Florida House Passes Bill That OKs Blocking Gay Adoption

Until five years ago Florida has the most draconian anti-gay adoption laws in the entire country. Even a single, celibate gay person was banned from adopting in the state. That law was struck down in 2010, but the Florida House is intent and brining back some homophobia to the state’s…

Miami Is the Fifth Least Affordable County for Renters

Start to feel nervous around the first of the month when the landlord comes to collect the rent check? You’re probably far from alone in Miami-Dade. It’s no secret that rents have started to skyrocket recently (and they weren’t exactly cheap before), but things have gotten so bad that Miami-Dade…

The Worst Parts About Living in Miami

Miami New Times loves its titular city. We right love letters to it just about every week, and are ready to defend it when its honor it attacked. But that doesn’t mean life in Miami is all sunshine and lollipops. We can’t even paint all our city’s defects as lovable…

Salvadoran General Who Committed Torture Deported From Florida

He was finally sent back. Yesterday Carlos Vides, the former Salvadoran general, war crimes perpetrator, and central Florida resident was deported to El Salvador after being held for weeks at an immigration detention center in Louisiana. For Vides’ thousands of Salvadoran victims, and for the lawyers and activists in the…

State Department: Remove Cuba From List of State Sponsors of Terrorism

For more than three decades, Cuba has joined such nefarious characters as Iran, Sudan and Syria on the U.S. State Department’s list of countries that support terrorism abroad. Even as Havana has become a well-traveled international tourism hub sharing little in common with Tehran or Damascus, the designation has remained,…

Miami Gardens Is Florida’s Most Liberal City

Florida isn’t a red state or a blue state. You could call it a purple state, but really it’s more a gradient state. With a few notable exceptions, the deep red of the north fades into the deep blue of the south. So it’s really no surprise that Miami Gardens…

Miami Heat Needs to Tank Now, Miss the Playoffs, and Save Its Draft

After last night’s 105-100 win against the Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat fans find themselves between a rock and a hard place entering the last week of the season. Miami players keep dropping like flies and even the supposedly healthy guys like Dwyane Wade and Goran Dragic obviously aren’t one-hundred percent…

Cops’ Racist Video Just Beginning of One South Florida Department’s Problems

The word shot out on the police wire: Be on the lookout for a Ford Focus, black female at the wheel. The driver is waving a handgun at other cars. That muggy afternoon on July 10, 2012, a Fort Lauderdale community service officer coursing through a grid of industrial streets off Sunrise Boulevard tracked the driver down to a rental agency on NW Eighth Avenue.

Miami Now Ranked Fifth Most Walkable City in America

Every year since 2011, Walk Score has released their rankings of America’s most walkable cities. Every year Miami lands in the top 10. Every year actual Miamians scratch their heads and think, “Wait, that can’t be right. I don’t walk anywhere.”  Walk Score, owned by online real estate database company Redfin, remains…

Billionaire Promises to Sink GOP Climate-Change Deniers in Florida

New studies emerge by the week illustrating how Earth’s climate is changing. Sea levels are rising, and the only real question is how quickly and whether low-lying regions — like, you know, the entire state of Florida — will have time enough to react to save themselves. The only significant group…

Miami Ranked Fourth Healthiest City in America

Miami is definitely a city that places a high importance on the body, and apparently most locals are treating theirs like a temple. That’s at least according to Livability.com who ranked Miami as the fourth healthiest city in America. Perhaps that’s not much of a surprise for a place where…