There’s already plenty of depression to go around in South Florida before this Memorial Day. Traffic is gonna be a ludicrous nightmare thanks to Miami Beach’s totally not-race-related crackdown on Urban Beach Week. The Marlins belong in the trash can, and the Dolphins will probably be even worse. And now, a tropical depression might just roll over the peninsula for the holiday weekend.
“They shot me for nothing, man!” a man yells moments after Miami-Dade Police opened fire on him in Opa-locka this past Wednesday. In a Facebook video filmed just after the 1:15 p.m. incident at the Glorieta Gardens Apartments, the man insists he did nothing to cause officers to shoot him.
Every day, dozens of elderly people and parents with small children are forced to arrive before the sun rises at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s office in Miramar, where they stand for hours in long lines without shelter from the sun or rain. And there isn’t enough parking for everyone forced to arrive for ICE check-ins…
On normal weekdays and especially around 8 or 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights, the Julia Tuttle and MacArthur Causeways clog up and force drivers to wait in long lines on the only major arteries onto the barrier island. Because Miami has gone a century without proper urban planning or an adequate public-transit system, the only way to cross these causeways is by car or bus.
If you ask the experts, the Miami Dolphins will be a special sort of bad this season. But if you ask Dolphins fans, many will tell you the team is better off without all the talented players the team jettisoned this off-season.This is pretty much standard procedure in South Florida, where fans take the team’s off-season bait…
Coral Gables has only about 50,000 residents, but because of its central location in Miami-Dade, more than 700,000 cars pass through the city daily. And its police now have the ability to monitor a huge number of those vehicles. Since inking a deal to acquire license-plate readers in 2016, the Gables uses more than 30 such devices around the city.
Logging into Twitter first thing in the morning in 2018 generally feels like diving headfirst into a flaming dumpster floating down a flooded roadway. Wage theft is legal now! Trump is treating the Constitution like a Russian prostitute! More than a week before hurricane season begins, a damn tropical storm might already be forming!
An always-smiling six-foot-five science teacher, he explained how the cancer began in the pancreas and spread to the liver. But that really wasn’t the lesson. Those kids were learning about daily life with death — being valiant, caring, and loving both your family and your profession.
Since revelations surfaced last year of a blackmail plot against a commissioner with an undisclosed arrest for cocaine in his past, scandal after scandal has rocked tiny North Bay Village, a two-island town on the 79th Street Causeway. Now Miami Beach Commissioner Ricky Arriola is proposing a dramatic fix: He wants his city to take over the troubled village.
Hurricane Irma caused a ton of damage in Miami last year. But so did a bunch of unnamed rainstorms and weak tropical systems. Downtown Miami, Brickell, Miami Beach, and other parts of Miami-Dade County regularly flood these days during high tide, and larger-than-average rainstorms deluge the area. Many residents have questioned…
Look, we Miamians are spoiled. We know the rest of the world laughs at us when we complain about things like “cloud cover” and “four straight days of drizzle” because we never have to endure things like blizzards, earthquakes, severe droughts, or whatever sort of insane tarantula attacks we’re guessing occur in Australia all the time…
Last October, Cutler Bay resident Dustin Hughes stamped his profile picture with an image of a Confederate flag and the message “Heritage not hate.” But hate is exactly what has landed Hughes in jail on felony charges.
There’s no question the historic Miami-Dade County Courthouse, completed in 1928, is in bad shape. County commissioners have described the building as “hazardous” and “experiencing corrosion, rust, water intrusion, algae and mold penetration, termites, poor air quality, and potential asbestos exposure.” Yet voters have been clear they don’t want to pay to rebuild it.
The Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald’s reporting team in Tallahassee is known for fantastic journalistic scoops but not so much for making moral judgments about certain candidates. As truly, utterly, and monstrously terrible as Gov. Rick Scott is, you’ll never see the Times or Herald refer to him as a canvas sack full…
Less than a month ago, students at Santa Fe High School outside Houston walked out in solidarity with the survivors of the school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Many of the Texas teens held signs demanding gun-control reform and an end to school shootings. Well, another one happened…
Michel Martelly’s career has been weird as hell. He went from performing as a misogynistic, rum-drinking singer wearing adult diapers onstage as the pop star “Sweet Micky” to somehow morphing into a repressive and allegedly corrupt Haitian president. In hindsight, his rise has been “proto-Trumpian.” And now he’s out of office and back performing as Sweet Micky.
In late March, Tabitha Bass woke up to find a police officer handcuffing her boyfriend, Chetwyn Archer. The lean 38-year-old brunette had been sleeping next to Archer on a dead-end corner of NW Second Avenue, a tucked-away spot where a dozen homeless Miamians live. One cop asked Bass for identification,…
It was well after midnight inside the posh lounge of the Trump National Doral Miami when a man unfurled a large American flag, pulled out a gun, and started yelling about President Donald Trump. When he began firing, the resort staff called 911. When the cops arrived, the man started shooting at them…
When NFL wide receiver Robby Anderson was arrested for allegedly shoving a Miami cop at Rolling Loud in May 2017, the sports world freaked out and labeled Anderson as a player with “character problems.” But New Times warned the public not to rush to judgment too quickly, because the arresting officer…
The average Floridian would be forgiven for assuming that moneyed interests such as Big Sugar and power companies have a stranglehold on the state government. Just last year, lobbyists for Florida Power & Light (FPL) were caught literally writing the text of proposed laws.
When Tom Wolfe visited Miami to research his final novel, Back to Blood, he was almost 80 years old. But his age had not affected his curiosity or journalistic ambition. Among the places I took him on his research trips: the Columbus Day Regatta party off Elliott Key…
A new lawsuit filed by the victim says the Broward Sheriff’s Office should have never hired McLeod: According to an incident report from St. Lucie County, the rookie deputy was already a suspect in a sexual battery case from 2015.
