Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate would take direct action at the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church. The Kansas-based fringe church, classified by many experts as an active hate group, is well known for protesting military and other high profile funerals with signs reading “God Hates Fags,”…
Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones beat bribery and grand theft charges, and returned to office. Now we’ll see if she proves as invincible in civil court. Two former witnesses in the criminal case, who claimed that she used forgery to divert a $25,000 grant that was supposed to go to their…
Last year, George W. Bush headlined the Miami Book Fair International. While this year’s edition offers no presidential names on the bill, another former commander-in-chief is preparing for a literary visit to Miami this Fall. The Coral Gables location of Books & Books will be hosting Bill Clinton. He’ll stop…
It’s almost that time of year again when race fans across the nation descend on Homestead for the last race of the NASCAR season. This year they’ll be joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden, meaning that very likely Michelle Obama will become the first black…
All it took was word that Rep. Connie Mack IV was about to enter the GOP primary for the parties’ Senate nomination to finally heat up that sad race. Despite the fact that Mack hasn’t officially announced his candidacy, he now leads the latest Quinnipiac poll by 23 points. George LeMieux…
While several anti-Wall Street sit-ins around the country have devolved into violent stand-offs between police and protesters, Occupy Miami has been as peaceful as can be.Now, however, Miami-Dade County is revoking the protesters permit for Government Center.”The city is trying to get us to move camp tomorrow,” Occupy Miami organizers…
Yesterday we half-wondered if a poll that showed Herman Cain once again leading the GOP pack in Florida was something of an outlier. Well, now a new Quinnipiac poll released this morning and conducted from October 31st to November 7th shows that despite new news of Cain’s habit of settling…
So, you thought news of Herman Cain’s alleged sexual harassment past and his campaign’s subsequent bungling attempt to react to the news would doom the pizza man’s chance of winning the GOP nomination? Yeah, well, not in Florida at least. A new Rasmussen poll taken just yesterday shows that Cain…
Now, you may think that our tall, white, lanky, bald governor could be a horrible dancer, but we have to say he moves with such grace and enthusiasm it almost moved us to tears. His feet move like finely timed fireworks in slow motion, exploding with elegant energy. He’s a…
The paint has long dried on the victory signs declaring billionaire Norman Braman’s success in his drive to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, and yet it’s hard to discern any meaningful policy change that has occurred in Miami-Dade since then. So, it’s not surprising that Braman is now threatening further…
Maybe its the fact that all three Florida teams suck this year. Maybe its the fact that financially strapped Floridians don’t want to shell out for tickets. Whatever the case, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Miami Dolphins have all had to deal with the threat or reality of…
As part of his “Let’s Get to Work” publicity stunt, Florida Governor Rick Scott will be spending the day working at the Port of Miami. Scott was spotted in a hardhat, orange vest and work gloves at the port early this morning, and will spend time working for ocean transportation company…
A graffiti artist’s effigy of a banker hanging alongside Miami’s I-95 has struck a global chord. Since we first reported on the suit-and-tie (and head-covering sack) wearing mannequin that guerrilla artist Above hung to complement his Occupy Miami-themed 255-foot-long mural reading “Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he…
How well does Gov. Rick Scott really know Florida? Apparently not well enough to know that the area including St. Petersburg, Tampa and Clearwater — you know, the second biggest metro area in his state — is pretty commonly referred to as “Tampa Bay.” We don’t like to pull the…
Some Democrats have accused Republicans of intentionally trying to slow economic recovery for political gain. Republicans have tried to dismiss that theory, but it’s not just partisan Dems who believe it. Nearly half of voters in Florida believe “Republicans are intentionally hindering efforts to boost the economy so that President…
In Oakland last week, police at an Occupy protest shot a military vet in the head with a rubber bullet, landing him in critical condition; other video showed officers lobbing dangerous flash bombs into peaceful crowds. In Portland, Maine, a homemade bomb went flying into the demonstration. Police from coast…
Maybe it’s because as secretary of state, she’s not directly involved in DC’s tense fight over economic policy. Maybe it’s because people have a nostalgia for her husband’s terms as president where our biggest national issue was a blowjob. Maybe Hillary Clinton is just a badass. Whatever the case, the…
Will Matti Herrera Bower be able to slide past joke candidate turned semiserious competitor Steve Berke to regain her job as Miami Beach Mayor? Will Raul Martinez return once again to the seat of Hialeah Mayor he held for decades? Will there be any sort of serious shake up on…
Today, The New York Times tallied up the list of U.S. Representatives who have missed the most votes so far this year. A local name popped up at 6th on the list: Frederica Wilson. The first term congresswoman from District 17 hasn’t cast a vote since October 3rd. …
Hey, Miami, you’re welcome. Thanks to the nationwide Occupy movement — including the 305’s very own budding revolt at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center — Bank of America just announced it’s no longer planning to rip off debit card users by charging them five bucks a month. One for Occupy,…
The Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the downtown Bank of America headquarters.Around 10 a.m. this…
Hey, it’s your favorite morning of the year! The one where you stumble out of bed to realize you spent the night next to a stranger dressed like Muammar Gaddafi (too soon?), scrape the caked zombie makeup off your face and stumble to work through a grade-five hangover. But then…
