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Showing 7129 - 7150 of 31878County, Police Broke Law by Blocking Residents From Government Center, Attorneys Say
On Friday, the morning after Mayor Carlos Gimenez kowtowed to Donald Trump’s demand that Miami stop protecting undocumented immigrants, a crowd descended on County Hall to protest. That’s a pretty normal occurrence in America, where residents have the right to tell their elected leaders they’re wrong. What the crowd found…
Florida House Speaker Threatens to Ban Refugees From State, Thanks Trump for Muslim Ban
Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is ardently pro-life. He’s spoken before the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro “human life” (read: anti-abortion) advocacy group, and earlier this month expressed public support for the anti-abortion “March for Life” in Washington, D.C. But Corcoran’s concern for human life…
South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard Takes on “Evil Genius” FPL
Jack Black was standing in the dark-green, jungle-like backyard of South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard. The actor gazed at the blue-black pond with its prowling bass and sunfish, then up at the roof. Gleaming white solar panels, the slender, geeky Stoddard explained, power his whole house, including air conditioning and…
DJ Khaled, America’s Most Famous Muslim, Comes Out Against Trump’s Immigration Order
More than six million people follow DJ Khaled’s insanely popular Snapchat account. But this past weekend, as many of his celebrity peers spoke out against Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, Khaled seemingly tiptoed around the divisive issue, simply posting a video of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
Sanctuary Cities With More Money to Lose Than Miami Are Still Standing Up to Trump
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an order threatening federal funding to “sanctuary cities” that won’t fully comply with his immigration crackdown. It took less than 24 hours for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to crumble.
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Please Help Marco Rubio, Who Is Confused, “Uneasy” About Muslim Ban
Marco Rubio is less a U.S. senator than a wide-eyed college freshman, lost in the gleaming halls of his institution, deeply curious but frankly very confused and a little frightened by his ignorance. Sure, the people of Florida elected him based on his promise to serve as a brake on…
Hundreds at Miami Airport Protest Trump’s Muslim Ban Amid Heavy Police Presence
By 3:30 p.m. Sunday, three Miami-Dade County Police wagons were parked outside Departure Gate 9 at Miami International Airport. A battalion of county cops stood elbow-to-elbow in the middle of the street, at least one clad in a K-9 Unit vest. Multiple times, the cops had threatened to arrest members of the more than 300-person crowd that had gathered at MIA to protest President Trump’s Muslim-travel ban.
Here Are the Steps to Recall a Miami-Dade Mayor, in Case Anyone Wants Them
To initiate a recall vote in Miami-Dade County, one must first send a proposal to the county clerk, who must, according to county law, make sure your legal petition is up to snuff, legally speaking. You’re free to try to recall any elected official in Miami, from the county property appraiser to anyone on the county commission to — oh, just for the sake of argument — the county mayor himself.
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Rep. Keith Ellison Joins Protests After Carlos Gimenez Abandons Sanctuary-City Policy
County Hall went on lockdown this afternoon as a group gathered outside to protest Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s order to county officials to comply with all of Donald Trump’s strict immigration plans. Guards blocked the doors. The Metromover stop was closed. And then Rep. Keith Ellison crashed the party. The co-chair…
As Steve Bannon Rose to Power, His Ex-Wife Struggled With Drugs and Violence in Miami
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s senior counselor and chief strategist, lashed out at reporters this week, claiming “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut.” The comments came after journalists discovered Bannon was registered to vote in both Florida and New York – an embarrassing revelation…
War Dogs Smuggler Efraim Diveroli Sues Abilify Makers, Blames Drug for Erratic Behavior
As portrayed by Jonah Hill in the film War Dogs, Efraim Diveroli is a borderline madman, rushing into danger and blowing through millions of dollars as he tricks the U.S. government into buying old Chinese ammunition. The real-life story of the Miami Beach stoner’s arms-dealing fiasco isn’t that far off of Hollywood’s take.
