Amendment 4 was supposed to automatically restore voting rights for former prisoners after their sentences were over. But Florida Republicans clearly weren’t happy about that and passed a law forcing ex-inmates to pay a slew of exorbitant court fines and fees before getting their rights back — a law derided as a 21st-century version of a Jim Crow-era “poll tax.”
During his TV appearance, Sen. Marco Rubio essentially dared the Iranian regime to attack the U.S. and see what the hell happens. And despite the fact that the U.S. is preparing plans for an Iranian invasion while sailing an aircraft carrier into the region, Rubio is spinning the entire ordeal as something the U.S. is nonsensically being forced to do.
In 1958, Robert Phillips stole a thin, meter-long portion of Stonehenge, which he kept in his office for decades as he moved from England to Richmond, New York; Chicago; Ventura, California; and ultimately Miami-Dade County. Last week, English Heritage, the charity that manages Stonehenge, announced on its website that, on the eve of his 90th birthday, Phillips had finally returned the broomstick-sized rock fragment.
In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily…
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
Kodak Black’s Fort Lauderdale-based lawyer, Bradford Cohen, is crying foul — not only because his client was arrested once again, but because one of the cops involved took an unauthorized photo of Black in handcuffs and leaked it to WSVN Channel 7 News.
Sure-fire number-one pick Zion Williamson looks like Hulk and a Transformer’s basketball baby.
Every death is a tragedy; every life has a story.
The Florida GOP is, in a nutshell, using the larger powers of the state to restrict small governments everywhere — actions that expose the party’s “small government” platform as a flat-out lie. Here’s a list of bills that explain why.
A last-minute effort by Florida Republican legislators to restrict citizen petition drives is only a governor’s signature away from becoming law. Governor Ron DeSantis, who has previously stated he sides with the will of the people, has made no indication of whether he will sign the bill. If he does,…
A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas warns that Miami-Dade County is at high risk for a measles outbreak. Analysts ranked every county in the United States — and, according to the data, Dade has the third-highest risk in the country.
Hassan Whiteside is facing quite a decision — does he opt in to the final year of his contract with the Miami Heat that would pay him $27 million, or does he opt out, bet on himself, and test the free agency waters this off-season?
City of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo allegedly spent a good chunk of time last year filing politically motivated code complaints against his unwitting nemesis — Bill Fuller, the owner of Little Havana’s most iconic bar, Ball & Chain. But now Fuller says his own investigation has uncovered numerous code violations dating back a decade at Carollo’s Coconut Grove home.
Daniella Levine Cava, the sole Democratic candidate in the race, says she raised more than $830,000 in the first month of her campaign. That amount is more than any nonincumbent mayoral candidate in Miami-Dade has ever garnered in a single month.
Just in time for graduation season, the folks at Hotpads are out with a new study showing that housing is becoming impossibly expensive for recent grads. Analysts with the site found a typical graduate would have to spend a staggering 77 percent of his or her income on the median monthly rent in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area.
Last year, the City of Miami kicked Ultra Music Festival, one of the best-known electronic music festivals in the world, out of its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. And now, after what can only be described as a challenging edition on Virginia Key this past March, Ultra’s…
Giancarlo Granda, the former Fontainebleau pool attendant who bizarrely received $1.8 million in loans from famous evangelist Jerry Falwell Jr., officially denies knowing anything about alleged “racy” photos referenced in a Reuters story published yesterday.
Thanks to a draft-day trade, quarterback Josh Rosen will start the second year of his NFL career with the Miami Dolphins. Maybe you heard about this. Some are fans of the idea. Others — namely, well-known character flaw expert and part-time Miami Herald Dolphins beat writer Armando Salguero — hate the…
Yesterday, the South Miami City Commission unanimously passed a resolution saying the city will transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy by the year 2040.
GEO, a Boca Raton-based company now considered the largest private, for-profit prison firm in America, held an annual shareholder meeting today in New York City — and a majority of shareholders passed a resolution demanding that GEO better report human-rights policies and violations to investors.
This year, the city has sought out local artists of color to curate installations and exhibits aimed at black visitors. The goal is to change perceptions of Memorial Day weekend and of Miami Beach.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida declared yesterday that this was, by its estimation, the worst legislative session for civil rights in ten years.
