The Florida Senate was going to mess around when it came to removing the Confederate flag from its official seal. The Senate started its third special session of the year. The official business at hand is yet another attempt to redraw Florida’s unconstitutional congressional districts, but, surprising many, the Senate…
Despite the fact that two of his biggest competitors are actual Florida politicians, Donald Trump holds onto a slim lead amongst likely Florida Republican primary voters. He’ll up to firm up that lead by dropping by Florida later this week. A jaunt that will include Trump’s first public visit to…
Everyonce in a while someone comes along and tries to rebrand and rename a neighborhood somewhere in Miami. There was an attempt to brand a stretch of Mid-Beach as “Wunder Mile.” Developers tried to get people to call a portion of Overtown as “SoWyn.” There were even attempts in the…
Hundreds of zombies ran screaming through downtown Fort Myers late on Saturday night, fleeing in terror as gunshots rang out in the night. When police forced their way through the panicked costumed crowd, they found six attendees at that night’s packed “ZombiCon” bleeding in the street. One may, wearing a…
James Murley might have the most depressing and difficult job in the county. As chief resiliency officer, the 69-year-old government planner has to make sure that Miami literally doesn’t go under. It’s not going to be easy, with scores of scientists repeatedly finding that sea levels are climbing and a…
Sometimes it seems like Florida only has have like five actual politicians. It doesn’t matter if you keep losing races. You can just keeping running for things until you actually win something, and apparently there will be big time donors and your party’s establishment there to support you. People are…
After seven years of filing complaints against their prominent county boss, Linda Pierre and other female employees finally found traction in August. An investigation by the federal government found that CareerSource South Florida executive director Rick Beasley subjected female employees to a “pattern of harassment, intimidation, exclusion, bullying…conditions due to…
Two years ago the Florida State Supreme Court suspended Jeffrey Norkin from practicing law for what they found to be grossly unprofessional behavior in court. Yeah, well, Norkin continued to practice law and continued to exhibit grossly unprofessional behavior while doing so. So now the Supreme Court has decided to…
Richard Rodriguez’s heart thumped as walked into his ten-year high school reunion at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, the famed all-boys academy in Pinecrest that boasts graduates from Fidel Castro to Perez Hilton. But the Cuban-American with short-cropped black hair and a wide smile wasn’t worried about how his job or physique…
A lot of weird things happen in Florida every week, and on Friday we’re hear to roundup the weirdest. This week: a man gets a DUI in a wheelchair, another woman gets a DUI after broadcasting her drunk driving escapades through an app, and a man arrested for leading police…
Jordan Redavid, a New York native, was a top student at the University of Miami School of Law, graduating in 2013. He became a Miami-Dade public defender, and then moved into private practice, co-founding a criminal law firm based in Brickell. He’s won numerous accolades, and his firm bio lists…
The call came to Miami-Dade Police just before 2 a.m. last night: A robber with a bandana pulled over his face and a silver handgun had just hit a Walgreens in South Dade and sped off in a white SUV. Minutes later, after a high-speed chase down Dixie Highway, police…
Yes, Florida does have bears — black bears, the kind that rarely bother humans other than rifling through trash cans for food. That’s reason enough, apparently, for the state of Florida to authorize a new bear hunt in the state, with permits already issues for hundreds of hunters to track…
Gulliver Prep’s head baseball coach is out of a job and facing possible investigation by law enforcement officers after sending a sexually explicit video to his players. Javier Rodriguez, was a star at at Gulliver when attended as a child and went on to be a star for the University…
Working a minimum wage job in Florida can now no longer even afford you two hours worth of curbside parking in South Beach anymore. Starting on Monday, Miami Beach hiked parking prices for surface lots and curb side parking spaces across the city, but not all hikes were equal. The biggest…
After years of roller coaster speculation and hand-wringing, it’s now all but certain that David Beckham’s long-lost professional soccer franchise will play in a revamped stadium on the site of the former Orange Bowl, across from Marlins Park in Little Havana. But there’s still a problem: How to clear out enough…
If there’s one thing that the South and South Florida can agree on, its that South Florida is definitely not the South. Not culturally anyway. Sure, we may be geographically one of the most southern parts of the United States, but culturally we’re some mix of New York and the…
In recent years, at least four employees at CareerSource South Florida filed complaints with the county about Roderick “Rick” Beasley, the executive director of a public agency that uses $70 million in state and federal funds to find employment for local job seekers. They alleged that Beasley — who earns…
Florida Bay, the body of water between the Everglades and the Keys that was once teeming with wildlife, may be on the verge of collapse. Last week, scientists reported that miles of sea grass have died in the bay in recent months, leaving behind a stinky smell and a cloud…
Florida has one of the most unusual set of laws concerning what it takes to sentence someone to death in the entire nation. Florida also sends more inmates to death row than most other states in the nation. Since the Death Penalty was reinstated in 1976, only Texas, Oklahoma and…
When the NRA says “jump,” Republicans in Florida’s state legislature ask “how high,” and then manage to jump even higher. The state has long been a leader in passing NRA-backed legislation. It’s why we’re known as the “Stand Your Ground” state after all. Florida’s passage of a “shall issue” concealed…
Lamar Odom only played with the Miami Heat for a season, but it was an important one in the history of the team. It was Dwyane Wade’s rookie year, and Odom was a key part of a roster that saw the team transition from an after thought in the league…
