This year’s spring break was one of the most contentious in Miami Beach history. For starters, the city saw a 33 percent increase in crowd size from 2018 despite an expensive marketing campaign aimed at fending off spring breakers. Police donned riot gear and parked prison wagons on the sand to haul miscreants off to jail. Critics accused city leaders of targeting black tourists in the crackdown.
Honestly, we thought we would have stopped doing this by now. Tracking the Dolphins’ mission to #TankForTua seemed like a good idea when the season began, but we figured by now there would be more pressing matters to deal with and newsier news to discuss.
Today 58-year-old Bernard Gonzalez became the first person in Broward County to be charged with murder for selling fentanyl to a person who later overdosed.
A great deal of news coverage about America’s decades-long opioid crisis tends to focus on rural white folks in states such as Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. But among the communities hardest hit by the epidemic, Native American tribes rank at the top.
The fact that the federal government has been lying to the people of the United States for decades about the dangers of cannabis is especially jarring to shellshocked veterans of war who were under the impression they were fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.
Sitting in front of a computer screen in his home in Brandon, Florida, Daniel McMahon allegedly carried out a campaign of terror, encouraging violence against countless people and helping influence at least one murderous white nationalist. This week, federal authorities finally caught up with him.
Miami is a worldwide tourist destination for its beautiful beaches and clean water — but nobody can enjoy it when shit is spilling into the bay. Aging pipes installed near Oleta River State Park in the ‘960s ruptured last month, resulting in 1.5 million gallons of raw sewage leaking into the Oleta River and Biscayne Bay.
The battle over Florida’s controversial ban on sanctuary cities doesn’t look like it will be settled anytime soon. As state lawmakers return to Tallahassee this week to jockey over priorities for the 2020 legislative session in January, Hialeah Rep. Cindy Polo is taking square aim at the contentious anti-sanctuary law, which was forced through by Republican lawmakers in May at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Since 1997, American Airlines has had naming rights of the arena where the Miami Heat plays basketball — a deal that has paid the airline back many times over as its name has been in front of thousands of cameras at Heat games for more than two decades. Come this time next year, though, naming rights could switch to a company that specializes in people getting laid on camera.
In July 2018, a Miami-area woman and her family members told a Miami Police Department officer that her estranged ex-husband had followed her car, cut off the vehicle, started pounding on the outside of it, and even ripped off one of the windshield wipers, all because he wanted to see the separated couple’s 10-month-old daughter.
A little over a year ago, 15-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg took time off from school to sit outside the Parliament of Sweden while holding a sign that translated to “school strike for the climate.” Within weeks, students from other European countries, including Germany and Holland, replicated Thunberg’s effort…
The voice on the other end of the line sounded so thin, so frail, that at first Erika Williams didn’t recognize it as her son’s. It was only by the ten digits glowing on her iPhone — the number for the Flagler County jail — that she realized who was calling her February 4, 2019, a balmy Monday in North Florida.
Buying a first home is nearly impossible for most African-Americans in Miami-Dade. There’s a county program that’s supposed to make it easier for more black people to become homeowners by providing first mortgages to folks who can’t get conventional bank loans.
A veritable who’s who of right-wing con artists, alt-right media hounds, and outright racists apparently plan to hold some sort of Art Basel for Grifters conference in Miami this month.
As required for all stumping politicos, Joe Biden stopped in Miami yesterday for a meet-and-greet with Latinx voters. During an afternoon event in Little Havana at Ball & Chain, he did the requisite show of shaking hands and kissing babies. In a short speech, he spoke directly to the Magic City’s immigrant population.
Following a 59-10 whooping at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens in the season opener, most Dolphins fans figured their team wouldn’t find much relief in a Week 2 matchup against the New England Patriots. Most assumed Tom Brady and the Pats’ offense…
Jerry Falwell Jr. inherited Liberty University, a Tennesee Evangelical Christian college, from his dad, Jerry Sr., who founded the school to create, what he hoped, would become a Christian competitor to the Ivy Leagues. Instead, Falwell Jr. is, reportedly, in the process of running the place into the ground. According…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday announced the repeal of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, eliminating the clean-water regulations enacted by the Obama administration in 2015 and making it easier for polluters to use chemicals linked to toxic algal blooms.
Advocates for the kids held at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children have already said the conditions inside the facility have likely left migrant kids with permanent psychological trauma. Now, a new report issued by an activist group suggests the children might have also been poisoned at the detention facility.
Author’s note: The Miami Dolphins are obviously plotting to #TankForTua (University of Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa) this season. We know it, they know it, the rest of the NFL knows it. Tagovailoa also knows it. Weekly in this space, we will document the most recent tanking attempt and peek at…
International aid was quick to get to the Bahamas soon after Hurricane Dorian, but slow to reach parts of the affected islands due to a mountain of logistical challenges. The hurricane, which was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall, flooded Grand Bahama’s only major airport. The airspace over Abaco and Grand Bahama during the next few days was busy with helicopters running search and rescue missions, jockeying for limited landing strip space. On the island of Abaco, evacuations of Bahamians from the town of Marsh Harbour are still ongoing.
Yoel Alonso Leal is a Cuban man who has lived in New Orleans and is seeking asylum in the United States. Beginning last October, he sat in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention despite the fact he suffered from severe gout and a host of other ailments. This past May, he went to the doctor for a lung scan…
