As another real estate boom rocks Miami and ever more South Florida newcomers pack into the ‘burbs, transit in Miami has never been a bigger topic. A new train service to Orlando is making national headlines while the county mayor pushes for better buses amid a Miami Herald series on…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez only filed his official paperwork to run for his second full term on October 1st, but the incumbent has already amassed a campaign war chest of nearly $2.5 million. Meanwhile, his biggest declared competition, School Board member Raquel Regaldo has collected $512,000 this year. Although the…
The fight over solar in Florida has gotten awfully shady lately. As you may know, two competing organizations are circulating petitions related to solar power access in the state of Florida. Floridians for Solar Choice is pushing for an amendment to open up the solar marketplace, allowing consumers to do…
Florida had one of the highest rates of people living without health insure before President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was passed, and now five years after it initially passed, Florida still ranks third in the nation for those left uninsured. The good news however is that that still means there’s now…
After 65 years of shoveling snow in Iowa, Frank Poma was tired. “You get rid of it,” he says, “and then it keeps coming back.” So about five years ago, Poma and his wife Cindi bought an RV and headed for Knight’s Key RV Resort and Marina, an unpretentious, 24-acre…
Remember when as a kid you dreamed about your parents putting your little sibling up for adoption? Well, The Heat have pretty much actually done that. According to several reports, the trade of Mario Chalmers to the Memphis Grizzlies is all but official, bringing to end the point guard’s more…
People who are cynical about American democracy claim that your votes don’t matter and that elections are actually determined by the moneyed elite. Yet, Ken Russell, who just last year was merely a citizen concerned about toxic soil in his local park, will be Miami’s next District 2 commissioner. He…
There’s been a lot of talk about the incredibly high rents in Miami, but what about those looking to actually buy a home for their family? Reports suggest that it’s a whole lot cheaper in the long run to buy rather than rent in Miami, but homes don’t come cheap…
Tomorrow, we’ll give thanks for the brave men and women who served in our armed forces. But for veterans in Miami, there’s little to celebrate; it turns out Miami is one of the very worst cities for vets in the country. The personal finance website WalletHub recently analyzed the best…
When the late developer Tony Goldman first set his sites on Wynwood he imagined turning the sleepy industrial district into an arts-friendly neighborhood with existing low-rise warehouses being converted into everything from restaurants to art galleries to office space with the assist of colorful street art on their exteriors. Take…
Just over a year ago, Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates banned his officers from all off-duty work at SoBe nightclubs after a string of embarrassments, including a sergeant who got wasted while working at Mango’s Tropical Cafe. Today, Beach cops are not only back on the job — they’re…
Michelle Coleman had her baby daughter in her arms when the men materialized out of the darkness. Coleman, a 25-year-old mother of four with a pretty, roundish face and thick, straightened hair, was walking home to the apartment in Liberty Square where she’d lived for five years, a spartan place…
There have been may a classic battle fought in Florida. Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali) vs Sonny Liston in 1964. The battles of the Miami Hurricanes and Florida State Seminoles in the early ’90s. The Rock vs John Cena at WrestleMania XXVIII. But perhaps no face-off was quite as…
When Florida considered whether to legalize medical marijuana back in 2014, one of the its loudest detractors was state Attorney General Pam Bondi. She tried everything in her power to try and block the proposed amendment from appearing on the ballot then. As it turned out, the amendment did make…
If you’ve been following the development of All Aboard Florida you’ve probably thought to yourself at one time or another, “Wait, are they going to call it that?” The answer is no. You won’t be talking about jumping on the “All Aboard Florida train” to Orlando. In fact, the project…
Laura Pierre postponed college to work full-time at Chipotle, hoping to save up for higher education. But the 18-year-old Miamian says she’s realized that’s an impossible dream with Florida’s $8.05 per hour minimum wage. Her mother, a healthcare worker who also makes less than $10 an hour, relies on Pierre to…
Tinder has been a game changer for sex-thirsty singles, but it’s also changed how the entire world thinks about the dating scene. The smartphone app short-circuits old romantic rituals and slow-paced courtship by using geolocation to instantly bring together users who are in the same area. One by one, profile…
As any veteran Miamian will quickly remind you, November is still very much part of hurricane season. Still, by now South Florida is usually starting to bask in regular 70-degree highs and calm seas. But not this year. As a record-shattering heat wave cooks Florida for a second straight week,…
The fiercest critic of the Colombian peace accords took his message to Miami on Friday, telling journalists the treaty as it’s currently being negotiated will result in criminals and terrorists going free. “Peace with impunity isn’t a sustainable peace,” said Senator Alvaro Uribe, the former president of Colombia, at an…
We have it on good word that Carlos Hernandez is a 54-year-old male who has graduated from college and spent ten years as either a commissioner or mayor for the city of Hialeah. “Wow, sounds like that guy has it together? He probably wouldn’t try to pull any juvenile stunts…
Conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are having a little fun now with their support off outsider oddball candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson, but when it comes times to actually buckle down and start voting they’ll shift towards a more “electable candidate.” Well, if the latest poll…
Yesterday, Teresa Sarnoff ended a runoff with city commission opponent Ken Russell in the most dramatic way possible, by abruptly dropping a letter withdrawing from the race and blasting the dirty politics she says have dominated local elections. But is the race actually over? Russell certainly doesn’t think so. His…
