Florida’s anti-pot lobby is back. And just like in 2014, it’s spreading straight-up lies about medical marijuana to try to frighten voters. Two years ago, Amendment 2 netted 58 percent of the vote — just short of the 60 percent it needed to pass. That result likely had something to do…
An English-speaking teacher says Miami-Dade County School Board discriminated against her by not hiring her for a job. The position? Teaching an hour of Spanish per day. Tracy Rosner, a third-grade teacher at Coral Reef Elementary, filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida last week claiming employment…
The fallout from the trove of Democratic National Committee emails published by Wikileaks has been swift. Bernie supporters have raged over his treatment by DNC staffers, and our own Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had to step down as the organization’s head. But the leak also shows that DNC staffers were…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided that her latest gaffe as Democratic National Committee chair will be her last. Today, the Florida congresswoman — whose 23rd Congressional District encompasses Miami Beach and the southern third of Broward County — announced she will resign as DNC chair after the party’s convention in…
Four days after Charles Kinsey was shot in North Miami, police officials have identified the cop who shot him. Jonathan Aledda, a SWAT team member with four years on the job, fired the shot that hit Kinsey, an unarmed black behavioral technician who was unarmed and trying to assist an autistic…
The basic facts seemed crystal clear in the shooting of Michael Gavins. The former college football star was unarmed when an officer in South Miami shot him in the back last November. Both Gavins and an attorney who happened to witness the traffic stop say his hands were in the…
Among Miami’s most prestigious high schools is the Marine Academy of Science and Technology, which is dedicated to giving gifted kids a rigorous education in the marine sciences. But according to one set of triplets who attended the school’s FIU campus in North Miami, MAST takes education so seriously that if…
Hundreds of thousands have now watched a video of Charles Kinsey on his back with his arms in the air and asked, “How could police have shot this man?” A recent 14-page report from state inspectors might offer one hint. The report, prepared on May 23 by the Florida Commission on…
As Kendall’s population has spiked in recent decades to more than 75,000, the suburb’s sprawling fields and swamp lands have disappeared to make way for more single family homes and strip malls. Already facing overcrowding and traffic, residents there are now fighting to keep two of West Kendall’s last green…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida. Every Friday, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. And to warn you to stay the hell away from folks to make a habit of huffing propane — or barbecue sauce. Naked, Toothless Woman Huffing Propane Threatens to Blow Up Cops We’ve…
National condemnation has been swift today after video showed Charles Kinsey, an unarmed black man trying to help an autistic patient, holding his arms in the air before a North Miami Police officer shot him. But Miami’s two most prominent police union chiefs have now leaped to the officer’s defense. …
There are three stages in the life cycle of every “hip” urban neighborhood. First, broke artists move into an economically depressed area of town, setting up studios and slowly making it cool — and often pushing out longtime residents as rents climb. In stage two, the full-on explosion arrives. The…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did not enter the Republican National Convention this week with the best credibility on ethics. Just last month, news broke that she’d personally solicited a $25,000 donation from Donald Trump just before dropping an investigation into fraud complaints against his private university. So it was a…
For a few months earlier this year, Sen. Marco Rubio seemed to have actually grown a spine. On the campaign trail, he dished out hard truths about Donald Trump, arguing passionately that Republicans would be making a historic mistake by nominating the xenophobic, serially dishonest populist. Then came Rubio’s crushing…
Take a deep breath, Heat fans. You can sleep now. Because barring some unforeseen blockbuster trade, this offseason is over for Miami. And after the last few weeks of constant disappointment, you have certainly earned a few months off. No more refreshing Twitter to see who Dwyane Wade just followed…
America has been roiled this month by questionable police shootings caught on camera in Minnesota and Louisiana. Now, Miami has its own baffling case caught on video. A cop in North Miami shot a man named Charles Kinsey on Monday night. Last night, cell phone video was released of the…
The real-estate tracking website Zumper today released a map of what an average one-bedroom apartment will run you in every Miami-Dade County neighborhood this summer. And — surprise! — You basically can’t afford to live anywhere. Granted, Zumper’s map shows median prices, which means half of the apartments in every ‘hood…
Some criminals spend their dirty money on drugs. Others blow it on luxury cars, high-end escorts, or trips to obscure rich people enclaves like Gstaad, Switzerland. Or, if you’re Dr. Fernando Mendez-Villamil, a man accused of running one of the largest fake-prescription schemes in history, you invest heavily in paintings of…
Seventeen years ago, Michelle Salem moved into her home on Bay Drive in Normandy Isle next to what she thought was a regular apartment building. But as she later found out, the building was actually being used to house recovering drug addicts. In her time next to the apartments, Salem’s…
The South Beach dinner crowd was still buzzing with the news that O.J. Simpson had been acquitted of murder charges when Richard Clements got the call about a man flashing a gun near 16th Street and Washington Avenue. It was Oct. 3, 1995, and within minutes, Clements would find himself…
Today, the Miami City Commission will finally decide whether to allow the RCI Group, a prominent development firm based in Miami Beach, to raze Miami’s historic marina on Virginia Key, formerly the county’s only “black” beach during segregation, and build a gleaming, $100 million facility in its place, complete with…
The bodies of scores of Miami’s black pioneers fill a five-acre piece of prairie in South Miami-Dade near South Dixie Highway and Coconut Palm Drive. Many of the forenames are forgotten, but the family names can be found in the county’s halls of power and history books: Cherry, Richardson, Perry,…
