For months, Miami police have been arresting customers at Bradley’s Market, accusing them of loitering at the longtime Overtown grocery — never mind the fact the owner says they were just shopping. The city also ordered the store to install surveillance cameras that would allow police 24/7 live-feed access to…
Florida Power & Light, the ultrapowerful electricity monopoly, and its parent company, NextEra Energy, spend millions lobbying in Tallahassee and Washington. And those lobbyists spend most of their time arguing against changes FPL’s customers actually want, like the right to cheap home solar panels or better clean-air regulations. Sometimes, they…
Unlike Sen. Marco Rubio, Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart actually had the guts today to take a stand on President Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey, the FBI Director heading up an investigation into Trump’s Russia ties. Of course, celebrating the fact that Diaz-Balart even took some sort of position is an extremely…
Remember a couple weeks ago when everyone was superpumped about Jeb Bush and Derek Jeter snatching the Miami Marlins from the cold, clammy hands of Jeffrey Loria? Those were a fun 24 hours. Since then, it seems much more likely that Loria will at least delay any sale until next spring, when he doesn’t have to share any profits with taxpayers. In the meantime, other bidders could still sneak into the picture.
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan — a state and federal project to restore the Glades to some semblance of its former glory — passed in 2000. That plan called for a 360,000-acre-foot reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee. But in the years since, climate scientists have warned that planners underestimated the amount of water the Glades needs to replenish itself, and that the original benchmark might not be large enough.
As Milo Yiannopoulos descended from the second floor of a place he advertised as an “abandoned cocaine mansion” in Miami last Friday night with a python named “Jared” draped around his arms, two models hid in a bathroom to avoid being photographed with the infamous anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant troll, one of those women tells New Times.
GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s surprise decision last month to retire wasn’t just a shock to the Miami voters who’d kept her in her seat for almost 20 years — it was also a godsend to national Democrats desperate to take back the House. But who to run? Florida Democrats aren’t…
Sportswriters are wringing their hands and moralizing over Robby Anderson, a New York Jets wide receiver who was arrested Sunday night at the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival. Anderson, 23, was booked on charges of resisting an officer with violence and obstruction; an arrest report New Times obtained claims…
Jorge Masvidal was ordering a Big Mac meal at the McDonald’s on Miller Road at SW 93rd Avenue when he got the call. It was Kimbo Slice, the legendary godfather of backyard fighting. The brawl would take place in an hour, Slice said in that distinctive gravelly voice. Masvidal’s opponent…
South Florida deserves Milo Yiannopoulos. We live amid glittering monuments to humanity’s most self-obsessed impulses. And Yiannopoulos, the racist, trans-phobic, public-harassment demon king of the white supremacist alt-right, is narcissism incarnate. There’s a reason he announced last month that he’s moving here.
Remember when 72 percent of Floridians voted to usher in a new era of open access to medical marijuana? That triumphant moment for medical weed was just in November, but for Florida patients this morning, it feels like a lifetime ago.
Florida is is in the midst of a deadly heroin public-health emergency. Yet the governor might soon sign a bill that public health advocates say would make the problem far worse by introducing new mandatory minimums instead of putting more money into treatment and prevention.
Well, we’ve pretty much survived another 60-day Florida legislative session. As in most years, this lawmaking period involved hatred toward immigrants, crazy ideas about guns, extremely mean and regressive laws aimed at drug addicts, rules designed to destroy the environment, and liberal use of the N-word…
“Chuckie, I got a great one for you today.” I’ve heard it hundreds of times over the last 20 years. It didn’t matter that Bill Cooke’s health was failing. When getting around to take pictures got tough because of failing health, Bill Cooke transferred seamlessly to working as a writer…
The campaign to pass Amendment 2, last year’s state constitutional amendment that legalized medical marijuana for patients with illnesses including cancer and Alzheimer’s, was largely bankrolled by one of the wealthiest and most powerful trial lawyers in Florida, John Morgan.
Sure, that Styrofoam cooler is handy when it’s keeping your drinks cold. But once you’re done with it, the light-as-a-feather material doesn’t go away — it crumbles into chunks of plastic that clog waterways, threatening sea life for years to come. Mindful of the environmental ramifications, several South Florida cities have banned polystyrene products…
When Gianni Versace was shot on the front steps of his Ocean Drive mansion in 1997, Miami and the rest of the world mourned the loss of one of fashion’s most iconic and influential personalities. His horrific murder was such a defining event that many residents still think of his death as a way to mark the passage of time, almost like a local BC/AD.
On November 2, 2016, the Professional Law Enforcement Association, a police union, requested Miami-Dade County Police airport cop Mark Allen’s body-camera footage from the week of September 7 that year. According to MDPD bylaws, the department must preserve nonevidentiary footage for a minimum of 90 days — the union requested copies of Allen’s footage in less than 60.
Two South Florida congressmen are treating a vote to rip health care away from millions of Americans — the sort of thing that would kill people, including your grandparents and children — with the relative seriousness of choosing their dates for senior prom.
Charlise Stallworth was driving in Broward County when a City of Miami Police car driven by Sgt. Earnest Lawrence pulled in front of her, activated its emergency lights, and stopped suddenly. Stallworth, driving with her teenage daughter, slammed on the brakes and changed lanes.
Do-nothing, intellectually bankrupt politicians often refer to Miami as a “boom-and-bust” town. The city’s economy, which is almost entirely based on real-estate trades, rises and falls rapidly, they say. It expands as foreign investors flood the market with cash and crashes once that river of money dries up…
Renting out your house on Airbnb is a good way to make some extra money, but it can also be a real pain in the ass. Your tenants might be deranged meth heads, but even if they aren’t, your neighbors will probably still complain that the guests’ rolling suitcases are too noisy. And in certain parts of Miami, you could be fined up to $20,000 just for listing your place.
