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Rick Scott Ducks Trump but Lets George W. Bush Fundraise for His Senate Run

For all of Donald Trump's ills, he has not done anything (yet) as evil as lying to the American public in order to start a continent-destabilizing war that killed 500,000 to 1 million Iraqis. George W. Bush is a monster who jump-started the NSA's internet-spying apparatus, launched America into a perpetual state of war across the globe...
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How the Murder of a Palm Beach Doctor Brought the United States and Cuba Together

On July 19, 2015, detectives arrived at Ronald O. Schwartz's secluded Jupiter Farms home and found him lying on his bedroom floor, his head haloed by a pool of blood. Two back doors were open, and the entire house had been ransacked. A .40-caliber shell casing lay near him. The 65-year-old retired gynecologist and multimillionaire was dead.
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Tony Albelo’s Quirky Sense of Humor Is Transforming Wynwood

It was one day before April Fool's, but this was no prank. Around 7 p.m. March 31, 2012, the Miami Entertainment Complex on NW 14th Street was filled with smoke. Chefs from about 30 restaurants had fired up grills inside the giant warehouse for a burger event called the Grind...
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South Florida Cop Wore “QAnon” Conspiracy Patch With Mike Pence

Vice President Mike Pence arrived at Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport just after noon on Friday. He was greeted by a Broward Sheriff's Office SWAT team that included one cop in a #QAnon conspiracy-theory patch. #QAnon is, of course, the batshit-insane, 4Chan-based conspiracy theory that claims Donald Trump is secretly fighting a...
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The Five Weirdest Trump-Russia Ties to South Florida

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has turned in his report on alleged Russian interference to the Justice Department. Very few people know what Mueller has been up to for the last two-odd years — maybe he's proved that Donald Trump met Vladimir Putin at a Cheesecake Factory in Volgograd, where they...
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Global Warming Will Bake Florida’s Outdoor Workers, Study Warns

Climate change will hurt working-class and poor communities the hardest. Monsoons and absurd levels of heat are already battering huge portions of India, for example. Closer to home, much has already been written about "climate gentrification" in Miami — that is, the process by which wealthier people are buying...
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Haulover Beach Closed as Red Tide Reaches Miami

After months of watching a wrenching natural catastrophe unfolding in slow motion across Florida's Gulf Coast and hoping against hope it wouldn't move to the Atlantic, Miami's dreaded day has come at last: Red tide is here.
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FPL Wins State Approval to Build New Natural-Gas Power Plant in South Florida

The United Nations recently told everyone on Earth to stop emitting carbon dioxide into the air by 2050. Despite this warning, Florida Power & Light (FPL), the largest energy company in the Sunshine State, is now all but definitely building a fracked-gas-burning power plant in Dania Beach. Today, Florida's Siting Board, a panel consisting of Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet, unanimously approved FPL's $888 million plan.
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Trump’s Acting Attorney General Was Part of Miami-Based Invention Scam Company

Today President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions and announced that his chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker, would become acting attorney general. Whitaker is a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, but he was also involved in a Miami-based invention-marketing company that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shut down last year after calling it a scam.
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A Scott Appointee Is in Charge of Calling for a Nelson-Scott Senate Recount

Ken Detzner, Florida's secretary of state, once conducted a voter-roll purge so obvious that the U.S. Department of Justice had to swoop in and stop him. Earlier this year, Detzner brazenly tried to prevent the state from opening more early-voting sites at colleges, which a judge said “reveal[ed] a stark pattern of discrimination.”...
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Take Your Sons to “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning”

The image of the prototypical feminist has not changed much since its inception: She’s angry, unshaven, and suspicious of men, if not downright misandrist. Judy Chicago, on the other hand, laughs easily. She wears dangling blue earrings and affectionately introduces her husband.
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Miami-Dade Housing Prices Are Rising Faster Than Wages

Good news! Wages are finally rising in Miami-Dade County, a major metro area where the median income is a paltry $46,000, which is much lower than that of other cities of comparable size, such as Boston, Philadelphia, and Seattle. Whoops, we forgot to mention one thing, though: Miami-area housing prices are rising way faster than those wages.
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Get Your Chinese Barbecue Fix at West Dade’s King Duck

Molly Lu was desperate for a taste of home. For more than a decade, she's lived in Miami with her Cuban husband, Miguel Astorquiza, longing for the roast duck and crispy pork belly she grew up with in Jiangmen just outside of Macau. "My dad has three sisters and two brothers, and all of them own Cantonese barbecue restaurants...
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ACLU Accuses Miami Police of “Systematically” Harassing the Homeless

The Miami Police Department has been banned since 1998 from arresting homeless people for sleeping outside or from destroying their property on public sidewalks. Thanks to a decade-long ACLU lawsuit that resulted in that '98 agreement, cops must give the homeless a chance to enter a shelter before they can be arrested for "life-sustaining" activities such as showering outdoors.