This weekend the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald got their two top political reporters together to pen a piece about Republicans who weren’t all that enthused about Rep. Connie Mack IV’s Senate candidacy so far. Of course, Mack IV’s biggest advantage in the race so far seems to…
Yesterday, Palm Beach Post writer Dave George filed a column entitled, “Help us find a proper name for the outrageous home-run contraption at Marlins Park,” in which he asked readers to submit nicknames for that thing in the Marlins stadium. Well, what do you know, today the Miami Herald announced…
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Gov. Rick Scott championed a controversial law that required all recipients of state welfare to submit to drug tests, claiming it saves the state money. We’ve known for a while now that in fact the program actually cost the state money, but supporters pointed to potential “hidden savings” of potential…
Florida’s next gubernatorial election is more than two years away, but if Gov. Rick Scott’s popularity remains below sea level, there’s a good chance a Democrat could emerge victorious for the first time since 1994. The question is, of course, which Democrat?State Sen. Nan Rich, the top Democrat in the…
The Dolphins have an outpost of LIV at Sunlife Stadium. The Marlins have a mini-Clevelander at their new park. Now, the Heat wants to get in on the in-stadium nightclub craze and is planning to open a new nightclub inside American Airlines Arena in time for next season.Unlike the other…
Remember how Jimbo Luznar, the 85-year-old founder of the bizarre Virginia Key hangout Jimbo’s Place, agreed to turn the site over to the City of Miami? Well now — according to a letter signed by him — he wants to keep the site in his family, to become a “green” kayak rental…
No one really disputes the facts: While he was a powerful state representative, David Rivera accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars for an obscure post as a state “committeeman.” Investigators say he spent at least $65,000 from the funds on dry cleaning, dental bills, pet care, and even travel costs…
On Monday, Haitian President Michel Martelly quietly flew to Miami for medical treatment of a blood clot in his shoulder. In case anyone in Little Haiti needed a stark reminder of how fragile their homeland’s stability remains, as Martelly recuperated yesterday in a Miami hospital, busloads of armed ex-soldiers stormed Haiti’s parliament.The…
The next time you order a Domino’s pizza, pity your humble delivery man. It’s a precarious and potentially deadly world out there for your average door-to-door pie slinger. Take Francisco Prieto. The then-66-year-old Domino’s employee was sent on a run to Liberty City around midnight in October 2010. No sooner…
Unknwn, the Aventura Mall shop owned by LeBron James and friends, just debuted online shopping on their website, and to celebrate the store teamed up with street fashion’s Dr. Frankenstein-like couturier Dr. Romanelli for a limited edition collection of some, uh, really, really interesting LeBron jerseys…
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As always, Florida will be a critical swing state in the 2012 election. According to the latest Public Policy Polling survey, President Barack Obama currently has a 5-point lead over Mitt Romney. So what could Romney do to improve his chances? Well, he certainly shouldn’t take Sarah Palin’s advice and…
The second season of The Franchise, Showtime’s baseball “docudrama” (a fancy word for reality series) isn’t supposed to debut for months. Of course, this season the show is following the exploits of the Miami Marlins, and the season has already had its fair share of drama. So, Showtime is rushing…
Here’s the good news: The gap between how much women and men make in Florida is actually pretty low compared to the rest of the country, and the Sunshine State actually has the 11th narrowest gap in the nation.Here’s the bad news: That gap still means a Florida woman makes…
Some people steal things for monetary and material gain. Others steal things because they are just truly horrible people who get a kick out of hurting others. Joseph W. Pointer, 51, of Lakeland, Florida, is apparently in the later category.He allegedly stole a dead woman’s ashes and then told the…
Up until the last 50 seconds of last night’s 101-98 win over the New Jersey Nets, the Miami Heat were flat out refusing to give a single fuck. Oh they had fucks. Had them stored away somewhere. Perhaps in a box inside a FedEx truck marked “playoffs.” But they just…
When the FBI swooped into Miami Beach last week to arrest seven city workers for extorting thousands from a South Beach club, the higher-ups in City Hall shouldn’t have been shocked. The Miami Herald got their hands on the personnel records of the five code officers and two fire inspectors…
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A Miami Dade College employee made a grisly discovery this morning, stumbling upon a dead body in a bathroom at the university’s Kendall campus.The employee found the unidentified man’s corpse between 6 and 7 a.m. A message was quickly sent out to university faculty, staff, and students, but police say…
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the day the final sex offenders moved out from the infamous encampment under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. However, the problems that created the camp in the first place haven’t been totally eased, and earlier this year sex offenders started popping up in a road…
Today is the first day of FCAT testing for students across the state, and on Twitter some high school students are sharing their secrets to getting high scores. Not good scores, mind you, but the kind of scores you get when you’re literally high. Like stoned, or at the very…
