Ever since the Zika outbreak hit Miami, the Centers for Disease Control has warned of “hot zones” where the virus has definitively been spread locally. Shaded alarmingly red on maps, the first zone in Wynwood was followed by another in South Beach and, last week, an area in Little River…
From his home in Miami, Eric Cardenas felt a too familiar surge of sadness and anger. It was July 6, 2016, and he’d just heard the news about Philandro Castile, a 32-year-old cafeteria supervisor who was gunned down by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds,…
In case Democrats and the #NeverTrump crowd didn’t have enough reason to mobilize for election day, the Donald did them a big favor at the debate last night. Refusing to promise you’ll accept a peaceful transition of power is not the kind of move likely to up your approval ratings…
Back in July, Miami developer Moishe Mana — the largest landowner in Wynwood — launched a public campaign against Donald Trump. He claimed Trump was a joke, and that no businessman in New York City, Mana’s other hometown, takes Trump seriously. Mana pledged to donate $1 million to a charity…
Among modern, industrialized countries, the U.S. is pretty much alone in not forcing employers to give paid leave to new parents. But in the last year, a handful of local municipalities in South Florida have decided to give that benefit to their own workers. In February, Miami-Dade County approved six…
Aaron Davidson was once a brilliant American soccer exec, the man who co-founded the North American Soccer League, the Miami FC and the reborn Fort Lauderdale Strikers. But behind the scenes, prosecutors say, he was also profiting handsomely — and illegally — from the beautiful game, in the form of…
As evidenced by the Miami Dolphins shocking 30-15 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers this past weekend, there is a reason the phrase “any given Sunday” is so popular. Any NFL team can beat any other team on any week, and that really isn’t all that surprising once the initial shock…
It sucks to be poor pretty much everywhere in America. But Miami is an especially cruel place if you’re low on cash. Without a car, it takes hours to travel a few short miles by bus. If you live in a cheap, residential neighborhood, congrats: Some rich asshole is going…
Let’s get this over with: The photo above is real, the man is alive, and his name is Carlos Rodriguez. He is 31 years old and goes by the nickname “Half Head,” and the reason is obvious. Half Head lives in Miami and got into a car accident when he was…
The more Americans get to know Marco Rubio, the less anyone appears to like him. Despite having better name recognition than almost any other politician in congress, a new Quinnipiac Poll released today says Rubio’s race against Democrat Patrick Murphy for Florida’s Senate seat is now “too close to call.”…
The white Volkswagen SUV was mired in traffic around 1 p.m. yesterday at a busy Miami Gardens intersection when Miami-Dade Police caught up with it. The driver had stolen the ride from a nearby dealership earlier that day. As bystanders filmed from their cars, police swarmed the SUV, busting open…
Miami Beach commissioners are already forced to disclose if their spouses have any sort of stake in the items they’re voting on. This is a standard government-ethics rule. But this Wednesday, the commission will discuss enacting a new law that will force commissioners to disclose if they’ve had a “dating”…
In the recent years, South Florida police have quietly started stalking citizens using a wide array of 21st century technology. License-plate trackers have popped up across Miami-Dade County. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, scores of Florida cops have now use Stingray devices, which track a person’s location using…
If you’ve been following Florida’s Senate race closely this year, you’ve likely been drinking heavily for months already. After November, one of the state’s two senators is guaranteed be either the gutless Marco Rubio — who failed to defeat Donald Trump and jumped back into the senate race after saying…
Last year, Commissioner Juan Zapata got caught using his $930,000 office budget to pay for a $30,000 master’s degree from Harvard, justifying it by saying his constituents would benefit from his continued education. That excuse didn’t go over so well. Within days, Zapata was outed by reporter Erika Carrillo of Univision and subsequently…
Miami is at war with the Aedes aegpyti mosquito. Though minuscule, the tiny, zebra-striped bug is wreaking havoc on the area’s economy through the Zika virus. Government officials have declared an all-out assault on the blood-suckers, but the county’s first line of defense — the much-debated pesticide naled — may not be…
Donald Trump’s campaign is to presidential elections what the Challenger disaster was to Space Shuttle missions — a loud, fiery disaster no one seems capable of stopping. After Trump was accused of groping more than ten women this week, he’s taken a gigantic swan dive in the polls and has…
The U.S. is one of the few developed nations in the world that still imposes the death penalty. But even among U.S. states, Florida’s death-penalty laws are behind the times. Florida was one of only three states where juries did not need to be unanimous to sentence someone to death…
When two University of Miami professors decided in 2009 to write a book about the role of conspiracy theories in American politics, they figured the esoteric topic was worthy of more mainstream academic research. At the time, wild accusations about who really planned 9/11 and killed Princess Diana were blooming…
Steven Machat is confident he’d win Florida’s U.S. Senate race — if only he was allowed to get on the debate stage. The music industry veteran running as an independent last month sued the Federal Communications Commission and hosts of two upcoming televised debates, arguing that “as a proper candidate,”…
Miamians rarely, if ever, have an excuse to complain about the weather. When the rest of America sits under a smothering carpet of snow, we can still usually go to the beach. Yes, we get some occasional flooding, but our rainstorms usually don’t last longer than Game of Thrones episodes…
Active Zika virus transmissions have returned to mainland Miami. Gov. Rick Scott’s office announced a new “active transmission zone” this afternoon in the heart of Little Haiti and Little River. The one square mile area stretches from NW 63rd Street to NW 79th Street and from N Miami Ave. to…
