Sea-level rise has become such a problem in Miami-Dade that even Republican leaders admit the issue is real. “It’s not a theory,” county Mayor Carlos Gimenez said of global warming in January. “It’s a fact. We live it every day.” For once, we wish Gimenez had spent more time hanging out with his old golf buddy Donald Trump.
When a congressional issue unites the following list of subhuman rat-people, you know it’s going to be something awful. One bill this year has brought together U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton (the dude who hates Iran), Jim Inhofe (the idiot who took a snowball inside the Capitol to disprove global warming), Rand Paul, Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell, the Zodiac Killer Ted Cruz, and Miami’s own Marco Rubio.
It’s Sunshine Week, a nationwide initiative to promote transparency in government, so what better time to run through five bills that could chip away most at Florida’s open-records law?
Eleven times in one year, Miami Police received calls for help at a tree-lined, three-bedroom house in Miami’s Coconut Grove neighborhood. Some came from tenants in distress inside the home. Others were placed by neighbors concerned about loud arguing. All reflect back on White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, who rented the house for his most recent ex-wife in 2015 and 2016.
Roger Stone says his life is in grave danger. The maverick onetime adviser to Donald Trump and proud practitioner of political rat-fucking claimed in January that someone had tried to poison him with polonium — coincidentally or not, generating international headlines just as he released a book about Trump’s campaign.
Miami State Sen. Frank Artiles is swimming in some boiling-hot water after accepting nearly $2,000 in gifts from Florida Power & Light before rapidly advancing pro-FPL bills in his committee. But don’t criticize Artiles online — he’ll probably just block you.
Miami Heat fans love Dion Waiters. One could say Heat fans have fallen in love with him. These are the seven reasons why.
Donald Shockey believes that everyone deserves to live in a clean neighborhood. When he lived in Miami Shores from 2001 to 2014, he didn’t have much of an issue because, he says, that city’s code-enforcement division was well funded and did a good job of making residents clean up their trash. But when Shockey moved into a home on NW 41st Street in the City of Miami in 2014, he says, found a neighborhood in disarray.
The City of Miami’s police union is run by a person who once called a dead 12-year-old a “thug,” has publicly called Islam a “religion that enslaves and allows the beating of women,” has been sued multiple times for alleged cases of police misconduct, and habitually posts on social media about how undocumented immigrants bring crime to American cities. Now Javier Ortiz has been reprimanded again for posting a private woman’s personal cell phone number on the internet and encouraging people to call her and yell at her — all because she caught a county cop speeding.
Yesterday the gods of spring break and social media gifted us with a video of a woman twerking atop a Miami Beach Police ATV for a few short but magical seconds. Today they’ve smiled upon us once more.
Marco Rubio has been as silent as a Trappist monk lately. He’s refused to hold town-hall meetings, declined to criticize Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, and wouldn’t even join the Republicans calling for Jeff Sessions’ recusal from a Russia probe over his lies about meeting Moscow’s ambassador.
There’s no good reason to get into a fight at Miami’s annual Calle Ocho Festival. Everyone’s happy, the food is delicious, and you could even watch a dude wolf down 158 croquetas at this year’s “El Croquetazo” eating contest. So huge congrats to these morons, who took a good thing…
Miami is a city where “twerking etiquette” is a legitimate cultural and political concern. Skin is acceptable everywhere in Miami Beach, from strip clubs to retirement homes to military-weapons conventions. And most of the time, that cultural body acceptance is great.
Since Donald Trump’s election, minority groups have been under attack by hateful speech and unrelenting harassment. Jewish community centers across the nation have been the victims of bomb threats, and anti-Muslim groups have tripled. In Miami, a homeowner in Kendall lynched a dark-skinned dummy as a “Halloween decoration” and a…
It’s no secret that it’s best not to live near one of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund sites. They’re the most polluted places in America. But those sites also tend to be crammed near low-income communities and communities of color that don’t live there by choice.
Donald Trump might in fact hate brown and Latino people so much that he’s now hellbent on unleashing a record-breaking hurricane on South Florida, some sort of biblical wall of water that can carry “criminals” and “rapists” and Jorge Ramos and everything else Trump can’t stand about Miami into the sea. There’s no other way to explain his recent actions this week: According to multiple memos leaked to the Washington Post, the president is gunning to juice up the hurricanes that hit Miami.
Two weeks ago, Muhammad Ali Jr. was detained at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and questioned about his religion. It was a moment outrageous enough for the son of America’s greatest athlete (and most famous Muslim) that Ali Jr. testified before Congress yesterday about putting a stop to such blatant religious discrimination.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is having a weird month. Last week, he got into an emoji-filled Twitter fight with the Airbnb company account after accusing the home-sharing service of ruining the quality of life on his island. Today, in front of a roomful of Cuban-Americans, Levine suggested invading Havana. The mayor insists he was just kidding, though.
Standing at beach entrance points, “goodwill ambassadors” turn away coolers and floats. Police cruisers and SUVs, their lights flashing, congregate on the sand. And along the causeways, license-plate scanners monitor who’s coming into the city. Welcome to spring break 2017.
Spring break season is upon us. Starting in late February, thousands of tourists have descended on Florida to fulfill their warm weather fantasies. Between now and April, many of them will make pit stops in Miami and Fort Lauderdale before heading south to the Caribbean. For visitors who are Bahama-bound,…
Mexico will never pay for Donald Trump’s proposed wall. The country was never going to pay for a gigantic concrete monument to anti-Latino racism. Donald Trump almost definitely knew that fact from day one of his presidential campaign but just didn’t care about lying to millions of Americans. (The only other option is that Trump is way, way dumber than anyone assumes.)
Imagine every conceivable moment when your pants might spontaneously burst into flames. Got them all? OK, now which one would be the single most absurd? Here’s a good one: You’re standing in front of a jury, arguing that your client didn’t purposely set his car on fire — because it spontaneously combusted. Oops, just like your pants!
