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…
Last November, Jose Trochez noticed he was going bald. He was only 25. Since it was no-shave November, he decided to completely shave his head and let his facial hair grow. Within weeks, a thick, curly, black beard sprouted off his chin. He preferred the new look, but noticed others stared…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re here to round up the weirdest. This week: It turns out you’re more likely to be killed by a serial killer in Florida than most other states. Meanwhile, a clown that looks like he might be…
Turns out that residents of Miami’s District 2 won’t need to head back to the polls later this month to decide a city commission runoff match between Teresa Sarnoff and Ken Russell. Sarnoff has now just up and dropped out and decided to do so with a message. Basically she…
Last week we showed you what real estate website Zumper found to be the median rent of an apartment in several different Miami neighborhoods. The prices ranged from $680 in inner-city Brownsville to over $4,500 in exclusive Fisher Island. It got us thinking though, what would paying the median rent…
Jeb Bush is desperately trying to reinvigorate his flailing campaign. He unleashed a new slogan, “Jeb Can Fix It,” took a short tour through the friendly lands of his home state of Florida, and is now back in New Hampshire trying to re-sell his message to the first in the…
Sea level rise shouldn’t be a controversial subject in a state subcommittee tasked with talking about Everglades restoration and water management. That’s exactly why two state representatives from South Florida began asking a Tallahassee bureaucrat earlier this week about climate change’s impact on the state’s projects. But this is Florida,…
Workplace conditions at a county office have come under scrutiny in recent months. An investigation by the federal government found that the executive director of CareerSource South Florida, a public agency that uses $70 million in state and federal funds to help local job seekers, had subjected female employees to…
The day after Miami Beach voters rejected a measure that would have allowed a developer to build a 250-foot-tall luxury condo and hotel tower on a historic beachside strip in North Beach, there were few hints about what may come next for the neighborhood. Developer Sandor Scher, who spent over…
If you’re a Miamian and you still don’t care about the threat that global warming poses to the very continued existence of our city perhaps there’s another way we could get yo care. Turns out a new study co-authored by researches from Tulane, UC-Santa Barbara, and the University of Central…
If your dog bites someone, even if it hasn’t been previously declared a dangerous dog, and investigators declare the resulting wound “severe,” your dog will be put to death. That’s the law in Florida, but a case involving a black lab in Bradenton, Florida named Padi has caused so much outrage…
How bad can Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign get? The one-time frontrunner has spent this week trotting out a hashtag as custom-made for Internet mockery as “Hotline Bling” and putting all his hopes in a new book about how awesome he was at email in the early ’00s. Voters have just about…
When the corpse emerged from the grave, a hole the size of a dime marred the skull. A femur and a finger were snapped like twigs, a clavicle was cracked, and lead lay in the chest. “Body was smoked and hosed after death,” the coroner wrote. Then came the conclusion:…
Cuando el cadáver emergió de la tumba, un hueco del tamaño de una moneda de diez centavos perforaba el cráneo. El fémur y un dedo estaban partidos como ramitas, la clavícula cascada y había plomo en el pecho. “El cuerpo fue quemado y rociado con agua luego de la muerte”,…
Today’s election slate might not be the most jam-packed or exciting, but the results will have reverberations in some of Miami-Dade’s most important cities for years to come. Though, local elections (especially in these parts) are plagued by notoriously low turnout, that does mean that, hey, we could be in…
If you’re a Democratic primary voter chances are you’re either feeling the Bern or silly for Hillary, but not former mayor of Miami Manny Diaz. Nope. He’s a Martin O’Malley guy all the way. In fact, when it came time for O’Malley’s campaign to round up state leadership teams, Diaz…
