Marco Rubio Helps Trump by Asking Comey Hearing’s Dumbest Questions
Marco Rubio wants you to know he’s very tough on Russia. He even sponsored a bill to rename the street outside the Russian embassy after a slain opposition leader. Take that, Vlad!
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Miami-Dade County Tries to Recruit Wineries Even Though Grapes Don’t Grow Here
Most types of grapes need a few things to thrive: limited humidity, high elevation, and dry summers. In other words, they need pretty much the exact opposite of what Miami offers. So why do Miami-Dade County officials think the area is prime for wineries?
Republican Attacking Opponent for Cuba Travel Has Himself Worked With Cuban Exporter
Last week, the Miami Herald outed Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican running for an open House seat, for taking his engagement photos in Cuba — a move that could seriously hurt his chances with older Cuban Republicans who might see celebratory wedding photos as a tacit endorsement of Barack Obama’s detente with the Castro regime…
Animal Lovers Try to Save Sabrina, County Hall’s Snaggletoothed Squirrel
Jessica Buhl was visiting the squirrels at Stephen P. Clark Government Center one day after work when she spotted one she’d never noticed before. The bushy-tailed female was beautiful, except for her snaggletooth. Buhl, an office administrator who works nearby at Ernst & Young, knew the flaw was far from…
Here’s Video of Some Lunatic Towing a Flaming Boat on a Miami-Dade Highway
To live in Miami is to constantly feel as if you’re trapped in an abandoned David Lynch film. Seminude men with face tattoos rollerblade through traffic in broad daylight, dilapidated buildings could be infested with anything from peacocks to bears to trained circus seals, and flaming boats just sometimes drive down the highway and everyone acts like things are cool.
Miami Beach Debates Whether to Shut Down Ocean Drive Liquor Sales at 2 a.m.
After another Memorial Day weekend marred by gunshots, a stabbing and a fatal police shooting, Miami Beach politicians’ responses ran the gamut from straight-up racist to deeply misguided to reactionary. This morning, the city will debate where exactly on that spectrum falls Mayor Phillip Levine’s call to roll back drinking hours on…
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A Five-Step Plan for the Heat to Challenge the Golden State Warriors
We are three games into the NBA finals, and to no one’s surprise, it looks as if the Golden State Warriors are simply on another level than every other team. With Kevin Durant already verbally committed to returning next season to the most dominant team in the NBA, it’s clear that for the foreseeable future, all roads to a championship lead through Oakland, California.
Kathy Rundle, Who Wants to Be Governor, Blocks Critics and Rainey Activists on Social Media
Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle is reportedly considering a run for a statewide seat — perhaps even governor. That’s an interesting development in light of the fact that a sizable portion of Rundle’s own local Democratic Party believes her office worked to cover up the death of Darren Rainey…
In Florida, 88,000 Black and 118,000 Hispanic Kids Would Lose Coverage Under Obamacare Repeal
On May 11, Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo wrote an op-ed in the Miami Herald defending the fact that he voted for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the GOP bill to repeal Obamacare. Throughout 716 condescending words, Curbelo avoided discussing the fact that the new AHCA takes an $880 billion shark bite out of Medicaid funding for the poor and needy.
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Miami-Dade Approves $9 Million Land Sale to David Beckham for Stadium
After four years and an absurd hopscotch around Dade County in search of a stadium site, David Beckham and his partners are closer than ever to finally bringing a Major League Soccer team to Miami. Commissioners voted 9-4 this afternoon to sell a county-owned parcel of land in Overtown to Beckham’s group for $9 million — the final piece of land needed to begin work on a stadium next to the Miami River.
Russian Hackers Broke Into Elections Company Used in Miami-Dade, Broward
A few weeks before the November 2016 election, all 67 county elections supervisors in Florida got a call from the FBI with a warning: Hackers were trying to break into their voting systems. The FBI insisted no one had been hacked yet, but told supervisors they needed to be wary.
