After decades of inaction from city leaders and the Miami Heat on creating a promised park behind American Airlines Arena, Miami activists took matters into their own hands in June. Hundreds gathered to rechristen a stretch of waterfront asphalt as “Dan Paul Park,” named for a pioneering parks activist, aiming…
It wouldn’t be a presidential election without a debate in Miami, and today the Democratic National Committee announced that Hillary, Bernie and whoever else jumps in or is still around by that time will be coming to Miami in either February or March. The debate will be co-sponsored by Univision…
After the state Supreme Court threw out Florida’s congressional districts as unconstitutional and politically motivated, the state legislature will assemble for its second special session of the year next Monday to redraw fairer district. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and Senate President Andy Gardiner, both Republicans, instructed staff to draw up a…
Whooping cough may be one of the nastiest diseases to get. Symptoms can last for weeks or even months, and coughing fits can be so severe that patients have been known to vomit or break a rib in the midst of cough and gasping for air. Vaccines have helped to…
Ten years after we reached peak-Hipster, mainstream political candidates are finally getting in on all those super trendy hipster fashions. Miami’s Jeb Bush seems to be leading the way on the Republican side. In fact, the candidate just unleashed some new merch that wouldn’t seem out of place on the…
Just nine months after rejecting a medical marijuana amendment, Floridians overwhelmingly say they’re ready to approve it in 2016. Continuing on that surprising progressive street, most Floridians also agree that the minimum wage should be raised to at least $10.00 an hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the vast income inequality that…
Just months before he decided to run for President, Donald Trump was the center of a much smaller controversy at the municipal level. The city of Doral went back and forth on whether to give Trump its key to the city for renovations he made to the historic Doral Golf…
Some of Rep. Alan Grayson’s more colorful comments may get him labeled a crazy liberal, but what’s that old cliché about the true definition of Insanity. The one Bill Clinton, of all people, repeated several time during his 1992 campaign? Oh, right. Doing the same thing over and over and…
Despite the controversy he leaves in his path everywhere he goes, Donald Trump is now in first place in the Republican primary in many national polls. Conventional wisdom however had it that there’d be no way he’d be able to take the lead in Florida. For one thing, our former…
A series of highly-edited undercover videos showing people associated with Planned Parenthood officers talking about donating tissues after abortion procedures has the Pro-Life crowd in an uproar and claiming that Planned Parenthood sells “baby body parts.” Florida Governor Rick Scott has now launched an investigation into Florida’s 16 Planned Parenthood…
Your Facebook has likely been full of rage this week over the death of Cecil the Lion at the hand of Minnesota dentist Walter J. Palmer. Of course there’s a Florida connection: Palmer owns a second home over in Marco Island, but it’s another Marco who has provided an even weirder…
Hillary Clinton may be by all accounts the leading presidential candidate, but she’s been criticized for holding few events open to the public so far. That might change this Friday at Florida Intentional University …or it might not. All we know for sure is that Clinton will be on Campus…
Yes, the 2016 election is more than 15 months away and you’re all already sick of the Presidential race (thanks Donal Trump), thanks to Marco Rubio aiming for the White House, Floridians will also have a wide open Senate race to decide. A lot of the candidate are relatively unknown…
Over 1 out of 10 Florida adult citizens are unable to vote. That’s the highest rate in the nation by far. In fact, about half of all disenfranchised Americans in the entire country are right here in Florida? Why is that? Because Florida places some of the toughest standards on…
Donald Trump may be the leading Republican candidate nationally according to both the Real Clear Politics and Pollster average of polls, but in Florida he’s an also ran candidate. In fact, a recent poll found that Trump is in a distant fourth place in the Sunshine State behind native boys…
You’ve undoubtedly seen the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag all over the internet this past year. Which means, if you were paying attention, you’ve probably seen some white person glide into Facebook comments or someone’s Twitter replies to declare, “Um, excuse me, but don’t you mean all lives matter?” This now familiar internet…
Just over one year ago, Miami voters approved a ballot measure giving developer Jeffrey Berkowitz the go-ahead to build an oddly shaped, 1,000-foot bay-front tower called Skyrise Miami. The tower would lure hundreds of thousands of tourists, Berkowitz pledged, and even better, taxpayers wouldn’t foot a cent. City Mayor Tomas…
Laura Pierre is an eighteen-year-old high school graduate who now works full time at a Miami Chipotle. Yesterday, she gathered with dozens of other fast-food, airport, and home-care workers with a simple demand local politicians: minimum wages to match the $15 an hour that New York’s wage board recommended for…
According to Open Secrets, the second-largest for-profit prison operator in the country, GEO Group, is one of the top contributors to Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. Between 2013 and 2014, GEO Group gave Rubio $41,500, more than any other presidential candidate . The group is the ninth highest contributor to Rubio’s…
Last November, 58 percent of Florida voters supported Amendment 2, which would have made medical marijuana legal in Florida. Even though the majority of voters were in favor of the amendment, it wasn’t enough to pass. The vote was just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold. But the…
With diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba now formally re-established and a Cuban embassy up and running in Washington, the next question is where Cuba’s first consulate will go. Not that there’s much question where it should go, based on logic alone: WIth 800,000 or so Cuban-Americans in South…
On June 28, Chloe Arenas woke up before the sun to pick up her mother and grandmother from an early morning flight. But the 21-year-old University of Central Florida student never reached the airport. Soon after worried friends and family called police, her car was found submerged in a retention…
