Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi may be fighting to repeal President Obama’s healthcare reform laws in court, but the new laws have already saved Floridians close to $142 million, and most of the laws haven’t even gone into effect yet. The savings come from Medicare recipients who now pay less…
Miami’s urban core skyrocketed with glistening glass high-rises during the real estate boom, but little was done to turn the area’s neighborhoods into truly integrated, livable communities. Will the next step in the Magic City’s perpetual urban makeover include more neighborhoods where parks, retails shops, apartment buildings, and, uh, a…
Two women are in critical condition at the Ryder Trauma Center after being shot during a bizarre incident that started with hair pulling at the Molino Rojo Bar in Little Havana last night. Meanwhile, 35-year-old Fidencio Membrano now sits in jail and faces charged of attempted murder and battery…
Controversy seems to follow North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre wherever he goes. So, naturally, now he’s managed to get himself in a public feud with his kid’s science teacher.Laurie Futterman, a science teacher at the David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Center, showed up last week at a city council meeting to…
Former Miami Hurricane and current Washington Redskin Rocky McIntosh was a guest on D.C.-area sports radio show this morning, and on the day after national signing day the hosts had recruiting on their mind. They started throwing questions at McIntosh about what part strip clubs and hot girls may have…
It’s easy to forget now, but Miami Beach was once the nexus of the world boxing scene thanks mostly to Angelo Dundee, the Hall of Fame trainer who opened the legendary 5th Street Gym with his brother Chris. Dundee trained dozens of elite fighters at the SoBe gym — most…
The Miami Heat looked like they were on their way to demolishing the entire Milwaukee Bucks franchise into a fine powder after scoring a season-high 40 points in the opening quarter of last night’s game. And then?Deercocks.For what seemed like the 30 billionth time this season, the Heat couldn’t close…
Newt Gingrich isn’t the only portly revolutionary stirring up trouble while running for president. Hugo Chavez, the Fidel-worshiping steward of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, has his own tough re-election fight on his hands at the moment.Instead of annoying robocalls, Hugo’s supporters took a different tact to inspire the base earlier this…
In news that will shock no one who eats out on South Beach, parks in Brickell or tries to buy some influence with the Miami-Dade County Commission (those lobbying fees ain’t cheap!), Miami has been honored this morning as one of the most overpriced towns in the nation.High unemployment, skyrocketing…
Hialeah Park, Florida’s greatest racetrack, battles mega-casinos and lawsuits
Miami imams accused of funding terrorists: Hate and redemption
Florida’s weirdest proposed laws: Purple trees, barking frogs and slow golf carts
Boucher Brothers enrages SoBe surfers with no-bid board-renting contract
Project Hope employees say tutoring program won’t pay up
The Super Bowl prostitution hoax
A Florida teacher is in hot water after administrating some hot sauce-based discipline.Lillian Gomez, a special needs teacher at Sunrise Elementary School in Kissimme, Florida, had a problem with some of her autistic students eating the crayons. So, she decided to dip the crayons in hot sauce. She’s now been…
We thought we’d have to wait for a Point Break sequel to see someone in an Obama mask pull off a robbery, but the insanity of Florida has pulled through where Hollywood hasn’t. Police are on the hunt for a man who held up a Riviera Beach McDonald’s this weekend…
Some of the most enriching experiences student have in college come outside of the classroom and in various campus clubs and activities, but students at Florida A&M University may be missing out on those opportunities. In a perhaps overzealous way of battling hazing at the school in the wake of…
Earlier today, Riptide’s resident Tea Party trouble-maker Gus Garcia-Roberts took a strong stand against Libertarian hero Ron Paul — as well as his allegedly “sandpapery man hands” — while demanding that Paul “cease to exist (in politics.)”To say that Paul’s supporters were angry at Garcia-Roberts column would be to say that…
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There’s no longer a Gansevoort in Miami Beach. The hotel on 23rd and Collins is now known as the Perry. It’s a long overdue name change as the hotel hasn’t had anything to do with the owners of the original Gansevoort Hotel in New York for a few years now…
The hillbilly heroin hoedown in Florida has ended. The number of pain pills sold by Florida doctors dropped 97 percent from 2010 to 2011 according to the DEA. In 2010, 90 of the top 100 Oxy-prescribing doctors in the country were in Florida. In 2011, just 13 made the list,…
