For years, Florida has had one of the highest rates of uninsured residents. So it’s no surprise health care is a top issue for voters going into the November midterms. According to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than a quarter of Florida voters said health care was the most important issue they were considering this election season.
Tobacco is gross. Nobody likes tobacco anymore. It’s not cool. Joe Camel can go fall off a bridge. The only people who smoke tobacco pipes in 2018 are steampunk weirdos, creeps who like Hugh Hefner too much, oil barons, and Sebastian the Ibis, the mascot for the University of Miami…
If you were planning on, say, enjoying a leisurely day at South Pointe Pier this Saturday, don’t be alarmed when you see a crowd of people openly carrying Glocks.
A Broward County judge has confirmed the Hollywood Police Department ruined the lives of ten gay men for no reason at all. This past July 26, Hollywood PD raided a gay-cruising hangout and arrested eight men allegedly caught masturbating in a private backroom and two others accused of performing oral sex on each other. The police department then sent the men’s photos and names to the media, and many outlets happily blasted out the men’s identities. One man said he was outed and fired from his job as a result.
Stuart Sheldon’s oldest son was in elementary school the day 20 children were gunned down in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary. The idea of someone aiming an AR-15 at first-graders was the worst thing Sheldon could imagine, and when nothing changed in its aftermath, he responded the best way he…
On February 20, an eighth-grader at Miami Beach’s Fienberg-Fisher school got into what amounts to a food fight. Another student doused him with water. He threw milk back. The students’ substitute teacher disciplined the boys, and that seemed to be the end of it.
This past Tuesday, New Times published internal chats showing members of the Florida International University chapter of Turning Point USA joking about white nationalism, “Jew-hating,” underage cartoon porn, and Syrian refugees raping white women. But so far, school administrators have done nothing. In fact, amid a national outcry over the leaked, racist chats, TPUSA even set up a table on the FIU campus today to hand out buttons and “Socialism Sucks” posters.
The collection of ultrarich vampire people known as the DeVos clan has risen again from its dank cellar to put its collective thumb on the scale of Florida’s gubernatorial race. According to political action committee records, four members of the DeVos clan, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ husband, Richard M. DeVos Jr., donated a total of $200,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC October 11.
Pumpkin-flavored everything is back, Publix is stocking up on turkeys, Christmas has overtaken an entire corner of Walmart… which can only mean: The Miami Heat is playing basketball again. Hallelujah! It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! It’s been a long six months since…
On March 21, 2012, Beverly Washington — a high-ranking supervisor in Miami-Dade’s solid waste department — left work and headed to the Biltmore in Coral Gables to attend “In the Company of Women,” the county’s annual ceremony honoring women leaders. But despite the messages of female empowerment that night, Washington says a male colleague, Michael Moore, used the opportunity to sexually harass her, whispering “kiss me” and attempting to lick her ear.
For years, a 501(c)(4) “dark-money” nonprofit called Florida Strong has been supporting Democratic candidates across the state. Though the secretive group has been more than deserving of its own criticism over the years, there’s apparently now a second and perhaps even more shady organization called “Florida Strong” now funded by right-wingers operating…
Installing a whirling, neon home-run sculpture in cavernous, empty Marlins Park felt like putting one of those wacky, waving, inflatable tube men inside a funeral parlor. When the mediocre Marlins actually smashed a homer, the gizmo’s fish would dance, music would play, and basically no one would ever be there to witness it. It was perpetually dancing in a void, begging for one person to notice it.
Hurricane Michael ripped a hole in the roof of Amy Bauer’s tiny apartment in Springfield, a poor Panama City neighborhood. An administrative assistant in her early 50s who gets paid by the hour, she met the storm with no cash on hand, no extra food, no batteries, no flashlights…
J.Y. and his mother, Barbara Yannucci, filed a class action complaint against Juul Labs, Inc. last week in Florida’s Southern District Court. Yannucci is suing the e-cigarette maker for fraud, unjust enrichment, failure to warn, and negligence. The case represents the latest in a string of lawsuits that have been filed against the San Francisco-based company in the past year, with consumers claiming the nicotine within Juul’s cigarettes is more potent and addictive than advertised.
Back in 2017, New Times obtained screenshots of gross chats among Florida International University’s Campus Republicans. They joked about the Charlottesville neo-Nazi attack last year and threatened to “call ICE” on fellow, undocumented students who were begging Congress to pass the DREAM Act. Now, New Times has received chats from another FIU…
Ashley Moody wants to be Florida’s “top cop.” It’s pretty significant, then, that her Republican campaign to be Florida’s attorney general is being bankrolled by Boca Raton’s GEO Group, one of the two largest private-prison firms in America. According to campaign-finance data available online, Moody’s political-action committee, Friends of Ashley…
Devona Stevenson had been an officer at the Sunrise Police Department for nearly 20 years when she was accused of leaving work without permission last September. Even after it was made clear that she hadn’t actually left, she wasn’t off the hook — instead, she says, her male supervisors reprimanded…
Miami-Dade County cops burst into the home of 18-year-old Bryan Crespo last March to arrest him for allegedly stealing airbags from local cars. But according to surveillance video New Times has obtained, an MDPD officer identified as Sgt. Manuel Regueiro decided to wallop Crespo in the face after he…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an agency dedicated to kicking poor immigrants out of the country. ICE functions with even less oversight than local cops and a mandate to just wantonly kick brown people out of America. Studies show deportations have no impact on the U.S. crime rate! And that…
Fraud investigators from Miami-Dade’s property appraiser are looking into claims that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart committed homestead-exemption fraud, an office spokesperson confirms to New Times. Eileen Hernandez, an agency spokesperson, says the appraiser’s Homestead-Exemption Fraud Office has received “numerous complaints” after local blogger and mortgage broker Grant Stern published documents he said show…
Kanye West’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office this past Thursday only made me feel sorry for the rapper. He sounded like he needs psychiatric help. During a rambling, ten-minute speech, West said that he could relate to Trump’s “male energy” and that the president is ”on a hero’s journey right now, and he might not have expected to have a crazy motherfucker like Kanye West.”
Nearly two years after Florida voters approved a referendum legalizing medical marijuana, dispensaries are still few and far between in the Sunshine State. Across Miami-Dade County, only five storefronts sell legal cannabis.