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Miami’s Condo Market Is Plummeting
It’s really difficult to be the bearer of more bad news this week. Progressives have woken up every day this week in a state of panic, crawling out of bed to check their news feeds, only to get the wind knocked out of them upon reading President Trump’s newest slate of racist executive orders that seem all but designed to stir global unrest and disaster.
Miami-Dade Will Comply With Trump’s Sanctuary-City Ban Despite Gigantic Population of Immigrants
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez — a man who himself was born in Cuba — sent a stark message to undocumented immigrants Thursday: Miami-Dade County will not protect you. Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order pulling all federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with Immigration…
Video: Hero University of Florida Students Shame Campus Nazi
New Times can neither confirm nor deny that we condone punching Nazis. (Wink.) But we sure as hell condone the way a group of University of Florida students acted earlier today after a neo-Nazi reared his shaved head in Turlington Plaza, one of the main gathering spots on UF’s Gainesville campus.
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Miami Civil Rights Groups Plan Rally Against Trump’s Muslim Ban at 5 p.m. Today
To put things bluntly, America’s president has spent the past 24 hours attacking brown people. First, Donald Trump announced he’s bullheadedly pushing forward with Building! The! Wall! despite the fact that the fastest-growing group of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is flying in from Asia. He’s also banning refugees from seven Muslim countries in the name of homeland security despite the fact that nearly every post-9/11 assailant in this country has been a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Ask a Stoner: Why Have Dispensaries Been So Slow Lately?
Dear Stoner: I heard that dispensaries have been slow all over the country because of some hack in their sales systems. Like, all of them. Why are they so unorganized? Malcolm Dear Malcolm: An industry representative recently told me that at least three-quarters of Denver dispensaries use pot-tech company MJ…
Chilean Secret Police Wanted Miami Base for Brutal ’70s Repression Campaign, New Docs Show
From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the overthrow of democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, some of the CIA’s darkest covert operations across Latin America have Miami connections. Now, newly declassified documents show that the Magic City was almost a secret base for one of the bloodiest covert operations in Latin America, one that killed tens of thousands of people across a half-dozen countries.
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Miami Herald Scolds Its Reporters for Attending the Women’s March
In James Fallows’ 1997 book about media ethics, Breaking the News, he argues that journalists are often so blinded by their devotion to the nebulous idea of “objectivity” that they often forget to act like real people. Fallows cited a decades-old TV program in which war correspondents were asked whether they’d jump into combat to save a wounded soldier. Many of the reporters said — out of concerns for their neutrality — they would not save a dying American, to the horror of the TV show’s audience.
Video: MDPD Officer Kills Unarmed Cabbie Along I-95
The video is dark and grainy, but according to the family and attorneys of Junior Prosper, it shows a Miami-Dade Police officer fatally shooting him as he crawled away along I-95. The footage — obtained from a nearby business — is a key piece of evidence…
Jeb Bush Refuses to Confirm if He Is Actually “Comrade Jeb,” World’s Best Meme
During President Donald Trump’s inauguration events this past Friday, Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi Ken doll, stood on a street corner in Washington, D.C., explaining the significance of the Pepe the Frog meme to a reporter who has apparently never once used the internet. Then the crowds parted as if moved by the archangel Metatron himself, and a masked hero jumped into the crowd — and socked Spencer in the face.
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Buena Vista Neighbors Fight Design District Parking Garage Up for Vote Thursday
For two years, neighbors in Buena Vista Heights have signed petitions and waited. Gone to meetings and waited. Forwarded emails and waited. Consulted attorneys and waited. In 2015, residents learned a developer wanted to rezone a parcel in their residential, working-class neighborhood to build a five-story parking garage for Design District visitors. Since that time, they’ve watched — and, yes, waited — as the garage has gone through the slow process of city approval. Roughly 400 people have signed petitions circulating online and on paper asking commissioners to vote down the garage.