Miami and corruption have always gone together like cafecitos and pastelitos. In a state that routinely ranks in the top three in the nation for official financial shenanigans, Miami is the crown jewel of pilfering the taxpayer treasure chest. But even in a town famed for its unscrupulous public servants,…
One of the final questions left unanswered from the 2016 presidential election was resolved today. Thanks to an email hack, Democratic National Committee chair and South Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was outed as favoring Hillary Clinton over rival Bernie Sanders during the primary.
The wait is almost over. Only two football-free Sundays stand between Miami Dolphins fans and the regular-season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers September 10 at Hard Rock Stadium. After a strong close to last season that saw the Dolphins finish 10-6 and make their first playoff appearance since 2008, Fins fans are more excited than they’ve been in a long time to see football return.
Alfredo Ballester was sitting on his motorcycle at a red light in Little Havana when a police officer suddenly pulled in front of him and jumped out of his patrol car. To the 19-year-old’s surprise, the officer hurried toward him and tore him off his motorcycle, explaining he thought Ballester would try to flee.
Some people respond to public displays of racism by keeping their mouths shut, looking down, and pretending like nothing happened. Others casually join in the bigotry.
Florida marijuana advocate, campaign-donation rainmaker, and possible Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Morgan refuses to drop longtime political shyster Roger Stone from his national marijuana-advocacy team. Morgan has been warned repeatedly that Stone’s presence will end up tanking the entire project (not to mention Morgan political reputation)…
When the City of Miami Beach created a MiMo architecture historic district to protect its Morris Lapidus-designed, mid-20th-century buildings a few years ago, officials considered including the beachfront stretch along Collins Avenue from 53rd to 63rd Street. But there was a problem: The huge condo towers on either side of the street create “an almost continuous ‘canyon’ wall effect on both sides…”
For nearly three years, county officials and police in Miami-Dade failed to respond as a tent city of sex offenders grew along train tracks near Hialeah. The squalid camp is just the latest consequence of a 2005 county law that banned sex offenders from living within 2,500 feet of any school, daycare center, or park, effectively banishing them into homelessness.
Your next bike ride in Shark Valley, kayaking adventure through the mangroves, or overnight camping trip in Flamingo might cost a bit more, thanks in large part to the Trump administration’s huge budget cuts to national parks.
No city does comedically blatant public corruption quite like Miami. Case in point: A Miami-Dade County Public Schools principal was arrested yesterday for allegedly using taxpayer money to pay his at-home nanny/housekeeper for two years before anybody noticed or bothered to tell the police.
Tune in to a Donald Trump rally and there’s a decent chance you’ll see Maurice Symonette — better known as Michael the Black Man — standing front and center behind the president while waving his hand-drawn “Blacks for Trump” sign. He was there through much of the presidential campaign and then again last night in Phoenix, wildly cheering during CNN’s live feed as Trump trashed the press and defended his pro-neo-Nazi remarks after Charlottesville.
The 2016 GOP presidential primary proved Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t particularly great at thinking on his feet. He was infamously nicknamed “Robot Rubio” after getting caught repeating the same, scripted anti-Obama talking point four different times during the debates last year. Robot Rubio was then immortalized on The Simpsons, in what we hope will be the only video clip of Lil’ Marco that survives the coming nuclear winter.
On September 7, Frank Meeink, a former skinhead leader and neo-Nazi recruiter, will “speak out against hate” at Eckerd College, sponsored by the Florida Holocaust Museum. After serving time in prison, where he befriended fellow inmates of other races, he became an activist, denouncing white supremacy and right-wing extremism. Weeks after the August 12 terror attack in Charlottesville, the reformed skinhead will comment on the escalating violence in America.
A Miami real-estate analysis released Monday sheds light on the wonderfully stupid way South Florida operates: For the past handful of years, condo prices in the area have been criminally high, so condo developers have laid waste to any undeveloped piece of land they could find, stacking buildings into the sky regardless of whether anyone would buy them.
Last Wednesday, Florida megalawyer and possible gubernatorial candidate John Morgan formally announced a new partnership with onetime Trump adviser and dirty trickster Roger Stone, saying the two were launching a bipartisan effort to push the president toward marijuana reform.
Earlier this summer, natural gas began flowing through a new, 515-mile long pipeline from Alabama to Florida, quashing the hopes of thousands of environmentalists and activists who had fought against it. Then, within weeks, the Sabal Trail pipeline began leaking a smelly odorant up in North Florida. On Tuesday, those…
With Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt at the helm, the Trump administration has proposed cutting federal programs that monitor contaminant and fecal-mater levels in the Atlantic Ocean, keep tabs on phosphorous and mercury in the Everglades and Florida Keys, and clean up leaking underground tanks. Florida has the nation’s highest number of leaking, corroded storage tanks that leach carcinogens like benzene into the soil.
Augustus Sol Invictus (who used to go by the far less regal name Austin Gillespie) is trying to capitalize on an innocent woman’s death to gain fame for himself and mount a run for U.S. Senate.
Planning on getting a marriage license, paying a traffic ticket in person, or filing a motion for the eviction of your tenants? That’s about to become much more difficult in Miami-Dade County.
Ryan Masti could hardly believe what he was hearing. The soft-spoken college senior who’d grown up on a farm in a speck-size New York town listened breathlessly as a World Patent Marketing rep told him the company wanted to partner with him on his invention. In fact, the man told…
Hip-hop has turned Miami strip club King of Diamonds into a codeine-hazed Shangri-la where you’re apt to run into superstars such as Drake, Lil Wayne, or Rick Ross casually lighting the club up on a Tuesday. King of Diamonds is, famously, the place where reality TV star Blac Chyna danced before she began dating rapper Tyga and, subsequently, Rob Kardashian.
With just a few hours until the solar eclipse is underway, there’s a scramble to snag those protective glasses you’ve been hearing about for weeks. Local retailers such as Best Buy, Lowes, and Walmart are sold out, some even for all of Florida. If you’ve procrastinated, we’ve got you covered. Hurry down to these events, and you just might get lucky:
