Two candidates running against state Sen. Gwen Margolis in the newly redrawn District 38 are demanding an apology from the 81-year-old senator after she allegedly referred to three of her five opponents as “three Haitians” at a recent campaign event. Don Festge, a North Miami teacher who is running for…
Last night the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton had secured the support of enough delegates (both super and otherwise) to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. Tonight, she’s widely expected to shore up a majority of the popular vote and pledged delegates during the final round of primary contests…
“When I want something I get it,” Trump memorably said of his relationships with career politicians at a rally in Iowa back in January. “When I call, they kiss my ass. It’s true.” Turns out, sometimes Trump doesn’t even have to make the call to get an ass kissing. Florida…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Miami, is like the Azealia Banks of Congress. She always seems to find herself feuding with some celebrity or another. Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez have all found themselves on the other end of a critical Twitter lashing from Ros-Lehtinen. Though the congresswoman…
The call came in to police at 1:16 a.m. November 22, 2009: a burglary in progress at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, a former yacht club that had become a resort hotel perched on the Intracoastal Waterway just off the 17th Street Causeway. Kenneth Post, the burglar, was a 46-year-old,…
Kevin “Kimbo Slice” Ferguson, a Bahamian-born Mixed Martial Arts Fighter who grew up and achieved internet fame in Miami-Dade, died last night at 42 after being admitted to Broward County hospital. Details of his death are not yet clear, but Ferguson leaves behind a unique legacy telling of the times…
Amongst the many lakes of the appropriately named Lakeland, Florida is Lake Horney. Its name derives from J.T. Horney, a real estate developer who built homes in the area in the 1920s. Though, he’s probably not what teenagers think of when they hear the name “Lake Horney.” Nor any of…
Josh Naylor and Stone Garrett are ranked the Marlin’s 2nd and 4th best minor league prospects respectively. In fact, Naylor was the team’s first draft pick in the 2015 MLB draft. Garrett was the team’s 2015 Minor League Player of the Year. Not only are they teammates with the Marlin’s…
Is it possible to run too far to the right in a Florida GOP primary? Nah, probably not. That’s what a new poll out this morning suggests, at least. Because Carlos Beruff, the Miami-born businessman whose earned the nickname of the “Cuban-American Trump,” is currently leading a crowded Republican field…
America is still fiercely arguing today about whether the Cincinnati Zoo should have shot and killed Harambe, a 17-year-old male gorilla, after a three-year-old boy slipped past a fence and tumbled into his enclosure on May 29. Zookeepers say it was the only way to save the boy from the 400-pound…
Muhammad Ali, who died last night at 74 years old, left behind so many towering legacies that writing a proper obit for the man is a task worthy of Dostoevsky. Ali was the greatest boxing champ of all time, but also a huge figure in the civil rights fight and…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida’s longest serving member of congress, won’t be getting a guaranteed ride to re-election. Though she had already drawn two Democratic challengers (Thomas Cruz-Wiggins, a “poet obedient to Christ,” and Frank Perez, an Army veteran), she’s drawn a new challenger with backing from the national Democratic party. …
Despite an acknowledged longshot chance at the nomination, Bernie Sanders and his campaign has trudged on. One of their main reasons, as we’re sure a friend or two of yours has explained in an impassioned Facebook status update, is that at that moment Sanders fairs better than Hillary Clinton in national…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week. On Friday, we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: Gators strike bike, a naked man stops traffic, and a disgruntled construction worker buries his boss in dirt with a front loader. Gators and Shark Strike Back Late last…
In a few short hours, your torturous work will will be at an end. All that will stand between you and a glorious cocktail are a few painful moments slogging home through Friday afternoon traffic. But today, assuming you’re traveling anywhere near Miami Beach, those few moments are likely to…
When Carolina noticed the bus advertisements in 2011, she had already run out of hope. What had begun as a low dose of Percocet to manage back pain three years earlier had spiraled into a full-blown opioid addiction. The 30-year-old had lost her job. Relationships with her family were strained…
Outside of Washington, D.C., itself, Miami might be ground zero for Republican establishment-types who can’t stand Donald Trump. Both the city and county mayor refuse to endorse him. Local GOP power-players like Ana Navarro deplore him. All three local Republican members of congress want nothing to do with him. (At…
Tons of Miamians start their own businesses. Many maybe dream of running worldwide empires out of corner offices in Brickell office buildings. Turns out few of those would-be empires ever grow to employ more than 5 people. Back in August, The Kauffman Index crowned Miami America’s second hottest metro for…
Just two months ago, hundreds of grinning cyclists gathered at the western end of the Venetian Causeway. They had reason to celebrate: The scenic, historic link between downtown and South Beach had been closed for eight months of repairs, leaving bikes with a Sophie’s Choice of the high-speed MacArthur and…
If you had $455,000 sitting around in 2006 to buy a loft penthouse at Neo Vertika, a Brickell condo building on the banks of the Miami River, you might consider yourself a bit wealthy. Rich even. Perhaps even a “Rich Bitch.” In fact, Neo Vertika’s penthouse unit 19 is owned…
This past October, Florida held its first bear hunting season in more than 20 years. Though the mini-season was scheduled to last a week, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission called it off after just two days. Hunters took 302 bears in the short time, just short of the…
Eleazar Gadea thought that all it takes to get your way with Miami-Dade County government is a few discretely handed off $100 bills. He even thought that perhaps the county would look the other way if he wanted to hold a paint party until 4 a.m. despite local zoning laws…
