A certain subset of (let’s be honest: rich and bored) oceanside residents is currently fighting over whether the city should install a big, bright, and sorta dumb-looking LED “welcome” sign at the foot of the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The sign is indeed stupid-looking and wholly unnecessary. But the squabble perfectly…
This past November, Florida Republicans, conservative TV pundits, and President Donald Trump fabricated claims of “election-rigging” by two Florida elections supervisors in two of the state’s most heavily Democratic counties. Now those same Republicans have attempted to fire both of those elections chiefs. The Florida Democratic Party has already blasted Gov. Rick DeSantis’ latest move as a “politically motivated power grab” and an attempt to “consolidate” control of elections across the state.
The Miami Police Department resembles a middle-school playground. Here’s proof. Two brothers who recently won the cop union’s elections, Tommy and Matt Reyes, seem to be suggesting someone tied to the election’s losers is now fabricating evidence to smear them. Yesterday, New Times broke news that MPD Chief Jorge Colina has ordered…
Over the years the question has been asked: What is Miami Heat culture? While the answer is debatable and multipronged, one player on the roster can pretty much sum it up — Dion Waiters. He’s both it, and the opposite of it. Waiters is proof of what…
The neon halos that adorn the necks of the palm trees at the Miami Beach entrance off the Julia Tuttle Causeway have been an iconic city fixture for more than 20 years. Since being updated with LED technology in 2007, the lights now change colors to commemorate special holidays or events held in Miami Beach.
Barbara DeLiberali and her family, thrilled to be trading the cold weather in Pennsylvania for a few days in the Bahamas, boarded the Norwegian Breakaway December 31, 2017. She and her husband, along with her daughter and son-in-law, had booked the cruise as a Christmas present and a surprise for her three young grandchildren.
Bal Harbour plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer says a lot of outlandish things. Salzhauer, who was known as “Dr. Schnoz” before his reality TV debut as “Dr. Miami,” has fought code enforcement officers in Bay Harbor Islands by declaring “sovereign immunity as a king.” He says there’s nothing wrong with sending…
The revolution is here. Knox Medical, one the state’s largest medical marijuana companies and the only one based here, opened its first local dispensary about two weeks ago at 175 NW 167th St. in North Miami Beach. The company plans five stores in Miami-Dade County, a Knox spokesman, Scott Klenet, said this…
Roberto Destephan, the City of Miami Police officer and former Fraternal Order of Police union vice president, filmed himself last year tossing Hebrew texts into a garbage heap outside an FOP office while calling the books “trash.” That video then leaked to WPLG Local 10 News last…
Earlier this week, Hallandale Beach Commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub decided, for some godforsaken reason, to post on Facebook that she was worried that Rashida Tlaib, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, was a “Hamas-loving anti-Semite” who would “blow up Capitol Hill.” In other words: With zero evidence, she accused a Palestinian-American of being a terrorist. That’s racist, full stop.
Bernardo Benes, maybe more than anyone else, made Miami the capital of Latin America it is today. He also made himself an outcast. After becoming one of the first influential bankers in Miami by climbing the ranks at Washington Savings and Loan Association — long before Brickell became the finance…
In the past year, Hialeah has been named one of the worst cities for recreation, renters, and singles. It’s the worst city for an active lifestyle. It’s the worst city to celebrate Valentine’s Day. It’s the worst city for financial security. For a place that calls itself the City of Progress, Hialeah seems to rank abysmally low on almost every metric. What gives?
While most of Miami was focused on the annual end-of-season pants-pooping by the Miami Dolphins, Heat players were slowly picking themselves off the ground and recovering from their own early-season trousers-soiling. When December began, the Miami Heat was one of the worst teams in the NBA. Since then,…
While living in Cartagena, Colombia, Jose Irizarry allegedly held lavish yacht parties with bikini-clad prostitutes. He took first-class flights to Europe and brought along some Louis Vuitton luggage and a gold Hublot watch. He funded his lifestyle by stealing cash from Colombian drug dealers and engaging in schemes to launder money…
In April 2017, New Times reported on a study showing that people who hate kneeling NFL players are also very likely racist. That news has not stopped Miami Herald sportswriter Armando Salguero from flying into something of a blackout rage whenever anyone mentions football players protesting racism in America…
New Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony has officially begun the process of turning former Sheriff Scott Israel’s many controversial political hires into political fires. Tony took additional steps to clean house at BSO today, this time taking aim at two of former sheriff Scott Israel’s political cronies who’d been given high-level…
Mary “Mayhem” Mayhew, Florida’s new Medicaid chief, was accused of all kinds of misdeeds while running Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). She was repeatedly sued and fined for failing to follow various rules while working under then-Gov. Paul LePage. Yesterday, New Times recounted how the federal government in…
In a few short weeks, passersby will be able to hold their phones up and and see a video.
Unlike five other members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office command staff, Col. Frank Adderley remained at the agency over the weekend after Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted his boss, Scott Israel, as sheriff. Adderley, the at-times controversial former police chief of Fort Lauderdale, tried his fate with new Sheriff Gregory Tony, who…
When Donald Trump chose Mary Mayhew to run the nation’s Medicare and Medicaid programs in 2018, Maine residents were alarmed: From 2011 to 2017, Mayhew had run that state’s medical programs. She was so psychotically focused on cutting medical programs for the poor that she became known as “Mary Mayhem.” Oddly, she stepped down three months later.
Despite the fact that City of Miami taxpayers in 2016 shelled out $400,000 to equip half of the 1,300-member police force with body cameras, the Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) continues having to call out the city’s cops for misusing the devices. The Miami Police Department needed the cameras after the federal government whacked the department…
A new ordinance would require background checks.
