When the editors of Children’s Health describe the perfect locale to raise a family as “the kind of place where a child can slip on her rubber boots, grab her colorful umbrella, and play on the quiet, tree-lined street outside her home without worry,” I knew Miami wouldn’t come in…
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report was released today, and between 2007 and 2008, America saw a 1.9 percent drop in violent crime, a 3.9 percent drop in murder, and a 1.6 percent drop in rape, but those decreases didn’t materalize in Miami-Dade County. An estimated 8,749 violent crimes occured in the county last year, a…
Rod Blagojevich criticizing anyone for making a shady appointment to a Senate seat is sort of like Kanye West chastising someone for awards-show misbehavior. But then again, egomaniacs aren’t really that self-aware. Blago went on Fox and Friends this morning to pimp his upcoming book and argued he wasn’t trying to…
The Miami Dolphins lost to the Atlanta Falcons 19-7, and it wasn’t even that kind of loss where you could be like, “Well, at least their so-and-so looks good this year.” It was just brutal. [Herald]Ferry service from Miami to Havana? It might just happen. [NYTimes]Oh, no! Someone pulled a smash-and-grab…
Medical malpractice litigation tends to put a price on human body parts. Got your spleen punctured during a messy surgery? Here’s a few thousand for your pain and suffering. Lost a big toe? That’s six-figure territory. A recklessly amputated arm might net you a million bucks. We may soon find…
If tweetups were a burrito, the South Florida social media scene would be bursting at the tortilla. This past week was crazy busy and the rest of the month isn’t going to calm down. Miami Herald Tweetup On Thursday, the Miami Herald held its second tweetup at Crazy Pianos in…
Miami Dolphins @ Atlanta Falcons, Sunday at 1 p.m. on CBS4. Not to say the Dolphins don’t have some well-deserved swagger, but let’s be real: Out of all the defending division champs, Fins fans’ optimism might be the most muted. We knew last season’s historic turnaround was thanks in no small part…
U.S. judges have granted millions of dollars to the families of Fidel Castro’s victims, but the problem comes with collecting. Cuba’s frozen assets are dwindling, and the Communist isle isn’t too keen on recognizing American court judgments. So Roberto Martinez, the lawyer for the family of Bobby Fuller — a…
Exciting news for numismatists and people in general who didn’t get kind of bored with the “50 States Quarters” after a few months: The United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters™ Program has been announced, and our very own Everglades National Park will be honored with a shiny 25-cent piece…
Chris Brogan, considered a social media rock star by many, will visit Southwest Florida to speak at a Twestival event in Sanibel this Saturday at 10 a.m. Twestivals are Twitter-based grassroots fundraising events that take place all over the world on assigned dates. A social media veteran for more than ten…
Last November, pro-life groups put a ballot measure before Colorado voters asking them if “personhood” should be extended to the moment of conception. Even in a politically heated and polarized year, voters rejected the amendment by 73 percent. But that hasn’t stopped Personhood USA and the American Life League from…
Fight at Miami City Hall. During a budget meeting, Mayor Manny Diaz said Commissioner Tomas Regalado had taken a cheap shot at him. Regalado said the mayor has been living like “the mayor of Beverly Hills.” Diaz then reminded the commissioner that his office once spent $25,000 for coffee. Anyway,…
A quick lesson for all the school kids feverishly getting a Riptide fix before class this morning: If you’re working for a blatant Ponzi scheme (and don’t worry, someday you will) and the SEC phones and tells you not to lose any documents, don’t tell your employees to fire up…
On Wednesday, another horse was stolen and slaughtered in Miami-Dade County. The cat killer is officially passe. Yesterday, the Miami-Dade Police Department raised its reward for information about the horse killings to $7,000 — and that’s in addition to the $5,000 the Humane Society is offering. That’s 12,000 reasons to…
Last night the President of the United States spoke before a special joint session of Congress to defend an issue that may very well come to define his first term in office. He also gave a stirring defense of good ol’ fashioned American Liberalsim with no apologies, something we haven’t…
Florida’s 33rd senator, George LeMieux, will be sworn in today at 2:45 amid concerns his Broward law firm helped secure visas for foreigners to work on a hotel and condo project in Bal Harbour, depriving Americans of jobs. As our brothers in blog-arms The Juice point out, a Capital News Service video confirms what’s…
Miami Beach sea turtles are under constant threat because their nests share the beach with us humans. The worse kind of humans — drunk ones. “Mr. Buchanan voluntarily protects the nests from what he says is the constant threat of drunken nighttime visitors who pour out of nearby nightclubs to…
Hello, Kitty: My girlfriend doesn’t get wet enough when we’re having sex, and I want to buy her some lube. But I don’t know which is the best kind to use. Of course, I’ve heard of KY, but when I went into Walgreens to check out the options, there were…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez and the county commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers as if they were life vests on a sinking ship. They’ve simultaneously tossed overboard funding to cultural efforts and other social programs.That hasn’t proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted…
