Donald Trump will have a hard time showing his face in Versailles ever again. Just two days ago, Trump stood on a stage in Miami, said he had a deep love and respect for Miami’s Cuban community and added that Cubans immigrant deserve “the right deal” to renegotiate the American…
Jose Fernandez’s funeral procession left Marlins Park shortly after 2:15 Wednesday afternoon under a typical bright-cobalt sunny Miami sky, taking the casket into and through the heart of a Cuban community that had embraced the pitcher as its own son, friend, and brother. Traffic was snarled along Calle Ocho and all…
After a month of infighting among Miami Beach citizens, media outlets, and Gov. Rick Scott, Miami-Dade County has finally released the areas in South Beach where mosquitoes tested positive for the Zika virus. They are as follows: 932 Lenox Ave., which tested positive August 22 1619 Meridian Ave., which tested…
It’s a scary time to be a business owner whose employees work outside in Miami. Since Zika began spreading via local transmission in July, three employees at Wynwood Yard and one Miami Beach police officer have reportedly tested positive. Meanwhile, two pregnant firefighters were apparently reassigned to a station in…
Had Miami Beach Police fired a rifle at 51-year-old David W. Winesett in December 2016, he might have survived. Last December, police say Winesett escaped a halfway house, robbed a bank, and allegedly waved a razor blade at police before they fired their guns directly into his chest in broad daylight…
Being a Miami Dolphins fan just ain’t what it used to be. These days, it’s a love-hate relationship that on a weekly basis is this weird voluntary-hostage situation. We love the Miami Dolphins, but we hate that we love them; it’s basically a Rihanna song at this point. So many…
Police lights flashed outside Churchill’s Pub in Little Haiti this past weekend during the Vote Yes Marijuana Fest, but no one seemed to mind. The officers had been hired to work the event. There were no plans to rough up any of the participants in the festivities, which included a…
As the gospel choir finished the last chords of “Going Up Yonder,” Deborah Frazier approached her brother’s powder-blue coffin. It was surrounded by heaping bouquets of baby’s breath and blue roses. For a moment, the cavernous sanctuary of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was silent except the sound of her…
On the whole, Miami isn’t a great place to be a Millennial. As of last year, the city had the highest percentage of young people living with their parents in the country, and on the whole, young people seem to be fleeing. A Consumer Affairs report in March said that…
Long ago, Archbishop Curley Notre-Dame High School diffused a potentially explosive situation. I was the young, aggressive Miami-Dade County beat reporter for Miami Today. I had lunch with Norman Powell, at the time a high-powered downtown Miami attorney who represented individuals and companies doing business at County Hall. We didn’t fight or…
Donald Trump lied far more often than it seemed during last night’s presidential debate. Sure, he was called out for his obvious untruths, like misstating his initial support for the Iraq War, and pretending that crime is at epidemic-level rates when it’s actually hitting a low point. But he wasn’t…
While Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez’s fatal boating accident was a complete punch to the gut, it was unfortunately far from the first fatal boating accident in Biscayne Bay. And, unless Florida’s incredibly lax boating regulations change, his death will likely not be this city’s last high-profile maritime death. Florida has…
In a small, cheery, wood-paneled office in the back of the Design Center of the Americas in Dania Beach, the young, wavy-haired receptionist was polite but firm. “Mr. Abovitz isn’t available right now.” A green cartoon dragon grinned from the wall to her right, next to a glass-walled conference room…
The family of Emilio Macias, who died in a tragic boating accident alongside 24-year-old Marlins pitching star Jose Fernandez this weekend, is asking the public for help to pay for their loved one’s funeral. The family has started a GoFundMe page to try and collect $30,000 for funeral arrangements —…
Former Miami Springs High School employee Rodolfo “Rudy” Camejo, Jr. housed four teenage baseball players from Mexico and Puerto Rico in a rented Virginia Gardens home. He regularly told colleagues he was “sponsoring” the boys. No one seemed to mind. But there’s a problem, say Miami-Dade County Public Schools investigators. Housing…
Dear Stoner: I’ve been smoking pot for a few years, but in the last six months I’ve started smoking more as I drink less (I’m 25). My parents have always been against marijuana, but I want to be honest with them if I continue to partake. How should I break…
Last week, Miami-Dade County Police Director Juan Perez announced in a press conference that the department will spend $2.6 million over the next five years, and possibly another $3 million in the following five, on ShotSpotter, a police technology that uses microphones to listen for gunshots. Perez did not mention…
Things were looking rather bleak for the Dolphins Sunday. The Browns, led by a third-string quarterback who had never made an NFL start, had somehow managed to take a 13-10 lead into the half. Out of halftime the Browns marched the ball deep into Dolphins territory on a nine-minute drive,…
Perhaps the greatest Cuban pitcher of all time was killed at 24 years old in a boating accident early Sunday morning. Jose Fernandez, who was the brightest light on the Marlins and a hero to millions of young baseball pitchers, was expected to pitch this week against the Mets. The 6’2″…
Miami-Dade County set its annual budget late Thursday night. According to the Miami Herald’s Doug Hanks, County Commissioners argued over whether it was worth spending $100,000 to revive the county’s Civilian Investigative Panel, which employs non-police civilians to investigate complaints against police. Many law-enforcement scholars agree civilian-led panels provide an…
Chris Bosh is a 32-year-old adult, a multimillionaire, and a person who will likely one day end up enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He can afford many of the world’s greatest doctors, is an Olympic Gold Medalist, National Basketball League champion, and is certainly capable of…
Dr. Philip Stoddard, a Florida International University biologist and the mayor of South Miami, has released a study that shows definitively that Miami-Dade County’s spraying of naled, a controversial neurotoxic pesticide, is not working to combat the Zika virus in Miami Beach. Provided Stoddard’s analysis is correct, the study shows…
