Oh, the single life. Scrolling through Tinder while avoiding men who post photos only of themselves in Scarface T-shirts. Setting up Google alerts for your ex who travels the world painting watercolors of dog weddings. And, of course, drinking heavily to drown your sorrows, only to climb back into bed in your parents’ house in Kendall, because single people have been priced out of Miami’s rental market.
Remember over the summer when Marco Rubio waxed eloquent about how he and his fellow U.S. senators would be a strong “check and balance” on Donald Trump? Hahahaha! That was a funny one, Marco. Rubio now has a sterling 100 percent voting record backing all of President Trump’s nominees and plans…
This morning in a courtroom in Tallahassee, the seven justices of the state’s Supreme Court will hear a case that should be of interest to any Floridian concerned about bad cops. At stake is the question of whether citizens have the right to investigate police or whether we should trust…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to honor President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants could affect more than 1,000 people this year, according to a Miami Herald analysis. But if you’re upset about that, you’ll have to try and reach the mayor via mail. His office is now refusing…
Aboard the sleek, new Shalom, the pride of the Israeli fleet, a bit of dancing and merriment was still going on at 2 a.m. when a strange grinding noise forced the band to interrupt its tune. The drummer clumsily fell off his stool. It was a frigid and foggy Thanksgiving…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez has argued his decision to bow to President Donald Trump’s bellicose order banning so-called sanctuary cities — which refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to deport undocumented people — was purely financial. Trump threatened to pull federal funding from cities that refuse to comply, and Gimenez says Miami-Dade could lose up to $355 million.
Have you seen the latest issue of Der Spiegel? That’s normally an odd question in Miami, which is not exactly bursting with subscriptions to Germany’s favorite weekly news magazine. But thanks to a brutal cover illustration of Donald Trump holding holding the bloodied, severed head of Lady Liberty, everyone is talking about this week’s edition.
In 2014, the brother of Marlon Woodstock, a resident of Sunrise in Broward County, called to warn police that the 38-year-old was off his medication and possibly a danger to himself. Sunrise Police responded by tasering Woodstock, attacking him with a dog, and then shooting him dead.
Carlos Gimenez, the mayor of Miami-Dade County, is a man so boring he might actually just be a pile of wood pulp with googly eyes stuck to the sides. So it’s somewhat surprising to see pro-immigration activists marching through the streets of Miami, chanting, “Shame on you!” at the mayor,…
Apparently, every large gathering in Miami Beach is now an excuse to attack citizens’ privacy rights. In recent years, Miami Beach Police have cracked down hard on Memorial Day revelers, including with license-plate readers, which groups including the American Civil Liberties Union say pose a risk to the privacy of innocent people.
Remember way back in November when your most insufferable Facebook friends were insisting there was zero difference between Trump and Clinton? Besides, they cynically insisted, Trump would never do all of that crazy stuff he kept promising! Who cares whom you vote for?
Fair-pay rights for the people who build houses, install piping, or wire electrical circuits have been slowly but surely crippled over the past 50 years. Unions have been broken, worker protections have been destroyed, and formerly blue-voting laborers have increasingly turned to people like Donald Trump to ensure their messages are heard instead of supporting a Democratic Party that has become blind to their economic struggles.
Children sleeping on the streets. Strained police, fire-rescue, and emergency medical services. An increase in homelessness, robberies, and crime. A resolution from Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman paints a bleak picture of the potential pitfalls of medical marijuana, which was legalized in Florida with support from 71 percent of voters last November.
Miami has seen a lull in Zika cases lately, which makes sense because it’s low season for Florida’s mosquitoes. But once the weather warms up, clouds of Aedes aegypti will return with the virus. Fighting the virus hasn’t been easy. Pesticides aren’t very effective and have run up against public pushback. But a new study says another problem has also hampered anti-Zika efforts: the flood of memes, #fakenews articles, and straight-up incorrect reporting that followed the virus.
Miami Beach city commissioners plan to require that parking garages built in the future can be converted into housing.
Dear Stoner: Is there such a thing as organic marijuana? I recently bought a pre-roll, and on the label were things like ammonium nitrate, isopropyl alcohol, nitric acid and indole-3-butyric acid, just to name a few. Mike B. Dear Mike: Those sound like growing nutrients (although the isopropyl alcohol…
Donald Trump’s travel ban last week was directed at seven majority-Muslim countries: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and Sudan. Trinidad, which sits seven miles off the coast of Venezuela in the Caribbean, is nowhere near any of those nations. That fact, however, apparently did not stop border patrol agents…
Miami’s immigrant community is understandably paranoid about what the next four years of President Donald Trump’s administration will look like. Trump has pledged to rid the nation of undocumented immigrants and has spent the past 18 months or so injecting fear and bile into the American consciousness. Everybody is on edge right now.
It’s February, and — sorry! — South Florida sports kinda suck. The Marlins are months from returning and will probably be bad when they do. The Heat is driving its tank in the wrong direction. The Panthers aren’t anything to write home about. And football is finally leaving us for good following this weekend’s Super Bowl.
For 23 years, a science station on Virginia Key tied to the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has carefully tracked conditions in Biscayne Bay. Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the school, has never seen anything like the data coming in since September.
The civic, political, and intellectual weight of yesterday’s protest against Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez was huge. Political players like Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Florida’s American Civil Liberties Union Director Howard Simon turned up to speak in front of roughly 300 demonstrators. But the most poignant moment…
Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who is Fidel Castro’s nephew by marriage, has never been afraid to make ridiculous claims about his uncle’s regime. In 2009, Diaz-Balart actually argued that people who want to end the Cuban embargo are just like Nazi sympathizers. (They aren’t.) Yesterday, Diaz-Balart made yet another factually dubious Cuba-related statement…
