Ken Detzner, Florida’s secretary of state, once conducted a voter-roll purge so obvious that the U.S. Department of Justice had to swoop in and stop him. Earlier this year, Detzner brazenly tried to prevent the state from opening more early-voting sites at colleges, which a judge said “reveal[ed] a stark pattern of discrimination.”…
On the back deck of a waterfront seafood restaurant in Cutler Bay last night, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell took the microphone as a congresswoman-elect. With her husband and children by her side, the Ecuadorian-born immigrant and Democrat pledged to work every day to hold the Trump administration accountable. “This election right here…
Rick Scott is one of the worst people in America. It’s fitting, then, that he will follow his eight-year tenure as Florida governor with a new, six-year stint as U.S. senator. Scott, as governor, displayed nothing but bitterness and resentment toward the poor and needy in his state. Low-income people’s…
A frequently cited study from 2002 says if Florida had allowed felons to vote, Al Gore might have defeated George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election. At the time, 827,000 people in Florida had lost the right to vote due to felony convictions. The study’s authors theorized that nearly 70 percent would have voted as Democrats, thus potentially changing the course of history.
Miami and Florida Keys Congressman Carlos Curbelo, a self-styled “moderate” Republican in a heavily Democratic district, is no more. He has conceded his congressional race to upstart challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a health-care worker. As it stands, he’s losing by only 3,000-odd votes, but just enough to make a win seem implausible.
Congressman Ron DeSantis won the Florida governor’s race tonight with 49.9 percent of the vote with 99 percent counted, defeating his progressive opponent, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, in one of the most closely watched races in the nation. Despite the blue wave of support that showed up for Gillum and across the country, the Trump-backed former prosecutor won among men and older voters, continuing a two-decade legacy of Republican governors in the Sunshine State.
Donald Trump has, it seems, been president now for 33 years. Election Night 2016 (shudder) feels like a century ago. So much is different now: Our politics haVE become even more diseased than usual. Corruption and racism no longer disqualify you from holding office. An accused rapist sits on the…
Forty-two percent — that’s how many eligible voters in the United States usually don’t cast ballots. It’s a figure Frank Ocean wants to change. Tuesday, the notoriously reclusive singer made a surprise announcement that he was offering free merchandize in four major U.S. cities — including Miami — to anyone who could prove they had voted.
Compared to various parts of Georgia and New York, voting lines and acts of voter suppression don’t seem to be particularly awful in Miami today. But that doesn’t mean people still aren’t trying to screw some candidates at the last minute. According to screen caps provided to New Times, someone spent yesterday blasting out a fake text message that’s clearly — and laughably — designed to scare voters toward voting for Ron DeSantis or away from the polls entirely.
Bowie, my 85-pound retired racing greyhound, sneaks undetected into our bed every night while my girlfriend and I sleep. He lies directly perpendicular to the two of us, then nestles in, stretching his gangly, two-and-a-half-foot-long legs out in both directions. I usually wake up dangling precariously off the side of the bed or shoved against our bedroom wall.
It’s officially time to call it — the Miami Hurricanes 2018 are an unmitigated disaster. Sitting in fifth place in the ACC Coastal Division with four losses to their name and a current Sports Illustrated prediction of a meeting with USF in the Gasparilla Bowl should be enough to…
Miami New Times writers brought home four first-place awards at this past weekend’s Florida Press Club ceremony. Staff writer Brittany Shammas was the big winner, with two first places in business and education writing. Cited were her stories “CEO of $25 MIllion ‘Scam’ Invention Company Arrested for Domestic Violence” and…
The National Basketball Association in 2017 stumbled upon what might have been the happiest jersey-related accident in the league’s sartorial history. The NBA gave each team a new, third-jersey option as part of the “City” jersey series. Each team got a jersey designed to reflect something about its “culture”…
Last week, the Miami Gardens Police Department fired Sgt. Javier Romaguera, a cop with a long history of unethical and arguably illegal behavior. Hired in 2006, he was accused three years later of filling out a bogus police report, saying he had street contact with a man who was actually in jail at the time…
In April 2017, Lewis Bennett and Isabella Hellman, two dual British and Australian citizens, set sail on a yacht from St. Maarten to South Florida. According to federal prosecutors, they made a pit stop in Cuba weeks later, on May 14, 2017. But by the next morning, U.S. Coast Guard agents found Bennett floating…
Standing in front of a Miami medical center with Democratic congressional candidate Mary Barzee Flores on a recent weekday, Montel Williams fought tears as he talked about his daughter’s two bouts with cancer. “We’re very blessed that she survived,” said the onetime talk show host. “But she only survived it because she was…
As early voting concluded Sunday, the top 10 college campuses in Florida drew just over 50,000 early votes, with Miami Dade College — the state’s largest institution of higher learning — drawing 11,324 ballots,
At least nine former and current residents and employees have come forward with accusations of racial discrimination inside the Mirador 1000, an upscale condo building with its own hair salon and convenience mart where two-bedroom units are listed for up to $800,000.
What did the doctor prescribe for a banged-up Miami Dolphins team that had lost four of its last five games and saw little good news ahead at the season’s midway point? A second helping of the New York Jets…
Migrant children are still being housed without parents in Miami-Dade County. The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children is still operational: Kids are living on the compound, taking classes there, seeing doctors, and playing sports on the recreation fields. But they’re not allowed to leave…
Thousands of Democrats led by former President Barack Obama flooded Ice Palace Studios just north of downtown Miami Friday afternoon. They chanted “Bring it home,” decried the “world of hate” President Donald Trump has forged, and tried to whip up enthusiasm four days before the November 6 election.
In 2015, Elgin Hilliard was involved in an accident at work. His injuries were so severe he now walks with a cane and permanently cannot work. But in 2016, barely a year after the accident, Hialeah Police officers allegedly found him so intimidating they threatened to fire their Tasers at him, accused him of threatening to attack the cops, and screamed racial slurs at him, Hilliard says. He alleges in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday that Hialeah officers made comments about his “black ass,” spit on him, and called him the N-word at least once.
