On Labor Day weekend 1935, a massive Category 5 storm rocked Florida, killing more than 400 people. Residents of the tiny, five-acre Pigeon Key a few miles west of Marathon fled just before their homes were hit with 200 mph winds and a storm surge 20 to 30 feet high.
Miami Dade County is home to approximately 1.3 million workers. Yet somehow, more than a month after Hurricane Irma struck, only 4,892 Miamians have received Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) for missed days of work caused by the event.
Hours before City of Miami Police Lt. Javier Ortiz was promoted to captain yesterday, he announced he is “stepping down” from running the city’s police union, Lodge 20 of the Fraternal Order of Police, to concentrate on his new on-duty responsibilities.
After charging at a crowd of peaceful protesters, including Black Lives Matter activists, Christopher Monzon, also known as Chris Cedeno, is asking for money to pay for his legal fees via the alt-right fundraising site Goy Fund Me.
Gilberto Garcia bought his Surfside condo for a pretty obvious reason. Whenever the New Jersey attorney jets south to visit his son, a University of Miami student, and stays in the Carlisle on the Ocean tower, he naturally wants to hang out on the white-sand beach right in front of his building.
Miami hasn’t just been extra hot this year — at this point, it sometimes feels as if we’re living in a totally different climate. Not only was July of this year the hottest single month in city history, Dade County has also surpassed yet another heat record already this year…
On Monday, President Trump outright lied by claiming that Obama and other past presidents didn’t bother to call the grieving families of soldiers killed in combat. He’d only made the outrageous claim because he’d been caught ignoring the deaths of four soldiers who died in Niger earlier this month. So…
Lt. Javier Ortiz, the head of Miami’s police union, was briefly removed from street duty earlier this year after he harassed a woman, posted her private phone number online, and earned himself a temporary restraining order that landed him on desk duty and stripped him of his gun.
When former North Miami Beach Mayor Myron Rosner pleaded guilty last year to campaign-finance violations, a condition of his probation was, naturally, that he not commit crimes while he was under supervised release. Well, this is a former Miami-area public official we’re talking about, so here we are: Rosner, age 57, is back in jail today after getting caught allegedly defrauding an investor to the tune of $150,000.
If you don’t like living in an apartment complex where fire alarms can go off anytime, you have two options. One, you could simply not live in an apartment complex. Or two, in the case of Miami Beach’s Erik Agazim, you could allegedly strap a tactical vest to your chest, buckle on a Kevlar helmet, grab your long rifle and machete sitting around, and hack down fire alarms in your Sunset Harbour building.
Editor’s note: In 1997, Miami New Times published a story by Sean Rowe, “Glorious and Notorious,” that helped inspire the 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Rowe’s piece described the Mutiny Hotel at 2951 S. Bayshore Dr. in Coconut Grove as a mecca for the 1980s’ cocaine kingpins, adding this: “Fact always…
This weekend, Marco Rubio fell victim to Godwin’s Law, the adage that, given enough time, every internet discussion will eventually devolve into an inappropriate comparison to the Nazis. Sadly, Rubio is actually a U.S. senator, so his insane comparison of the Iran nuclear deal to a Hitler-appeasing mistake is a bit more troubling than a Twitter user calling his enemy Goebbels.
For almost two decades, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been a more or less sane presence in a Miami-Dade County congressional seat. Now that she’s retiring, though, a drunken clown show has pitched its tent in her district. On the left, basically every Democrat with ten bucks to spare and a few hours of free time on their hands has now entered the fray.
Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team. For one half. In Atlanta. On October 15, 2017, at least. Hey, when you’re a Dolphins fan, you celebrate the small victories along the way. You never know when the next one will come along.
One of the main programs that helps poor people pay rent, the Section 8 housing voucher, awards money to needy families to help them afford privately owned apartments. But the feds won’t pay for a waterfront penthouse — rent needs to sit below a “fair market rent” threshold, a guideline the government uses to determine whether you’re blowing too much cash on a fancy home.
The City of Miami has the makings of a massive lawsuit on its hands. After the city’s racist, Old South government crammed a belching, eye-stinging smokestack into a segregated, black-only part of Coconut Grove in 1925, residents complained for years that the trash-burning incinerator was bad for their health and probably giving them cancer.
Geminia Aimable says she’d never been called the N-word until last Tuesday. The Hollywood, Florida resident says she was driving through Wilton Manors earlier this week wearing her U.S. National Guard Uniform, when a man in a green polo shirt and sunglasses cut her off on the road, then followed…
Miami-Dade County commissioners have passed a resolution urging President Trump and Homeland Security to extend temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian nationals for 18 months beyond January 22, 2018.
After reading New Times’ story about the Overtown soil contamination — and the failure to inform residents about it — Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson is sponsoring an ordinance that would force property owners to post a notice of environmental contamination on polluted sites.
In the Magic City, Spanish is so prevalent that even Donald Trump, who once chided Jeb Bush for being bilingual, attempted to speak three words of it while campaigning here last year. Nearly 77 percent of Miamians speak a language other than English at home, with Spanish being the most common, according to U.S. Census figures. Forty-three percent of people said they spoke English “less than well.”
Normally around this time of year, Esther Alfonso-Luft’s Virginia Key business would be renting hundreds of kayaks, paddleboards, and mountain bikes to adventuresome residents. The Virginia Key Outdoor Center would be hosting monthly slack-line meetups and moonlight paddling events.
Florida State Senator Dennis Baxley — who recently blocked a monument to slavery victims and attended a pro-Confederate gala mere weeks after the Charlottesville Nazi rally — has done it again. As of this morning, 14 elderly people have died from heat exposure in a negligently run Hollywood, Florida nursing home…
