The last time Xavier Suarez occupied a mayor’s office, it didn’t end so well. His second term as Miami mayor lasted just 111 days in 1997 before an absentee ballot scandal cost him his seat and a spate of bizarre behavior earned him the lasting nickname “Mayor Loco.” But Suarez…
With little notice and no public input, the City of Miami Commission has labeled six city parks contaminated with toxic soil as so-called “Brownfield sites” — a designation under Florida law that can limit the rights of abutting property owners to challenge clean-up plans and can prevent them from seeking…
What do you think Jeb Bush is more irked at his big brother George W. for right now: spilling the beans on his barely concealed presidential aspirations or reminding people that they’re brothers? In a new interview with Fox News (of course) the second President Bush revealed that he’s pretty…
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After a two-year investigation, the Department of Justice will likely not press civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, according to anonymous sources who talked to the Washington Post. One source says investigators still want to “dot their i’s and cross their t’s” before officially closing the case. The news comes…
Yesterday we noted that a pro-Rick Scott web ad that parodied Say Yes to the Dress was so insulting to the intelligence of young female voters that we didn’t feel the need to point it out, but, hey, Florida Democratic Party Chair Allison Tant decided it need to be said…
In an effort to protect kids from the evils of the internet, hundreds of local families may well have put themselves at much greater risk of identity theft thanks to free software handed out by the Miami-Dade Public Schools Police Department. So says a new report, at least, from the…
Just in time for Floridians to head to the polls again next month, two new studies have confirmed that wait times at the polls in Florida during the 2012 election were, frankly, a god damned embarrassment and a level of incompetence that undermined the very values of our great nation…
Two-time Miami Beach mayoral candidate Steve Berke had himself a pro-medical marijuana parody hit on YouTube with “You’re the Law that I Want (Yes on 2).” Set to the song “You’re the One That I Want” from the musical Grease, Berke and his crew dance and sing while urging Florida…
The deep dredge could be in very deep trouble. Miami’s most controversial public works project has been under the microscope in recent months as environmentalists have complained the dredge is killing precious coral colonies. This morning, however, those same environmentalists are filing a request for an emergency injunction that could…
Seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot just ten months after the death of Trayvon Martin, and the cases immediately drew comparisons. Both were young, unarmed black teenage boys. Both shootings happened in Florida. Both were killed by older, armed non-black men. However, Davis’s killer, Michael Dunn, has now been found guilty…
Perhaps the only thing with less integrity on television than reality TV is political advertising. Both twist facts into overly dramatic fake drama, but one genre is meant for brain-dead entertainment and the other is meant to help shape the future of our democracy. So it’s a little ironic that…
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Erik Spoelstra may be one of the younger head coaches in the NBA, but that doesn’t mean his taste in music is especially hip. In fact, the head coach almost turned down his first interview for his first job with the Miami Heat because he had tickets to a Grateful…
Despite scientists predicting that large swathes of coastal and southern Florida could be underwater one day thanks to global warming, Floridians aren’t particularly concerned. Just 3 percent think it’s the biggest environmental problem facing the state according to a new Sunshine State Survey released by the University of South Florida…
For decades, conventional wisdom has held that the United States and Cuba were never closer to all-out war than during the 13 days in October 1962 that we now call the Cuban Missile Crisis. But new records show that more than a decade after that crisis, Secretary of State Henry…
Anthony Walker skidded his car to a stop in front of the police cordon. His hands trembled on the wheel. Tears streamed down his cheeks and welled in his eyes, turning the crime scene before him into a blur of color and light. Squad car strobes bathed the corner of…
Heads up, Wynwood-goers: Three weeks after the Miami Parking Authority announced a new parking program for the neighborhood, the changes are set to take effect today. The program expands the neighborhood’s Pay by Phone parking areas west from the railroad tracks to NW Sixth Avenue, and from NW 20th Street…
The time has come to find out who the real Miami Heat fans are. Now that the team has moved on from the Heatles Era, fans will be able to look around at one another and find out who’s been down from day one. The Miami Heat rolled out its…
When news broke yesterday that a man died after climbing and then falling from the forward mast of a cruise ship at PortMiami, many might have assumed he was intoxicated when he pulled the stunt. Witnesses say that wasn’t the case. The man has now been identified as Kendall Wernet,…
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Well, it’s only Tuesday and there are already quite a few trials coming to an end in Miami courts this week. First there was the international drug lord who got 150 years, then the delusional but smooth con man who was sentenced to five years, and now, naturally, there’s the…
