. Laura Ingraham blasted him for “whining” after being rejected…
After the mass shooting that left 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, most Florida teachers were horrified by the push from President Donald Trump and GOP legislators to arm teachers. But one vocal Parkland faculty member — science teacher Sean Simpson — said he would be open to packing heat in the classroom.
Stop it. Just stop. LeBron James isn’t returning to the Miami Heat this summer. Don’t believe the hype. Don’t entertain the noise the talking heads on ESPN are yelling at your television screen. Don’t click the articles (other than this one!). Just don’t waste your time. It’s not happening. And…
Polo shirts: timeless fashion statements that say, “I could be headed to a vigorous round of tennis! But probably I’m headed to work and am simply too lazy for a full button-up.” In Miami-Dade, where a laid-back beach attitude mixed with swampy subtropical weather make full suits as practical as Borat speedos, most office workers rarely wear anything dressier than polos.
