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…
Fifty people dead at a gay club in Orlando. Another 53 injured. By all accounts, they were targeted specifically as members or allies of the LGBT community. The month is a nation-wide celebration of gay pride, timed to remember the Stonewall Riots when LGBT people fought for their rights, including…
Frank Hammar, a student originally from Sweden, was expecting to graduate from the Miami Ad School next week. His parents were in town, and the family went out to eat at the trendy Wynwood Diner. After finishing up at around 11:30, Hammar separated from his family and headed back to…
In terms of their stated underlying political ideologies Donald Trump and deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez don’t have much in common. For starters, Trump loves capitalism. He happens to think he’s one of the best capitalists of all time. Chávez has such a disdain for capitalism that he once wondered…
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s political headache is getting worse. Calls for an independent investigation into a $25,000 donation made by Donald Trump to Bondi’s PAC continue to grow, and the AG has now been hit with three separate ethics complaints filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics, Florida Elections Commission, and…
A rough guide to getting the national press’ attention during a heated presidential election: Paradoxically back a candidate who has repeatedly denigrated your ethnic heritage. Print bright T-shirts. Invite the TV crews. That was the game plan this week for a small Miami group calling themselves Latinas for Trump and…
The City of Miami Beach Commission unanimously approved an ordinance today that will raise the minimum wage in the city to $13.31 an hour by 2021. Miami Beach will be the first municipality in Florida to hike its minimum wage above the state level, and the new law falls in…
Even by Miami’s usual standards for knock-down, drag-out development fights, the political brawl over a proposed luxury condo tower in booming Sunset Harbour has been especially bare knuckled. First, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine recused himself from the deal in March because he owns property nearby. Then, when Beach Towing began…
Two candidates running against state Sen. Gwen Margolis in the newly redrawn District 38 are demanding an apology from the 81-year-old senator after she allegedly referred to three of her five opponents as “three Haitians” at a recent campaign event. Don Festge, a North Miami teacher who is running for…
Last night the Associated Press announced that Hillary Clinton had secured the support of enough delegates (both super and otherwise) to clinch the Democratic nomination for president. Tonight, she’s widely expected to shore up a majority of the popular vote and pledged delegates during the final round of primary contests…
“When I want something I get it,” Trump memorably said of his relationships with career politicians at a rally in Iowa back in January. “When I call, they kiss my ass. It’s true.” Turns out, sometimes Trump doesn’t even have to make the call to get an ass kissing. Florida…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican from Miami, is like the Azealia Banks of Congress. She always seems to find herself feuding with some celebrity or another. Beyoncé, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez have all found themselves on the other end of a critical Twitter lashing from Ros-Lehtinen. Though the congresswoman…
Is it possible to run too far to the right in a Florida GOP primary? Nah, probably not. That’s what a new poll out this morning suggests, at least. Because Carlos Beruff, the Miami-born businessman whose earned the nickname of the “Cuban-American Trump,” is currently leading a crowded Republican field…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida’s longest serving member of congress, won’t be getting a guaranteed ride to re-election. Though she had already drawn two Democratic challengers (Thomas Cruz-Wiggins, a “poet obedient to Christ,” and Frank Perez, an Army veteran), she’s drawn a new challenger with backing from the national Democratic party. …
Despite an acknowledged longshot chance at the nomination, Bernie Sanders and his campaign has trudged on. One of their main reasons, as we’re sure a friend or two of yours has explained in an impassioned Facebook status update, is that at that moment Sanders fairs better than Hillary Clinton in national…
In a few short hours, your torturous work will will be at an end. All that will stand between you and a glorious cocktail are a few painful moments slogging home through Friday afternoon traffic. But today, assuming you’re traveling anywhere near Miami Beach, those few moments are likely to…
Outside of Washington, D.C., itself, Miami might be ground zero for Republican establishment-types who can’t stand Donald Trump. Both the city and county mayor refuse to endorse him. Local GOP power-players like Ana Navarro deplore him. All three local Republican members of congress want nothing to do with him. (At…
The PGA is pulling its annual event out of the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort according to multiple reports and even Donald Trump himself. The World Golf Championship event may wind up in, of all places, Mexico City instead. Trump, the presumed Republican presidential candidate, actually broke the news…
As Marco Rubio’s campaign buckled under a Donald Trump tsunami back in February, the Miami senator tried a last ditch maneuver to stem the tide: He started outright mocking a guy famous for brutally making fun of his opponents. Rubio — correctly — called him “orange” and a “con man.”…
Donald Trump’s two-pronged line of attack against Marco Rubio was that he was a tool of the Republican establishment with an abysmal attendance record as a U.S. senator. The line of attack worked so well that Trump shellacked Rubio by nearly 19 points in Florida. Rubio’s home-state loss was in…
King of Diamonds is arguably the hip-hop world’s most famed strip club. It’s a 50,000-square-foot warehouse packed with more than 200 dancers, some famous for clinging to the rafters before spiraling down a pole as dollar bills fall like a summer downpour. “It’s like going to a party at LIV,…
There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Florida Governor Rick Scott. Two videos purporting to be from the loosely organized hacktivist group “Anonymous” fail to make them. The videos, produced in the familiar style of Anonymous, popped up in the past few days on an obscure Facebook profile registered…
