Supporters say the bill would keep teachers and students safe in a school shooting. The Miami-Dade School Board isn’t buying it. “What’s going to happen,” says school board member and recently announced county mayoral candidate Raquel Regalado, “is you’re going to have more instances of violence, not less.” See also:…
In 1990, a group of homeless men and women was sleeping in Lummus Park near the Miami River when they were jarred awake by police officers. Before most knew what was happening, they were yanked from their tents, handcuffed, and forced to watch while officers burned everything they owned: clothes,…
Florida law forbids a candidate’s name from appearing twice on the same ballot. So if Marco Rubio ends up making a serious bid for president, he’d have to give up his seat in Congress. This could set up a very interesting four years in Florida politics, where a very likely…
Colin Veitch spent 8 years as president and CEO of Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Lines. However, after stepping down in 2008, he had no intention of leaving the cruise industry behind. He hatched an ambitious plan to launch a new cruise line. Of course, launching a cruise line is no easy…
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According to new research out of the University of Miami, it turns out that indeed straight men tend to prefer to find a partner who thinks they’re funny, while straight women have more a preference for a man that could make them laugh. Though, the internet got a hold of…
Kratom, a plant in the coffee family, has been used for medicinal and recreational purposes in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. Chewing on its leaves provides a mild opium-like affect. And, thanks to the internet, its found itself at the center of growing popularity in America. Mostly because its…
Getting a consensus in Miami on the Cuban embargo is about as realistic as grabbing a quiet, relaxed cafecito at Versailles the morning of a Castro death rumor. But nationally at least, evidence continues mounting that there’s real consensus that President Obama’s move toward thawed relations is the right move…
Today, Ndamukong Suh is expected to make it official: He’s coming to Miami, and so is his reputation. The Dolphins will give Suh an NFL record $60 million, guaranteed to anchor their defensive line for the next six years. That’s a lot of money for any player, but the figure…
It was another night in paradise. Or so it seemed to the thousands of souls streaming up and down Española Way like spawning salmon on April 24, 2013. South Beach’s busiest block teemed with techno music and tourists. Hostesses in skimpy skirts flashed flirtatious smiles beneath glowing streetlights. Waiters with…
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It’s a common complaint that Miami puts too many of its economic eggs in the baskets of tourism and development, but according to at least one recent study Miami actually has one of the most “diversified” economies in the country. WalletHub ranked Miami 18th out of 350 American cities considered…
Two new polls have landed today concerning Florida Senator Marco Rubio. Each presents two possible paths for his future. While one survey shows that his reelection to Senate is pretty much a given, the other suggests that he might actually have a chance at securing the Republican nomination for president…
For more than six decades, Mount Sinai Medical Center has been Miami Beach’s premier hospital. But now Baptist Health South Florida, another huge regional medical chain, wants to open a much smaller, urgent-care center in South Beach. Mount Sinai — along with the city’s planning board and chamber of commerce…
The day they came for Sandra Lopez, she was working the line inside Moreno Farms’ packing house. Cool air blasted through the cavernous building in a remote field outside Felda, a tiny hamlet nine miles from Immokalee. Lopez and 70 other workers, mostly Mexican and Central American women, stood in…
Opposition to the American Dreams Miami megamall is mounting fast. First ambitious school board member Raquel Regalado declared that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s support of the project has caused her to finally make the decision to run against him next year. Now a group of citizens are circulating a Change.org…
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The Obama Administration announced today that seven individual Venezuelan officials have been sanctioned by the American government for violating human rights, while also calling on the country to release all of its political prisoners. The announcement also warned that other Venezuelan officials, both past and present, could receive similar sanctions…
No matter your opinion on marijuana or guns, we can all agree that the two shouldn’t be mixed. Just ask 20-year-old Josue Sanchez who got high in a car on Friday night and then ended up accidentally fatally shooting his friend…
Spring break arrived in South Beach this weekend with all the usual hallmarks: Packed beaches full of drunken 20-somethings, shoulder-to-shoulder pedestrians on Ocean Drive, lines around the block for Washington Avenue nightclubs. And, early this morning, the year’s first shootout near Ocean Drive. Two men were wounded in a gun…
Jonathan Corbett had been flying for nearly 30 hours. He had passed over God knows how many international datelines. And he was barely conscious when he plopped into a lounge chair at London Heathrow Airport this past December. Even worse, there was still one more leg of his journey home…
After months of speculation and, recently, a spate of pointed criticism directed at incumbent Carlos Gimenez, Raquel Regalado has now confirmed she’s running for mayor of Miami-Dade County. “At some point you just have to decide and say, ‘Look, beyond the criticism, what should we be doing differently?'” Regalado tells…
