Three weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory is locked in a desperate humanitarian crisis. At least 85 percent of the population still has no power — and many won’t see it restored for up to six months. Tens of thousands of residents have little food and so little to drink they’re siphoning water from rock formations to survive.
In 2015, the Miami Marlins were ready to “live in the lap of luxury” after the team contracted with a swanky private jet company that promised to whisk players away on a Boeing 767-200 with couches, a massage table, and a premium open bar.
Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond has called the mortgage-interest tax deduction — which lets property owners cut up to $1 million off their tax bill — an “engine of American inequality.” The Atlantic once labeled the policy “a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the American tax code.”
The Miami Beach city government is on a mission to purge any and all sources of crime from the island. For better or for worse, the City Commission wants to take a hatchet to some of the Magic City’s most popular tourist destinations: First, the city proposed rolling back last-call…
Jeffrey Loria may be riding off into the sunset with $1.2 billion freshly minted bills stuffed into his pockets, but Derek Jeter’s new ownership group has serious repair work to do with a battered and cynical fan base. One of his most pressing questions will be whether to continue pursuing the lawsuits that Loria’s regime filed against nearly a dozen former season ticketholders who walked away from multiyear packages.
Meet the 2017 Miami Heat, which is almost exactly like the 2016 Miami Heat! Pat Riley and the team brass liked last year’s overachieving squad so much they decided to run it back again, but this time with a few different ingredients.
For decades, Miami’s “Old Smokey” trash incinerator operated near Coconut Grove, belching smoke over George Washington Carver K-12 School, a segregated, black-only school from its inception in 1899 until the county desegregated in 1966. In 2014, New Times tracked down residents who grew up under Old Smokey’s ash plume, and quickly discovered many of them later developed respiratory problems, sinus issues, chronically itchy eyes, and even pancreatic cancer.
No amount of government PR can erase the images the Miami Herald published today. Investigative reporters Carol Marbin Miller and Audra D.S. Burch obtained stomach-churning video of Florida juvenile offenders fighting one another after being groomed as attack mobs by state guards.
Coral Gables takes its image seriously. The city once battled Orlando for the rights to the nickname “the City Beautiful” and this past summer sued Instagram and Facebook to uncover the identity of whoever is running a handful of social media accounts critical of the town.
Last month, Gov. Rick Scott proposed a three-day limit on opioid prescriptions as part of his upcoming legislation and $50 million investment to combat the opioid crisis in Florida. Though the details of Scott’s bill are still unclear, some physicians and patients such as Paulson say the limitation is too broad and could make it all but impossible to treat chronic pain and terminal illnesses.
According to Google Maps, you need to travel 600 miles — a nine-hour nonstop drive — to make it from the Florida-Georgia line to Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s a 15-hour, 1,000-mile journey from Miami to the same destination.
As of last week, Jeffrey Loria is $1.2 billion richer and South Florida is officially free of the worst owner in professional sports. But Miami officials aren’t quite done with Loria. Both the city and the county believe the fine print of the Marlins Park deal likely entitles taxpayers to millions from the Marlins sale to Derek Jeter’s group.
After Miami Beach Police fired 116 bullets at 20-year-old Raymond Herisse’s car on Memorial Day in 2011 and hit four innocent bystanders, the department banned cops from shooting into moving cars. Departments all over the country discourage the practice, since killing a driver can turn a car into a multi-ton…
At this stage in the game, any talk of Amazon setting up shop in a particular city is purely speculative. But the search for a new headquarters has already set off fears of gentrification and displacement of residents in Overtown, one of Miami’s historically black communities.
A person’s right to make fun of elected officials on the internet is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. So Miami Beach Police have quite a high bar to clear if they want to prove that resident Ernesto Orsetti was illegally “impersonating a cop” when he created a fake Twitter profile purporting to be Miami Beach Police spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez.
In early 2016, Hialeah Police Officer Louis Herrera applied for a promotion to sergeant, feeling confident about his chances. He was excited about the job, which promised a raise and a bigger role at the department. But despite scoring well on the required exam, he was wasn’t chosen. The same thing happened when he applied again a year later.
This past Sunday, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross abruptly changed his tune on the NFL player protests. Ross, who’d previously supported players kneeling to raise awareness of police violence and racial inequality, told the Miami Herald’s resident Kaepernick-basher, Armando Salguero, that since President Donald Trump had made the protests “about patriotism,” he now disagreed with the move.
After evading any sort of criminal consequences for Tasing an 18-year-old skateboarder to death, the City of Miami Beach will pay a comparatively paltry $100,000 to settle the final wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from the case. On Friday, the Florida Bulldog reported that the city has finally settled a suit filed by Israel…
“The point is to be able to restore power more quickly,” Bubriski says. “There is no amount of hardening that is going to stop a 50-foot-tall date palm from falling on the lines.”
Miami Beach is two very different towns for two very different groups of people. The large class of wealthy residents lives in glitzy towers along the beach and casually drinks chablis at five-star restaurants the rest of us can’t afford. Many Miami Beach tourists, however, are poor or middle-class…
The Los Angeles Dodgers just finished steamrolling through the NL West en route to 104 wins, the best record in baseball and a hell of a shot at their first World Series since 1988. One of the team’s top prospects, however, has a very different kind of fight on his…
Ballard Partners is a powerhouse lobbying firm in Tallahassee, Miami, and other major Florida cities. Before this year, the firm had never lobbied anyone at the federal level, but Ballard did have one important client: It was the Trump Organization’s go-to lobbying wing when it needed to make deals in Florida. After Donald Trump’s election, the firm swiftly opened New York and D.C. offices.
