When Wikileaks published a trove of hacked Democratic National Committee emails in July, website founder Julian Assange promised the world he’d upend the 2016 presidential election. That hasn’t quite happened, but Assange did get to at least claim one politician as a trophy: The document dump forced Rep. Debbie Wasserman…
By any measure, South Florida’s zika outbreak is far from under control. At least 15 people have now been locally infected in Miami, with the latest reported case transmitted outside the hot zone of Wynwood. Serious questions are being asked about lacking state and local funding for mosquito control. And…
When the Miami Herald asked State Rep. Daphne Campbell in 2012 about $145,000 in tax liens the Internal Revenue Service had placed against her, Campbell denied that the liens even existed. “I don’t have no tax liens,” she told the paper, despite the fact that the Herald had obtained federal documents that said…
Even by Donald Trump’s standards, his war of words with Khizr and Ghazala Khan — the Muslim parents whose son died fighting for the U.S. in Iraq — has been a truly ugly piece of political theater. Trump’s unabashed attacks on the Khans left top Republicans scrambling this weekend, with…
Marco Rubio, Florida’s most brazen political opportunist, used the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando as an excuse to run for Senate reelection, despite having said about a thousand times that his career as a U.S. Senator was over. After the shooting, he told the Advocate, the nation’s largest LGBT magazine, that the…
Moishe Mana loves America, and he certainly isn’t going to let a man like Donald Trump walk all over it. During an interview with New Times yesterday, the Miami super-developer, who owns most of the southern end of Wynwood, sounded choked up talking about his pride for this country. “I came…
Modesto “Mitch” Maidique is so convinced there’s a divide between what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says and what he truly believes, he says he’s “almost at the point of making a Trump dictionary.” “Trump says we have to build a wall because all of these people, some of whom…
When Justin Bieber gets in a jam or things get a little too wild for Girls Gone Wild head honcho Joe Francis, they know who to call: Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The famed attorney has represented scores of celebrity clients, appeared on “The Law Firm,” a short-lived legal version…
The fallout from the trove of Democratic National Committee emails published by Wikileaks has been swift. Bernie supporters have raged over his treatment by DNC staffers, and our own Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had to step down as the organization’s head. But the leak also shows that DNC staffers were…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided that her latest gaffe as Democratic National Committee chair will be her last. Today, the Florida congresswoman — whose 23rd Congressional District encompasses Miami Beach and the southern third of Broward County — announced she will resign as DNC chair after the party’s convention in…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did not enter the Republican National Convention this week with the best credibility on ethics. Just last month, news broke that she’d personally solicited a $25,000 donation from Donald Trump just before dropping an investigation into fraud complaints against his private university. So it was a…
For a few months earlier this year, Sen. Marco Rubio seemed to have actually grown a spine. On the campaign trail, he dished out hard truths about Donald Trump, arguing passionately that Republicans would be making a historic mistake by nominating the xenophobic, serially dishonest populist. Then came Rubio’s crushing…
When fliers advertising a “no ID” teen party at King of Diamonds began circulating across social media earlier this year, local politicians reacted with horror. After the outcry, the promoter canceled the party at the famed strip club. But now some Miami-Dade commissioners want to make sure minors are not…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
Donald Trump just can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet, South Florida cash. After canceling a thinly veiled money-begging opportunity in Miami earlier this month due to the recent police shootings in Dallas, Trump has announced that he’s coming back to South Florida at the end of July. This time,…
Starting today, thousands of (mostly white) people will gather in Cleveland, Ohio to horribly embarrass themselves and our nation. They will argue that scientists are wrong about climate change, that gay people don’t have the right to marry, and that Americans shouldn’t be allowed to watch porn. And then they…
On Monday, Gov. Rick Scott’s “Let’s Get to Work” political-action committee published its very own presidential poll, which claimed Donald Trump had taken a two-point lead over Hillary Clinton in Florida’s presidential race. This being Scott, a man who lies about as often as Frank Abignale, the poll was met with…
Most human beings would have a hard time sitting down to some ropa vieja with a guy they just spent months calling a “con man” and suggesting on national television might also have a tiny little micropenis. But then again, most human beings aren’t shameless political opportunist on the level…
Donald Trump will give a his first campaign speech in Miami tomorrow — but it won’t be open to the public. Maybe that’s because was forced to cancel his last planned rally in Doral in March after protesters planned to storm the event. Or perhaps it’s due to the fact that…
Black people make up one-fifth of Miami-Dade County’s population. It doesn’t exactly take a Nobel Laureate to see the county hasn’t always treated its majority-black neighborhoods with a ton of respect. (See: Beckham, David.) There’s no one reason for the routine neglect of African-American areas, but a study released today…
When the Miami Herald recently asked for public records from Miami Beach about the city’s water quality, City Hall responded with a whopping $72,793.53 bill for the documents. That lead to loud protests from First Amendment groups, with one leader calling the bill “crazy” and filmmaker Billy Corben penning a memorable demand letter…
There are over 20 million people in Florida. That’s a population larger than all but two other senate districts. Which means there are millions of Floridians who are technically eligible to run for senate. Theoretically, at least a few thousands of them could actually do a damn good job at…
