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University of Miami Will Host Racist Author Charles Murray This Month
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.
FIU Wants to Let Cars Drive Through Arch Creek Nature Preserve
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.
Rubio Promotes Bogus Claim That Broward School Discipline Policy Led to Shooting UPDATED
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.
Union-Busting Florida Education Bill Passes Thanks to State Democrats
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.
Percussionist Miguel Cruz and Little Havana Rise Again
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…
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Florida Senate Backs Off Arming Teachers but Wants Guns for School Staff
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…
Bolivia’s Former President and Defense Minister Face Florida Trial for Civilian Deaths
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 Five Worst Legislative Ideas Proposed After the Parkland Massacre
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…
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Rick Ross Reportedly on Life Support in Miami Hospital After Heart Attack
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.
Miami Prosecutor Cites Condition Critics Call “Junk Science” to Clear Cops in Taser Death
“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…
Former Hialeah Railroad Engineer Says Job Gave Him Three Kinds of Cancer
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.
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Woman Says Fort Lauderdale-Area Cops Beat Her After She Testified in Brutality Case
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.
Carvalho Suddenly Turns Down Job Running NYC Schools to Stay in Miami
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.
Rubio’s Garbage Parkland Plan Doesn’t Ban Assault Weapons, High-Capacity Magazines
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.
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Havana Skate Days Follows Young Cuban Skaters Fighting to Legitimize Their Sport
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.
Miami Pharma Company Accused of Price Gouging Sues Online Critics for Defamation
A Cat 5 PR shitstorm hit Miami’s Tri-Source Pharma late last year after the Wall Street Journal published a story showing the company had raised the price of a cancer drug more than 1,400 percent. Some internet commenters were quick to compare Tri-Source CEO Robert DiCrisci to Martin Shkreli, the now-convicted “pharma bro” who in 2015 jacked up the price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV patients. One particularly angry Twitter user went as far as to call DiCrisci “the human equivalent of a loaded cat litter box.”
Family Says Hialeah Police Won’t Turn Over Info on Cop Crash That Killed Teacher
On Tuesday, January 2, Miami Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) teacher Orestes Amador Jr. turned his black Volkswagen Passat left on Hialeah Drive just after 7 p.m. Seconds later, a police cruiser plowed into him at the intersection of East Fifth Avenue. The crash was so violent the police car flew into a neighboring ice-cream shop, and witnesses said the boom shook the entire block.
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Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Chosen to Run New York City School District UPDATED
Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade County Schools’ acclaimed superintendent, is leaving his post after nearly a decade and taking over the New York City public school system, New York Mayor Bill De Blasio announced today. Carvalho, 51, has been one of the few — and we do mean few — examples of good governance…
Miami Beach Wants Millions for Police Cameras “on Every Corner” in South Beach
Miami Beach promotes itself as a haven for progressives, LGBTQ people, and open-minded folks from all over the globe, yet in its recent push to crack down on crime, the city has alarmed civil liberties groups. The city and police department have recently praised the local group Crime Prevention and Awareness, a collection of vigilantes fighting to increase bond amounts for criminals.
Florida Voters Heavily Back Assault Weapons Ban, Oppose Armed Teachers
After Parkland massacre survivors roasted Sen. Marco Rubio like a pig in a caja china at CNN’s nationally televised town hall, he took to Twitter to complain that their demands for an outright ban on the military-style assault weapons that helped slaughter 17 people at the school were “well outside the mainstream.”
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Florida Attorney Disbarred After Selling Fake Marijuana-Growing Certificates
Most attorneys don’t deserve the bad rap their profession has gotten. But when a lawyer hires an unlicensed doctor to help sell fake marijuana certificates for $800 apiece that supposedly give people legal cover to grow weed, he has earned a bit of that ugly reputation. And once SWAT teams start kicking those clients’ doors down and hauling them off to jail, it’s probably time that lawyer lost his license.