Donald Trump may be the leading Republican candidate nationally according to both the Real Clear Politics and Pollster average of polls, but in Florida he’s an also ran candidate. In fact, a recent poll found that Trump is in a distant fourth place in the Sunshine State behind native boys…
You’ve undoubtedly seen the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag all over the internet this past year. Which means, if you were paying attention, you’ve probably seen some white person glide into Facebook comments or someone’s Twitter replies to declare, “Um, excuse me, but don’t you mean all lives matter?” This now familiar internet…
Just over one year ago, Miami voters approved a ballot measure giving developer Jeffrey Berkowitz the go-ahead to build an oddly shaped, 1,000-foot bay-front tower called Skyrise Miami. The tower would lure hundreds of thousands of tourists, Berkowitz pledged, and even better, taxpayers wouldn’t foot a cent. City Mayor Tomas…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Fridays we’re here to bring you the weirdest. This week: man vs motorbus, a sheriff’s office that is a little too cool on the internet, and another department that barely knows how to use it. Here’s a Man Headbutting…
Laura Pierre is an eighteen-year-old high school graduate who now works full time at a Miami Chipotle. Yesterday, she gathered with dozens of other fast-food, airport, and home-care workers with a simple demand local politicians: minimum wages to match the $15 an hour that New York’s wage board recommended for…
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced today that they will not be bringing charges against Miami Beach police officer Jorge Mercado for the Stun Gun-caused death of 18-year-old graffiti artist Israel “Reefa” Hernandez-Llach. Back in August 2013, Hernandez-Llach was caught tagging a shuttered McDonalds on 71st Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach…
When you think about Miami’s real estate market you can’t help but think of condos. New towers are popping up every day, but the single family home market is doing quite well for itself too, thank you very much. In fact, more single family homes were sold in Miami this…
Ivy league scholars may know a lot, but how much do they know about sports? Let’s hope a lot, because a new analysis from the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, a student-run organization, comes to the somewhat surprising conclusion that the Dolphins will be the very best team in the AFC…
Last May 4, 23-year-old Ernesto Hernandez just wanted to help. Hernandez was a big guy who had recently graduated from the police academy. Like dozens of others he had come to the Nixon Sandbar, off Key Biscayne, to spend the day on the water; when he saw the boat operated…
According to Open Secrets, the second-largest for-profit prison operator in the country, GEO Group, is one of the top contributors to Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. Between 2013 and 2014, GEO Group gave Rubio $41,500, more than any other presidential candidate . The group is the ninth highest contributor to Rubio’s…
As the Cuban flag was raised over Washington, D.C., on Monday, some 20 anti-Castro demonstrators gathered outside Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana to protest warming relations between the U.S. and Cuba. In Washington, a man rushed the embassy gate with red paint splattered across his shirt, yelling “This is Cuban…
Last November, 58 percent of Florida voters supported Amendment 2, which would have made medical marijuana legal in Florida. Even though the majority of voters were in favor of the amendment, it wasn’t enough to pass. The vote was just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold. But the…
David Beckham made it official today: He wants to build a soccer stadium next to Marlins Park near the site of the old Orange Bowl. In a letter sent to Mayor Tomas Regalado, Beckham and his partners pledge a “world-class stadium” on the site — while offering scant few specifics…
In lane four of the Dwyer High School track in Palm Beach Gardens, Tyrese Cooper — nickname: “Smoke” — executes his ritual. He jumps twice. He secures his lucky, never-been-washed sweatband around his forehead and kisses the gold cross dangling from his neck. He taps his forehead, chest, and then…
As if we didn’t already have enough cockroaches in South Florida, there’s a new beast in town. Last month, environmental scientist Marc Minno was ruffling through stacks of papers on his office floor, in Live Oak, Florida, north of Gainesville, when he spotted an interesting looking bug. He wasn’t startled,…
The latest doom and gloom climate change prediction has arrived this week — and it’s a doozy. The study, written by alarmist (but still reputable and regularly correct) climate change scientist James Hansen predicts that sea level will rise 10 feet in the next 50 years. That seems like a lot,…
One year ago, Dan Markel pulled into the driveway of his Tallahassee home, opened the door slightly, and was suddenly shot in the head. The nationally recognized, 41-year-old FSU law professor died a few hours later. His death rattled the FSU campus and entire academic legal community, down to Miami, where…
Miami prosecutors have charged a South Florida man today with multiple crimes after investigators stumped him with a simple question: “Where’s The Beef?” Carlos Hernan Del Valle, a 61-year-old Weston, has been arrested and charged with grand theft and organized fraud for his role in a meat exporting fraud scheme that…
Wynwood might just get Miami’s first woonerf. No, it’s not the latest craft coffee or designer furniture craze — it’s a Dutch term for a kind of pedestrian-friendly, low-speed street. that can be walled off from cars on weekends. And woonerfs are part of a larger proposal headed to the…
With diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba now formally re-established and a Cuban embassy up and running in Washington, the next question is where Cuba’s first consulate will go. Not that there’s much question where it should go, based on logic alone: WIth 800,000 or so Cuban-Americans in South…
Two Miami-Dade Police officers approached the gate, their eyes level and their hands on their guns. The sprawling ranch sits on five acres deep in the rural Redland, up against the Everglades, where passing aircraft that come and go from a next-door glider port provide the only visible connection to…
Amidst all the news today about the U.S. and Cuba officially reopening diplomatic ties, it’s easy to forget how close the nations once were. In fact, Miami itself was once a hotbed of diplomacy with Havana, thanks to a Cuban consulate located right in town on North Miami Avenue. …
