For more than a month, Miami-Dade County has been sending garbage trucks full of hurricane debris and trash to Poinciana Industrial Park, a county-owned lot directly in front of Northpark, a residential neighborhood filled with families, children, and senior citizens. Furious, residents have begun protesting what they call a clear case of environmental racism.
What the hell is going on with racist South Florida firefighters lately? Months after a Pompano Beach firefighter was canned in August for hanging a noose over a black firefighter’s seat in a city truck, Miami now has its own disgusting racism scandal. Six firefighters were terminated this week for…
Last week, state Sen. Dana Young and Rep. Carlos Guillermo-Smith reintroduced a bill that would ban the use of anabolic steroids in greyhound racing. Because of an outdated regulation, use of the drugs has been permitted in female greyhounds despite dangerous side effects.
It’s hard to remember the last time U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz had a good PR week. The local lawmaker is getting dumped on again today: Donna Brazile, who worked under Wasserman Schultz and briefly ran the Democratic National Committee after the congresswoman stepped down during her email scandal, published an excerpt of her new book today…
After leaving Indiana for a nursing job at Miami’s Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Daniele Hoffman says she never fit in because she’s white and doesn’t speak Spanish. In a federal lawsuit against the hospital, Hoffman says staff discriminated against her, called her “gringa” and “skinny white girl,” and insisted on speaking Spanish around her.
Robin Bernstein has been a staple on Palm Beach’s swanky political scene for decades and, despite starting out as a Democratic consultant, rose to become a major GOP operative, a Mar-a-Lago member, and a longtime Donald Trump pal. Now she’s been nominated to represent the U.S. as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
In an eight-candidate Democratic cluster brawling to nab retiring GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s seat in Congress, Matt Haggman is running away with the fundraising game. Haggman, a former Miami Herald reporter and Knight Foundation director, has already pulled in more than $500,000.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine at long last announced his run for Florida’s governor today at a Wynwood news conference. With a campaign based on raising the state minimum wage, expanding access to green energy, and fighting sea-level rise — plus a sizable personal fortune to spend — he has a real shot at snagging the Democratic nomination against three less-than-imposing competitors.
Hugo Menjivar was just trying to help out a friend who couldn’t drive home. Instead, he says, he ended up arrested by cops on the scene who demanded his license, ran his name through a database and found a hit for a warrant in California. The only problem: The warrant wasn’t…
On the heels of a high-profile shooting of an unarmed black therapist last summer, the North Miami Police Department has been dogged by allegations of racial bias and police misconduct. In the aftermath, the city fired police chief Gary Eugene and appointed assistant chief Larry Juriga to stand in as his interim replacement.
Miami Beach residents tend to do “self-care” a little differently from most others. Where the average person might relieve some stress by sipping Chardonnay and paging through a dog-eared Nora Roberts romance novel, Beach residents head straight for the hard stuff: They vacuum club drugs into their nostrils and, according to new data from a fairly large sex toy website, finish off their weekend nights with never-ending rounds of (consensually) painful male bondage.
To be honest, a cocaine-addicted Miami Dolphins executive costume would have made sense for each of the past 50 Halloweens. But after Fins offensive line coach Chris Foerster was caught on video earlier this month snorting cocaine in the team’s offices, asking to lick cocaine off a Nevada model’s “pussy,” and using said model as a “cocaine platter,” the now-disgraced coach had to expect that some Schadenfreude-obsessed folks would make fun of him at Halloween parties.
Halloween is as wonderful as it is odd. As coworkers dress up as coke-snorting Dolphins coaches and smokin’ Jay Cutler, the imaginary line of acceptable behavior moves so far beyond the norm that it barely exists. It’s also the day where we decide what’s a trick and what’s a treat. Candy…
For the past eight years, Miamians have ranked as one of the most stressed-out populations in America. And being trapped in an overpopulated city without adequate public transportation doesn’t help. Metrorail sucks so bad it’s referred to as “Metrofail,” and somehow we still haven’t figured out a way to build a train across the bay to South Beach.
As doctors made a final attempt to suction the fluid from his brother’s failing heart, Jesús Jave-Castillo stood feet away but saw nothing. A set of sliding hospital curtains obscured Jenry’s unconscious body, but Jesús could tell the prognosis wasn’t good. At 2:30 p.m. March 18, 2017, a hospital staffer…
Miami Beach Commission candidate Rafael Velasquez began today by denying he whipped out his penis while sitting in the passenger seat of Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez’s car. He still denies the incident happened even though Rosen Gonzalez is sticking by her allegations…
When news broke Friday that a grand jury had approved its first indictments in Roger Mueller’s probe into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone lashed out hard at the messengers. The South Florida resident exploded on Twitter at CNN’s Don Lemon and the New York Times’ Charles Blow — and now has been banned from the site for his tirade.
Steve Dutton and Tom Lang fell in love with downtown Miami almost at first sight, after taking a cruise that ended here in 2012. When they retired to Miami from Fort Worth, Texas, that year, the couple came to especially love the eclectic mix of restaurants along the two blocks…
Since 2015, Miami-Dade’s school district has been sending suspended students to off-campus sites, where they allegedly receive one-on-one instruction and counseling as an alternative to out-of-school suspensions. Two years later, district officials praise the program’s success, though little data is available to confirm it. However, this past month, local nonprofit Power U released a report that discredits these centers, calling them enablers of the school-to-prison pipeline. In most cases, students — predominantly black and Hispanic youth — were not only forced to sit in silence for hours every day but also struggled upon returning to the classroom.
This might come as a grave shock, but Donald Trump’s bold promises earlier this week to finally blow the lid off the JFK assassination mystery by declassifying reams of secret documents turned out to be a gigantic tease. The National Archives ended up declassifying only a fraction of the JFK documents last night and mostly released details that had already been revealed.
The videos were aired on repeat on local cable news channels as Hurricane Irma battered South Florida: small groups of people breaking into shoe stores and leaving with boxes of stolen sneakers. As WPLG and WSVN replayed the incidents, the footage quickly made its way into the national news cycle.
A recently leaked group chat shows that brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon, or TKE, a fraternity at Florida International University, were exchanging sexually explicit messages and nude photos of female students. After the thread was sent to university administrators, FIU launched a full investigation into the disgraced fraternity. Now the New Times visits FIU’s campus to ask the student body what some of their reactions were to the group’s messages.
