Santiago Perez grabs for the carabiner, but it slips from his frostbitten fingers. His glove liners are worn away, so ice crystals form on his skin. Fearing he might lose digits, he tries to flex his hand inside the cavity of an unwieldy mitten, but it merely twitches. Nothing can…
So many terrible ideas come out of Tallahassee every year that it’s often hard to guess whether a random law was enacted in Florida or Saudi Arabia. Case in point: One of those two states passed a law in March 2016 forcing anyone giving “advice” about abortion — from a…
America is reeling this morning from the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history. At least 400 people were wounded and 50 killed in Las Vegas when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire with at least ten rifles from the 32nd floor of a hotel onto a concert crowd below.
A lot of smart journalistic voices are writing about sports right now. But for every thought-provoking, boundary-pushing thinker, there’s an Armando Salguero, the Miami Herald Dolphins columnist who once told a war veteran he “sucked as a soldier” and now has the gall to lecture black athletes on how to respect the flag.
With so much #FakeNews floating around on Facebook and Twitter, the Florida-based PolitiFact has become an invaluable tool for parsing out what’s true and what’s not. The social media giant itself has acknowledged that truth, joining forces with the national fact-checking site late last year in an effort to identify…
It’s getting increasingly difficult to believe that Jim Larrañaga, the head coach of the Miami Hurricanes Men’s Basketball team, doesn’t know the identity of the anonymous UM coach named in FBI corruption documents this week. Larrañaga is something of a folk hero in South Florida — he’s taken an upstart…
In the view of the Miami-Dade County Commission, uttering the word “damn” is more damaging than plans to defund public transportation, cut bus routes, or jack up police spending. At a public meeting over the county’s $7 billion taxpayer budget last night, a man was kicked out — and escorted away…
Calling him a suspect in an ongoing murder investigation, the City of Miami fired Officer Adrian Rodriguez for administrative violations in June 2016. Rodriguez — who has never been charged in the 2007 killing in question — appealed his termination, and in May an arbitrator said he should get his job back.
Miami hasn’t come close to picking up all the gigantic mounds of rotting palm fronds and shattered ficus branches left over from Hurricane Irma. The Florida Keys will only officially reopen to tourists this Sunday. So of course, a new tropical storm might just whip out of the northwestern Caribbean and batter South Florida and the Keys this weekend with some extra wind and rain.
Miami-Dade County Police arrested Lazaro Rodriguez before dawn December 15, 2015, for allegedly arguing with cops and “stiffening his body” during a routine traffic stop. That move apparently frightened the officers enough to arrest the North Miami resident on misdemeanor charges of resisting an officer without violence and one felony count of threatening a public servant.
Florida finally has a champion to fight for the most unfairly treated group of people in America — white, Christian conservatives. Florida Rep. Joe Gruters filed a bill today that would add discrimination against “political affiliation” to the list of infractions Florida classifies as hate crimes, and though he insists the law would apply to both liberals and conservatives, Gruters’ social media posts make it pretty clear which side he’s worried about.
More than three million Americans are living through an unprecedented disaster in Puerto Rico, yet so far they’ve apparently ranked far below NFL protests and the concerns of the shipping industry on Donald Trump’s priority list. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio subtweeted Trump straight to Hell this morning, demanding the president immediately send more aid to the battered island.
More than 60 years after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that desegregated American education, schools are still so racially divided that experts use terms like “apartheid” to describe the situation. Over the last 20 years, Florida — like the nation as a whole — has managed to…
Inmate work crews have been part of Florida’s history since the state’s first penitentiary opened in 1868. That history was on Alana Greer’s mind as she drove past an inmate work crew carrying a truckload of hurricane debris on Coral Way on a recent Friday.
In the middle of a decaying central square of closed junk stores and shuttered barbershops, Opa-locka’s gleaming, $8 million Town Center was eerily empty Wednesday morning. That’s because every elected official in town was huddled in a room with Florida Inspector General Eric Miller, the man tasked with unraveling…
If you’ve been saving a particularly nice bottle of bubbly for the day when Jeffrey Loria’s fat, greedy face finally leaves Miami baseball fans to suffer in peace, it’s time to pop the cork. Major League Baseball’s owners have unanimously approved the sale of the team to a group led by investor Bruce Sherman and Derek Jeter.
Take a look at Miami Beach Commission candidate Mark Samuelian’s campaign platform and you might assume he’s a longtime progressive. The board director of Miami Beach United and former business consultant emphasizes his support for increasing the minimum wage, fighting climate change, and advocating for the city’s LGBT population.
Between the entire league coming together to push back against Donald Trump’s divisive comments last week and the amazing slate of games that took place, the NFL had one helluva showing last weekend. The Dolphins? Not so much. They had a very bad weekend. One of their worst ever perhaps. So, so bad.
The U.S. is focused this week on Puerto Rico, where Hurricane Maria has left a humanitarian crisis in its wake, with millions of American citizens still without water, food, and power. But Maria caused devastation across the Caribbean, including the tiny island of Dominica, a 290-square-mile nation 400 miles east of Puerto Rico. Within hours of the Category 5 storm striking, 90 percent of the island’s buildings were destroyed and, in less than a week, 27 people were killed.
The FBI today arrested 10 people including a top Adidas exec on charges that the company illegally funneled cash to high-school athletes in exchange for pledges to attend Adidas-sponsored universities. The University of Miami isn’t named in the complaint, but details strongly suggest the feds have tied the school to…
The Florida Democrats are the Washington Generals. They’re the 1962 Mets. They’re Mike Dukakis, Steve Urkel, and pre-time-travel George McFly rolled into one. Yes, they’ve been steamrolled by gerrymandering and voter suppression, but they also rarely miss a chance to blast off their own feet en route to their latest, all-too-predictable loss.
The dramatic tale of a boxing obsession turned to murder, as told by Miami New Times managing editor Tim Elfrink in the feature story “Sucker Punch,” has been selected for Best American Sports Writing 2017.
