As Roger Stone heads to court today to defend an apparent threat he aimed at the judge in his case, it’s a good time to look at his disturbing history of making similar threats of violence, domestic terrorism, and even civil war. Stone, the Fort Lauderdale resident arrested in an FBI raid last month on charges related to Robert Mueller’s investigation…
McClatchy Company CEO Craig Forman announced Wednesday “a bit fewer” than 225 employees had accepted buyout offers and would leave newspapers across the country. Among them are longtime and highly accomplished Miami voices in the gay community, in state politics, and in sports. Also departing is one of the nation’s most important reporters covering international politics.
On March 8, 2016, Jacqueline Quiñones began a job at the Dunkin’ Donuts in Perrine. Less than two months later, after repeated racial discrimination from co-workers, Quiñones was unfairly terminated, she says, sending her into a downward financial spiral that ultimately left her homeless.
In 2018, Miami-Dade County residents passed a ballot initiative that gave a $232 million pay raise to public schoolteachers. That seemed logical since Florida teachers rank among the lowest-paid educators in America. While the ballot’s language clearly stated the raise was supposed to go to public schools only, Florida’s…
Dr. Michael Salzhauer, AKA Dr. Miami, is best known for wacky antics like writing a children’s book about plastic surgery, live-streaming operations on Snapchat, and recording a surprisingly successful dance song called “Flawless.” But now the Bal Harbour plastic surgeon says he’s taking on a new role as…
America’s drug war is still here and still going strong. Today, Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced that her office persuaded a grand-jury to indict two fentanyl dealers for first-degree murder — purely because they sold the opiates to a user who later died. Rundle’s office said two…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said virtually nothing about Matt Gaetz in public. But, given the life experience and political beliefs of the Democratic U.S. representative from New York, she likely finds her Florida Republican colleague cretinous. She’s a former bartender who skyrocketed to fame by making a moral and pragmatic case…
Pitchers and catchers reported for the Miami Marlins last week, which means one thing: It’s almost time to yell at Derek Jeter again. For everything. Just in general. All baseball faults are his. This time last year, Derek Jeter was getting an intense taste of what…
Longtime Miami Beach activist Mitch Novick is best known for ranting and raving about the “carnival-like atmosphere” on Ocean Drive. For the past several years, Novick — the owner of the Sherbrooke Hotel at Collins Avenue and Ninth Street — has been a regular at city commission meetings and in local Facebook groups, where he shares the day-to-day horrors of public twerking and street fights.
In a move that foreign-policy experts say is both unprecedented and dangerous, Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart this past weekend showed up in Cúcuta, Colombia, a town on the Venezuelan border, to effectively threaten war against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
When 62-year-old cancer survivor Jer Valentino set out to obtain his medical marijuana card, the Naples, Florida, resident had to wait two weeks before he could even see a doctor. Another three months and several hundred dollars later, he finally had the pot he needed to treat the…
The patchy morning clouds had just begun to dissipate when the Tri-Rail train pulled out of the Pompano Beach station, heading south through the fading twilight of dawn. Thick bushes, tall green grass, and squat tan buildings littered with colorful graffiti lined the tracks. The train thumped by, picking up…
Since its launch about a year and a half ago, the secret Facebook group Miami Beach Crime Prevention and Awareness has been lauded by city leaders for its efforts to fight crime. Despite a lean toward vigilantism and concerns from groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, the group has been awarded…
Fans who weren’t paying attention this past week may be surprised to learn the Marlins mascot, Billy the Marlin, has a new look as well. And by “new look,” we mean “sleeping was fun while it lasted.”
It’s not clear whether former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020. But something else is apparent: He’s making money by keeping the public guessing. He pocketed a $150,000 speaking fee for a January trip to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, according to newly unearthed public records.
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the 12 months since 17 kids and teachers were slaughtered, mass-shootings have obviously not stopped, and it is still remarkably easy to obtain a gun in Florida. Numerous news outlets — including the New York…
One of the nation’s landmark homeless-protection laws is now gone. Since May 2018, the City of Miami has been trying to invalidate a 1998 legal decision that prevented city cops from arresting homeless people for living their lives outside. The so-called Pottinger Agreement, named for homeless Miamian Michael Pottinger…
Business has been good for Cape-Canaveral based Comprehensive Health Services, a federal contractor that specializes in providing medical care and other support services to major government projects. The company, for example, currently holds a $180 million contract to run Miami-Dade’s Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the largest federal detention…
Dwyane Wade is openly telling the Miami Heat that come April — when he retires and hangs up his sneakers and Miami Heat jersey for the last time — he’ll be in the market to purchase a share of an NBA team. Wade is also letting the Heat know he’d …
More than 10,000 people of Haitian ancestry live in Miramar, a city with the fifth-highest Haitian population in Florida. Naturally, the local public schools have a large number of Haitian students — after the devastating 2010 earthquake on the island, Miramar High School took in 46 Haitian refugees, more than…
For years, Miami-Dade Police have had the technology to intercept cell phone communications in real time. Since 2003, the county has spent more than $526,000 on contracts with Pen-Link, a Nebraska-based surveillance technology company, to equip the the county police department with a telephone surveillance system. The latest contract with Pen-Link is set to…
It is a fact that Elliott Abrams, America’s special envoy to Venezuela, covered up at least one Latin American genocide. In the 1980s, Guatemalan Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt’s U.S.-backed forces slaughtered 1,771 indigenous Mayan people whom Montt’s forces fraudulently claimed were supporting “left-wing” guerrillas. According to two-time George Polk Award-winning reporter Allan Nairn…
