Most local officials would jump at the chance to take their talents to Washington. Who wouldn’t want national influence? Apparently not Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. He claims he turned down a job offer from Obama’s secretary of education Arne Duncan…
Every year, Florida lawmakers propose more than a thousand bills. Some of them are admirable and important changes designed to make our streets safer, our schools better, and our citizenry healthier. Then there are the other 92 percent. Here are the eight most awesomely befuddling and obscure bills from this…
Alcohol impairs your judgment? Screw it, we’ll have a shot of whiskey, a beer, and a Latin Builders Association membership application.Starting early Friday morning in downtown Miami, the LBA invited guests to drink their way to Decision 2012, offering 2 cocktail sessions between speeches by Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Scott,…
We’re not going to say that bicyclists are better than everyone. We’re just going to tell you that LeBron James rode his bicycle to work yesterday and then made one of the most awesome slam dunks in NBA history by literally jumping over an opponent. We’re going to let you…
Marc Buoniconti is a hero here in Miami. His father, Nick Buoniconti, played on the legendary ’72 team that went 17-0. After Marc’s own career was cut short in 1985 when he was paralyzed while playing football for The Citadel, he and his father raised $350 million to start the…
Sure, most women can thanks their enhanced bust lines for landing a man, cutting the line at a club, or getting inundated with cat calls, but only one can claim that her boob job literally saved her life.An unidentified Florida woman was stabbed in through the chest, but her saline…
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A four-month-old baby boy was on life support at Jackson Memorial Hospital this morning while his father appeared in court on charges of putting him there. Yosi Mahlab, 30 of North Miami, stands accused of beating his own son on January 21. The child lost brain activity as a result…
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez may think America is an evil imperialist empire, but his teenage daughter Rosines sure seems to love our dollar, dollar bill, y’all. The 14-year-old snapped a picture of herself posing behind a fan of United States currency and shared it on Instagram…
Portraying our first African-American president as the captain of a slave ship in a political ad probably isn’t the world’s best idea. Mark Oxner, a Republican running for Congress in the Orlando area, did just that. It’s not so much offensive, really, as it is laughably terrible…
Mitt Romney has got his groove back.Earlier this week, polls showed Newt Gingrich firmly in control of the Florida primary with a lead of as many as nine points. Then it became a virtual tie. Now two major polls show Romney is once again ahead of the former House speaker just days before…
At last, an explanation for why Rick Santorum has been acting so unhinged in the Sunshine State, from inviting an ex-Yahweh ben Yahweh member to open his campaign rally last weekend to making truly bizarre proclamations about rape: Turns out he’s really tired!Santorum, who will speak at the Miami Downtown…
There are bosses, and then there are bad bosses. Orlando Valdez would seem to fall into the second category, at least according to Angela Castillo. When Castillo, a South Miami Hospital CAT scan technician, found out that her brother had unexpectedly died last month, she says she told Valdez that she…
The Port of Miami’s much-debated “Deep Dredge” will be delayed for months — possibly years — as a Tallahassee judge hears arguments for and against the project this August.Port officials tell Riptide that they are optimistic the project will still be completed on time. But a lawyer representing environmentalists says…
Increasingly distant third place candidate Rick Santorum is desperately trying to jump start his campaign, so he’s come out with a bold new attack on the Obama administration: college is evil.”It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college,” Santorum told an audience in Naples, Florida, yesterday according…
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You’ve surely heard Martin Niemöller famous quote about the German intellectual and religious communities complacency during the Nazis’ rise to power in 1930s Germany. It includes the line, “Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.”Well, Rick Scott decided to appropriate the…
The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba’s lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings…
A former student at Ronald W. Reagan/Doral Senior High School has filed a lawsuit against the district, claiming that his face was used to illustrate a school newspaper article on sexually transmitted diseases in teenagers. After the article, kids teased him with the nickname “STD Boy”…
Click here to read Cultist’s interview with “Shit Miami Girls Say” co-star Michelle Sicars.Miami may pride itself as a trendy city, but we sure do take a long, long time catching up on Internet trends. Finally, more than a month after the initial “Shit Girls Say” video dropped and then…
Things aren’t getting much better for Newt Gingrich in Florida. Yesterday, three different polls showed that he’s lost his lead over Romney in the state, and now his campaign has admitted his now infamously fiery response to a South Carolina debate question about his ex-wife’s claims he wanted an open…
It’s a not a true Miami saga unless it includes a full out brawl on a Spanish language talk show, so it’s really no surprise that during a taping of Cristina Saralegui’s Telemundo show yesterday Corey Eubanks, the man who was arrested as an accomplice in the case of accused…
