When is Chris Bosh getting back on the court? The answer could possibly be “never.” Bosh has been sidelined since All-Star Weekend after complications from his blood clot situation flared back up, and according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst the situation may force Bosh into medical retirement. It’s the second season in a row…
Florida is ground zero of the foreclosure crisis. No other state even touches Florida when it comes to the number of foreclosure over the past decade. So you would figure our state government would be first in line when it comes to taking advantage of federal assistance programs meant to help regular…
When your political opponent posts a full, unedited video of your recent cables news interview to his YouTube page it’s probably an indication that the interview didn’t go so well. Rep. Patrick Murphy didn’t even bother to cut an attack ad against Rep. Alan Grayson, his opponent for the Democratic…
Despite being a stronghold of support for Barack Obama in both his presidential races, Miami’s two most prominent mayors — City Mayor Tomás Regalado and County Mayor Carlos Gimenez — are both Republicans. That’s a quirk of the outsized role traditionally Republican Cuban-Americans play in local politics. But that party…
In his short time campaigning for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, Miami native Carlos Beruff has already earned his nickname — the Cuban-American Donald Trump — with extreme positions like a call to end all travel from the Middle East to the United States. So it shouldn’t be the shock of…
Unless your team wins it all, there’s no way to escape the inevitable pain that comes with being eliminated from a playoff run. It’s like being tapped in the nuts with a ball-peen hammer. It’s a dull, implacable pain. It’s not fun. It sucks, even. Yet that’s exactly how Miami…
The closest you might get to a mastodon in modern day Florida is during a visit to the Dinosaur World theme park in Orlando, but it turns out that 14,550 years ago, people were visiting Florida to get close to real-life mastodons. In fact, newly uncovered evidence in northern Florida…
Three years ago, a soft-spoken mobile app developer named Jesus Rodriguez was hailed as one of the up-and-coming bright lights of Miami’s emerging tech sector. Rodriguez’s company, Kidozen, was among the first local companies chosen by tech business incubator Endeavor Miami for a grant. Rodriguez quickly claimed runaway success. He…
Every year Christie’s International Real Estate compiles it’s list of the world’s top luxury real estate markets. Miami’s made frequent appearances in the top ten, but its ranking in the newly released 2015 study is the highest it has ever sat. In fact, we overtook both Paris and San Francisco to…
For months, fiery debate has raged over the future of Liberty Square, the notoriously dangerous housing project better known as Pork ‘n’ Beans. After Mayor Carlos Gimenez revealed an ambitious plan to raze the property and rebuild new housing, corruption allegations and fears that current residents will be shut out…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida everyweek. On Friday we’re here to bring you the oddest. This week: a man nicknamed “Murder” carried out his destiny, a stripper find a novel use for a shirt, and a man kills his borther over a cheeseburger. Man Nicknamed “Murder” who…
Here’s what the discussion around climate change desperately needs: serious international, national and state-level cooperation aimed at curbing man’s contribution and planning for the possible effects. Here’s what the discussion around climate change certainly doesn’t need: another article that basically boils down to “Miami is a dumb city and its going…
Florida Congressmen Alan Grayson stormed into yesterday’s meeting of the Progressive Caucus apparently thinking he was Beyoncé armed with a baseball bat in the “Hold Up” video ready to righteously smash things up with a devious smile on his face. Metaphorically at least. He was looking for Senate Minority Leader…
One time two, short 150 meter horse races began in Miami-Dade County and ended in Broward, so now Malaysian gambling conglomerate Genting should be allowed to operate a casino near Downtown Miami. Or, at least, that’s the oversimplified take on a lawsuit Genting has filed against Miami-Dade County and State…
As the City of Miami Beach continues to roll out an unprecedented array of sea-level rise solutions, a top Miami engineer is worried that city officials have overlooked one key factor: Back-up generators. In the case of a major storm or hurricane, the electricity that powers the city’s expansive pump…
On the campaign trail, Marco Rubio painted the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency like some combination of allowing Bernie Madoff and Pol Pot into the White House. A brief selection of words Rubio used to describe Trump include “con man,” “dangerous,” “strong man,” and “catastrophic.” He (correctly) called him…
“Opa-locka Hialeah is the place to go,” goes the familiar jingle. “It’s more than just a market, it’s a great big…” center of food stamp fraud, apparently. Multiple agencies raided the iconic Opa-locka Hialeah Flea Market this afternoon. 22 shop owners ended up being indicated, and some were hauled off in zip…
Jeffrey Jason Cooper lured Asian college students to Florida for the summer with the opportunity of doing clerical for his Miami Beach yoga studio. When they arrived, the students were informed that no such yoga studio actually existed. Instead, Cooper ran an erotic massage parlor and forced the students into performing…
Medical marijuana will be back on the ballot in Florida in November, and according to the latest poll numbers it should pass easily. Eighty percent of all Floridians say they plan to vote for the amendment, and that includes vast majorities among all groups, including Republicans and those 65 and…
Every year, the massive Yachts Miami Beach event showcases hundreds of yachts along a ten-block stretch west of Collins Avenue in Mid-Beach each winter. All those boats require temporary docks to tie up to, though, and for years the company who runs the show has installed floating styrofoam structures in…
Miami Heat fans might be witnessing the most confusingly heroic and disgustingly enjoyable brand of their team’s playoff basketball ever. Each playoff game has been a bag of jelly beans: a fair share of deliciously fruity moments, mixed with some disgusting black licorice ones. Well, nobody said it was going…
It was 1 a.m. Saturday, January 16, when a pair of uniformed men shook Jaiema Pierre awake. The petite 18-year-old nursing major had fallen asleep in a friend’s dorm room at the Indian River Towers on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus. “What year is it?” one of them asked…
