After 9/11, local governments began tightening security like never before. Surveillance cameras now monitor nearly every inch of municipal buildings, while courthouses have beefed up their entrances with TSA-style checkpoints. In an urgency to protect residents and employees, some architects even began designing government buildings specifically to prevent mass shootings, acts of terror, and other crises.
A group of racial justice advocates gathered outside Hollywood, Florida’s city hall yesterday with a simple request: Change the names of streets honoring Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee, John Bell Hood, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest was also the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
In March, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle decided not to charge four state prison guards who oversaw the death of Darren Rainey, a black prisoner with severe schizophrenia who multiple witnesses said had been placed in a scalding-hot prison shower and burned to death. Rainey had been serving a nonviolent cocaine-possession sentence.
Hollywood, Florida contains three streets that need new names ASAP. One is named for Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who has absolutely no ties to Hollywood, Florida. Another is named for John Bell Hood, who also fought to keep slavery legal in the United States. And the third is, astoundingly,…
Though it’s impossible to predict the unpredictable, here are five reasonable surprises Pat Riley could pull off during the NBA draft.
Fritz Severe’s family believes police had no need to shoot him dead June 11, 2015. Severe was homeless, unarmed, and not posing much of a threat to anyone. He was standing in a park outside the Culmer/Overtown Branch Library and holding a three-foot-long metal pipe. According to the Miami Herald, a park worker called 911 to complain that Severe might have been bothering nearby children attending summer camp. But other witnesses said Severe was in the park every day and always carried his “little stick.”
Since 1934, less than 20 years after the city of Miami Beach was founded, a rustic wood cabin has stood a few hundred feet from the oceanfront in North Beach. It has survived countless tropical storms and decades of rampant development on the barrier island. But it might not escape the wrecking ball.
As Democrats go, Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a dreadful candidate. Her donor pool is dominated by corporate raiders and predatory capitalists, the list of important bills she’s written is slim, and she helped drive her party toward catastrophic losses while she was the head of the Democratic National Committee. In theory, it should be easy to challenge her by refusing to take money from corporations, supporting single-payer health care, and generally being progressive in a post-Trump, post-Brexit world.
A small town in Miami-Dade County — South Miami: population 12,000 — wants to become the first in Florida with an ordinance requiring every new residential home, building, or apartment complex to install solar panels. Residents building new homes would then pay less to Florida Power & Light, the only power company in town, which still generates more than 70 percent of its energy from fossil fuels and operates a nuclear plant that environmentalists say is polluting Miami-Dade’s drinking water.
Vagner Dapresa walked into the West Flagler convenience mart looking for justice. He’d been pumping gas the night before when another customer had shouted at him: “You’ve been looking at me a lot — and I don’t like faggots looking at me.” The remark stung Dapresa, a 31-year-old genderqueer Cuban-American…
Miami Beach is reconsidering a six-month ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.
In Nigeria, Dammy Krane is a major pop star whose silky-voiced party anthems like “Izzue” regularly hit the million-view mark on YouTube. Onscreen, Krane lives a hip-hop baller life of expansive mansions full of beautiful women and luxury cars.
Let’s get one thing out of the way: By almost every expert analysis, the American Health Care Act is a moral nightmare that will seriously harm the poor and defenseless. Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid will bankrupt families and strip coverage from 200,000 poor black and Hispanic children in Florida. That should be reason enough not to support it.
On Thursday, Tim Canova — the Nova Southeastern University Law Professor, former D.C. legislative aide, and Wall Street economics expert — announced that he’s running for congress for the second year in a row. Canova’s campaign last year was perhaps the most hotly covered 2016 congressional race after Bernie Sanders…
Inside the Oval Office, President Trump sits behind the resolute desk. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio sits to his right, Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart to his left. Both men whisper their plans on how to take down Raúl Castro. The two agree to conduct their negotiations in secrecy, passing handwritten notes to Trump through intermediaries like Gov. Rick Scott.
Just behind the Manuel Artime Theater, an elderly Cuban man in a fedora stood with a microphone. “Donald Trump is a true patriot that wants liberty for Cuba,” he hollered in Spanish into the mike. Then he offered his personal theory about why Barack Obama wasn’t hard enough on the regime: Obama, he yelled, was gay and in a homosexual relationship with Raúl Castro!
These fans deserve better. They really do. If you find a member of this dying breed, shake their hand and thank them for their service. Here are a few telltale signs you’re a real member of that exclusive club of real Miami Marlins fans.
In 2007, a jury convicted Liberty City native Harrel Braddy of kidnapping a 5-year-old and leaving her to die on the side of Interstate 75, where she was eaten alive by alligators. Eleven jurors believed Braddy should be put to death, but one disagreed. Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court vacated Braddy’s death sentence, calling it unconstitutional under a 2016 U.S. Supreme Court decision that invalidated the state’s sentencing practices.
If the Miami-Dade County Commission approves an upcoming funding request from Miami-Dade Police next month, the amount of money county police spend on guns, ammo, and body armor will have jumped from $6.8 million to $24 million — nearly quadrupling — in just a year.
In case he hasn’t already done enough to ruin your 2017, President Donald Trump is coming to Miami today to personally make your brutal morning commute worse than it already is. Trump is taking a break from yelling at Democrats and Hillary Clinton on Twitter to reveal his Cuba policy during a speech early this afternoon at the Manuel Artime Theater in Little Havana.
For Juan Morales, a graduate student at Florida International University, Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to his college campus today dredges up memories from when he was 14 years old of the brutally divisive politics in his homeland, Venezuela. At a school with a heavily immigrant and international student population, he…
The North Miami Police Department is in a state of disarray. One of its officers, Jonathan Aledda, recently became the first Miami-area cop in 24 years to be charged for an on-duty shooting after Aledda’s gunfire hit Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black behavioral therapist, in the leg while he was…
