Lets be honest, poking fun at Hialeah is a great tradition among the rest of Miami-Dade citizens. It’s basically akin to New Yorkers who wisecrack about Staten Island. That doesn’t mean, however, that the jokes can’t go too far. And Eric Johnson, a non-Hispanic, white Hialeah firefighter, may have gone…
Not everyone is happy with President Barack Obama’s announcement yesterday that he personally supports the idea of gay marriage, least of all the evangelical Florida pastor who is an important adviser to the president. Rev. Joel Hunter, leader of an Orlando-area megachurch, says he is “disappointed” by Obama’s decision…
A Florida teacher could face serious punishment of her own after doling out a unique brand of strange punishment to her students. After showing the Pixar movie Up in her class, Laurie Bailey-Cutkomp, a science teacher at Zephyrhills High School in Pasco County, decided the best way to deal with…
After losing Game 4 in New York, and after the Knicks celebrated with streamers and threw a parade down the Canyon of Heroes after winning their first playoff game in 4,024 days, the Miami Heat reminded everyone that it, in fact, is the better team and finally extinguished the Knicks…
Stephanie Kienzle, a North Miami Beach resident who blogs about her town at votersopinion.com, noticed something curious while reviewing voter registration rolls: nine different voters were all listed at an address on NE 171st Street. Even more curiously: That house belongs to a city councilman, Frantz Pierre. Suspicious, Kienzle filed…
Pity Jorge Exposito. There, but for the grace of God, go you. Exposito shared with us his tale of highway toll woe. He owns a SunPass transponder, which he thought was replenished. But in late April, he got a letter from a collection agency telling him he owed $691.80. Before…
Last week, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported the lowest crime rate across the state since the agency began tracking statistics in 1971. With population growth factored in, the overall crime rate dropped 0.8 percent from 2010 to 2011. In Miami-Dade, the crime rate dropped 0.3 percent last year.But…
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Miami Beach residents are happy, the city is a well-oiled machine and — despite a string of embarrassments by the police and a mass FBI corruption bust last month — the majority of city employees do good work. That was City Manager Jorge Gonzalez’s upbeat message, at least, to an…
In an interview with ABC News, President Barack Obama announced this afternoon that he now supports gay marriage. It’s a striking change from the commander-in-chief on the same day that North Carolina’s voters followed in Florida’s footsteps in passing a gay marriage ban. “I think same-sex couples should be able…
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The average life expectancy of Miami-Dade citizens has skyrocketed in the past 20 years according to new data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. While, Miami women are expected to live six years longer than their male counterparts, men in the county have actually seen their life expectancy…
A 15-foot boat carrying roughly 600 pounds of marijuana and hashish was oh so close to smuggling the product into Miami on Sunday. The boat was cruising westbound toward our coast when it was spotted by a Coast Guard Air Station Miami helicopter crew…
Oh, sure, the story of orangutans at Miami’s famed Jungle Island learning to use iPads may seem cute to you. “Ah, the monkeys think they’re peoples!” But be wary, folks. We’re pretty sure this is exactly how one of the Planet of the Apes movies started out. First the apes learned how to…
Plan B is not actually an “abortion pill.” It’s an emergency contraceptive intended to be taken within three days after intercourse to prevent pregnancy. However, many Republicans aren’t deterred from referring to it as a form of abortion. Mitt Romney, in fact, has referred to medicines like Plan B as…
Bad news, you guys: it appears the chances that Sofia Vergara will ever be Florida’s first lady have dwindled. “Wait,” you ask, “there was a serious chance Sofia Vergara could have been the first lady of Florida?”Well, she was dating Nick Loeb, some rich guy from a powerful and politically…
In Game Four between the Heat and the Knicks, LeBron and D-Wade seemed to decide their buddy ‘Melo needed at least one win to save face in New York, so they downed some Quaaludes and let the Knicks have their way with them. How else to explain Wade missing seven…
It’s official: Gov. Rick Scott’s biggest single fuck-up in office is not his spectacularly failed plans to drug test everyone in Florida, his botched ideas for fixing the economy or even his refusal to pee in a cup when the Daily Show asked him so nicely. No, his biggest catastrophe…
