Up in Tallahassee, state legislators are doing everything they can to undermine medical marijuana in Florida. Voters backed medical pot by more than 70 percent in November, and yet legislators responded by inviting the same guy who spent millions trying to defeat the measure to help the new rules. But…
The chant echoed through downtown Miami on Saturday morning: “Science, not silence!” Thousands marched from the new Frost Museum of Science south along Biscayne Blvd. with a message for Donald Trump’s administration: Science can’t be denied when it’s politically inconvenient.
The Heat are out of the playoffs and Hurricane football is months away from any real action. Aside from hoping Jeffrey Loria hurries up and sell the Marlins, that means most Miami fans have entered prime season for speculating about who the Miami Dolphins will select in the NFL Draft.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine loves the Clinton family. He and Bill Clinton developed a friendship a few decades ago. Levine also spent the 2016 presidential election season riding a tour bus from state to state campaigning for Hillary Clinton’s doomed campaign.
Miami state Sen. Frank Artiles unleashed a bigoted tirade against his fellow lawmakers earlier this week, in which he reportedly said state Senate President Joe Negron was a “pussy,” called two Tallahassee lobbyists “faggots,” and used the N-word to refer to six white lawmakers — in front of a black legislator. Earlier this week, he apologized, only to try to fight for his job by continuing to lob insulting letters at his colleagues.
As long as the Coconut Grove Playhouse is still standing, Max Pearl will continue fighting the city’s plan to partially demolish it. Pearl and other activists were dealt a blow earlier this month when the Miami Historic and Environmental Preservation Board signed off on the controversial plan, which would preserve only the wing-shaped front portion of the storied building.
Mandatory-minimum drug sentences, which force judges to put drug offenders away for long periods of time, are such a bad idea that even tough-on-crime Republicans have backed away from them. Drug-sentencing reform is no longer the purview of the far-left alone: Even the Koch brothers, who were championing shady political donations before George Soros was a glint in the alt-right’s eye, have come out in support of mandatory-minimum reform.
Last September, four Miami Dolphins players joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the National Anthem to raise awareness about police brutality and black inequality. And like clockwork, a whole host of critics got irrationally upset about a few people peacefully protesting for civil rights without hurting anybody.
Two years ago, a 10-year-old from New York died in the swimming pool on the Norwegian Gem. Witnesses who saw the girl drown said the cruise line clearly messed up: One woman said passengers who were doctors and nurses began life-saving efforts while cruise workers “watched and looked panicked.”
Venezuela’s dire situation needs no embellishment: Millions are starving. There’s hardly any food, no gas, and little medicine. Toilet paper has been scarce for so long that Caracas’ airport bathrooms don’t even pretend they have any. The desperation has snowballed into massive protests against President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime, including yesterday’s “Mother of All Protests,” which brought out hundreds of thousands and left at least three dead.
Let’s all take a moment to formally congratulate state Sen. Frank Artiles, who has long been one of Florida’s worst politicians, for shooting himself directly in the foot and all but guaranteeing he’ll never win an election again. After years of filing hateful, anti-LGBTQ bills, allegedly punching college kids in the face, smearing Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists…
A circuit court judge Wednesday evening dealt a stunning blow to Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado by prohibiting the city — at least temporarily — from banning short-term housing.
Police unions are paid to defend cops who find themselves ensnared in legal trouble. That’s the basic reason those unions exist. But there’s a bit of a difference between providing legal support to a cop accused of shooting an innocent man and what Dade County Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera did last week.
This past Monday, Miami Police Lt. Javier Ortiz won a major court victory when he persuaded a judge to lift a temporary restraining order that had stripped him of his badge for nearly a month. But the very next night, he was yet again facing serious accusations before an official body.
Last week, a ludicrously fake story about the Supreme Court abolishing the teaching of Islam in public schools began spreading across conservative so-called news sites. The article circulated with clickbait-y headlines celebrating Donald Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch for supposedly pissing off Muslims and Obama.
In a three-day stretch last month, the following things happened on U.S. 1 between Miami and the Keys: Six people in three separate car accidents had to be airlifted to hospitals in one day; a head-on collision two days later left two women hospitalized, one in critical condition; and a rare American crocodile wandered onto the highway, causing a crash involving a Freightliner truck.
When Moonlight won Best Adapted Screenplay at this year’s Oscars, Miami playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney gave a shout-out to his hometown, waxing eloquently that “we can really be here and be somebody, two boys from Liberty City up here onstage representing the 305.” By the end of the night, when the film won Best Picture…
Valentina Villafane estaba sentada en su aula de segundo grado cuando una bomba de gas lacrimógeno explotó en su escuela. La directora de su escuela privada fuera de Barquisimeto, Venezuela, lo vio primero: un guardia nacional lanzaba la bomba que voló entre los barrotes de la puerta del recinto educativo…
Valentina Villafane was sitting in her second-grade classroom when the tear gas canister exploded. The principal of her private school outside Barquisimeto, Venezuela, saw it first — an errant volley from a national guardsman that flew between the bars of the school’s gate and rolled to the front door. The…
For the past month, Miami’s outspoken Fraternal Order of Police president, Javier Ortiz, has been relieved of duty with pay thanks to a restraining order a judge granted to a woman he’d doxxed on Facebook. Tomorrow he’ll rejoin the force after a judge lifted that order and returned his badge.
Everyone knows parking in Miami Beach is a nightmare. You can waste hours of your life circling for a precious curbside spot, only to have your horrendous parallel-parking skills cause a miniature traffic jam when you finally do come across a space. And God forbid your phone dies before it’s time to renew your parking session.
Donald Trump has been president for only 13 weeks (even if it feels like a brutal half-century in Twitter years), yet he’s already spent seven full weekends at Mar-a-Lago, his beachfront playground for the obscenely wealthy. That’s concerning for all kinds of reasons: the ethics of constantly pumping up a for-profit business run by his family, the security lapses in the sprawling mansion, the costs of protecting the president there.
