Here Are the Best Signs From the Miami Women’s Rally
There were plenty of references to tiny hands — one sign even featured a pair of moving doll hands — and to nasty women.
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Attention, Miami: Trump’s First Pledge Is to Kill Climate Change Action Plan
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.
Hundreds to Protest President Trump at Bayfront Park Tonight, Thousands to Protest Tomorrow
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…
Ask a Stoner: Why Roll a Joint Inside Out?
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…
To Combat Miami Traffic, Local Governments Look to Water Transit
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.
Forget Selfies — Tourists Pay Hundreds for Miami Company to Take Professional Instagram Pics
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.”
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Ocean Drive’s Police Squad Seized a Half-Pound of Cocaine, Four Pounds of Weed Last Year
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.”
Hundreds of Miami Teachers to Protest Today Against Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Education Secretary Pick
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…
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.
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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.
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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:
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).
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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.
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…
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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.
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…
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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.