Senate Republicans released a new version of their Obamacare repeal yesterday. They called the bill a “tamer” version of the barbaric law they originally pitched, but the new measure would still hack deep cuts to Medicaid funding for poor people. According to all currently available science, cutting Medicaid kills poor people…
In February, Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado proposed a law banning Airbnb-style rentals in two-thirds of his city, stunning the company, which says it previously had a cordial relationship with city officials. Regalado claimed for months that the crackdown was designed to protect residents from living next to de facto hotel rooms.
Among the safe-sex advisories and strip-club ads that line I-95 in South Florida, one billboard has always been especially eye-catching. For the past year, the text on the double-billboard screamed “SYPHILIS EXPLOSION” above a huge glittery volcano. Sadly, that sign has been taken down. But another natural-disaster-themed STD alert has taken its place. Behold the “Syphilis Tsunami.”
Miami Beach’s Citi Bike rental program is extremely simple: You pay a small fee, pick a bike off a rack, and ride it to another rack and leave it there. LimeBike, a Silicon Valley startup, is trying to streamline that process even further by removing the need for bike racks. You simply leave the bike on the sidewalk when you’re done, and the brakes lock automatically.
Among medical professionals, there’s virtually no debate: So-called conversion therapy, which claims to turn gay kids straight, is junk science — and potentially harmful. That’s why municipalities ranging from Miami Beach to the City of Miami to West Palm Beach have already banned the dubious practice.
Maybe you’ve had your attention squarely directed on the rumors swirling around the Miami Heat free-agency hunt. Maybe you’ve just been preoccupied with all the festivities that came with this week’s MLB All-Star Game. Or maybe you thought soccer in Miami was reserved for David Beckham-owned teams that will finally begin playing around the time you own a flying car.
Yesterday, Major League Baseball, the City of Miami, and our beloved Miami Marlins teamed up to provide locals and visitors alike with an opportunity to take part in South Florida’s favorite pastime: standing outside in a thick wool throwback baseball jersey as Miami’s noontime July sun cooks off the top three layers of skin.
The clock is ticking. Any minute, Andrew Schumann could get called away for a momentous occasion—the birth of his brother’s first child. But at present, he has other firstborns on his mind: 18 Florida grasshopper sparrows. A lot is riding on the survival of these tiny chicks who will be no…
Earlier today, Donald Trump Jr. released astonishing email correspondence with Rob Goldstone, a Russia-tied PR magnate who brokered a secret meeting with the elder Trump’s presidential campaign to hand over documents that were “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
Since the 1990s, police departments across the nation have reevaluated when to chase suspects. If someone flees, cops’ first instinct is to follow; thousands of TV episodes, back to Miami Vice and Starsky and Hutch, have trained the public that a cop’s number one job is to chase down perpetrators, with no apparent concern for public property or consequences.
The frustration nearly boiled over about a half-hour before last night’s Home Run Derby. Lines were queued hundreds deep at every food and beer stand. The still air was muggy. And in the far reaches of Marlins Park’s barely used upper deck, credit card machines suddenly fizzled out — though no one bothered to tell hungry fans until they got to the front and couldn’t pay.
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.
