Earlier this month, environmentalists were aghast when the feds shot down a last-ditch effort to prevent Florida Power & Light from storing radioactive waste beneath Miami’s underground water supply. More than 1,500 people have now signed a petition demanding that lawmakers take action.
Stanley Glaser swats at mosquitoes outside his weatherbeaten house, which is shaded by towering mango trees and lush tropical ferns. Glaser learned to till a few small fields while living here in the early ’80s. Now the home sits at the center of an 20-acre South Miami-Dade oasis that churns…
“I marched the first time,” Sandy Oestreich says, speaking by phone from here home near St. Petersburg. Oestreich is 82, and has spent her life demonstrating in the streets for women’s equality. And compared to the big women’s rights protests in the 1970s, the lawmaker, professor, activist, and ardent feminist…
Hillary Clinton won 2016’s popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. Yet Donald Trump was sworn in as the new U.S. president last Friday thanks to an Electoral College system that disproportionately props up voters in small states and devalues votes in large ones.
With a confident grin, Mark Gold strides into a Broward County courtroom and waltzes up to a podium. Dressed in a dark suit and silver striped tie, the five-foot-five attorney tells Chief Magistrate Brenda Di Ioia that his client, a man caught speeding in his mother’s 1995 Saturn, will not…
It wasn’t that difficult to attend at least one event related to Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington. Marches were, in fact, planned in every single major American city and tons of smaller satellite cities, including tiny Lubbock, Texas; and Key West, Florida. Miami held its own rally at the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, which concluded with a protest march through city streets. All you had to do was show up and march.
Remember two weeks ago when your friends were all amazed at Sen. Marco Rubio’s gutsy showing at Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing? Rubio roasted Tillerson for refusing to call Vladimir Putin a war criminal over his Syria campaign. Maybe, political columnists suggested, Rubio could be a GOP bulwark against Donald Trump’s neglect for basic human rights.
In 2007, then-Miami Beach Police Capt. Richard Weissman stood inside a Miami Beach hotel room, preparing his fellow officers for a prostitution sting. According to a later Miami Herald report, Weissman began tossing heated questions at the other cops, including “What if a prostitute comes in and tries to rob one of you guys?” and “What if when the prostitute enters the room, she locks the door?”
There were plenty of references to tiny hands — one sign even featured a pair of moving doll hands — and to nasty women.
Elections have consequences. Sure, there are some Miami voters who leapt enthusiastically onto the Trump Train and embraced all of the Donald’s plans. But thousands of locals voted for him only because they wanted lower taxes or a wall in Texas or the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Even more in Miami-Dade didn’t bother showing up at the polls.
Donald Trump is officially the president of the United States. Trump promised today to give power in America “back to the people” — people, presumably, like billionaires Besty DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, and Rex Tillerson, who make up his cabinet. If, however, you are interested in protecting your power and rights…
Dear Stoner: A festival-going friend rolls joints inside out and says they’re better that way. Wouldn’t they be manufactured that way if that were the case? Dab-oo Sweeney. Dear Dab-oo: Papers and blunt wraps are merely canvases for rolling artists to spin their magic. The regular way is the easiest…
Sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the MacArthur Causeway, you ball up your fists and inexplicably honk your horn, because Miami logic dictates you must. As you let out a guttural cry, a Jet Ski zips past you in the water. Your first inkling — Is it DJ Khaled?! — subsides as a second, more loathsome thought makes its way to the tip of your tongue: Screw that guy.
A Miami company pairs tourists with professional photographers who document their trips. “If you don’t put up a picture of where you went,” the founder says, “it’s like you didn’t go.”
Two years ago, amid a spike in crime on South Beach’s iconic Ocean Drive, the city assigned eight police officers to patrol the street from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The city says the Ocean Drive Squad is “the centerpiece of the department’s efforts to address crime and other challenges facing Ocean Drive.”
Betsey DeVos, President-Elect Donald Trump’s choice to run the U.S Department of Education, said this week she believes the biggest threat facing the nation’s schools might be bears. Teachers, meanwhile, believe the biggest threat facing America’s public education system is actually Betsy DeVos. “During her confirmation hearing, she could not…
Politicians and prosecutors are targeting the online listings giant, threatening the internet as we know it.
If you’ve lived in Florida for more than a few months, you’ve hopefully absorbed some firm rules regarding the living dinosaurs that populate our swamps and canals. You never swim at night, and honestly should never set foot in any freshwater that isn’t a swimming pool. You don’t feed the…
In his Southern twang, 36-year-old Chris Emerson explained he had totaled his truck, split from his wife, and “just had a bad rough patch.” Riding his horse Trigger from South Carolina to Florida, he couldn’t pass through a city without someone taking notice of the pair. News crews that spotted…
For better and worse, Florida’s early settlers exerted their will over almost every aspect of the Everglades, from the swamp’s water flow to the sharp sawgrass. But despite their best efforts at conquering nature, insects are still getting the best of us a century later. Zika-carrying mosquitoes briefly destroyed Miami’s tourism economy last year. And when locals aren’t swatting away mosquitoes, they’re blasting entire cans of Raid at palmetto bugs, South Florida’s unique brand of hideous, gigantic flying cockroaches.
According to Florida Power & Light, the Sunshine State-based electricity monopoly, the Sierra Club’s members are a bunch of extremists. “The Sierra Club is an extreme group, that takes extreme positions,” an FPL spokesperson told the Miami Herald last night. If that seems like an odd way to characterize the Sierra Club…
Rubio has thrown deep shade at Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private and WikiLeaks leaker whom President Obama pardoned yesterday. See if you can notice what’s off about Rubio’s statement condemning Obama’s move:
