It’s February, and — sorry! — South Florida sports kinda suck. The Marlins are months from returning and will probably be bad when they do. The Heat is driving its tank in the wrong direction. The Panthers aren’t anything to write home about. And football is finally leaving us for good following this weekend’s Super Bowl.
For 23 years, a science station on Virginia Key tied to the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has carefully tracked conditions in Biscayne Bay. Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the school, has never seen anything like the data coming in since September.
The civic, political, and intellectual weight of yesterday’s protest against Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez was huge. Political players like Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Florida’s American Civil Liberties Union Director Howard Simon turned up to speak in front of roughly 300 demonstrators. But the most poignant moment…
Miami Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who is Fidel Castro’s nephew by marriage, has never been afraid to make ridiculous claims about his uncle’s regime. In 2009, Diaz-Balart actually argued that people who want to end the Cuban embargo are just like Nazi sympathizers. (They aren’t.) Yesterday, Diaz-Balart made yet another factually dubious Cuba-related statement…
Uncle Luke predicts the Liberty City kid will be Super Bowl MVP.
On Friday, the morning after Mayor Carlos Gimenez kowtowed to Donald Trump’s demand that Miami stop protecting undocumented immigrants, a crowd descended on County Hall to protest. That’s a pretty normal occurrence in America, where residents have the right to tell their elected leaders they’re wrong. What the crowd found…
Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is ardently pro-life. He’s spoken before the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro “human life” (read: anti-abortion) advocacy group, and earlier this month expressed public support for the anti-abortion “March for Life” in Washington, D.C. But Corcoran’s concern for human life…
Jack Black was standing in the dark-green, jungle-like backyard of South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard. The actor gazed at the blue-black pond with its prowling bass and sunfish, then up at the roof. Gleaming white solar panels, the slender, geeky Stoddard explained, power his whole house, including air conditioning and…
More than six million people follow DJ Khaled’s insanely popular Snapchat account. But this past weekend, as many of his celebrity peers spoke out against Trump’s executive order restricting immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries, Khaled seemingly tiptoed around the divisive issue, simply posting a video of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come.”
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an order threatening federal funding to “sanctuary cities” that won’t fully comply with his immigration crackdown. It took less than 24 hours for Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to crumble.
Marco Rubio is less a U.S. senator than a wide-eyed college freshman, lost in the gleaming halls of his institution, deeply curious but frankly very confused and a little frightened by his ignorance. Sure, the people of Florida elected him based on his promise to serve as a brake on…
By 3:30 p.m. Sunday, three Miami-Dade County Police wagons were parked outside Departure Gate 9 at Miami International Airport. A battalion of county cops stood elbow-to-elbow in the middle of the street, at least one clad in a K-9 Unit vest. Multiple times, the cops had threatened to arrest members of the more than 300-person crowd that had gathered at MIA to protest President Trump’s Muslim-travel ban.
To initiate a recall vote in Miami-Dade County, one must first send a proposal to the county clerk, who must, according to county law, make sure your legal petition is up to snuff, legally speaking. You’re free to try to recall any elected official in Miami, from the county property appraiser to anyone on the county commission to — oh, just for the sake of argument — the county mayor himself.
County Hall went on lockdown this afternoon as a group gathered outside to protest Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s order to county officials to comply with all of Donald Trump’s strict immigration plans. Guards blocked the doors. The Metromover stop was closed. And then Rep. Keith Ellison crashed the party. The co-chair…
Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s senior counselor and chief strategist, lashed out at reporters this week, claiming “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut.” The comments came after journalists discovered Bannon was registered to vote in both Florida and New York – an embarrassing revelation…
As portrayed by Jonah Hill in the film War Dogs, Efraim Diveroli is a borderline madman, rushing into danger and blowing through millions of dollars as he tricks the U.S. government into buying old Chinese ammunition. The real-life story of the Miami Beach stoner’s arms-dealing fiasco isn’t that far off of Hollywood’s take.
It’s really difficult to be the bearer of more bad news this week. Progressives have woken up every day this week in a state of panic, crawling out of bed to check their news feeds, only to get the wind knocked out of them upon reading President Trump’s newest slate of racist executive orders that seem all but designed to stir global unrest and disaster.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez — a man who himself was born in Cuba — sent a stark message to undocumented immigrants Thursday: Miami-Dade County will not protect you. Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order pulling all federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with Immigration…
New Times can neither confirm nor deny that we condone punching Nazis. (Wink.) But we sure as hell condone the way a group of University of Florida students acted earlier today after a neo-Nazi reared his shaved head in Turlington Plaza, one of the main gathering spots on UF’s Gainesville campus.
To put things bluntly, America’s president has spent the past 24 hours attacking brown people. First, Donald Trump announced he’s bullheadedly pushing forward with Building! The! Wall! despite the fact that the fastest-growing group of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is flying in from Asia. He’s also banning refugees from seven Muslim countries in the name of homeland security despite the fact that nearly every post-9/11 assailant in this country has been a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Dear Stoner: I heard that dispensaries have been slow all over the country because of some hack in their sales systems. Like, all of them. Why are they so unorganized? Malcolm Dear Malcolm: An industry representative recently told me that at least three-quarters of Denver dispensaries use pot-tech company MJ…
From the Bay of Pigs invasion to the overthrow of democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz, some of the CIA’s darkest covert operations across Latin America have Miami connections. Now, newly declassified documents show that the Magic City was almost a secret base for one of the bloodiest covert operations in Latin America, one that killed tens of thousands of people across a half-dozen countries.
