Coral Gables City Manager Pat Salerno Abruptly Resigns

In his long municipal career, Pat Salerno has shown two consistent tendencies: bringing big-money, landscape-changing projects to fruition and rubbing other government officials the wrong way with his management style. Six years after that latter habit got him run out of Sunrise, Salerno abruptly resigned this morning as Coral Gables…

Jeb Bush Will Decide on Presidential Run By the End of the Year

Miami is looking ever more likely to be the gravitational center of the GOP battle for 2016’s Presidential race. Locally grown Sen. Marco Rubio has already promised to make a call within the next year about whether to toss his hat into the wide-open Republican field and now the man…

Does Rick Scott Hate Fat People and Hispanics?

Rick Scott’s 2010 campaign was such a Tea Party-assisted, out-of-nowhere effort that many Floridians barely had time to fully comprehend his past. Well, this time around Democratic groups have ample time to remind voters of the governor’s checkered business past. Democratic political committee American Bridge is out with a new…

Miami Casino Bill Headed Toward Another Quiet Death in Tallahassee

Another Florida legislative session. Another bill that would allow for destination casinos in Miami-Dade. Another quiet death? With the legislative session hitting the halfway point, House Speaker Will Weatherford admitted today that it’s looking more and more likely neither the House nor Senate will take action on the bill this…

New Bill Would Outlaw Child Marriage in Florida

In Florida, you can get married if you’re a 13-year-old who accidentally knocks up his girlfriend, but not if you’re in a committed adult relationship with someone of the same sex. Rep. Cynthia Stafford, a Miami Democrat, wants to change that. No, not the part about allowing gays to marry,…

Poll: 74 Percent of Floridians Support Medical Marijuana

Poll numbers about how many Floridians support legalizing medical marijuana seem to be all over the place — well, except below the 60 percent necessary it would need to pass. A new University of North Florida poll shows that 74 percent of Floridians intend to vote to legalize medicinal pot…

“Revenge Porn” Bill Unanimously Passes Florida Senate

They don’t agree about much up in Tallahassee, but apparently every state senator is against “revenge porn.” A bill that would make it illegal to post explicit photos of another person online without his or her permission passed the state senate unanimously today. See also: Miami Revenge Porn Victim Holly…

Charlie Crist and His Wife Move Back to Fisher Island

Charlie Crist may be running on a “man of the people” platform, but that hasn’t stopped him from moving to Florida’s most expensive and exclusive zip code. Crist and his wife Carol Rome are apparently spending so much time in South Florida that they’re now renting a condo on ritzy…

Lawmaker Wants To Drug Test Every Single Elected Official In Florida

On the one hand, mass drug testing laws are inherently evil and unconstitutional. But on the other, required screening for the same elected officials who keep trying to force drug tests on welfare recipients and minimum wage-earning state employees would be beautifully ironic — especially in the wake of one…