Hidden cameras were rolling as Officer Jose Maldonado Dick, a seven-year veteran assigned to Wynwood, slid into a McDonald’s parking lot and calmly watched as a drug deal went down. A few days later, he did it again — this time even getting out of his car to offer the…
Zika has put the spotlight on mosquito control in South Florida. And there’s nothing like a gnarly green pool to encourage mosquitoes to lay their little eggs. That’s why code inspectors county-wide are cracking down on negligent pool-owners. Among those caught in the crosshairs: None other than Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent…
It wasn’t an endorsement as much as a call for unity, but Florida Governor Rick Scott has finally thrown his chips in the Donald Trump pile. Sort of. In a message on Facebook today, Scott urged Republicans to basically just give up on any hope of anyone else winning the nomination…
Florida, it seemed, was never going to feel the Bern. Sure, young voters aged 18-29 came out in large numbers (they made up 16 percent of primary voters, compared to just 9 percent in 2008) and largely voted for Sanders, but Clinton won, well, almost everyone else across the board…
In the days leading up to yesterday’s vote on whether to build a massive new convention center and hotel in the middle of South Beach, skeptics voiced a number of concerns: The snarled traffic in the heart of SoBe, the outsized scale of the building, the environmental impact. But when…
You can take the LeBron out of Cleveland, but you can’t take the Cleveland out of … Cleveland. Unfortunately for LeBron, the honeymoon on his return to Ohio seems to have a quickly approaching expiration date. The Cavs have become increasingly inconsistent, and even as they remain the first seed…
Bobby C. Billie was born in the Everglades, about a mile off Tamiami Trail, in 1945. For years, that was all he knew of the world. Children planted pumpkins and corn, hunted deer or raccoons, and stuck their feet into alligator holes to see if turtles were hiding inside. No…
Six years ago, Marco Rubio rode an wave of insurgent resentment at the Republican Party to become “the first Tea Party senator.” But in the years since, the rebel became the establishment. And tonight, the same anti-Beltway GOP sentiment that sent him to Washington sent him tumbling out of the…
In a result widely forecasted in polls, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has won their party’s perspective primaries in Florida by hefty margins. Clinton is besting Bernie Sanders all across the state, but is doing particularly well in the tri-county area of South Florida, which is home to the state’s largest…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine will be the first mayor of a city in Miami-Dade to visit Cuba in an official capacity since 1959 he announced today. Levine is framing the trip as a learning opportunity and hopes to scope out what effects the opening of Cuba to American visitors…
Ted Cruz never called out Marco Rubio’s so-called Miami values. Unlike efforts to paint Barack Obama as a product of that “corrupt Chicago political machine,” few opponents have smeared Rubio as a product of Miami’s banana-republic-as-usual political world. In the 2010 Senate race, a Charlie Crist ally once lambasted Rubio…
After a tumultuous spring break weekend in South Beach that included the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man on Ocean Drive, massive brawls that shut down the iconic street, the city’s concocting a new plan to stop the madness. A citizen petition, meanwhile, is pushing for new littering rules after…
On the day Florida goes to vote and ahead of President Obama’s trip to Havana this weekend, the White House announced a new slew of easing regulations on tourism and some financial rules with Cuba. The new rules will have major effects on travel between the country, and will pave…
Donald Trump has not rolled out a textbook campaign to appeal to Jewish voters. First, he gave a speech laced with anti-Semitic jokes to the Republican Jewish Coalition. Then he started demanding a “loyalty pledge” that gave his rallies a distinctly Munich circa-1933 vibe. And just this past weekend, a…
Andy Murray is melting in the Florida heat. It’s the final round — set three, game one — of the Miami Open, the biggest tennis tournament in Florida, the second-biggest in America, and, for at least a little while longer, the fifth-biggest in the world. The match is even at…
For more than a century the heterosexual couples living together in Florida have had to live in the shadow of the law unless they decided to enter into legally recognized holy matrimony. Thanks to a law dating back from the 1800s, the oppressed Florida heterosexual, or “straight” couples as many…
Early voting days wrapped up in Florida this weekend, and the share of Floridians heading to the polls before election day has hit record numbers. On the Democratic side, early and absentee voting is up more than 200 percent since the 2008 primary. For Republicans, the number is up roughly…
Spring Break in South Beach got off to a chaotic start this weekend, with Miami Beach Police forced to shut down Ocean Drive on Friday night as a wave of brawls spilled through the crowd. The next night, the revelry turned bloody. As horrified partiers looked on, a 20-year-old named…
Since arriving as Miami Beach’s new police chief in 2014, Dan Oates has mostly steered clear of the scandals that plagued his predecessors in the high-profile department, the odd off-duty pay raise and fatal shooting during Art Basel aside. Back in Aurora, Colorado, though, where Oates spent nearly a decade…
12,000 people — about one in eight inmates — are currently being held in solitary confinement in Florida state prisons according to the American Civil Liberties Union. The organization, along with a coalition of civil rights organizations, faith leaders and advocates for the mentally ill, is now calling on the U.S…
South Florida and Miami in particularly has worked hard to shed its image as America’s (or at least New York’s) retirement home. Nope, this is no longer supposed to be the land of bubbes suntanning in bathing caps and old men hitting up the golf course. This is supposed to…
At last night’s GOP debate at the University of Miami, moderator Jack Tapper posed a question that came from none other than Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, a Republican who has endorsed Marco Rubio, to Rubio himself. The topic was climate change. It was a pretty simple question: “Climate change means…