Activist Groups, Local Mayors Blast MDPD’s Plan to Spy on Dade With Planes
In 2012, Homeland Security Bureau operatives within Miami-Dade County Police started tracking the social-media accounts of Occupy Miami protesters. The cops tracked Occupy protesters’ every day, sending out “situational awareness” bulletins to specific officers when activists hosted events as innocuous as a “Jazz Night.” Muhammed Malik, a local civil rights…
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Psychic Scams Steal Millions From Unwitting Victims
Annie had three evil spirits inside her. Well, actually, two: One was pregnant with a cute little baby evil spirit. Annie, a tough, athletic 31-year-old, learned of the problem during a walk near her Manhattan apartment, when a slightly chubby, blond teen dressed in a long, loose-fitting shirt stopped her…
Sea-Level-Rise Warrior Philip Levine Can’t Answer Basic Paris Agreement Question
Tucker Carlson is such an insufferable little snot that he was forced to stop wearing bow ties because they made him look like the estranged son Orville Redenbacher wrote out of his will. The premise of Carlson’s poisonous cable-news TV show is to catch liberal politicians and pundits in manufactured “Gotcha!” moments that then feed the conservative clickbait blogosphere for another seven days. If you appear on his show and let him nail you, it is entirely your fault. His show is useless, and you are a mark.
Miami Beach Commissioner Threatens to Force Purdy Lounge to Close at 2 a.m.
For 17 years, Purdy Lounge has been the low-key antidote to South Beach’s overhyped, overpriced, and overcrowded club scene. The Sunset Harbour mainstay has never charged a cover to enter its dimly lit interior, where separate rooms pump out old-school hip-hop and current dance hits, all with reasonably priced cocktails flowing.
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History Shows the Heat Won’t Get Anything With the 14th Pick
At one point last season, the Miami Heat held the projected second-overall pick in this year’s NBA draft. That’s what an 11-30 record gets you: lots of Ping-Pong balls and, if you’re lucky, a franchise-player building block to un-suck yourself right quick. What a miraculous 30-11 second half of the season gets you is a lot of good feelings, pats on the asses, and the 14th overall selection in the draft.
Miami Cop Fabricated Arrest Report That Contradicted Video Evidence, Lawsuit Says
According to a City of Miami Police arrest report, Ryan Gellineau was booked June 2, 2013, on charges of resisting an officer with violence, a third-degree felony. Officer Stanley Mike, who wrote the arrest affidavit, says he and another cop were set to arrest Gellineau’s girlfriend when Gellineau “charged” at the officers…
Five Times Florida Politicians Acted Like Morons on Climate Change
How malicious and dumb is Donald Trump? He not only pulled out of the historic Paris Agreement to fight climate change this week, but he also announced he’ll hold a “Pittsburgh, Not Paris” rally to stress that he somehow is fighting for Americans instead of global climate scientists.
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Florida ACLU Condemns MDPD’s Request for Widespread Surveillance Airplanes
The Miami-Dade Police Department has already applied for a $500,000 Department of Justice grant to fly planes over the county that can record and track the movements of the city’s population. These “wide-area surveillance” systems were originally developed to track insurgents planting car bombs during the Iraq War — but now the technology is being used on American civilians.
Three Miami Beach Parking Garages Could Be Converted to Affordable Housing
Parking in Miami Beach can be such an impossible task that once you find a spot, you never want to leave. And under a novel idea being considered by city officials, parking garages could become literal homes.
Miami Beach Cop Fired for Racist Emails Sues to Get His Job Back
After he was fired for sending dozens of racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and pornographic messages from his city email account, Miami Beach Police Lt. Alex Carulo apologized to internal investigators. “It was foolish, poor judgment on my part, and I accept full responsibility,” he said. “It is what it is.”
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“Give Cops Back Bullets” and Take Away Body Cams, Says Beach Official Running for Congress
In the last year, Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez positioned herself as a liberal fighting for the rights of disadvantaged black and brown Americans. At a protest against Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s decision to comply with President Trump’s sanctuary-city ban, Rosen Gonzalez swore to protect the city’s massive…