Shrewd move, Michael Etienne.The North Miami city clerk revealed at a council meeting Tuesday that, while he was rooting around in the ordinance codes, he found a little section that says the city clerk is supposed to earn as much as the council members, the Miami Herald reports.Which is great…
Times are tough in Miami-Dade. But before Mayor Carlos Gimenez proposed closing 13 libraries to cut costs, he hired Genaro “Chip” Iglesias to be his chief of staff and “deputy mayor,” at the price tag of $225,000 per year. And blogger Elaine de Valle reports there could be more deputy…
It looked like the Fish were going to lose this one. Down 2-0 against the Chicago Cubs going into the ninth at Wrigley Field, there didn’t seem to be much hope. Then Cubs closer Carlos Marmol came in.His first three batters saw a combined 12 balls and one strike. With…
Cocaine smuggling, personalized leather bomber jackets, $2 million cars, and high-rise penthouses across Miami.No, it’s not 2 Fast 2 Furious — although eerily close — but an indictment unsealed yesterday that charges brothers Álvaro and Artemio López Tardón and three others with international drug money laundering.And for all their allegedly ill-gotten…
In journalism, three is a trend, so we’re declaring it here first: There is now an epidemic of Miami Heat child abuse going on at basketball camps around the country…
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After a pedophilia world tour that got him arrested in Thailand in 2006, former Miami gym teacher Charles Todd Stokes has been sentenced in U.S. federal court to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of molesting 70 boys, according to media reports.The Thai town he was arrested in, of…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez yesterday proposed cutting the county’s operating budget by $350 million. That includes whacking the library system’s $50 million budget to $24.5 million.It seems 13 libraries will be shut down.Riptide contributor Theo Karantsalis obtained the list of threatened libraries Thursday morning…
Don’t worry. If the upcoming NBA season actually happens, the Heat want to protect you from homicidal arepa dealers.City commissioners are scheduled to vote tonight on an ordinance that would prohibit hot dog vendors from selling food in the area surrounding American Airlines Arena, because the arena and whiny area restaurants…
The Riptide national politics desk has been working around the clock to bring you this shocking revelation: Some Democrats suspect the Republican Party is crazy.”I think Mitch McConnell, frankly, has lost his mind,” said Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, talking about the ongoing debate surrounding raising the national debt…
A triumphant group of pot activists presented the Miami Beach Commission yesterday with more than 9,000 signatures in favor of decriminalizing small amounts of weed — but damned if city attorney Jose Smith didn’t do his best to harsh their mellow.Smith, despite admitting he hadn’t actually read the petition, questioned…
The largest U.S. public college has been put on notice: If you want to have 150,000 students, you need to hire some people to teach them.The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools issued the warning to Miami Dade College late last month, according to the Sun-Sentinel, and will revisit the school’s…
If Marc Sarnoff and Tomás Regalado had their way, pretty much any stationary object within 1,000 feet of a major Miami roadway would be plastered with an LED billboard by next Tuesday. (Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that both guys took thousands in contributions from sign…
Newly elected Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Wednesday proposed cutting last year’s budget by 19 percent and reversing the tax hike ushered in by recalled mayor Carlos Alvarez, The Miami Herald reports.He wants to do it, and close the projected $400-million budget shortfall, by cutting 1,286 positions from the county;…
Clearly, Rick Scott is America’s least popular governor. His numbers are so low that if he were a baseball player, his manager would have long ago slapped his ass and demoted him to AA. He’s more politically radioactive than Anthony Weiner’s twitter account. The man is loathed. But is he…
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Homicide detectives had no immediate answers in the mysterious death of 22-month-old Dominicue Andrews yesterday afternoon at a day-care center in Homestead. However, NBC Miami is now reporting the boy likely died after being forgotten in a hot van…
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