The Battle Over Backpage.com Rages, Threatening Free Speech and the Internet as We Know It
Politicians and prosecutors are targeting the online listings giant, threatening the internet as we know it.
News
Showing 7239 - 7260 of 31949
Video: Midwestern Tourists Learn Valuable Lesson About Florida Alligators
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…
Miami-Dade Files for Custody of Malnourished Horse Ridden From South Carolina to Florida
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…
Miami Is America’s Third-Most Roach-Infested City, According to Census Data
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.
Sierra Club Sues to Stop FPL’s $811 Million Rate Hike
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 Refuses to Use Chelsea Manning’s First Name While Condemning Clemency
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:
advertisement
Someone Is Crowdfunding a Birthday Cake for Sad Jeb Bush
Poor Jeb! After patiently waiting his turn to run for president, he was walloped mercilessly by schoolyard bully Donald Trump. The Donald branded him a “low-energy” candidate and gleefully taunted him for deploying his mother in campaign ads (“Jeb – mom can’t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin,” Trump tweeted).
More than 360,000 Miamians Could Lose Insurance When GOP Guts Obamacare
We elected a president last year, which means D.C. politicians spent 12 whole months treating Floridians and their precious electoral votes like delicate French dauphins, catering to our every whim and promising us things like jobs, endangered species protections, and a sea that won’t swallow and drown us in a hundred years.
Environmentalists Start Petition Against FPL’s Radioactive-Waste Plan
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided there’s nothing wrong with Florida Power & Light’s plan to store radioactive waste and contaminated water in an aquifer connected to South Florida’s drinking water supply. Last Friday, NRC officials shot down a legal petition from an environmental group asking the agency to reconsider FPL’s plan.
advertisement
Why Did More Than 80 Dolphins Die in the Everglades?
The herd of false killer whales, a kind of endangered, oversize dolphin, wormed its way into the narrow channels of Everglades National Park sometime over the weekend. The massive creatures, which can grow to 20 feet and 1,500 pounds, were soon trapped in the silty water, thick with mangrove roots…
At Least Seven Shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
There’s plenty of argument raging online about how to best honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, especially when MLK Day falls just before the inauguration of walking racist meme Donald Trump. But there’s no doubt that mass violence is the worst possible way to remember the civil rights icon. So…
Video: Cops Arrest Sabal Trail Protesters Handcuffed to Pipeline
Protests against the Sabal Trail Pipeline, the energy-company-owned natural-gas project slated to run from Alabama to Central Florida, have reached a fever pitch. Over the weekend, hundreds of peaceful protesters picketed and chanted in Suwannee County. They demanded that the triumvirate of energy companies building the $3 billion pipeline — Duke Energy, Spectra Energy, and NextEra Energy, which owns Florida Power & Light — reconsider their actions.
advertisement
Meet the Former Hialeah Politician Hosting a “Deplorables Inaugural Ball”
“Hillary Clinton is like a godmother,” Evelio Medina says, chuckling. “She created us.” Trump got crushed in Miami-Dade on Election Day, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have die-hard backers in this blue county — few more vocal than Medina, who has embraced Clinton’s use of “deplorables” to describe…
FPL Wins Battle to Store Radioactive Waste Under Miami’s Drinking Water Aquifer
South Florida sits atop two gigantic underground stores of water: the Biscayne and Floridan Aquifers. Miamians get most of their drinking water from the upper Biscayne Aquifer, while the government has used the lower portion of the Floridian to dump waste and untreated sewage — despite the fact that multiple studies have warned that waste could one day seep into the drinking water.
Study: Miamians Have to Spend a Year’s Salary to Make a Mortgage Down Payment
Miami is, more than most cities, optimized for people with entrenched, multigenerational wealth. Rent is nearly as expensive as other major American metro areas such as Seattle and Washington, D.C., but the city’s median income is a scant $44,000. That’s peanuts compared to cities like New York and Los Angeles…
advertisement
State Bill Would Create THC Limit for Stoned Drivers, but Scientists Say It’s Useless
Most cannabis activists, law enforcement professionals, and biologists agree that blood tests don’t work very well to police stoned drivers. Unlike alcohol, which dissolves in blood, THC, the active chemical in marijuana, dissolves in fat and doesn’t “peak” in the body while you’re actually high. In February, a Columbia University neurobiologist told NPR that it’s “really difficult to document drugged driving in a relevant way.”
Ask a Stoner: If I Create a New Strain, Can I Name It Anything?
Dear Stoner: If I breed a new strain from a male and female plant, can I name it whatever I want? Is there any sort of convention to follow? Bob the Breeder Dear Bob: You are free to name it whatever you come up with — no matter how stupid…
Miami Republicans Blast Obama’s “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” Change as “Concession to Castro”
Over the past ten years, it’s been difficult to find politicians, be they left-leaning or right-of-center, to defend the U.S. government’s “wet foot, dry foot” Cuban immigration policy. Even during the Bush administration, politicos — such as then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — called the rule an outdated relic of the Cold War. Even Marco Rubio has said it’s time for the law to go.
advertisement
Barack Obama Ends “Wet Foot, Dry Foot” Cuban Immigration Policy, White House Says
Barack Obama will be the U.S. president for eight more days. But he’s decided something that will have lasting ramifications for Miami and South Florida: the end of the long-standing and controversial “wet foot, dry foot” Cuban immigration policy, which granted residency to Cuban immigrants who entered the United States without visas, according to the Associated Press.
Miami Beach Mayor Phil Levine Won’t Run for Reelection, Might Run for Governor
Before taking the reins as mayor of Miami Beach, Philip Levine made a fortune as a cruise-ship media magnate who spent his spare time hobnobbing with celebrities like Mick Jagger, Annie Liebovitz, and Hillary and Bill Clinton. The minute Levine took office in 2013, he used his experience as a PR king to his advantage, rapidly turning himself into one of the nation’s highest-profile climate-change fighters.
Less Than 1 Percent of Florida Gun Purchases Blocked Because of Mental Illness
Less than 1 percent of Florida gun transactions were denied due to mental health issues in recent years.
advertisement
Marco Rubio Votes to Gut Obamacare With No Replacement
For a few delirious hours yesterday, Florida’s junior senator made his home state proud. Marco Rubio relentlessly grilled Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, on human rights violators such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, demanding to know whether Tillerson believed Trump’s BFF Vladimir Putin was a “war criminal” and whether he’d listen to intelligence agencies about Russia’s hacking.