Neighbors are a lot like family members. You don’t really get to pick them, and if you get a bad one, you’re often stuck with said person for quite some time. Sometimes these fights escalate — neighbor-on-neighbor violence is so common that the Investigation Discovery channel has an entire (terrible) series devoted to the matter called Fear Thy Neighbor.
When Noel Lanzas read about a Miami Beach woman who’d called a black, would-be London visitor a “monkey” and other racial slurs, he wasn’t surprised. For almost a year, he says, the same woman — Giulia Ozyesilpinar — had been harassing him for being gay and HIV-positive. She sent emails calling him a “fucken AIDS infested Faggot” and tried to have him fired from his job. Lanzas had already filed a complaint about the harassment with the Miami-Dade Commission on Human Rights, which investigates discrimination, and was awaiting a hearing.
This is the perfect opportunity for the Heat to grab an all-star player and complete a potential NBA-altering reclamation project all in the same deal.
The political price of being a cog in the Trump administration’s immigrant detention and deportation machine is getting steeper. Outrage over the callous treatment of immigrant families in the U.S. has distilled into outrage toward the companies willing to help the federal government carry out its anti-immigrant agenda.
For years, the Miami-Dade public school system has been aware of the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline,” in which troubled students are arrested instead of being disciplined at the school level. Almost always, the kids swept into the criminal justice system are students of color. So as part of a national movement…
Opa-locka is a city that pretty much shouldn’t exist. The FBI raided City Hall in 2016. City services are broken to the point that straight-up human feces recently flooded city streets. To fix the mess, officials brought in ex-County Manager Merrett Stierheim, a man who’s seen his fair share of political shenanigans, but Stierheim quit and said the place wasn’t fixable. Some of the city’s own residents in 2017 tried to mount a (failed) campaign to dissolve Opa-locka entirely.
Sweetwater, the Miami-Dade city best known as the home of Florida International University, is equally famous for a corruption scandal by its former mayor, who was sentenced to prison in 2014. But now, the city is bearing the burden of yet another ex-mayor’s misbehavior.
Miami is utterly sweltering today. Earlier this morning, WeatherUnderground reported that — with humidity taken into account — the temperature felt like 115 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Yet tons of immigrants are stuck in the heat this week at South Florida’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Miramar, where ICE keeps immigrants waiting outdoors in what is essentially a caged pen for hours at a time.
Former North Miami Police SWAT Officer Jonathan Aledda was convicted last month of one misdemeanor count of culpable negligence after he tried to shoot at an autistic man, Arnaldo Rios Soto, and instead shot Rios Soto’s therapist, Charles Kinsey, in the leg in 2016.
Back in 2012, Miami Beach agreed to make Coca-Cola its “official non-alcoholic beverage sponsor.” Under the terms of the ten-year contract, only Coke products would be sold in vending machines on city property, Coca-Cola would be the official sponsor of all city-run special events, and Miami Beach would commit to buying a whopping 22,500 cases of Coke beverages each year.
Over the last handful of years, Miami Beach officials have pushed plans to blanket South Beach — South Florida’s top tourist destination — with a gigantic array of security cameras and police-monitored license plate readers. Civil liberty advocates have repeatedly warned that the city appears to be creating a gigantic…
After a 10-31 start to the season, the Miami Marlins had themselves a nice little June — a 13-14 June, in fact. Nothing spectacular, and a June that by any other MLB team’s standards — rebuilding or otherwise — wouldn’t be all that newsworthy.
Miami New Times news editor Jessica Lipscomb has won the 2019 Clarion Award for the best feature story in a weekly newspaper in the United States. Sponsored by the Association for Women in Communications (AWC), the Clarions are a hotly contested national competition. The winning story, “Deadly Dreams,” detailed…
Listen to the full “Loathe Thy Neighbor” story below: Mark Cantor was pulling his green Mini Cooper into his driveway one evening when a pair of headlights jumped the curb behind him and came barreling across the front lawn, straight toward him. The 54-year-old graphic designer was barefoot. As usual,…
A recent pool party in southwest Miami-Dade County was cut short by the sound of gunshots, as attendees trampled over each other in a rush to find cover. Miraculously, no one was hit. One county official has blamed the shooting, which remains under investigation, on an unlikely source: LED light bulbs.
In 2018, the Florida Democratic Party said it would stop taking donations from private, for-profit prison firms. So, after New Times first reported last month that the party had accepted a $10,000 check from inmate-transport company G4S Secure Solutions — a company that also runs private prisons in other countries — activists cried foul. Now, the party says it will return the money.
If trends continue, the Miami Heat is set to have a fantastic summer. The Heat entered this year’s free agency period with virtually zero salary-cap space, way too many athletic-but-ultimately-mediocre dudes crowding the lineup, and no clear superstar. They seemed destined for years of mediocrity.
For years now, environmentalists have complained that the pumps Miami Beach uses to keep streets from flooding are polluting Biscayne Bay. Photos and videos from residents show plumes of dirty runoff being discharged into the water — and in one case, swallowed by a manatee.
Jimmy Butler is officially a member of the Miami Heat. It’s Biscayne Buckets time. This is happening. Once news broke Sunday morning that the Miami Heat and Butler were set to meet at exactly 6:01 p.m., there was growing confidence that Pat Riley and the Heat could land the former…
Miami summers have a way of defeating the weak-willed. Locals, who already don’t go to the beach that much, truly stop sitting by the ocean. You start ordering takeout for dinner every night because it’s too hot to carry groceries outside. Walking your dog for 15 minutes will annihilate any hairstyle and force you to take a shower before doing anything else that day.
Prisoners, in general, should not be sitting in solitary confinement. It’s a form of torture. But they absolutely should not be sitting in solitary during a historic Miami heat wave, when the heat index says it feels hotter than 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
A contingent of Parkland moms was outside the Arsht Center in Miami Thursday night.
