A plan to have a private investor build and possibly operate a new Miami-Dade jail is moving forward. County Commissioner Esteban Bovo first proposed the idea at an October meeting of the Chairman’s Policy Council. The plan involves replacing the county’s crumbling jails with new ones financed through “P3.”
The Florida Democratic Party is, without question, in the running for “most inept” Democratic state-level institution in America. There are currently more registered Democrats than Republicans here, but the GOP has managed to control the governor’s mansion since 2001 and will remain there until at least 2022. There are signs that,…
As chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, Bob Gualtieri was supposed to bring accountability to the families that lost loved ones in that school’s massacre on Valentine’s Day. But Tuesday, Gualtieri slapped those families across the face…
The Miami Heat’s “Vice” jerseys are the best in the National Basketball League. ESPN today declared them the “coolest” uniforms in basketball. More important, South Floridians love the alternate color scheme: Neon Vice merchandise is all over the region. The jerseys are the highest-selling alternate uniforms in NBA history, and the team is now even peddling the neon Vice logo on car license plates.
A lawsuit questions Miami-Dade officers training after hip-hop weekend shooting.
We find the perfect gift for Miami sports stars.
Florida State Rep. Thad Altman was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1955. He moved to Florida in 1957 and has been basically a carpetbagger delivering Deep South hatred ever since. He’s earned one of those old-white-dude names that is essentially just “Monocle Q. Racism.” In a depressingly on-trend move for…
Maybe 20 percent of the pieces at any Miami Art Week fair are fantastic. About 75 percent are either trite or meaningless. But the final 5 percent is where the fairs truly shine: Every one has something in the realm of five to ten pieces that truly, genuinely suck in spectacular fashion.
North Bay Village is made up of three tiny islands in the middle of Biscayne Bay. But it has the best politics. Not long ago, the police chief, city attorney, and several other key officials were fired. Then old pro Manager Frank Rollason, his deputy manager, and a secretary quit. In…
Among the general population, less than 1 percent of Americans are HIV positive. But for transgender women, the rate is astonishingly higher — almost 22 percent, or more than one in five. No one knows exactly why. Now, researchers at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine are looking…
On February 12, 2017, Darell Bryant tossed a 14-year-old child to the ground and punched him in the face, breaking his nose. Video footage obtained by the Miami Herald as part of their exposé on guards in Florida’s juvenile detention facilities stoking violence among the incarcerated children shows Bryant slamming the child against a wall, then hurling him to the ground and pummeling him in the face.
Miami Police officers said they had to shut down an Air Jordan shoe-release event at the Miami nightclub E11even this past Saturday after cops said patrons got too “rowdy” while waiting for sneakers. Video shows crowds surging against metal barriers in an unsafe manner.
Javier Ortiz has led the City of Miami Fraternal Order of Police since 2011. In that time, he has racked up excessive-force complaints, been sued a few times, and said demonstrably racist things on social media. He has also mysteriously escaped punishment after multiple Internal Affairs investigations and nearly lost his job after he got caught harassing a police critic online. He appeared to be made from Teflon.
Before the federal government sued California in an attempt to open the state to private-prison contractors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought the advice of GEO Group, the Boca Raton-based, multibillion-dollar private-detention-facility corporation. Mother Jones broke news of the close ties between GEO and ICE’s legal team this past Friday. New Times has…
Inside a rundown Lauderhill strip mall sits Hair and Such, Nothing but Wings II, and the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office, where ballots are being recounted in three closely watched statewide elections. Outside, about 60 protesters gather in the parking lot. Some of them sport Make America Great Again…
The Dolphins were 69 yards from the end zone, down five points with seven seconds left and no timeouts remaining. The game, and likely the season, seemed over. Knowing the Dolphins had but one shot at a Hail Mary attempt, the Patriots dropped back tight end Rob Gronkowski as a…
When Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez made a snap decision in 2017 to capitulate to Donald Trump’s threats and force the county to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lawyers warned that innocent people were going to wind up getting hurt. The head of the Florida American Civil Liberties Union…
In 2014, New Times writer Terrence McCoy found 15 Miami men who’d been accused of murder on the A&E TV show the First 48 — and later walked free because they’d been wrongfully accused. Taiwan Smart was one of those men: In 2009, Smart contacted the City of Miami Police Department to…
The Heat needs to do the right thing and start the greatest player in the history of the franchise.
The best news for Democrats from the recent midterm elections was that Florida’s racist and ridiculously difficult road to voting rights restoration for felons was overturned — you know, the one that stopped one in five black voters from casting ballots. Now it looks as if Republicans don’t want to…
In both sad and entirely predictable news, immigration-asylum applications in Miami were denied at rates virtually unseen in two decades, according to data released today by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a group at Syracuse University. Immigration officials denied 86 percent of asylum applications…
Neymar’s response to Beckham: “David, it’s done! I’ll come to Miami, your city, your team.”
