Florida Democrats just really, really love Hillary Clinton, and nothing can shake their resolve. Back in 2008, Clinton took a brief break from getting bested in earlier primary states by our current president, and absolutely crushed both Barack Obama and Johns Edwards in the Florida primary. Now polling for 2016…
When it comes to real estate in Miami right now there’s really no such thing as a deal, but if you’re a millennial looking to save some money, Trulia reports that it’s much cheaper for you to buy a home or apartment than it is to rent. In theory anyway…
Elections are coming up in the City of Miami, and in the race for the city’s highest profile commission seat, the fundraising, at least, isn’t even close: The big money is in the hands of Teresa Sarnoff, wife of incumbent Marc. Sarnoff is running to represent District 2, the jurisdiction…
Shark programs hit the sweet spot for ocean-side research universities – weighty enough with scientific import to justify the eyeballs of the hardcore scientific community, gnarly enough to reel in the interest of your plain ol’ Discovery Chanel fiends. For almost a decade, the University of Miami has been one…
Pitbull’s entire image is of a globe trotting cool guy who attends the coolest parties and hob knobs with the elite. Listening to his lyrics it seems like his entire life is one of refined hedonism. But apparently in real life he does do some boring things, like occasionally having…
There’s few cities that have been has burned as badly by a stadium deal as Miami, and few voting blocs that have made politicians pay the price for that as Miami’s. That political atmosphere has made it difficult for David Beckham and his business partner to nail down a site to…
Last month, the nation rallied behind 14-year-old Ahmed Muhamed after he was arrested when school officials mistook his science project (a digital clock he built out of a pencil case) as bomb. The story mirrored Kiera Wilmot’s: a Florida teen who was arrested two years ago after conducting a volcano…
Storage Wars: Miami has only aired two episodes so far, and already the show has produced off-screen tragedy. Hashim Saeed Pew, the 23-year-old son of cast member Kevin Pew, is behind bars for murdering a 19-year-old woman at this father’s home during a viewing party last week. The murder was originally…
Three years ago, a female graduate student at the University of Miami accused her professor — the most prominent member of the philosophy department — of sexual harassment. Her case against Colin McGinn, a world-renowned author, grew into a contentious battle detailed by New Times earlier this year, with UM…
Neikole Hunt, an assertive mother of three who lives in Little Haiti, on NW 50th Street, had just gotten home from her youngest son’s PeeWee football practice when someone knocked urgently on her front door. Just a few blocks away, the visitor said, something had happened to Hunt’s older son,…
At 7:30 in the evening, Terri Frana noticed two black bears gallop through the backyard of her 10-year-old, $725,000 house in Lake Mary, just north of Orlando. Frana, a 44-year-old banker with brown bangs and a kind face, was used to seeing the beasts around her woodsy neighborhood, but she…
The Florida Senate was going to mess around when it came to removing the Confederate flag from its official seal. The Senate started its third special session of the year. The official business at hand is yet another attempt to redraw Florida’s unconstitutional congressional districts, but, surprising many, the Senate…
Despite the fact that two of his biggest competitors are actual Florida politicians, Donald Trump holds onto a slim lead amongst likely Florida Republican primary voters. He’ll up to firm up that lead by dropping by Florida later this week. A jaunt that will include Trump’s first public visit to…
Everyonce in a while someone comes along and tries to rebrand and rename a neighborhood somewhere in Miami. There was an attempt to brand a stretch of Mid-Beach as “Wunder Mile.” Developers tried to get people to call a portion of Overtown as “SoWyn.” There were even attempts in the…
Hundreds of zombies ran screaming through downtown Fort Myers late on Saturday night, fleeing in terror as gunshots rang out in the night. When police forced their way through the panicked costumed crowd, they found six attendees at that night’s packed “ZombiCon” bleeding in the street. One may, wearing a…
James Murley might have the most depressing and difficult job in the county. As chief resiliency officer, the 69-year-old government planner has to make sure that Miami literally doesn’t go under. It’s not going to be easy, with scores of scientists repeatedly finding that sea levels are climbing and a…
Sometimes it seems like Florida only has have like five actual politicians. It doesn’t matter if you keep losing races. You can just keeping running for things until you actually win something, and apparently there will be big time donors and your party’s establishment there to support you. People are…
After seven years of filing complaints against their prominent county boss, Linda Pierre and other female employees finally found traction in August. An investigation by the federal government found that CareerSource South Florida executive director Rick Beasley subjected female employees to a “pattern of harassment, intimidation, exclusion, bullying…conditions due to…
Two years ago the Florida State Supreme Court suspended Jeffrey Norkin from practicing law for what they found to be grossly unprofessional behavior in court. Yeah, well, Norkin continued to practice law and continued to exhibit grossly unprofessional behavior while doing so. So now the Supreme Court has decided to…
Richard Rodriguez’s heart thumped as walked into his ten-year high school reunion at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, the famed all-boys academy in Pinecrest that boasts graduates from Fidel Castro to Perez Hilton. But the Cuban-American with short-cropped black hair and a wide smile wasn’t worried about how his job or physique…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re hear to roundup the weirdest. This week: a man gets a DUI in a wheelchair, another woman gets a DUI after broadcasting her drunk driving escapades through an app, and a man arrested for leading police…
Jordan Redavid, a New York native, was a top student at the University of Miami School of Law, graduating in 2013. He became a Miami-Dade public defender, and then moved into private practice, co-founding a criminal law firm based in Brickell. He’s won numerous accolades, and his firm bio lists…
