Last year, employees in Miami Beach’s Parks and Recreation Department went public with complaints of racial discrimination in the workplace. Black workers accused the department’s directors of referring to them as “criminals” and “animals” and segregating them into a park designated for “troublemakers.”
For its 123-year history, Miami’s economy has centered around tourism. Whether hosting massive EDM concerts in its most prominent park or allowing raucous nightclubs to stay open all hours of the night, city leaders have long believed in giving the tourists what they want.
The good news is that on Sunday, the Miami Dolphins looked better than they have all season. They even had a lead at one point! The bad news is the Miami Dolphins have been so bad this season that getting quietly thumped by the San Diego Chargers 30-10 qualifies as progress.
Florida is back to draining swamps, and for once, it’s not the Everglades. Long considered one of the most corrupt places in the country, the Sunshine State is apparently raising the bar when it comes to transparency around ethics enforcement.
Miami sports fans have some unfortunate recent experience with ranking near last. Between the Marlins losing 100 games, the Heat missing the playoffs, and the Dolphins doing their damnedest to ensure they don’t win a game again until next season, rooting on the local teams has been quite the chore lately.
For years, cannabis companies running legal operations have been forced to bank like thieves.
In April, veteran CBS Miami investigative reporter Jim DeFede released a scathing report about two contractors at Miami International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International airports, in which workers alleged they were grossly underpaid, neglected, faced cockroach infestations, and had to create a food pantry so their underpaid coworkers could eat.
Just before 4 a.m. January 15, a Miami-Dade man woke up in his car outside a strip club with bruises on his face, his extremities bound, and his hands gruesomely burned.
Now that a ton of corporate money is being poured into Florida’s petition-gathering process, it’s almost guaranteed the legalization of recreational marijuana will be on the 2020 ballot, where it would need 60 percent approval to become state law.
King tides happen during storms; king tides happen when it’s warm. Moon proximity makes oceans swarm. King tides during fall are the norm.
In 1980, more than half of young people residing in Miami were living alone and away from their parents by the age of 24. Housing was cheap, wages were rising with inflation, and the city had not yet become a 1-percenters’ playground.
In a direct blow to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Senate special master tasked with considering the suspension of former Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has concluded that the embattled cop should be reinstated.
Everyone is mad that the Miami Dolphins are bad. The fans are mad. The players are mad. And the national media, most flamboyantly, is mad.
There’s a lot threatening Miami Beach’s historic architecture right now: Sea-level rise. Billionaires. Any of the tropical systems whirling in the Atlantic. Limited liability companies and hedge funds buying up homes and replacing them with hulking mansions outfitted with escalators like at a shopping mall.
When the history of Venezuela’s ongoing collapse is finally written, entire chapters will be dedicated to the crooks. Swindlers, scoundrels, and sinvergüenzas of all stripes — protected by a wall of state-sanctioned corruption that allowed them to siphon billions of dollars out of the country into private bank accounts around the world.
Early Saturday morning, Miami-area musician Emanuel David Williams had a tense encounter with police. Williams says he was complying with instructions from a trio of Miami Police officers before whipping out his cell phone and recording them.
Somehow it’s taken the Democratic Party roughly three years to notice Donald Trump probably should not be president. In addition to having a very weird haircut and being openly senile, Trump has been demonstrably violating the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution every day since he took office, has led a life of fraud and crime, is obviously unfit to run the nation, and, in general, is Donald Trump.
Taking advantage of Miami’s near-perfect year-round yacht weather, Angel Jose Limongi was frequently spotted jaunting around Biscayne Bay on his 45-foot pleasure craft, Breaking the Habit. And the boat was available for hire for anyone who wanted to do the same: For upward of $1,000, Limongi would find a captain and arrange a charter.
When he was ordered deported from the United States, Diego Alejandro Rojas didn’t think of himself. His mind didn’t turn to the chaos that awaited him in Venezuela. He didn’t linger on the death threats from the local paramilitary thugs who forced him to flee in the first place.
El dia que se ordenó su deportación de los Estados Unidos, Diego Alejandro Rojas no pensó en su propio bienestar. Sus pensamientos no se dirigieron al caos que seguramente lo esperaba en Venezuela. Tampoco contempló las amenazas de muerte de los grupos paramilitares locales que lo habían obligado a huir en primer lugar.
Stop if you’ve heard this one before: A once-affordable city likened to paradise undergoes a blistering development boom that forces longtime residents out of the neighborhoods they’ve called home for generations
Several days after his May 2016 arrest for the murder of Dan Markel, Sigfredo Garcia made a jailhouse phone call to Kathy Magbanua, his former girlfriend and the mother of two of his children. He told her he would “be out soon and [would] either file a lawsuit or ‘get the hell out of Dodge’ and leave everything behind them,” according to an FBI transcript of the call.
