Occupy Miami Protests Foreclosures, Mortgage Fraud at Courthouse

Occupy Miami protesters took a break from camping out at Government Center this afternoon to fight an ill all too familiar to the Magic City — mortgage fraud and a foreclosure suffered by one of their own.Angela Samuels, a longtime community activist with One Miami, local unions, and Occupy Miami,…

Miami is the Worst City in America to Find a Job

Looking for a job? Maybe you should also be looking for a new place to live outside South Florida. Not one, but two job listings sites have run the numbers and declared that the Miami metro area is the worst place to find a job in America. Sure, there may…

FAMU Band Suspended After Drum Major Dies After Possible Hazing

The Florida A&M University marching band has been put on suspension following the mysterious death of drum major Robert Champion over the weekend. Champion, 26, was found dead on the band’s bus shortly after the band’s performance this Saturday during the halftime show of the Florida Classic football game against…

Voxxi.com, News Site Targeting Hispanics, Launches in Miami

​Is there a market for a Hispanic focused news, opinion and aggregation website? A veteran journalist for the EFE News Agency, the leading Spanish language news service in the world, seems to think so. Emilio Sanchez, EFE’s former bureau chief in Washington D.C. and Miami, is now at the helm…

Sarah Glidden’s Occupy Miami Cartoon Essay Sketches the Scene

Dozens of news cameras and reporters armed with tape recorders have attempted to explain the scene down at the Occupy Miami camp in Government Center, but sometimes someone armed with a sketchbook and a patient set of ears manages to capture the moment even better. Sarah Glidden, who recently published…

Miami On the Hook For Millions In New Taxes On Marlins Parking Garages

When we recently counted down the six most absurd lies about the new Marlins Stadium, fib number one was that politicians were working for taxpayers. Even a casual glance over the deal made it clear: This $550 million stadium was a cripplingly expensive gift from struggling taxpayers to the millionaire…

Miami People 2011 Issue Out On Newsstands Today

For months, we’ve been working hard to put together our Miami People 2011 issue. We dedicated most of this week’s editorial space highlighting 30 of the city’s most intriguing artists, athletes, intellectuals, and visionaries through photographs and interviews. Not all of them are famous but trust us when we say…

Two Plead Guilty To Selling Jaguar Skins in South Florida

Elias Garcia Garcia and Maria Angela Plancarte, both 53-year-old residents of La Feria, Texas, have plead guilty to selling jaguar skins throughout South Florida. Jaguars are of course protected by the Endangered Species Act, and the sale of their pelts is explicitly outlawed…