Miami-Dade County Police arrested Lazaro Rodriguez before dawn December 15, 2015, for allegedly arguing with cops and “stiffening his body” during a routine traffic stop. That move apparently frightened the officers enough to arrest the North Miami resident on misdemeanor charges of resisting an officer without violence and one felony count of threatening a public servant.
Florida finally has a champion to fight for the most unfairly treated group of people in America — white, Christian conservatives. Florida Rep. Joe Gruters filed a bill today that would add discrimination against “political affiliation” to the list of infractions Florida classifies as hate crimes, and though he insists the law would apply to both liberals and conservatives, Gruters’ social media posts make it pretty clear which side he’s worried about.
More than three million Americans are living through an unprecedented disaster in Puerto Rico, yet so far they’ve apparently ranked far below NFL protests and the concerns of the shipping industry on Donald Trump’s priority list. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio subtweeted Trump straight to Hell this morning, demanding the president immediately send more aid to the battered island.
More than 60 years after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that desegregated American education, schools are still so racially divided that experts use terms like “apartheid” to describe the situation. Over the last 20 years, Florida — like the nation as a whole — has managed to…
Inmate work crews have been part of Florida’s history since the state’s first penitentiary opened in 1868. That history was on Alana Greer’s mind as she drove past an inmate work crew carrying a truckload of hurricane debris on Coral Way on a recent Friday.
In the middle of a decaying central square of closed junk stores and shuttered barbershops, Opa-locka’s gleaming, $8 million Town Center was eerily empty Wednesday morning. That’s because every elected official in town was huddled in a room with Florida Inspector General Eric Miller, the man tasked with unraveling…
If you’ve been saving a particularly nice bottle of bubbly for the day when Jeffrey Loria’s fat, greedy face finally leaves Miami baseball fans to suffer in peace, it’s time to pop the cork. Major League Baseball’s owners have unanimously approved the sale of the team to a group led by investor Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter.
Take a look at Miami Beach Commission candidate Mark Samuelian’s campaign platform and you might assume he’s a longtime progressive. The board director of Miami Beach United and former business consultant emphasizes his support for increasing the minimum wage, fighting climate change, and advocating for the city’s LGBT population.
Between the entire league coming together to push back against Donald Trump’s divisive comments last week and the amazing slate of games that took place, the NFL had one helluva showing last weekend. The Dolphins? Not so much. They had a very bad weekend. One of their worst ever perhaps. So, so bad.
The U.S. is focused this week on Puerto Rico, where Hurricane Maria has left a humanitarian crisis in its wake, with millions of American citizens still without water, food, and power. But Maria caused devastation across the Caribbean, including the tiny island of Dominica, a 290-square-mile nation 400 miles east of Puerto Rico. Within hours of the Category 5 storm striking, 90 percent of the island’s buildings were destroyed and, in less than a week, 27 people were killed.
The FBI today arrested 10 people including a top Adidas exec on charges that the company illegally funneled cash to high-school athletes in exchange for pledges to attend Adidas-sponsored universities. The University of Miami isn’t named in the complaint, but details strongly suggest the feds have tied the school to…
The Florida Democrats are the Washington Generals. They’re the 1962 Mets. They’re Mike Dukakis, Steve Urkel, and pre-time-travel George McFly rolled into one. Yes, they’ve been steamrolled by gerrymandering and voter suppression, but they also rarely miss a chance to blast off their own feet en route to their latest, all-too-predictable loss.
The dramatic tale of a boxing obsession turned to murder, as told by Miami New Times managing editor Tim Elfrink in the feature story “Sucker Punch,” has been selected for Best American Sports Writing 2017.
Omar Rivero is standing cross-armed in his light-filled Los Angeles pool house, urging one of his employees to finish a meme about the “Republican Hypocrites of the Year,” when the news breaks: The president has just signed a memo banning transgender people from the military. “Oh, I hate Donald Trump!”…
Even in Miami Beach’s drunken carnival of a political scene, few elected officials have had quite as colorful a term as Commissioner Michael Grieco. The attorney has brawled with the NAACP over civil rights, sprinted down a drug dealer while out on his morning job, called a former opponent a “fucking scumbag” at a debate, and been embroiled in an unseemly fundraising committee now under state investigation.
A little over a week ago, Hurricane Irma, a deadly Category 4 storm, pummeled South Florida, taking down trees and flooding roads. For days, millions of residents lived without power as linemen rushed to fix lines and transformers. Despite their disability, Miami’s blind and visually impaired fared reasonably well, surviving one of the harshest, most traumatizing storms to hit Florida since Hurricane Andrew.
Wide receiver Kenny Stills kneeled. So did tackle Laremy Tunsil, safety Maurice Smith, and tight end Julius Thomas. The entire team locked arms in solidarity.
Florida’s state minimum wage is just $8.15 per hour, and it’s illegal for individual cities to raise their own minimum wages independently. (Miami Beach tried and the governor sued.) In general, the city’s wage-rates are staggeringly low compared to other areas of its size — the city’s two main industries…
Two weeks ago, Irma, a catastrophic Atlantic hurricane killed 38 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Caribbean Islands before turning its sights on South Florida. Among its most victimized was Saint Thomas, a 32-square-mile island located 110 miles east of Puerto Rico. As one of 51,000 St. Thomians, Ramseyer, a 26-year-old marine biology graduate student, endured the brunt of Irma, weathering not only her destruction but also the impending threat of another Category 5 storm, Hurricane Maria.
There are 21 million people in Florida. Sen. Marco Rubio is almost certainly about to vote for an Obamacare repeal bill that, according to a study released yesterday, would likely cut health coverage from 3.2 million of them. That’s roughly 15 percent of the state.
Tiny North Bay Village has been the scene of big-time drama this year over old drug charges and new blackmail attempts. The case centers on Commissioner Douglas Hornsby, a local physician who stunned residents earlier this year when he revealed that he’d been convicted on cocaine charges back in 1992 — and…
For many Miamians, today is payday, one of those blessed Friday mornings when you wake up with a fresh chunk of change in your checking account. But if it feels like your paycheck is curiously lighter than your friends’ up North, out West, or really any other direction, you’re not wrong. A Census survey released last week proves what most of us already know is true: Wages in Miami are basically crap.
