Jose Oliva is the first Florida House of Representatives speaker from Miami since Marco Rubio. Tomorrow, as he gavels in the state’s legislative session, the 46-year-old Hialeah Republican faces some of the thorniest issues in state history: pot, guns in school, and felon voting rights, to name a…
Matt Gaetz, Florida congressman and human worm, had a hell of a week. He defended someone associated with the alt-right, all but certainly committed a literal crime on Twitter, and topped it all off by defending a billionaire child-rapist. The sad part, of course, is that a lot of…
Miami-Dade County is not affordable. Rent is astronomical compared to the median income. But in many cases, lawmakers are hamstrung. They can force developers to set aside affordable units, but they can’t build complexes with reasonable rents.
The University of Miami’s Infectious Disease Elimination Act (IDEA) Exchange gives clean syringes to heroin and opiate users as long as they deliver dirty needles to the clinic. The program gets used needles off the street and cuts overdose rates as well as disease transmission.
In a stunning congressional hearing, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified the president lied under oath in a civil case involving the doomed Trump Tower and International Hotel project on Fort Lauderdale Beach. “Isn’t it true that President Trump misled at best or, at worst, lied under oath [in a Fort Lauderdale case deposition]?”…
Before reopening the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children last year, the U.S. government was aware of at least five prior allegations of child sexual abuse at the facility, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents released Tuesday by Florida Rep. Ted Deutch’s office.
In a bid to make President Donald Trump seem like a good person and morally upstanding businessman, Florida Congressmember Matt Gaetz just tried to publicly blackmail a federal witness on Trump’s behalf. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former “lawyer” and body-man who spent years coordinating various sketchy business deals on Trump’s behalf,…
Jorge Ramos is our kind of guy. The Univision anchor is on his way to the airport in Caracas this morning after being detained yesterday for infuriating Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro with a video of young Venezuelans eating from a garbage truck. After Trump’s State Department weighed in, Ramos and…
Last week, notorious right-wing provocateur and misinformation artist Roger Stone sat in a Washington, D.C. courtroom and stated that a team of Florida-based “volunteers” runs his social-media accounts, handles his cell-phone, and “revolves” in and out of his home. Stone listed three well known members of the Proud Boys extremist…
Throughout Marco Rubio’s push to attack Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the Florida senator’s defenders have claimed it would be nothing like the military disasters of the past. But Rubio yesterday seriously undermined that argument — by comparing this new conflict to the ’80s Cold War and catastrophic 2011 invasion of Libya.
Historically, the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA), a trade group that represents and lobbies on behalf of payday loan companies, has held its annual conference in California during odd-numbered years. But this year, the organization plans to host its 2019 event at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Doral.
Roger Stone today is sitting in a D.C. federal court begging a judge not to crack down on him for being, well, Roger Stone. The Fort Lauderdale resident was arrested last month as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russian hackers.
As Roger Stone heads to court today to defend an apparent threat he aimed at the judge in his case, it’s a good time to look at his disturbing history of making similar threats of violence, domestic terrorism, and even civil war. Stone, the Fort Lauderdale resident arrested in an FBI raid last month on charges related to Robert Mueller’s investigation…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said virtually nothing about Matt Gaetz in public. But, given the life experience and political beliefs of the Democratic U.S. representative from New York, she likely finds her Florida Republican colleague cretinous. She’s a former bartender who skyrocketed to fame by making a moral and pragmatic case…
In a move that foreign-policy experts say is both unprecedented and dangerous, Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart this past weekend showed up in Cúcuta, Colombia, a town on the Venezuelan border, to effectively threaten war against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro.
It’s not clear whether former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020. But something else is apparent: He’s making money by keeping the public guessing. He pocketed a $150,000 speaking fee for a January trip to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, according to newly unearthed public records.
Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In the 12 months since 17 kids and teachers were slaughtered, mass-shootings have obviously not stopped, and it is still remarkably easy to obtain a gun in Florida. Numerous news outlets — including the New York…
One of the nation’s landmark homeless-protection laws is now gone. Since May 2018, the City of Miami has been trying to invalidate a 1998 legal decision that prevented city cops from arresting homeless people for living their lives outside. The so-called Pottinger Agreement, named for homeless Miamian Michael Pottinger…
Business has been good for Cape-Canaveral based Comprehensive Health Services, a federal contractor that specializes in providing medical care and other support services to major government projects. The company, for example, currently holds a $180 million contract to run Miami-Dade’s Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, the largest federal detention…
There’s a growing movement in America to defund and/or abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE was created in 2003 — many progressives within the Democratic party are currently debating whether we should dissolve the deportation agency, shift some of its least-harmful responsibilities to other agencies, and pare back America’s…
The Florida Democrats are constantly in a shambles — but they’re even more of a mess than usual lately. Left-leaning voices within the party are furious at leader Terrie Rizzo and second-in-command Juan Peñalosa since Republicans flattened the Dems in statewide races during the 2018 midterm elections. After the losses, critics noted that…
Over the last year or so, money from the City of Miami’s Anti-Poverty Initiative has gone toward setting up college savings accounts for kindergarten students, helping low-income residents purchase vehicles to get to work, and funding the United Way’s Thanksgiving Drive. But Commissioner “Loco Joe” Carollo has his…
