More than seven months after Florida voters overwhelmingly supported an amendment legalizing medical marijuana, Gov. Rick Scott finally signed off on the law late last month. But critics have pounced on the law’s shortcomings. Megalawyer John Morgan, who sponsored the amendment, is now suing the state because it doesn’t allow patients to smoke their medicine.
If Vice President Mike Pence, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, and the rest of President Donald Trump’s team of voter-suppressing ghouls want to create an extremely creepy database of the nation’s voter rolls, the group will have to fight through Miami thanks to a new lawsuit from the Florida ACLU and Florida Immigration Coalition.
Remember three years ago, when the City of Fort Lauderdale passed a series of extremely restrictive laws that basically outlawed feeding the homeless in public, arrested a 90-year-old for giving food to the poor, and got slapped down by a judge in one of the biggest public-relations fiascos in Florida history?
Tens of thousands of baseball fans, officials, and journalists have arrived in Miami today for one reason: to see the worst owner in professional sports for themselves. The internet swelled this weekend with think pieces about garbage can Jeffrey Loria — and that was before his walking frat-boy smirk of a team president, David Samson, rudely disinvited the mayor from an event yesterday.
Florida’s rainy season began so slowly this year that farmers worried they would spend the summer under drought conditions. But then, in late June, a month’s worth of rain suddenly poured on Florida in just one week. The deluge swelled the artificially managed water levels in the Everglades, flooding the habitats of deer, endangered birds, and other critical animals and plants.
For years, Miami Beach has operated a homeless outreach office right next to city hall. But advocate Valerie Navarrete says that over the past few months, she heard time and again from homeless people that the office was randomly closed during business hours.
This week, New Times took a deep dive into what authorities allege to have been a huge “purple drank” ring that supplied codeine-and-promethazine laced cough syrup (A.K.A. “liquid heroin”) to hip-hop stars including Chris Brown and Lil Wayne. Harrison Garcia, the group’s alleged ringleader, was arrested earlier this year, and…
Under Mayor Jack Seiler, Fort Lauderdale has been harassing homeless people for years. In 2014, the city made it illegal to feed the homeless and arrested a 90-year-old Good Samaritan, Arnold Abbott, for giving needy people food. After that debacle grew into a national embarrassment, a judge invalidated that law…
On a Sunday morning about a year ago, Robert Lansburgh rode his bike across the MacArthur Causeway. The longtime cyclist was stunned by the view along the way — but also a bit shaken by the cars rushing past him. “It’s three lanes. It’s not patrolled,” he says. “You have cars that could be going 80 mph. It’s out of control. It’s great if you have a Ferrari and you want to get it in sixth gear.”
David McCue was off-duty when he got the call that iconic fashion designer Gianni Versace had been shot in cold blood on the steps of his Ocean Drive mansion July 24, 1997. At first, the Miami Beach detective thought it must be a mob hit. But when he learned of the prime suspect, he cringed — he recognized the name.
July 6, about 40 protesters went to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio’s Doral office to pressure him to vote no on the Republican health-care bill, which is estimated would boot 22 million Americans off health insurance.
With rents and housing prices soaring ever higher across Miami-Dade County, how do locals afford to live here? New Times set out to find out by talking to Miamians with varying income levels about how they make life in South Florida work for them. This is the second story in a series.
Sen. Marco Rubio seems likely to vote for the Senate’s Obamacare replacement that effectively puts poor people through a meat grinder and turns them into Soylent Green. Both the Senate and House plans sharply cut Medicaid funding for the poor while giving the rich massive tax cuts, and are among the least popular bills in American history, according to recent polls.
Nothing motivates your constituents quite like actively trying to kill them. Today left-leaning organizers across the nation are protesting at Senate and congressional offices, demanding that GOP lawmakers abandon plans to nuke Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act and to replace them with the legal equivalent of paper clips and twine.
This past January 21, Luisana Perez, a Venezuelan immigrant living in Miami, traveled to D.C. to march alongside nearly half a million others protesting Donald Trump’s misogynistic comments. Later that day, she found herself in a room of like-minded women, all seeking to get more involved in local politics. They were brought together by Emily’s List…
This past week, the Smithsonian Channel released footage of the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, restored in color for the first time 90 years later.
The case of former City of Miami Police Officers Reynaldo Irias and Yesid Ortiz remains strange: Both are being sued for allegedly falsely arresting and injuring an ex-Marine because the veteran tried to record the two cops harassing him. In a move that made matters much more interesting, both officers also resigned earlier this year, on the same day, by turning in identical resignation letters.
In January, experts from the American Civil Liberties Union and elsewhere issued Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez a stern warning: If he bowed to President Donald Trump’s toothless demand to crack down on so-called sanctuary communities, they said, he’d be opening the county up to expensive lawsuits.
Few states have more at stake in the #Resistance than Florida, where immigrants are nearly a quarter of the population, hundreds of thousands would be left without insurance under the GOP’s Obamacare repeal, and climate change threatens to swallow the entire coast. Florida’s Democrats have never needed good candidates more.
Here’s the worst-kept secret in the NBA: Dwyane Wade is done playing basketball for the Chicago Bulls. After his hometown team traded Jimmy Butler to the Minnesota Timberwolves and waived Rajon Rondo, it’s obvious the Bulls will try to buy out his $23.8 million deal.
Coach Chris Nowviskie impatiently checked his watch at the Pompano Beach Aquatic Center while four junior lifeguards dragged faceless mannequins to safety. One of his lifeguards was 45 minutes late for training for Worlds, the big leagues of lifeguard competitions.
Evan Ross is a little-known but well-connected lobbyist in Miami-Dade County. He’s also fairly active within the Miami-Dade Democratic Party: He’s the former chair of the Miami-Dade Young Democrats and is now a precinct captain within the local party. He’s used to operating behind the scenes and keeping a low profile in the local press.
