Attorney Stephanie Langer has a saying for the enormous challenge of taking on a school district that’s failed a special-needs student: It’s like being “a gnat on the side of a cruise ship.” Even with a strong case, a parent is in for a gruelingly long and expensive battle against a heavily lawyered system.
Florida Democrats are, for the most part, huge failures. Democrats outnumber Republicans in both Miami-Dade County and in the state as a whole — but they’re so terrible at messaging that local and state politics are dominated by GOP wackadoodles. During Donald Trump’s first year in office, one would think…
Comedian Hannibal Buress has made Wynwood something of a second home in recent years, regularly showing up for surprise shows at Gramps when he’s not filming Broad City or the Eric Andre Show. It’s not clear exactly what he was doing in Miami last night, but a cell phone video…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the ballpark, Derek Jeter and the Miami Marlins’ new ownership team have seemingly gone out of their way to make sure fans still feel like they are fans of the Marlins.
This year, Miami New Times exposed child molestation allegations against the founder of Florida’s largest megachurch and domestic violence charges against one of Miami’s most recognizable reality TV stars. We told the tale of the worst Florida Keys murder in three decades and got inside a booming purple drank ring tied to the biggest names in hip-hop. Our writers investigated an only-in-Miami invention patent marketing scheme and the handful of politically tied companies set to make a fortune off medical marijuana. And millions of readers came along for the ride.
It wasn’t just media hype: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents really did ramp up their enforcement efforts during Donald Trump’s first year in office. According to year-end figures ICE released yesterday, the agency arrested 6,192 immigrants in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands this year — a 75 percent jump from last year, in which only 3,524 people were apprehended.
For the past two years, Gerardo Cabrera and his wife, Mayte Herrara, have lived in a trailer in a park near the northern edge of Coral Gables. It’s not much: The couple splits the space with the owner of the trailer, and each side has only a small room with a bed, a closet, and a minikitchen.
Pizza Hut brands itself as a family-friendly chain with speedy delivery and more than 16,000 locations worldwide. But if you’re ordering dinner, whether your local store will deliver can depend upon where your family lives. In minority neighborhoods, Pizza Hut has a history of refusing delivery.
The New York Times yesterday chronicled how conservative megadonors such as the Koch brothers are funding so-called grassroots, door-to-door campaigns to drum up support for the GOP tax bill, which will hand billions of dollars to the nation’s richest at the expense of the poor and middle class. The Times followed volunteers in Miami…
Wherever he’s brought his giant inflatable caricature of Donald Trump as a snaggle-toothed rat, John Post Lee has been amazed by the response from others horrified by the regime. But when he started calling around and looking for a place to set up his signature balloon during Miami Art Week, the…
Two weeks ago, financial analyst Matthew Hanna, a 35-year-old from Brickell, released a $25 trivia card game on Amazon that measures players’ levels of racism and political correctness. The game, he says, provides a platform for constructive dialogue — a response to the tense political climate in the country.
Donald Trump’s decision yesterday to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel pissed off the United Nations, the European Union, virtually all of America’s allies, Palestinian people everywhere, and even the pope. Intelligence analysts are so worried about an upswell of violence that U.S. diplomats have been ordered to stay away from the city until further notice.
Next time you see a cruise ship at PortMiami, consider this: Because of a loophole in the U.S. tax code, the companies that rake in billions of dollars each year selling cruises to Kid Rock fans and spring breakers pay no corporate income tax.
Miami Beach’s complete ineptitude when it comes to building affordable housing would be funny if it weren’t screwing over taxpayers and the poor. Earlier this year, the city admitted its affordable-housing practices had failed to create homes that the city’s workforce can use, thereby forcing many of the food-service workers and housekeepers to make hours-long bus commutes on and off the barrier island every day.
If you told Miami Hurricanes fans in July their team would go 10-2 and play in the Orange Bowl, people would have wondered what was in the oil in your vape pen. Sure, there were high hopes for the Canes coming into this season, but that sort of success seemed at least a year away.
During this year’s state legislative session, a bill transparently designed to cripple labor unions came close enough to passing that Florida public schoolteachers had to go on a PR blitz to beg lawmakers not to rip their rights away. Teachers, nurses, housekeepers, and every other union-protected industry breathed a sigh of relief when the measure failed during the 2017 legislative session — but the bill has been revived verbatim for 2018 and yesterday passed through its first voting hurdle toward becoming law.
The Art Basel traffic apocalypse is nigh. Gridlock looms over the horizon. For local residents who plan on staying indoors this weekend, it’s time to buy bread and milk and screw in some hurricane shutters. For visitors and Basel partygoers, however, the weekend’s horrible, recurring traffic problems are but a…
Miami-Dade is a gigantic county, larger than Rhode Island, packed with two million people and perpetually understaffed and overworked regulators. All of which is to say, you/ can get away with a lot of crazy stuff on a remote piece of land: cockfighting rings, grow-house empires, illegal horse slaughterhouses. Even…
As a historical preservationist and a native Floridian who loves the Everglades, Matt Stock had always wanted to find a unique way to use his work as a fine art photographer to capture one of America’s most singular places. Then he met Charles J. Kropke, a longtime Everglades explorer and…
The Miami-Dade County Commission must sign off on any grants or funding requests county police ask for. But at today’s commission meeting, elected officials will be asked to retroactively approve a $450,000 Department of Justice grant that MDPD oddly already applied for. Even more…
Today, a group of pro-immigration protesters gathered outside the building housing the offices of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart to demand protection for Dreamers, who were brought undocumented to the U.S. as children. Local police quickly began harassing their small group of activists, seven of whom,…
Last Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case about whether cops are allowed to access cell-phone location data without a warrant — the latest in a growing legal battle over the limits of police surveillance using new technology.
