In 1837, white men in Florida first floated the idea of draining a swamp. Men, who’d traveled from the north and had no real business being there, saw a wide, slow-moving sheet of shallow water barbed with sawgrass as a threat, a scourge, and a waste of valuable real estate…
Well, here we are. It’s been 17 months since Donald Trump announced his candidacy by declaring that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists. It’s also been two days since the FBI announced it won’t charge Clinton for her deleted emails, but those last 48 hours somehow managed to feel longer…
Kate Jacobson had already picked out her seats and keyed in her credit card number for a last-minute flight to Fort Lauderdale when she decided to check the mailbox one last time. For weeks she’d been waiting at it “like a lovestruck teen,” but her absentee ballot was a no-show.
Florida sure looks like it’s on the verge of legalizing medical marijuana. Poll after poll shows Amendment 2 riding well above the 60 percent threshold needed to pass. And although casino magnate and Trump BFF Sheldon Adelson has dropped $1.5 million to defeat the measure, that’s way less than he…
We get it. This election has been harder to watch than the new Independence Day. It’s been more stressful than the build-up to Hurricane Matthew. And it’s all been even worse as a journalist. GOP rallies have turned into group anger management sessions directed at ink-stained scribes, actual facts…
The blond corpse floats in a blood-filled bathtub. The face bobs just barely above the surface. She wears nothing but a thong. Her hands are tied with a ribbed fabric sash. The feet are bound with a beige electrical cord. Stab wounds dot her body. The sprawling Mediterranean-style home is a…
Two things Miamians are tired of: Paying exorbitant amounts of money for rent, and hearing New Times complain about it. Nary a week goes by without some real-estate analyst looking at our housing prices and collapsing with an aneurysm. This week, the analysts turned their attention to Miami’s renters — and the…
In a year when an orangutan-colored casino franchiser wants to become president and grab the nation’s women by their you-know-whats, it’s easy to ignore the smaller local races. But it’s possible that Greg Capra, a man running for city commission in tiny Sunny Isles Beach might be the most entertaining candidate in Miami’s down-ballot elections.
There was the time Janet Reno found her mom wrestling an alligator in the kitchen. And there was that propensity to answer calls at home no matter the hour. And of course there was her appointment as perhaps the most prominent official from South Florida in national government.
If you’re even the tiniest bit etiquette-minded, you’ve probably spent the past year politely changing the subject when your dad, boss, or Aunt Sally starts talking about why Shillary belongs in jail or when your college roommate blathers on and on about why he’s expending his vote on Jill Stein.
Could another real-estate crash hit Miami sometime soon? Some analysts think think so. More than 3,000 condo units became available in the past few years, and a mind-blowing 11,000 are set to hit the market within the next two years. Miami’s housing market took a beating in the past three…
We’re at the point in this election cycle where time seems to slow down and stop functioning like normal. Candidates appear, speak, and then reappear just days later, having somehow criss-crossed the entire country. With just one weekend left before Election Day, the candidates’ planes are in overdrive: Today, Clinton will…
Bernard Williams was driving down busy Washington Avenue when a trio of police officers stopped him and ordered him to turn down his radio. Reaching for the volume control, though, he accidentally turned it up. That mistake, says Williams, who is black, set off a brutal beating.
Scott Melker lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr.
When behavior technician Charles Kinsey was shot by a North Miami Police officer while trying to help an autistic client this past July, the outrage was pretty much universal. A witness released video of Kinsey lying flat on his back with his hands in the air, and dozens of horrified…
If the latest crop of polls is correct, medical marijuana will be legally available to sick people in Florida in just four days. As of last week, close to 80 percent of Floridians support Amendment 2, which would legalize weed statewide for medical purposes, such as helping cancer or Alzheimer’s patients.
The word “oversight” is not used very often in Miami. You’re supposed to make gigantic life decisions on a whim down here — that’s part of the draw. You can buy a gun, charter a boat, develop a drug habit, or get a neck tattoo, and pretty much nobody will ask any questions.
By now, you’ve probably made up your mind in the most important race on this year’s ballot. If you’ve been paying even a little attention, you know that medical marijuana is back up for a vote and that Florida’s Amendment 1 solar initiative is actually a trick…
Taiwan Smart hit the floor as bullets flew into his living room in Little Haiti November 13, 2009. The 21-year-old made a mad dash for the back door and ran down the street barefoot before finding refuge at a neighbor’s home. Soon he would learn that his two friends, 18-year-old…
Labor lawyers warned New Times in September that getting workers’ compensation after you catch the Zika virus would be difficult. But now it appears that applying for Zika-related workers’ compensation with the City of Miami Beach might be straight-up impossible. In a letter sent to the Miami Beach Police union president yesterday, City Manager Jimmy…
Four games and almost one week into the Miami Heat season, fans now have a better idea of what kind of team they’re cheering on. For better or worse, the chips are starting to fall and a clearer image of the team is taking form.
Donald Trump’s longtime supporters knew the drill at this point. Once Trump started name-dropping the “lying,” “dishonest,” “liberal” media corralled into a pen at Miami’s Bayfront Park today, the audience wheeled around and started shouting obscenities at them, per usual. A “CNN Sucks” chant bounced up from the crowd, to…
