Senator Marco Rubio is running for President in 2016. He can not run for reelection to senate at the same time. Ergo that means that the Florida GOP has to find someone else to run for Senate. This should not be a problem. Politicians love to run for offices better…
It’s official. South Beach’s historic Raleigh Hotel is about to get even swankier. None other than Macy’s fashion section maven Tommy Hillfiger bought the place up back in April, 2014 with plans to convert the hotel into a private club/hotel hybrid, and yesterday Hilfiger and his business partners won approval…
Politico made waves in the local media world earlier this year when it hired away Marc Caputo, The Miami Herald’s lead political writer, to become its first dedicated staffer covering Florida, but soon Caputo will be joined by an entire new bureau. In an e-mail released today, Politico President and…
For the past three years the Florida legislature have been grappling with the issue of beer growlers, 64 oz jugs commonly used to sell craft beer that are completely legal in 47 states but banned in Florida thanks to laws that date all the way back to the prohibition era…
It couldn’t have been much closer in Miami Shores. At yesterday’s village council election — which was tinged with county-wide significance because of the village’s recent high-profile spat over gay marriage rights — the top vote getter only beat the bottom by 143 votes: According to unofficial results, Alice Burch won…
Laura Collins didn’t used to have to worry so much about making ends meet. With a factory job at pencil maker Atlas Pen & Pencil Co., the $11.75 per hour she brought in was enough to cover basic essentials, like healthcare and car insurance payments. When Atlas’ Hollywood, Florida, facility…
It’s official; the 2014-15 Miami Heat season will end in shocking disappointment on the court. Last night, the team was finally mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. A mixture of bad luck and bad performances the second-half of the season resulted in the Heat missing the postseason for the first time…
Barack Obama announced today that he’s removing Cuba from the State Department’s official list of state sponsors of terrorism; an action that will go into effect in 45 days barring any congressional action. The move is seen a key step to fully restoring relations between Washington and Havana, with Cuba…
Sometimes more is not necessarily better. The Miami metro area is one of just 12 in the entire nation to host a team from each major sports league. One team or another is in season all year long, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Especially when your team don’t…
Three people are recovering from being shot after a routine traffic stop turned into a bizarre cop car highjacking and police chase. The incident started around 9 a.m. when a Miami police officer stopped a cab driver for speeding near NE 79th street and 4th avenue. During the stop, the…
In a bloody eight months between 2010 and 2011, City of Miami cops shot and killed seven black men — a streak so egregious that the Department of Justice swooped in. Two years ago, they released their findings: Miami cops had violated civil rights through a pattern of excessive force…
Limos. A rock band. Crab claws. Strippers. The night had all the ingredients for an epic bro-down.
Outside Miami’s Freedom Tower on Monday, it was hard to hear Marco Rubio announce his aspirations to become president of the United States. In an overflow site where a Jumbotron was set up for those who didn’t make it inside the tower, a feisty group of pro-immigration activists upset by…
Marco Rubio is scheduled to speak at the Freedom Tower today, and news that he’s told donors he will run for President is already out of the bag. Comparisons to the current president have followed Rubio since he burst on to the national scene in 2010. He’s been dubbed “The…
After being lead by the former American Secretary of Health and Human Services for 14 years, the University of Miami will now be lead by a former Mexican Secretary of Health. According to The Miami Herald, the university is expected to announce that Dr. Julio Frenk as the replacement for…
Big changes could be coming to Lincoln Road, with the firm behind New York’s High Line cooking up plans to transform South Beach’s iconic but aging pedestrian mall. Those plans, combined with a vote at the city commission later this week on whether to let property owners form a business…
From the moment he rode a Tea Party wave to topple the then-mighty Charlie Crist in a 2010 GOP Senate primary, Marco Rubio has always been the next big thing in waiting for conservatives. A campaign credit card scandal couldn’t slow him down. Neither could his ex-best buddy David Rivera’s…
In case you’d been traveling internationally and were planning to catch up on your DVR with the last two weeks of Miami Heat basketball, we’ll save you the time: the Heat crapped the bed. Six losses in the last seven games — topped by another wrenchingly tight loss to Toronto…
What started as an investigation of a bizarre robbery of two men dressed as fake police officers, lead real police to busting a grow house in Hialeah. Police responded to the armed robbery call at around 6:30 a.m. on Thursday morning. Two men with guns barged into a house in…
Andras Vass, a 25-year-old Hungarian national, faces up to 155 years in prison after being convicted of running a gay sex-slave ring that eventually made its way to Miami-Dade County. Vass was one of three men arrested last October after authorities busted them keeping another three men captive in a…
George Zimmerman. Michael Dunn. Marissa Alexander. Curtis Reeves. To most Floridians, those names bring one thing to mind: our state’s troubled “Stand Your Ground” law, which has brought more legal headaches, bad press and miscarriages of justice to the Sunshine State than even Gov. Rick Scott could dream up. To…
Miami Beach is losing its free public wi-fi system. But the bigger news to many Beach residents is likely that the city actually had a free public wi-fi system to begin with — it does. It’s just terrible. The Miami Beach city commission voted in fall of 2013 to…
