On the back deck of a waterfront seafood restaurant in Cutler Bay last night, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell took the microphone as a congresswoman-elect. With her husband and children by her side, the Ecuadorian-born immigrant and Democrat pledged to work every day to hold the Trump administration accountable. “This election right here…
Rick Scott is one of the worst people in America. It’s fitting, then, that he will follow his eight-year tenure as Florida governor with a new, six-year stint as U.S. senator. Scott, as governor, displayed nothing but bitterness and resentment toward the poor and needy in his state. Low-income people’s…
A frequently cited study from 2002 says if Florida had allowed felons to vote, Al Gore might have defeated George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election. At the time, 827,000 people in Florida had lost the right to vote due to felony convictions. The study’s authors theorized that nearly 70 percent would have voted as Democrats, thus potentially changing the course of history.
Miami and Florida Keys Congressman Carlos Curbelo, a self-styled “moderate” Republican in a heavily Democratic district, is no more. He has conceded his congressional race to upstart challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a health-care worker. As it stands, he’s losing by only 3,000-odd votes, but just enough to make a win seem implausible.
Donald Trump has, it seems, been president now for 33 years. Election Night 2016 (shudder) feels like a century ago. So much is different now: Our politics haVE become even more diseased than usual. Corruption and racism no longer disqualify you from holding office. An accused rapist sits on the…
Forty-two percent — that’s how many eligible voters in the United States usually don’t cast ballots. It’s a figure Frank Ocean wants to change. Tuesday, the notoriously reclusive singer made a surprise announcement that he was offering free merchandize in four major U.S. cities — including Miami — to anyone who could prove they had voted.
Compared to various parts of Georgia and New York, voting lines and acts of voter suppression don’t seem to be particularly awful in Miami today. But that doesn’t mean people still aren’t trying to screw some candidates at the last minute. According to screen caps provided to New Times, someone spent yesterday blasting out a fake text message that’s clearly — and laughably — designed to scare voters toward voting for Ron DeSantis or away from the polls entirely.
Bowie, my 85-pound retired racing greyhound, sneaks undetected into our bed every night while my girlfriend and I sleep. He lies directly perpendicular to the two of us, then nestles in, stretching his gangly, two-and-a-half-foot-long legs out in both directions. I usually wake up dangling precariously off the side of the bed or shoved against our bedroom wall.
Standing in front of a Miami medical center with Democratic congressional candidate Mary Barzee Flores on a recent weekday, Montel Williams fought tears as he talked about his daughter’s two bouts with cancer. “We’re very blessed that she survived,” said the onetime talk show host. “But she only survived it because she was…
As early voting concluded Sunday, the top 10 college campuses in Florida drew just over 50,000 early votes, with Miami Dade College — the state’s largest institution of higher learning — drawing 11,324 ballots,
Migrant children are still being housed without parents in Miami-Dade County. The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children is still operational: Kids are living on the compound, taking classes there, seeing doctors, and playing sports on the recreation fields. But they’re not allowed to leave…
Thousands of Democrats led by former President Barack Obama flooded Ice Palace Studios just north of downtown Miami Friday afternoon. They chanted “Bring it home,” decried the “world of hate” President Donald Trump has forged, and tried to whip up enthusiasm four days before the November 6 election.
The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children costs $17 million per month to run.
This was supposed to be the year young people hit the polls in droves, pushing back on years of dismal youth turnout in the midterms. Parkland student activists like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez traveled the country all summer to sign up new voters and last month appeared in…
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton stood today in Miami’s Freedom Tower — a building famous for housing Cuban refugees fleeing political oppression — and praised the election of the neofascist wannabe dictator of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Bolton, who also labeled Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela the “Troika of Terror,”…
Over the past few months, former President Barack Obama has endorsed hundreds of Democratic candidates in the November midterms elections. None were running for municipal positions in Florida. Yet a flyer circulating in North Miami Beach claims Obama has endorsed five candidates vying for mayor and the city commission.
The United States jails more of its citizens than any nation on Earth. Florida’s incarceration rate is higher than any country’s. So it would seem logical to ratchet down the War on Drugs, demilitarize local police departments, and persuade local cops to arrest fewer people.
With the election less than a week away, Florida for the next few days becomes the epicenter of campaigning by presidents past and present. Donald Trump hits the Hertz Arena in Fort Myers tonight at 7 p.m. A large crowd is expected and cops are warning people to…
It’s just before 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in October, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is glad-handing with constituents at the Shenandoah Park recreation center. He shakes hands with a couple of uniformed cops and plants a kiss on an older woman’s cheek. Dressed in a trim navy suit, he…
Over the summer, the New York state attorney general whacked President Donald Trump with a massive lawsuit for misusing funds from his charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Among the allegations was a charge that Trump used $10,000 of foundation money to purchase a portrait of himself at a 2014 a children’s charity auction at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. Internet sleuths later tracked down the painting hanging at the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort.
Florida is one of three states that permanently strips you of the right to vote if you’re convicted of a felony. But if you’ve served your sentence, should you be barred from the ballot box for the rest of your life? If you made a mistake or an error in judgment and paid for it, should you forfeit your say in what happens in your city or state or country forever? The answer is no. Which is why you should vote yes on Amendment 4.
This past Sunday, the New York Times published an explosive report outlining the Trump administration’s plans to create a new definition of sex. Under the proposal, gender would be limited to either male or female and defined as permanent from birth. According to the Times, the Department of Health and Human Services has asked four federal agencies, including the Department of Labor, to adopt the narrow definition.
