Attorney General Pam Bondi’s political headache is getting worse. Calls for an independent investigation into a $25,000 donation made by Donald Trump to Bondi’s PAC continue to grow, and the AG has now been hit with three separate ethics complaints filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics, Florida Elections Commission, and…
A rough guide to getting the national press’ attention during a heated presidential election: Paradoxically back a candidate who has repeatedly denigrated your ethnic heritage. Print bright T-shirts. Invite the TV crews. That was the game plan this week for a small Miami group calling themselves Latinas for Trump and…
For paddle sport enthusiasts like Sunny McLean, Miami should be a paradise — surrounded by water, blessed with year-round warm weather. But paradoxically, finding a safe place for sports like dragon boat racing and kayaking in the 305 is really difficult. In fact, the waters off Virginia Key are some…
The City of Miami Beach Commission unanimously approved an ordinance today that will raise the minimum wage in the city to $13.31 an hour by 2021. Miami Beach will be the first municipality in Florida to hike its minimum wage above the state level, and the new law falls in…
Even by Miami’s usual standards for knock-down, drag-out development fights, the political brawl over a proposed luxury condo tower in booming Sunset Harbour has been especially bare knuckled. First, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine recused himself from the deal in March because he owns property nearby. Then, when Beach Towing began…
Residents on Miami Beach’s exclusive La Gorce Island have a new neighbor: retired boxing champ Floyd Mayweather. The pugilist recently bought up a newly built home on the island and paid its $7.7 million price tag in cold, hard cash. The modern home makes liberal use of white surfaces, steel and…
The backlash against red light cameras conintues. The Miami-Dade County Commission voted this week to rescind the county’s power to install the cameras in unincorporated areas. That means you’ll never see red light cameras in places like Kendall, Westchester, Brownsville and The Redlands. Back in 2011, the County Commission tentatively…
Two years ago, Miami Beach banned all styrofoam from its city. Banning the notoriously polluting material wasn’t particularly controversial, with most local businesses telling reporters they didn’t mind making the change to more compostable materials. Well, Florida being Florida, the state legislature found this simple eco-friendly move abhorrent. Earlier this…
For more than eight years, Don Worth has watched plan after plan to restore the Miami Marine Stadium fall apart. Abandoned after Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the stadium on Virginia Key has taken on a new, graffiti-covered life as a hangout for street artists and skateboarders. Worth dreamed of seeing…
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…
