One of the most pressing issues for the pro-Trump wing of the internet is that it’s getting increasingly difficult to be racist and misinformed online nowadays. Since 2016, the world’s major social networking sites — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al. — have cracked down on hate speech, racism, propaganda, and conspiracy theories…
Jose Oliva is the first Florida House of Representatives speaker from Miami since Marco Rubio. Tomorrow, as he gavels in the state’s legislative session, the 46-year-old Hialeah Republican faces some of the thorniest issues in state history: pot, guns in school, and felon voting rights, to name a…
It’s no secret the Miami area is in desperate need of affordable housing. The city often ranks among the worst for renters; research shows Miamians spend more of their incomes on housing than residents of any other U.S. city. Wages aren’t keeping up with housing prices. Meanwhile, the city has…
The Heat’s expensive veteran-rich roster cannot out-tank putrid teams like the Phoenix Suns or New York Knicks. Two-thirds of the season is gone, and the results are clear — the team is terrible at being terrible. Atlanta, which Miami plays tonight at home, has two first-round picks ahead of…
Matt Gaetz, Florida congressman and human worm, had a hell of a week. He defended someone associated with the alt-right, all but certainly committed a literal crime on Twitter, and topped it all off by defending a billionaire child-rapist. The sad part, of course, is that a lot of…
Miami-Dade County is not affordable. Rent is astronomical compared to the median income. But in many cases, lawmakers are hamstrung. They can force developers to set aside affordable units, but they can’t build complexes with reasonable rents.
The University of Miami’s Infectious Disease Elimination Act (IDEA) Exchange gives clean syringes to heroin and opiate users as long as they deliver dirty needles to the clinic. The program gets used needles off the street and cuts overdose rates as well as disease transmission.
Behind bars, male inmates masturbating in front of female employees is so common, there’s a word for it: gunning. Ceneca Valdez, a counselor at Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, says she experienced it repeatedly on the job, along with vulgar comments and gestures. When she brought the problem…
It’s been a long work week and you deserve a reward — something you didn’t even know you needed in your life until now — something that will make you laugh at first, then smile, and in the end, probably cry tears of joy. You deserve a video of Dwyane…
Glyphosate is a popular ingredient in weed-killing herbicides because it’s extremely effective. It’s also a well-known pollutant — researchers have found the chemical in samples of the air we breathe, the food we eat, and even the beer and wine we buy from the liquor store.
Florida inmate Lazaro Galvan was in his dormitory at the Dade Correctional Institution in December 2017 when guards asked him to pack up his things. Galvan left his property at the officers’ station so it could be checked for contraband and was taken into confinement. After the search, Galvan…
The Glades County Detention Center, a prison facility about two hours northwest of downtown Miami, nearly had to close in 2014. It wasn’t getting enough inmates to justify its existence. But the county jail found a new cash cow in Donald Trump, whose deportation crackdown has swelled the…
In an astounding last-minute victory over the NBA champion Golden State Warriors, Dwyane Wade hit an astounding buzzer-beating three-pointer that renders completely irrelevant how lousy the Miami Heat’s season may end. The all-star guard, who is playing his last season, had a more-than-solid game, scoring 25 points in…
“Marijuana legalization is coming,” Sen. Randolph Bracy says as he talks up his resolution that would place the legalization of recreational marijuana in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election. “There are going to be a couple of bills proposed this year to regulate it,” he says, “But…
In a stunning congressional hearing, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified the president lied under oath in a civil case involving the doomed Trump Tower and International Hotel project on Fort Lauderdale Beach. “Isn’t it true that President Trump misled at best or, at worst, lied under oath [in a Fort Lauderdale case deposition]?”…
While the Democratic party’s left flank is pushing lawmakers to extend Medicare to all citizens and/or create a “single-payer” healthcare system similar to what exists in every other developed nation on earth, many Florida Republicans are still coming up with new ways to chip away at health-care access in the Sunshine…
Heat season is winding down and the team is fading from playoff contention. So it’s time to assess Dwyane Wade’s stay in Miami. There have been ups, downs, memories, and heartbreaks. It’s also time to recognize something else — Wade is the greatest athlete Miami has ever seen…
Before reopening the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children last year, the U.S. government was aware of at least five prior allegations of child sexual abuse at the facility, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents released Tuesday by Florida Rep. Ted Deutch’s office.
In a bid to make President Donald Trump seem like a good person and morally upstanding businessman, Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz just tried to publicly blackmail a federal witness on Trump’s behalf. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former “lawyer” and body-man who spent years coordinating various sketchy business deals on Trump’s behalf,…
This past October, New Times obtained a video clip of Miami-Dade Police Sgt. Manuel Regueiro throwing an utterly unnecessary punch to the face of a handcuffed suspect named Bryan Crespo. It wasn’t the first time Regueiro had been accused of using excessive force. Today, Miami-Dade County prosecutors announced they’ll charge more…
Jorge Ramos is our kind of guy. The Univision anchor is on his way to the airport in Caracas this morning after being detained yesterday for infuriating Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro with a video of young Venezuelans eating from a garbage truck. After Trump’s State Department weighed in, Ramos and…
“Hello, my love. If the unspeakable happens, this is what I want you to do with the assets and businesses.” So began what Richard Hales thought would be the last letter he would send to his wife Jenny. It arrived January 1, 2019, seven days before surgery to remove the…
