Rick Scott’s favorite private project to build a new passenger railway service between Miami and Orlando has lately turned into a public punching bag. Carl Hiaasen calls it a “future train wreck for taxpayers”, while Michael Grunwald writes in Time Magazine that Scott’s chief of staff’s ties to the firm…
A lack of enthusiasm from rank-and-file Democrats over former Republican Charlie Crist’s gubernatorial campaign may be taking its toll in reason polls. So perhaps it’s not a surprise that Crist has unveiled a list of liberal-pleasing first day promises he hopes to enact upon inauguration. These are steps Crist would…
This morning, New Times published the second half of its two-part series on a soldier’s tragic death inside the Miami Veterans Affairs hospital. Hell On The Home Front follows Nicholas Cutter’s journey from heartbroken teenager to battle-hardened soldier to PTSD-suffering veteran to drug addict. According to extensive interviews and the…
The countdown is on. Miami Hurricanes football is just thirty-three days away from returning when the Canes face the Louisville Cardinals in their opener September 1. So how better to get ready than catching up with Canes superfan Cutler Ridge Laz? The man behind the #CanesFam Twitter movement weighs in…
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For the second time in just three days, a small plane has had to make an emergency landing on the sands of Florida’s beaches. Following Sunday’s deadly crash landing involving a Piper in Venice, a small Cessna made an emergency landing on Miami Beach at 58th Street today. Luckily, no…
For a guy whose artistic wheelhouse consists almost solely of gangster fantasy, Rick Ross seems to have a more sensible take on gun laws than some NRA fanatics. In a particularly head-scratching string of protests, some guns rights activists have taken to carrying around loaded semiautomatic riffles while doing things…
Leslye Jacobs is a longtime environmental advocate and a once-proud University of Miami Hurricane. But two weeks ago, when she learned that the university had sold a swath of endangered pine rockland forest to a Palm Beach Gardens-based developer that planned to build a Walmart, Jacobs, the director of an…
It’s the dinner hour at Dolphin Mall, and the food court is a busy hive. Teenagers guzzle from Smoothie King cups while tables full of abuelitas fire Gatling-gun Spanish over steaming plates of Lotus Express. At the Segafredo Zanetti Espresso kiosk, a young girl in black shirt and pants offers…
The man eating breakfast certainly looked like Nicholas Cutter. He had the same pale skin. The same shaved head. The same technicolor tattoos peeking from beneath his T-shirt like graffiti on a whitewashed wall. Yet, from across the kitchen table, his sister Rainy saw a stranger. Once an extroverted older…
Two years ago, environmentalists desperately tried to derail the Deep Dredge. They claimed the $2 billion plan to deepen the Port of Miami would kill wildlife in Biscayne Bay, so they sued to stop it. But when a bevy of state agencies lined up against them — threatening dredge opponents…
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On Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a controversial Florida law that bans doctors from asking patients if they have guns in their homes. Following the decision, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a decision that pretty much encouraged Florida pediatricians to keep breaking the so called “docs…
Trying to get Floridians to all agree on something is damn near impossible, so the poll number for medical marijuana are impressive. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that about 9 out of every 10 Floridians supports legalizing medical marijuana, while a majority now also supports decriminalizing possession of small amounts…
On Saturday morning, a 22-year-old student named Rachel and her family left their home near 41st Street in Miami Beach to head to synagogue when they noticed a crowd gathered around their car. They quickly realized why: Someone had egged the vehicle and tagged “Hamas” on the window in cream…
Ommy Irizarry and his 9-year-old daughter, Oceana, were strolling along the sand just outside the surf in Venice, Florida, yesterday afternoon when a small aircraft plummeted from the sky. The Piper, which had lost power midflight, slammed to a stop on the sand without seriously injuring the pilot or his…
The sign on the corner of West Flagler Street and SW 35th Avenue is huge and explicit: “DESHACEMOS BRUJERIA,” it says in white block letters over a red-and-black background, with an 800 number listed below. “WE UNDO WITCHCRAFT.” It’s left many a driver doing a doubletake and mouthing, ¿Qué? Curiosity…
After three weeks of deliberation, Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel has ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the Pareto v. Ruvin lawsuit, ruling that same-sex couples in Florida’s most densely populated county can receive marriage licenses. That order has been stayed, however, pending an appeal by the…
Curt Clawson is Florida’s newest congressman. In fact, it’s his one-month anniversary on the job after winning the seat vacated by Trey “Cocaine Congressman” Radel. He positioned himself heavily in the campaign as an “outsider,” and, well, yesterday he certainly proved that he’s clueless to the inner workings and decorum…
Yesterday came confirmation of the long-simmering rumor that Finnegan’s River will be shutting down to make room for yet more condo development. Today comes images of what the planned development, Miami Riverwalk, will look like. According to exMiami, Riverwalk will consist of four individual 750-foot high tower, with about 1,772…
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Invasive pythons have been getting all the credit, but there’s another invasive species wrecking havoc in the Everglades that could end up causing more damage. It’s the red bay ambrosia beetle, a particularly small species native to Asia that first came to the U.S. in 2002, likely through the importation…
