Florida Federation of Republican Women Need a Reality Check

The Florida Federation of Republican Women, the same group who last month decided they would laugh in the face of God and boycot The Oprah, is now pissed that the evil, cappuccino sipping, elitist media is ignoring the fact that Sarah Palin has a handful of self-proclaimed feminists following her…

Nightmare: Rush Limbaugh Hints He Might Buy the Dolphins

Remember when Marge Schott owned the Cincinnati Reds? The woman caused one PR and PC nightmare after another with comments sympathizing with Adolf Hitler and unapologetically using slurs to describe African-Americans, homosexuals, Jews, and Japanese. There couldn’t possibly be another owner in sports who could ever top her in the…

Lincoln Diaz-Balart On Raul Martinez: “Horrifying”

Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Raul Martinez have spent the last month getting down in the muck, each trying to paint their opponent as the biggest slimeball in the race. But the elder Diaz-Balart has pulled out all the stops in his latest ad, which revisits Martinez’s scuffle on camera with a…

News Roundup

Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart secured a $2m contract for a firm that also did business with Venezuela. October Surprise? Not quite. [Herald] Five Miami-Dade schools face closure if they don’t get atleast a C on their FCAT score. I still don’t understand the thinking behind this at all. Thanks Jeb. [Herald]…

Obama Fête at Bicentennial Park

It’s Tuesday afternoon, still a couple of hours before Barack Obama is to address thousands of chanting, whistling partisans at Bicentennial Park, when Edna Kaiywa offers some international perspective on the electric scene. “This would never happen in France today,” says Kaiywa, a young black documentarian with a Parisian accent…

John McCain: Vets’ Worst Enemy

If you want to know what it’s like to be a veteran in John McCain’s home state, stop by the Justa Center in downtown Phoenix. On a Thursday morning not long ago, a volunteer named Twyla stands in front of a group of clients at Justa, a day program for…

Aventura Lawyer Goes After Pedophile Priests

The pope probably doesn’t much like Jeffrey Herman. The 48-year-old Aventura attorney has won settlements from the Catholic Church totaling more than $5 million in recent years. In one 2005 lawsuit, he garnered $1.5 million from Central Florida Archdiocese. This past July, his clients were among those rewarded $5.5 million…

End of the Diaz-Balart Dynasty

Circus music sounds as a camera cuts to a short clip of a well-known, fuming, bearded comandante. Standing at a podium, he wears a drab military uniform and madly gesticulates with his left hand. Red letters flash: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Next comes an equally terse clip of a handsome…

Coconut Grove Artist Taunts City Code Enforcers

Eugene “Jobie” Steppe is an artist, but not the kind who wears a beret and paints watercolors by the river. He’s the sort who makes a mural reading “Miami City Hall Nazi Party” and then parks it on Pan American Drive right under the mayor’s nose for two months. The…

Green High-Rise Has Erection Problems

About two years ago Chad Oppenheim Architecture + Design announced plans for COR, a revolutionary green high-rise in the Design District. The building would incorporate wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, and solar hot water generation, and feature a hyperefficient exo-skeleton. It was originally supposed to be finished by 2009. Well, not…

Memphis Grizzlies Greeted by Confused Cheering Fans in Miami

Poor little Memphis Grizzlies. They’re one of only three NBA teams to never win a NBA Championship, Conference Championship or a Division Championship. They’ve won less than 30% of the games they played in the last two seasons. They gave the first pre-season win to the Heat last night, and…

Video Supplement: End of the Diaz-Balart Dynasty

In this week’s issue of the New Times, writer Francisco Alvarado looks into the history of Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart and their probable exit as U.S. congressmen after years of strong support from their districts. It’s a reality facing many Republican candidates as a wave of anti-Republican sentiment is sweeping…

“White America” Voting for McCain

The New York Observer came down the other week for John McCain’s FIU Rally. Remember that? They ran into a woman named America Blanca, which we don’t have to tell most of you is Spanish for “White America.” “I don’t believe these polls,” said America Blanca, a 44-year-old small business…

Obama Was Worth The Wait

Logan Fazio Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Michelle Obama working their way through the crowd. Click here to view the full slideshow. During the primary season Hillary Clinton took a sarcastic jab at her opponent, Barack Obama. “Let’s get everybody together, let’s get unified. The sky will open, the…

News Roundup

The Herald just straight up said the long early voting lines are State Republican’s fault. [Herald] Gawker says “nutty conservative weather-obsessed Miami queen blogger” Matt Drudge is soooooo over. Gawker itself has been called sooooo over a million times before. That is just something powerful bloggers do, call each other…