The rumors hit over the weekend: King of Diamonds, the legendary hip-hop strip club, was coming to Ocean Drive. By Monday, that idea had been dashed by KOD, which says a former manager had advertised the idea without first talking to the club’s new ownership. Then, that former manager claimed…
Hillary Clinton has a better chance of winning the traditionally deep red state of Texas than Donald Trump has of winning perpetually purple Florida. That’s at least according to one metric of FiveThirtyEight’s just debuted 2016 Election Forecast. That’s how bad things are looking for Donald Trump in the Sunshine State (his own…
William Jose Velez doesn’t necessarily hate the City of Miami’s flag. In fact, his problem is that he doesn’t think Miamians love the orange and green emblem enough. “There are cities that have flags they’re really proud of, like Washington D.C. or Chicago, or states like Maryland, and the…
Meet Mark Freeman. He’s a doctor who has decided to throw his hat into the race to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional district (the one Patrick Murphy is leaving to run for the senate). He’s self-financing his campaign and is strongly conservative. He also seems to see American politics as not just a battle…
Last March Governor Rick Scott signed one of the most sweeping anti-abortion laws in Florida’s recent history into law. It is scheduled to go into effect on Friday. One of the new law’s key provisions is that it requires any doctor performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local…
In his first national TV interview since committing the mother of all flip-flops to jump back into a race for Senate, Marco Rubio went on Face the Nation yesterday to take a strong, bold stand against Donald Trump’s signature policies — and to set the record straight that there was zero…
There’s been a war brewing on Ocean Drive for months now. On one side, residents and boutique hotel owners who argue that the iconic strip has devolved into a drunken, tacky mess. On the other, late-night restaurants and bars who say the strip is just catering to what tourists want…
Meet Andrew Korge. He really, really wants to become a politician. He first signaled his political ambitions last year by publicly discussing a long-term plan that would see him run for a Florida Senate seat that included Miami Beach and much of coastal Miami in 2020. Then redistricting happened. Korge…
Roberto Verdaguer doesn’t think Donald Trump needs his money. That’s one of the main things he likes about the real estate magnate. But that didn’t stop him from sending $250 to Trump’s campaign. “I like the fact that he wants to finance this campaign with his own money,” says Verdaguer,…
Marco Rubio’s decision to run for reelection was highly orchestrated. He wanted to make it seem like other Republicans politicians were basically begging him to get into the race. According to one report, he even tried to get Sen. Ted Cruz to send out an e-mail blast publicly asking for…
The poll numbers for Donald Trump among Hispanic voters are dire. Just last week, ABC found that 90 percent of Latin voters nationwide have a negative view of the Donald. Among Florida Hispanics, Hillary’s lead has polled as high as 51 percent. So as Miami’s own Latinas for Trump group…
Today, a committee in Tallahassee will meet to decide the winner among three finalists for a new statue to represent Florida in the U.S. Capitol Building. Those finalists — who are all perfectly respectable choices — were picked by ordinary Floridians in a monthlong online survey. But we know…
Floridians often joke about Publix being our one shared pride as a state. Whether Republican or Democrat, North Floridians or South, white, black, Latina or otherwise, it seems the one thing that the vast majority of Floridians can completely agree upon is that we love a good Publix supermarket. Shopping there…
Marco Rubio announced this morning that he’s running for Senate after more than a year of not only swearing he wouldn’t run for reelection but openly decrying the work of the legislative body itself. It’s a flip-flop so big that Shaquille O’Neal could happily wear it to the beach. Though,…
Donald Trump’s growing Florida problem isn’t complicated. The Sunshine State is the most diverse of the big swing states up for grabs in November’s election. More than a quarter of residents here are of Hispanic descent, and another 15 percent or so are black. Over the last month, Trump practically…
Just over a week after the most deadly mass shooting by a lone perpetrator in American history occurred in Florida, a state politician has decided to bring attention to his congressional campaign by giving away a version of the weapon used in the attack. State Sen. Greg Evers, who…
Rep. David Jolly, who had a nominal lead among announced candidates in polls for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, has dropped his bid for the higher house. Instead, he’ll try to keep his seat in the House of Representatives. The move comes as anticipation grows that Marco Rubio will announce his…
Marco Rubio is spending this weekend pondering his future, possibly cruising around Miami’s waterways in his “luxury yacht” as he decides whether to make another run for Senate. All signs are that he will. The GOP leadership is begging him to do it. And now his good buddy Lt. Gov…
In another sign of just odd this election is, Floridians, by and large, do not have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Both are seen negatively by well over 50 percent of the states. Here’s where things get even odder: compared to the vast majority of the…
It was exactly one year ago today when Jeb Bush strolled across the stage of the auditorium of Miami Dade College’s Kendall campus to confirm the years of speculation. Yes, he would run for president, and yes he was in it to win it. “We need a president willing to…
Even as he’s promised to deport millions, vowed to build a massive new border wall and slammed a federal judge repeatedly over his Mexican heritage, Donald Trump has insisted that Hispanic voters “love him.” An odd echo of that message found national resonance in Miami last week, when a “Latinas…
A tense showdown played out on CNN earlier today as openly gay journalist Anderson Cooper grilled Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi about her past defense of Florida’s ban on gay marriage. Unlike Governor Rick Scott, Bondi was quick to acknowledge that shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando was an attack…
