What do you call someone willing to face more than three hours of Miami gridlock five days a week? Crazy? A masochist? Well, take a look at how much these people earn, and you might just change your mind.
Changes announced this week to the Endangered Species Act will make it even more difficult to protect endangered wildlife or designate areas as critical habitats.
Many of the land developers gentrifying portions of central Miami are already fairly annoying. For example, Bob Zangrillo, one of the major investors in the controversial Magic City Innovation District in Little Haiti, is a Burning Man attendee who was indicted earlier this year for allegedly paying bribes to get his daughter into the University of Southern California.
To make something of a severe understatement, many questions remain in the wake of accused sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide last weekend. For Miamians, one particular question has gone unanswered: Why did the billionaire’s black book of contacts include 13 phone numbers for former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, a noted friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton?
El Paso. Dayton. Chicago. Gilroy. At a time when America is yet again reeling from the devastation of gun violence, the Parkland student activists are taking their fight to the highest court in the nation.
So you just moved to the Magic City — welcome to Miami and bienvenido a Miami! You’ve chosen wisely. Now make sure you fill your garage with bottled water, D batteries, and a week’s supply of Spam, and keep your gas tank full, because it’s hurricane season and we can’t guarantee you’ll have power next week.
Violent clashes between protesters and police in Hong Kong continue weeks after mass demonstrations in the city first turned ugly in June. The unrest, which began in response to a now-shelved bill that would have allowed for the extradition of people to China, has expanded to a wider struggle over Hong Kong’s sovereignty and the use of excessive force by law enforcement.
Miami has long been a wildly unequal place. It’s a city where wages don’t come close to keeping up with local rent costs, a place where a staggering number of millennials still live with their parents, and a town where hospitality and tourism workers are often forced to trek miles on hours-long bus rides…
Last night, state Rep. Shevrin Jones had wrapped up a legislative update for his constituents in Miami Gardens when he heard an alarming pop-pop-pop. Jones and a couple of his staffers had been talking to residents outside the meeting room at Miami Carol City Park. He barely registered the flashing light of gunfire before a youth football team that had been practicing made a mad dash off the field. Everyone ran into the building to take cover.
Florida has always been a stomping ground for whackjobs, but the state’s political climate seems to be attracting a particularly diseased group of people as of late. Roger Stone already lives here. The disgraced alt-right personality Milo Yiannopoulos briefly moved to Miami a few years ago. The InfoWars-appearing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is apparently now running for Congress in Palm Beach County.
Support for recreational marijuana in Florida seems stronger than ever. A petition to put legal weed on the ballot in 2020 passed a huge milestone last week, and a recent Quinnipiac University poll showed that 65 percent of Floridians now support allowing adults to use and possess small amounts of marijuana.
Every summer, people of the Jewish faith commemorate the day of Tisha B’Av by fasting and mourning. The date memorializes the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem centuries ago. In modern times, Tisha B’Av has become an annual opportunity for activism or charitable acts — a time to practice tikkun olam, the Jewish teaching of “repairing the world.”
Last Thursday, fans got their first taste of what’s being billed as a bona fide Miami Dolphins quarterback competition. Before that day, the only indications had been media tweets and a handful of practices open to the public. In Thursday’s 34-27 win against the Atlanta Falcons, a few things came to light as Ryan Fitzpatrick and Josh Rosen battled to snatch the starter job.
Protecting your private data in 2019 is a struggle, to say the least. Even something as innocuous as an app that makes your face look old might secretly store all of your photos and create a database of faces in a Russian basement somewhere.
The most in-depth story done so far by local media on Miami Dolphins receiver Kenny Stills’ calling out his team’s owner Stephen Ross for political hypocrisy came from a local sports columnist. And it was one of the most pathetic examples of political commentary in memory. But before we get…
Just weeks after a pool boy was accidentally shot by an iguana hunter in their neighborhood, two enterprising Boca Raton teens began stuffing mailboxes with flyers advertising the pair’s extermination services.
We’re only one week into August, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has already upgraded its forecast for the rest of the hurricane season. Conditions in the Atlantic are now more hospitable to hurricane activity.
Progressives, critics, and basically all people with moral backbones and souls this week are furious at Stephen Ross — the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the gym chains Equinox and SoulCycle, as well as an investor in many other ventures — for quietly planning to host a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
Hey, did you hear? The Miami Dolphins are in the news again! We’re talking about an actual football game that happened last night on the football field at Hard Rock Stadium, which sits atop an Indian burial site that probably has nothing to do with the franchise’s long-term bad luck and overall failures.
It is sometimes said the only reason crystal meth did not take off in Miami is because of what tourists refer to as “Cuban cocaine”: that sweet, nectary shot of espresso that keeps the city running — and triggers occasional episodes of road rage.
State Attorney Mike Satz has been the top prosecutor in Broward County since 1976. He’s somehow won every single reelection bid, every four years, for the past 43 years. In that time, the criminal-justice world has changed around him.
Florida — home of armed iguana hunters, exploding toilets, and the nation’s grandparents — just so happens to be the perfect petri dish for algal blooms. Because blue-green algae absorb energy from the sun and quickly grow in warm freshwater, the Sunshine State offers optimal conditions for the microorganisms called cyanobacteria to thrive.
