Could another real-estate crash hit Miami sometime soon? Some analysts think think so. More than 3,000 condo units became available in the past few years, and a mind-blowing 11,000 are set to hit the market within the next two years. Miami’s housing market took a beating in the past three…
We’re at the point in this election cycle where time seems to slow down and stop functioning like normal. Candidates appear, speak, and then reappear just days later, having somehow criss-crossed the entire country. With just one weekend left before Election Day, the candidates’ planes are in overdrive: Today, Clinton will…
Bernard Williams was driving down busy Washington Avenue when a trio of police officers stopped him and ordered him to turn down his radio. Reaching for the volume control, though, he accidentally turned it up. That mistake, says Williams, who is black, set off a brutal beating.
Scott Melker lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr.
When behavior technician Charles Kinsey was shot by a North Miami Police officer while trying to help an autistic client this past July, the outrage was pretty much universal. A witness released video of Kinsey lying flat on his back with his hands in the air, and dozens of horrified…
If the latest crop of polls is correct, medical marijuana will be legally available to sick people in Florida in just four days. As of last week, close to 80 percent of Floridians support Amendment 2, which would legalize weed statewide for medical purposes, such as helping cancer or Alzheimer’s patients.
The word “oversight” is not used very often in Miami. You’re supposed to make gigantic life decisions on a whim down here — that’s part of the draw. You can buy a gun, charter a boat, develop a drug habit, or get a neck tattoo, and pretty much nobody will ask any questions.
By now, you’ve probably made up your mind in the most important race on this year’s ballot. If you’ve been paying even a little attention, you know that medical marijuana is back up for a vote and that Florida’s Amendment 1 solar initiative is actually a trick…
Taiwan Smart hit the floor as bullets flew into his living room in Little Haiti November 13, 2009. The 21-year-old made a mad dash for the back door and ran down the street barefoot before finding refuge at a neighbor’s home. Soon he would learn that his two friends, 18-year-old…
Labor lawyers warned New Times in September that getting workers’ compensation after you catch the Zika virus would be difficult. But now it appears that applying for Zika-related workers’ compensation with the City of Miami Beach might be straight-up impossible. In a letter sent to the Miami Beach Police union president yesterday, City Manager Jimmy…
Four games and almost one week into the Miami Heat season, fans now have a better idea of what kind of team they’re cheering on. For better or worse, the chips are starting to fall and a clearer image of the team is taking form.
Donald Trump’s longtime supporters knew the drill at this point. Once Trump started name-dropping the “lying,” “dishonest,” “liberal” media corralled into a pen at Miami’s Bayfront Park today, the audience wheeled around and started shouting obscenities at them, per usual. A “CNN Sucks” chant bounced up from the crowd, to…
Whether you are a “nasty woman” or a “bad hombre,” this election cycle has been some kind of joke. And soon the electorate will deliver its punch line: “GOP, you’re fired!” Though the boundless bizarre badinage of the presidential race is getting more attention than your 13-year-old cousin on Instagram,…
When unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was gunned down by wannabe cop George Zimmerman in 2012, protests erupted across the nation. Many demonstrators wore hoodies to push back against suggestions that Martin’s clothing choice had made him “suspicious.” The entire Miami Heat team, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, even took part.
This coming Election Day, nearly 20 percent of American states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. In exactly a week, we’ll know whether Florida voters joined the legal-pot club. For the second straight election, Orlando superlawyer John Morgan has backed a massive campaign to legalize medical marijuana…
Miami Beach Police Sgt. Michelle Sayegh lives in Broward County. So Miami Beach Fraternal Order of Police President Bobby Jenkins says he finds it particularly unlikely she caught the Zika virus sitting at home. But by day, she works on Ocean Drive, in one of the only two Zika “active…
Aerial pesticide spraying has not eradicated the Zika virus in Miami Beach so far, adding fuel to critics who have warned all along that buildings are too tall and ocean breezes too strong for that method to work there. So the city is resorting to less conventional methods: Officials have…
Nearly every major newspaper in Florida has told people to avoid Amendment 1 like a nest of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The amendment is deceptive and designed to prevent Floridians from getting solar panels despite fraudulently claiming to be pro-solar. It’s being pushed by corporations such as Florida Power & Light, ExxonMobil, and Koch Industries.
With his trusty German shepherd in tow, Rodney Irwin drives past a state mental hospital at the edge of the Everglades and pulls into the brush. A machete rests on the floorboard beneath his feet, and a gallon of his favorite drink — Walmart-brand black-cherry soda mixed with orange Gatorade…
Tonight is Halloween, which means you have a legitimate reason to go to clubbing on a Monday, and you need a killer topical costume to show off how cool and clever you are on social media. A last-minute banana suit from a pop-up costume shop simply won’t do.
We know: You’re tired of it. We, too, are tired of it. You’re tired of seeing Donald Trump’s face. You’re tired of hearing Hillary Clinton say the phrase “Trumped-up, trickle-down” over and over. You’re tired of the bickering and the fighting and the insults and that whole maybe-America-might-actually-end feeling you’ve had since September.
Dear Stoner: The holidays are coming up, and I’m thinking about getting a seasonal job for extra income, something with low responsibility, like retail or working with Christmas trees. I enjoy cannabis recreationally. Do you have any advice on how to surreptitiously find places of employment that do not conduct…
