Across the nation, confidence in law enforcement is at a nadir. Secret and intrusive NSA surveillance has eroded America’s trust in its officials. Meanwhile, recent cop killings of unarmed civilians such as Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have shaken popular support for the police…
In a bit of a twist on the old saying, dog bites cat isn’t news… unless everyone thought it was a case of man using cat as a bow-and-arrow practice target. Police in Palmetto Bay say that a string of cats found dead in the city last week were probably…
Zombies don’t exist. The closest thing we’ve seen in real life is that guy on bath salts who ate a guy’s face. Which, of course, happened here in Miami. Yet, that man survived. Somehow, though, Miami has ranked in the bottom ten cities in which it would be best to…
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Municipal politics in Miami-Dade are officially non-partisan, but most local pol’s private party affiliations are well known and it’s becoming more and more common for the local Democratic and Republican parties to get involved. Just this summer, the Miami-Dade Dems helped Daniella Levine Cava beat Republican Lynda Bell in a…
The Miami Heat is back in your living room tomorrow night for the season opener, looking a tad different from past years but just as cocky. Slogans, campaigns, videos — you name it; the team wants you to know it isn’t going anywhere. This is still the Miami Heat, and…
Miami Beach Commissioner Ed Tobin is nearly 53 years old. He’s been a city commissioner for seven years and a working lawyer for almost 30. But now Tobin wants to begin a new career — as a Miami Beach beat cop. “I figured I’m not getting any younger,” Tobin tells…
On a Wednesday evening in early October, Congressman Joe Garcia strides through the empty lobby of a Key Largo community center, his black dress shoes clacking against the marble floor. Garcia is both affable and imposing. He has a large body and a broad face, with small dark eyes set…
Could a fan make the difference in the incredibly tight governor’s race? A new poll seems to think so. Gravis Marketing reports that Charlie Crist is up 44 percent to Rick Scott’s 42. The poll also specifically asked previously undecided voters who watched the debate whether #Fangate played a role…
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Would you have your toe crushed if it meant you got to meet Oprah Winfrey? Lori Geller Bender didn’t have a choice in the matter, but this past Saturday she narrowly avoided a trip to the hospital and got a picture with Oprah after the mogul’s SUV accidentally ran over…
The fate of Florida’s gay marriage ban won’t jump directly to Florida’s Supreme Court. The Third District Court of Appeal denied Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request to have the case bypass the lower courts and has decided to rule on the matter itself…
The Cuban expression “mañana, mañana.” is often interpreted by Anglos as an excuse for laziness. In fact, the saying speaks volumes about its island of origin. In a country that has been led by one Castro or another for more than half a century, what hope can there be that…
Frank Bocanegra, an attorney and former Miami-Dade Police officer, is running for county court judge on the November 4 ballot based largely on his three-decade career in law enforcement and his role as a former city manager of Miami Lakes. “I… truly believe that hard work and unrelenting professionalism are…
The Miami Dolphins beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-13 on Sunday, but it was a pigeon that trended worldwide on Twitter. Wait, what? Yup a pigeon. A pigeon that by the end of the game had it’s own Twitter account. What a world. During the second half of the game a…
If you see someone holding a handmade sign at a political rally you usually assume that person took the time to actually make that sign themselves and brought it along. But it seems that either Scott’s biggest fans all either had the same exact strike of sign-making genius, or someone…
Three cats have been found dead in Palmetto Bay in the past week, with at least one cat having been shot with a bow and arrow. The news comes five years after several cats were found dead in Palmetto Bay and neighboring Cutler Bay. Police believed a human was behind…
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The internet is constantly ranking cities to the point where we wonder if there’s any criteria left to rate cities by. Well, Real Estate firm Redfin has come up with a novel ranking: toilets per capita. As it turns out, Miami has the least amount of residential toilets per capita…
Call it a split decision. The latest legal skirmish over the Deep Dredge devolved into an all-day court battle over contracts and language yesterday. Despite the dredge drudgery, however, environmentalists emerged from federal court claiming important concessions in their ongoing battle against the Army Corps of Engineers, including almost half…
Florida has one of the nation’s strictest open records laws, but Gov. Rick Scott doesn’t seem to take much pride over his state’s achievement. In fact, according to an ongoing lawsuit, Scott openly flaunted those rules by setting up a Gmail account for secretly doing much of his official business…
In 2007, Miami New Times first documented the unintended side effect of Miami-Dade County’s strict laws about where convicted sex offenders can live: Namely, that dozens of men were forced by law to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in squalid conditions. The men were eventually moved out amid national…
