After six months of silence, the past couple of weeks have brought plenty of rumors about where David Beckham will build his soccer stadium. MLS insists it must be downtown. City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff suggested the old Miami Herald site. Someone even mooted the possibility of building it in Broward…
The Disneyland measles horror has been spreading, but Miami-Dade kids, at least, should be protected: 98 percent of public school students are vaccinated, according to Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesperson Daisy Gonzalez-Diego. “The District is at a solid vaccination rate,” Gonzalez-Diego said in a statement, “but we will continue to…
“I do want I want, when I want. Take two naps, three naps a day if I want. Early morning nap. Late-morning lap. Early-evening nap. That’s basically what we do.” — an interview subject in Florida Man. Florida Man the movie isn’t about the internet’s obsession with weird things happening…
Well, here’s your local political story of the year with implications that could reverberate through Miami’s skyline and local government for years to come. Raquel Regalado, a school board member with much grander political ambitions, has teamed up with billionaire and expert political agitator Norman Braman to sue the City…
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A lot of loose change can add up. And for Miami flight attendant Marco Costa, stealing a lot of loose change can add up to serious time behind bars. The 56-year-old AmericanAirlines employee was arrested January 31 after investigators discovered he had stolen about $5,000 in coins meant to be…
Miami’s latest condo boom is not meant for those who simply need a roof over their head. No, most of these skyscrapers are aimed firmly at the world’s 1 percent. Twenty-four-hour access to a basic fitness center and a decent pool just don’t do it for these folks when it…
This year’s GOP primary is shaping up as a battle royal for Sunshine State conservatives’ two favorite sons. But that doesn’t mean Florida Republicans are evenly divided between Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. In fact, Coral Gables’ favorite son trounces South Miami’s brightest political star in a new poll, with…
Last weekend, construction equipment on an Overtown construction site was set on fire. It was a likely arson. The blaze provided a highly visible symbol of long-festering discontent in the historically black neighborhood. But residents themselves have been blighted by a much less apparent injustice: As the CRA and other…
Andrew Cummings was caught on an episode in 2006 confessing to killing his roommate. But a judge has now ruled that the footage proves he was illegally detained.
It’s 2015, and vaccination, a well-established medical practice for decades, is somehow the hot-button issue of the day. Though no prominent politician has come out as a hard-core anti-vaxxer, several Republicans, including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, have had no problems pandering to that crowd…
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Two things everyone knows for sure: Miami is surrounded by a lot of water, and Miami has major transportation problems. Well, at a recent planning and zoning meeting, the City of Miami Commission discussed the possibility of looking beyond buses and trains to fix transportation…
Well, you can’t say local cops get away with everything. Miami-Dade Police Officer Joshua Zacarias will face charges after he had a minor run-in with a gate at a police station parking lot and then lied about it…
For the past month, Gov. Rick Scott has weathered a growing firestorm over his removal of veteran FDLE chief Gerald Bailey. The scandal began with Bailey slamming the governor for claiming he’d left voluntarily, then deepened when Scott’s own cabinet members turned on the governor and demanded an independent investigation…
With the Super Bowl in the rear-view mirror, it’s now officially the NFL offseason. In other words, it’s the time of year when the Miami Dolphins have to try yet again to find a way to haul their legs out of the mediocrity mud they’ve been stuck in for what…
When a Miami PD officer approaches Warren Redlich at a DUI checkpoint outside the AmericanAirlines Arena, he calmly presses a sheet of paper and his license to the glass. The cop looks confused, calling over a colleague. They study the paper for a moment, pause, and then give Redlich the…
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Despite winding up on different ends of the hip-hop spectrum, the lives of Jay Z and Pitbull have some major similarities. Both grew up in major cities and were raised by single mothers after their drug-addicted fathers abandoned their families. Both have admitted to selling drugs in their youth, and…
At 88 years old and rarely seen in public, Fidel Castro firmly represents Cuba’s past. Yet with all talk lately about the possibilities for the future of Cuba after President Barack Obama’s announcement that he’ll work to normalize relations with the island nation, the Cuban media decided to trot out…
Barack Obama and Rick Scott may not have that much in common politically, but both the president’s and the governor’s recently proposed budgets had one similarity: lots of money for the restoration of the Florida Everglades. Last month Scott set aside $150 million in his budget for the Everglades as…
Update: The commission has unanimously passed the resolution. As David Beckham and his partners quietly line up their next site for a Major League Soccer stadium in Miami, the county commission is likely to throw its support today behind a temporary home field: Florida International University. The commission will vote…
