Fueled in part by President Donald Trump’s flame-throwing speeches, the number of hate groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis released last week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Hundreds filled Miami-Dade County Hall today to demand that commissioners rescind County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s January 26 order that Miami comply with President Trump’s crackdown on immigrant-protecting “sanctuary” communities. Some residents even cried in front of the commission while recounting their own stories of immigration to the Magic City.
Shooting a suspect is one of the most serious actions a police officer can take. We entrust cops to walk around town with guns to protect people, but when they have to use them, we also expect a full, clear explanation of what happened and why they felt compelled to take potentially deadly action.
Dear Stoner: I always feel so bad for dogs when people blow smoke in their faces. I can tell they don’t like it. Are they getting high, or is it just irritating them?
One of Donald Trump’s most enduring, unchallenged fictions is the idea that Cuban-American people adore him. He repeats the lie all the time. During the election season, Trump flew into Miami, made a pit stop at Versailles, and earned some cheers after promising Cuban immigrants he would crack down on the Castro regime. Ever since that visit, he has claimed he’s beloved in Miami’s Cuban community.
Anne Posschelle rides her bike to and from work every day on the tree-lined, waterside Indian Creek Drive. But one night last week, as she neared the curve by 26th Street, she was horrified to see that almost all of the foliage — including protected mangroves — had vanished.
Donald Trump’s original pick to run the Labor Department, Andy Puzder, was apparently too much of a liability to work in an administration otherwise staffed with enough red flags to dizzy a rodeo steer. Puzder was a classic Trump choice: As the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardees, he was…
You can’t put a price on public safety. But technically speaking, if you want to split hairs, keeping Miami disease-free costs real money. Jaws dropped last fall when Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez revealed the county spent roughly $10 million fighting Zika, a figure it was no doubt unprepared…
The Turkey Point nuclear plant sits on the southern edge of Miami-Dade, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only county affected by the Florida Power and Light plant. Last year, Miami-Dade officials sanctioned FPL and warned that the canals used to cool the plant’s wastewater were leaking into Biscayne Bay. Radioactive materials were…
For a brief, delirious moment, Marlins fans thought they were rid of Jeffrey Loria. Sure, they’d have to trade the worst owner in sports for a family best known for propelling a xenophobic garbage bag full of rancid Tang into the White House. But that would almost be worth it…
Like most of America, John DeVore was astounded to see the Facebook photos posted by a random Palm Beach rich dude last weekend. Thanks to his membership at Mar-a-Lago, some guy named Richard DeAgazio managed to sidle up to the nuclear football for a selfie and watch a North Korean…
Republicans claim to be a party of good old Christian values. They take photo-ops at church, post prayer psalms on Twitter, install unqualified Christian moonbats to run the Department of Education (See: DeVos Betsy), and quote Jesus in public whenever it’s convenient. But despite the fact that Jesus spent about…
The Miami Heat has played 56 of its 82 regular-season games, but for some reason, the NBA All-Star break this weekend still feels like the midpoint of the season. Maybe that’s because Heat fans are so used to playoff basketball stretching into May and June.
Floridians are suffering from an epidemic of head trauma.
At the beginning of last week, the room-sharing company Airbnb seemed to have a good relationship with the City of Miami — more harmonious than Miami Beach, where city officials have passed an ever-increasing series of restrictions on short-term rentals. But then City of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado last week proposed an ordinance cracking down on Airbnb-style “vacation” rentals. Regalado’s new law would ban short-term rentals in roughly two-thirds of the city. It would also subject any Airbnb, Homeaway, or other temporary home rentals in the remaining third to some fairly strict licensing requirements.
Artist Cynthia Fleischmann lost the bottom half of her right leg in a brutal October 2015 motorcycle accident. And she says the Florida Department of Transportation’s shoddily maintained I-95 express lanes — where broken and missing poles let people illegally jump over into the express zones — are to blame…
A culture of misogyny and macho bullying at Magic Leap, a high-profile, billion-dollar virtual-reality startup based in Broward, has put the company behind schedule on its launch date, according to a new lawsuit.
The line stretched all the way down Biscayne Boulevard: thousands of Miamians clutching signs bearing phrases such as “Sister, act,” “The 4-year pussy riot starts now,” and “Trump voters: It’s fascism, stupid.” An hour after Bayfront Park Amphitheatre’s gates opened, they had to close. South Florida’s answer to the national…
Complying with Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants doesn’t seem to trouble Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez much. He’s spent the weeks since his January 26 order — which declared that his county will not act as a “sanctuary” to immigrants — by smearing his local opposition and spreading Trumpian falsehoods on the radio.
Marco Rubio’s campaign-trail promises of being a strong foil to Donald Trump already felt like pulp fiction thanks to his 100 percent voting record for the president’s appointees and plans. Now they’re beginning to look as sordid as the latest Fifty Shades edition.
For once in Miami-Dade County, a police officer caught doing something blatantly racist won’t be getting his job back. Former Miami Beach Police Lt. Alex Carulo was fired alongside one other high-ranking cop in 2015 for sending hundreds of racist, sexist emails. The slew of garbage included images of a “Black Monopoly” board where every space sent the player to jail…
Miami’s seemingly never-ending saga of Jeffrey Loria, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb might finally be coming to a close. Loria owns the Miami Marlins, a taxpayer-funded rich-person welfare program that occasionally hosts baseball games. After buying the team in 2003 for roughly $150 million, the sports-team equivalent of cereal box tops…
