For the last few years, the City of North Miami has maintained a Neighborhood Stabilization Program, designed to purchase foreclosed homes and help first-time homebuyers get a place to live. In 2011, Marie Charles-Brutus received some of that NSP money, then used it to buy and refurbish a house on…
Sometimes when you’re desperately searching for something, you step back and realize that the answer was right there in front of you the whole time. Like remembering your missing glasses are actually on your face, or realizing you’re in love with your best friend, or, you know, the Miami Heat…
The Key Biscayne Village Council has proposed a toll for bicyclists crossing the Rickenbacker causeway. The council wants Miami-Dade County to erect a wall on the Rickenbacker that would separate bike traffic for vehicle traffic, and has suggested a bike toll as a way to fund the project…
Charles William Collins was a career drug dealer and petty thief. Miami-Dade police knew as much when two undercover cops followed him into a bright-yellow pawnshop on NW Seventh Avenue in Liberty City on August 14. They pulled out their badges and asked him for ID. Collins said he left…
In an early contender for the campaign trail photo of the year, a power-lifting pizza shop owner in Fort Pierce nearly pulverized President Obama’s ribs yesterday when he stopped in during his bus tour of the Sunshine State. Did we mention the owner is a Republican? Amazingly, the Secret Service…
Should Charlie Crist return to politics as a Democrat his biggest roadblock may be, well, Democratic voters. After all, one would figure that a man who has a pretty solid Republican political history (despite what Tea Partiers might have had you believed) would have a hard time winning in a…
With seven minutes left in the second quarter on Sunday, the Dolphins looked like a team that seemed to have turned the corner. The defense was playing more like the aggressive squad that had played well last year, the Dolphins receivers were catching the ball on offense, rookie quarterback Ryan…
Tales of the great South Beach Shark Attack of 2012 are already swimming around social media, but there’s actually no proof yet that the thing involved was necessarily a shark.The incident happened earlier this afternoon in the waters behind the W Hotel on 23rd Street and Collins Avenue. A man…
“Oh, down 14-0 on the road in the first quarter,” some of us might have thought. “Whatever, we did it last week.”If that gleeful optimism wasn’t wiped away once you realized the ‘Canes were playing a ranked opponent and not an ACC bottom dweller, Kansas State certainly reminded you of…
Ana Alliegro, the self-described “Conservative Bad Girl” and a central figure in the latest round of scandal to hit Republican Congressmen David Rivera, has gone missing. Her mother told El Nuevo Herald that she has not heard from her since Wednesday night. Her lawyer also tells the paper that he…
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Miami Beach is quickly becoming the capital of parking garages designed by world renowned architects. This week, the community got its first in depth look at what the latest, designed by Zaha Hadid — perhaps the world’s leading female architect — will look like. To our relatively uninformed eyes, it…
Sure, things might come together for the Miami Dolphins this year. Ryan Tannehill could quickly develop into a stud. Our offense may surprise. Joe Philbin might reveal himself as a true coaching genius in his first season. The team might make the playoffs. You might win the lottery. The polar…
I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing for Tom, the winner of a Mike’s Hard Lemonade sweepstakes for a trip to South Beach over Labor Day weekend: that he spent much of the weekend filming a commercial with a bear in a bikini, that he brought his mother, or that now…
If Fox News anchors are right (they’re not) and Barack Obama is secretly a socialist (he isn’t), the president sure is doing a pretty shitty job spreading his collectivist creed in the Sunshine State. On Friday, for instance, Florida’s Secretary of State informed the Socialist Workers Party that it would…
Florida is keeping disabled children in nursing homes and similar institutions, even though several of those children have families that want to care for them at home but don’t have the money to do so. The U.S. Department of Justice has now sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi…
It’s been a bad week for Johnny Law in the 305. The day after the FBI accused a Miami-Dade cop of getting his rocks off by pulling over women and asking about their underwear and breasts, a Miami Beach officer is under arrest this morning on eight felony counts, including…
Last night, Charlie Crist completed his nasty two-year break-up with conservatives. When he strolled onto the DNC set in Charlotte, the Republican establishment he once belonged to collectively winced. Then it watched the former Florida governor openly praise President Barack Obama.”But even as the Republican Party fought tooth and nail…
Two students at Florida’s St. Leo University decided to play a little prank, so they sprayed furniture polish on the terrazzo floor of their residence floor and hoped that someone would slip.Some one did! Hahahaha! Hilarious! Watching people fall is truly the most satisfying source of laughter ever. Let me…
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In the worst acted anti-Obama ad released, well, since this little homophobic ditty that came out earlier this week, a new National Republican Committee ad features a pretty, young woman pretending to be a dissatisfied former Obama voter who decides to “break up” with the president. Except the woman in…
ABC affiliate WPLG Local 10’s website has crossed over to the dark side. Apparently, hungry for pageviews, the station posted a slide show featuring photos from a recent Star Wars convention, complete with mocking captions like “Dateless men for as far as the eye can see.” Star Wars fans didn’t…
