What a strange month February has been for Marco Rubio. It was barely a week ago when the pride of West Miami sprinted out of Iowa in third place, riding waves of momentum as the establishment candidate who could take down Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. But an odd software…
There’s still a little over a month and about 20 state primaries and caucuses to go until Floridians get to go vote in their presidential preference contest, but by all indications, the race for both party’s nomination may still very much be contested by then. A new poll out of…
Will this finally be the year Florida bans red light cameras? State Senator Jeff Brandes sure hope so. The Tampa Bay Republican has introduced legislation for the past for years to ban the controversial traffic devices only to see the proposal die every session. His latest attempt has made it…
A Washington Post story last month revealing that Marco Rubio had been arrested after hours in a Brickell Park in 1990 quickly sparked far slimier allegations in the conservative Twittersphere: Namely, that the 18-year-old Rubio had actually been cruising for gay sex in the park with a good friend who…
Joe Garcia may very well end up spending more of his life campaigning for congress than he does actually serving in it. The former one-term Democratic congressman announced his fifth straight candidacy for a Southwestern Miami-Dade congressional district after being defeated in 2014 by current the current Rep., Republican Carlos…
An anti-immigration bill with language so harsh it makes Donald Trump sound like Cesar Chavez by comparison is advancing through Tallahassee right now. How strong are the provisions in HB 1095, the “Prevention of Acts of War”? Not only would the bill let Florida’s governor ban immigrants or refugees from…
Who gets control of your selfies when you die? Who can be entrusted with deleting your problematic tweets when you kick the bucket? Who gets access to your Facebook? Well, the law is murky, but a bill currently flying through the state legislature would clarify the matter in Florida. State Senator…
Has $14.9 million ever bought less? As Jeb Bush’s dispiriting campaign for president limped to an all too predictable wet thud of a finish in Iowa last night, his supporters played down the ramifications. New Hampshire matters much more, they say. Iowa’s strictly conservative base was never a great fit…
There are 120 different speciality license plates available to choose from at your local DMV, but state lawmakers are looking to trim the selection. A bill introduced by state Sen. Jeff Brandes, a Republican from St. Pete, would up the threshold of plates sold to keep speciality plates on the…
Despite the fact Roe v Wade has stood as the law of the land for over 40 years, a Florida House subcommittee passed a bill this week that would effectively make it a felony to perform an abortion in the state of Florida. The bill passed 8-3, but before taking…
Gray-haired abuelas roll creaky carts stacked with clothes inside Wash Time Coin Laundry, a bustling Little Havana storefront a mile west of Marlins Park. Angel Barrios, the owner, folds his arms across his chest and laments his bad luck that a kid he was arrested with 26 years ago has grown…
Rep. Alan Grayson may be Florida’s bluntest politician. He’s never short for words and always says what he means. Unless you ask him who he supports in the Democratic presidential primary. See, Grayson, who is currently running for Senate, accepted a spot on the Hillary Clinton Campaign’s Florida Leadership Council,…
Rep. Charles Van Zant is one of the most socially conservative Republicans in the Florida House. It’s not surprising as the man is also a Southern Baptist minister. Every year since 2010 he’s filed legilsation that would criminalize abortion in Florida, in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s ruling in…
You already know that Jeb Bush is struggling. He’s scuffling so bad that his mom is pleading his case in campaign ads and DJ Khaled is jumping on late-night TV to try to light a spark under the former governor. But even the most cynical Jeb hater had to…
Who could forget one of the biggest Florida political controversies of 2003? Jeb Bush’s nebulous scheme to raise fees on snake owners was all Floridians could talk about in the spring of ’03. It nearly tore families and friends apart. I can still clearly remember one particular tense family gathering…
Last year The New York Times dug into Marco Rubio’s ticket-strewn driving history, and the local response was, “Well, he pretty much drives like a typical Miamian.” Turns out the Times missed a pretty big part of Rubio’s legal history that The Washington Post only just dug up: he was…
Florida’s Republican-lead legislature has a reputation for passing laws favorable to the gun lobby, but some measures even go to far for them. A bill that would have allowed people to carry guns onto college campuses has died in committee just nine days into the legislature’s 2016 session, and doesn’t…
Oh boy, what did we ever do to deserve this? A day after the Democratic presidential candidates come to Miami for their final debate, the Republicans will follow suit to conclude what’s proving to be America’s favorite reality series. The Republican National Committee announced last year that they’ll hold a…
Donald Trump kicked off his presidential campaign with what many saw as anti-Hispanic remarks. According to the latest poll from Florida Atlantic University, Trump is now strongly leading among the state’s Republican GOP voters. Trump is now the favorite candidate of nearly 48 percent of all likely Republican primary voters (a…
TV cameras encircled Pam Bondi outside Bennett’s Fresh Roast, a quaint shop a block from the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, one more stop on a statewide tour in the fall of 2014 with Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi flashed her trademark high-wattage grin, shook her blond locks into place, and…
It’s been an entire month since a major presidential preference poll was taking amongst Florida’s Republican primary voters. They’ve had weeks of new developments, another debate, numerous new wacky ads put out by the candidates, and, we’re sure, wonderfully illuminating discussion about the race with their relatives over the Holiday…
The Real Housewives of D.C. and Miami are the only two entrants in the Bravo franchise that have been cancelled, and yet somehow one of Miami’s representatives in Washington D.C. has snagged herself a cameo on one of the shows. This Sunday, Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Miami Gardens Democrat, will…
