Politics & Government

Color us stunned that the cofounder of a major Trump campaign support group, who is now running for office herself, has a questionable background and a history of arrests.

Last week, state Sen. Dana Young and Rep. Carlos Guillermo-Smith reintroduced a bill that would ban the use of anabolic steroids in greyhound racing. Because of an outdated regulation, use of the drugs has been permitted in female greyhounds despite dangerous side effects.

Robin Bernstein has been a staple on Palm Beach’s swanky political scene for decades and, despite starting out as a Democratic consultant, rose to become a major GOP operative, a Mar-a-Lago member, and a longtime Donald Trump pal. Now she’s been nominated to represent the U.S. as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

In an eight-candidate Democratic cluster brawling to nab retiring GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s seat in Congress, Matt Haggman is running away with the fundraising game. Haggman, a former Miami Herald reporter and Knight Foundation director, has already pulled in more than $500,000.

Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine at long last announced his run for Florida’s governor today at a Wynwood news conference. With a campaign based on raising the state minimum wage, expanding access to green energy, and fighting sea-level rise —  plus a sizable personal fortune to spend — he has a real shot at snagging the Democratic nomination against three less-than-imposing competitors.

Miami Beach Commission candidate Rafael Velasquez began today by denying he whipped out his penis while sitting in the passenger seat of Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez’s car. He still denies the incident happened even though Rosen Gonzalez is sticking by her allegations…

This might come as a grave shock, but Donald Trump’s bold promises earlier this week to finally blow the lid off the JFK assassination mystery by declassifying reams of secret documents turned out to be a gigantic tease. The National Archives ended up declassifying only a fraction of the JFK documents last night and mostly released details that had already been revealed.

The videos were aired on repeat on local cable news channels as Hurricane Irma battered South Florida: small groups of people breaking into shoe stores and leaving with boxes of stolen sneakers. As WPLG and WSVN replayed the incidents, the footage quickly made its way into the national news cycle.

Thousands of flights jet to Miami every day. Hundreds of them come from the New York area. On airlines such as JetBlue and American, it’s easy to find a round-trip ticket from MIA to LaGuardia for less than $300. If you’re willing to schlep to Fort Lauderdale and avoid a carry-on, you can snag a seat on Spirit for even less.

John Rivera, president of the union representing Miami-Dade Police officers, is more interested in politics than upholding his oath to protect the community. The head honcho of the Miami-Dade County Police Benevolent Association recently sent an email to his union members expressing his “disgust” with three Miami Dolphins players…

This past April 21, Frank Artiles resigned from the Florida Senate after getting caught using the N-word in front of black colleagues. Mere hours after he stepped down, the Miami Herald nailed him for hiring Hooters waitresses as campaign “consultants.”

Miami Dade County is home to approximately 1.3 million workers. Yet somehow, more than a month after Hurricane Irma struck, only 4,892 Miamians have received Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) for missed days of work caused by the event.

After charging at a crowd of peaceful protesters, including Black Lives Matter activists, Christopher Monzon, also known as Chris Cedeno, is asking for money to pay for his legal fees via the alt-right fundraising site Goy Fund Me.

Gilberto Garcia bought his Surfside condo for a pretty obvious reason. Whenever the New Jersey attorney jets south to visit his son, a University of Miami student, and stays in the Carlisle on the Ocean tower, he naturally wants to hang out on the white-sand beach right in front of his building.

On Monday, President Trump outright lied by claiming that Obama and other past presidents didn’t bother to call the grieving families of soldiers killed in combat. He’d only made the outrageous claim because he’d been caught ignoring the deaths of four soldiers who died in Niger earlier this month. So…

This weekend, Marco Rubio fell victim to Godwin’s Law, the adage that, given enough time, every internet discussion will eventually devolve into an inappropriate comparison to the Nazis. Sadly, Rubio is actually a U.S. senator, so his insane comparison of the Iran nuclear deal to a Hitler-appeasing mistake is a bit more troubling than a Twitter user calling his enemy Goebbels.

For almost two decades, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has been a more or less sane presence in a Miami-Dade County congressional seat. Now that she’s retiring, though, a drunken clown show has pitched its tent in her district. On the left, basically every Democrat with ten bucks to spare and a few hours of free time on their hands has now entered the fray.

Miami-Dade County commissioners have passed a resolution urging President Trump and Homeland Security to extend temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian nationals for 18 months beyond January 22, 2018.

Florida State Senator Dennis Baxley — who recently blocked a monument to slavery victims and attended a pro-Confederate gala mere weeks after the Charlottesville Nazi rally — has done it again. As of this morning, 14 elderly people have died from heat exposure in a negligently run Hollywood, Florida nursing home…

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory is locked in a desperate humanitarian crisis. At least 85 percent of the population still has no power — and many won’t see it restored for up to six months. Tens of thousands of residents have little food and so little to drink they’re siphoning water from rock formations to survive.

The Miami Beach city government is on a mission to purge any and all sources of crime from the island. For better or for worse, the City Commission wants to take a hatchet to some of the Magic City’s most popular tourist destinations: First, the city proposed rolling back last-call…