When Fidel Castro died in 2016, thousands of Cuban immigrants and their descendants paraded through Miami’s streets waving the Cuban flag. When Donald Trump himself came to speak to a group of Bay of Pigs veterans who’d rebelled against Castro, the Brigade 2506 vets draped a Cuban flag behind the…
Millions flocked to March for Our Lives events this weekend, including tens of thousands to events in South Florida. In Miami Beach, huge crowds waved signs and chanted for stricter gun control, while organizers promised that the fight had “just begun.” But as the push for gun reform gains steam…
A new women’s rights organization is demanding that the head of Miami’s Everglades Foundation step down over his longstanding ties with accused serial rapist Harvey Weinstein. But billionaire hedge-fund investor Paul Tudor Jones is pushing back and alleging that the group is actually a front for Big Sugar. Tudor Jones…
A few days after the Parkland massacre, freelance photographer Emilee McGovern staked out a rally and planned to take just a few quick shots of the speaker before walking around the crowd to get reaction photos. But when Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior Emma Gonzalez started talking, McGovern found herself unable to…
Miami Beach is famous for debauchery, not debate. But Saturday morning, more than 3,000 people showed up to protest Florida’s lousy gun laws and the watered down measure that was recently approved by the state legislature. Rapper Flo Rida addressed the crowd. So did singer Emily Estefan, Miami Beach Mayor…
The March for Our Lives today might go down as the largest single-day gun-control and gun-safety march in American history. Thanks to the efforts of a group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, 834 marches and rallies are happening today, and Americans from across the nation have traveled to Washington, D.C….
Miami residents should hope Arctic sea ice remains as thick, frozen, and unmoving as globally possible. This subtropical city’s relationship with the far north is pretty clear: The more the ice caps melt, the more Miami floods.
H. Wayne Huizenga, the man who brought both hockey and baseball to South Florida — and who made three Fortune 500 companies — is dead of cancer at 80.
Marshall DeRosa is a professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. As part of a program funded by the Charles Koch Institute and the Boca-based private-prison giant the GEO Group, DeRosa gets paid to spout his ideas to inmates at GEO’s South Bay Correctional Facility.
For those trying to find affordable housing in Miami Beach, it’s been a long wait: More than 500 households have been on the city’s waitlist since 2015, while the Beach’s nonprofit affordable-housing provider has 1,200 people in its backlog.
After sub-hurricane-force winds blew out vast swaths of South Florida’s electrical grid for days when Hurricane Irma hit last September, residents began asking what seemed like an obvious question: Why hasn’t Florida Power & Light, the state-regulated electricity monopoly, buried more power lines underground to protect them from tropical storms?
James “Michael” Montgomery thought he was going to get hit when a Miami cop pulled in front of his scooter at a busy intersection and tried to make a left turn, despite a sign indicating left turns weren’t allowed. As traffic built up behind him at the green light, Montgomery frantically honked his horn and yelled, “No left turn!”
In January, the Florida Immigrant Coalition shared two videos of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents storming onto Greyhound buses in the Sunshine State, where they asked passengers for their citizenship “papers” and hauled some away. In one case, agents removed a Jamaican grandmother, and in another they apprehended…
Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has bombed the entire nation to pieces, starved its citizens via a blockade, caused a deadly cholera outbreak, and allegedly attacked innocent people by using illegal chemical weapons such as white phosphorus. The United Nations has repeatedly said the attacks amount to crimes against humanity.
Yesterday Donna Shalala’s campaign told Politico that the congressional candidate’s “name is synonymous with the Democratic Party.” But her record of political donations sure isn’t. Politico’s Marc Caputo revealed that Shalala, the Clinton ally and former University of Miami president now running as a self-proclaimed “progressive”…
With fewer than a dozen games left in the season, the Heat seems a virtual lock to make the playoffs after a one-year hiatus from the postseason. What seed the Heat will capture and the identity of Miami’s first-round opponent, though, are still very much up in the air. Whichever team the Heat draws…
James Taylor works for the Heartland Institute, a hard-right think tank funded by oil companies, carbon polluters, and other rich robber barons who pay them to promote fake science that supposedly debunks climate change. Heartland’s pay-for-play shtick is well documented and so simple a child could understand what it’s up to.
Crafting propaganda programs for political campaigns sure is lucrative. Cambridge Analytica, the British-American “internet messaging” outlet caught on hidden-camera footage this week bragging about blackmailing candidates, bribing people, and coordinating with the Trump campaign, seems to have tendrils snaking all over the world, from the U.K. Brexit campaign all the way to Kenya’s last major election in 2017.
The career path of Dr. Hervé Damas has been unorthodox. He has been a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills, a professor and wellness director at the College of New Jersey, and an interventional radiologist at Mount Sinai. Most recently, though, he has taken on the mantle of marijuana doctor.
The City of Miami Beach admitted last year that asking local developers to build affordable housing for poor and working-class people had totally failed over the past decade. But the effects of that failure on local residents haven’t been completely clear — until now, and the results seem bleak.
Why did Florida International University’s new bridge crumble onto traffic on SW Eighth Street, killing six people last week? That’s a question investigators will spend months trying to answer. But one enterprising and extremely entertaining YouTuber might have already solved the mystery.
Barely a day after Florida International University’s pedestrian bridge collapsed and killed six people, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle told multiple news stations she had already all but ruled out charging anyone with crimes over the deaths. She made that flabbergasting statement without even interviewing a single witness, while rescuers were still working to pull bodies from the rubble.
