As a kid on Chicago’s gritty West Side, Germane Barnes spent a lot of time with friends in a neighborhood park across the street from a striking home. Barnes was way too young to know much about the brilliant designer behind the sprawling, geometrically intricate estate — the genius Frank…
A conversation with José Díaz-Balart is a master class in journalism. The MSNBC and Telemundo anchor, a 30-year TV news veteran, repeatedly directs the conversation away from himself and toward the people and stories he’s reported on across the world. In an age when journalists increasingly lay out their own…
Officer Miguel Romain was just a few months into his new job as a full-fledged Miami Beach cop when the routine call came in on Sunday: A burglar alarm was going off in a building near 51st Street and Alton Road. The former public service specialist hopped in a patrol…
For years, Homestead and the Redland have been the epicenters of Miami’s booming marijuana growing scene. Of course, the millions of dollars worth of weed produced in South Dade every year has to be grown on the sly in black market growhouses and is subject to regular raids by law enforcement…
The Miami Hurricanes flew to Puerto Rico this weekend for ESPN’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off tournament as an unranked team pegged as finishing somewhere in the middle of the pack of the ACC. They returned as not only tourney champs but as now the most buzzed about team in college basketball…
Bad news for families in most Miami-Dade cities: you’re not living in the best place to raise a family according to, well, math. WalletHub.com decided to celebrate Florida’s recent accession to the country’s third most populace state by analyzing the hell out of us, and ranking the 115 largest cities…
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission approved net neutrality rules designed to prevent internet providers from speeding up the connections to certain websites, while slowing down others. But in September, U.S. presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush said he’d repeal it entirely if elected. Someone didn’t like that…
In order to protect South Florida’s citizens, local police officers have a lot of tools at their disposal. One of them is a software program called DAVID — for Driver and Vehicle Information Database — that officers can use to look up anyone’s car and license plate info. For privacy…
Another month, another massive haul of seized cocaine being unloaded at the Miami Beach Coast Guard station. This morning the Coast Guard unloaded $17 million worth of white stuff that had been seized in conjuction with the Royal Netherlands Navy earlier this week. On November 15th, a Joint Interagency Task Force South…
When asked last night on Fox News if he’d follow Donald Trump’s suggestion of possibly shutting down American mosques in the fight against ISIS, Rubio decided to do him one better by claiming he’d go as far as shutting down Radical Muslim cafés and diners too. Do those things even…
Things appear to have slightly improved for Governor Rick Scott since he was awarded the title of America’s worst Governor back in 2011. According to a new survey from Morning Consult, Scott is now just the 8th least popular governor in America. That’s actually something of a surprise for a…
Johnny Lubin, Jr, a 15-year-old Miami Northwestern student, was walking home Wednesday afternoon in Liberty City when a car drove up near him. Someone inside fired shots. Lubin, an outgoing kid and former prom king, was hit twice, once in the head and once in the abdomen. Hours later, he…
A lot of strange things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the week’s weirdest. This week: a woman who thought she found a cozy nap spot in a grease dumpster, another woman who tried to use 911 like it was Seamless, a naked…
To designer Isaac Stein, there’s no reason to be scared of the rising seas in South Florida. Instead, the encroaching water should be embraced as part of the next phase in Miami Beach’s evolution. In fact, Stein has proposed one of the most creative solutions yet to save South Beach…
The dynamics of Florida’s Democratic Senate primary is one of a milquetoast moderate vs a firebrand progressive, and the moderate in that equation, Rep. Patrick Murphy, certainly drove the point home by being one a small number of Democrats today to cross party lines and vote for a bill that…
U.S. News and World Reports has released their annual rankings of America’s best high schools, and Miami-Dade Schools pulled a lot of weight when it came to representing Florida on the list. Five Miami schools were ranked within the top 100 in the nation, which also means 5 of the…
Florida is known as God’s waiting room for a reason, and Miami has its fair share of notable people who spent their last days here you might not have known. Edith Bouvier Beale AKA “Little Eddie,” Socialite and Documentary Subject Died January 9, 2002 in Bal Harbour The first cousin of …
It wasn’t all that long ago that dropping any cash at Havana hotel or restaurant was about as realistic for American travelers as finding a cheap drink on Ocean Drive. So it’s remarkable that starting today, U.S. residents will be able to use a debit card at around 10,000 locations…
For the past seven years, multiple employees at the taxpayer-funded CareerSource South Florida have maintained that their boss, who earns more than Mayor Carlos Gimenez, is a workplace bully. In complaints filed with the county, state, and federal government, they have accused executive director Roderick “Rick” Beasley of verbally abusing,…
It was one of the most brazen shootings in Miami’s recent memory: Last September 27, while a crowd of young men and women danced and partied inside a small nightclub on Seventh Avenue called The Spot, dozens of bullets suddenly rained upon the club, igniting instant chaos. No one was…
If a new Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative is any indication, Donald Trump’s grip on first place in the Republican primary isn’t going away anytime soon, but the placement of the rest of the field continues to shift. The poll shows that Senator Marco Rubio is now…
A bill that would give the terminally ill in Florida the “right to try” medical marijuana is moving through the Florida legislature smoothly. Introduced by Republican state Rep. Matt Gaetz and state Sen. Rob Bradley last month, the bill passed the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee in a 9-4 bipartisan vote…
