If you polled 1,000 Miamians about what civic improvements they needed, almost none would say “new highways.” Miami-Dade County already has tons of them. Traffic remains bad, and the metropolitan area continues sprawling toward the southwest like a malignant tumor.
Even before yesterday’s wrenching Senate hearings, you probably already knew Sen. Marco Rubio is a simpering hog with horrible opinions about the sexual assault allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Yet hearing Rubio actually voice those awful thoughts still sucks.
It’s been ten days since Nusret “Salt Bae” Gökçe was caught serving a bunch of ridiculous luxury steak to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Seriously: Screw Salt Bae for doing that while Venezuelans are starving. But also, ten days is way too long to care about him. He is famous for throwing salt on meat while looking like a douchebag…
Miami-Dade County’s proposed extension of the Dolphin Expressway has seemed to unite both Republicans and Democrats in anger: Everyone, from local environmentalists to Sen. Marco Rubio, has slammed the idea. In Miami-Dade, a county where public transportation options are short and traffic wait times are long, activists have warned…
After 18 years of EDM in downtown Miami, Ultra Music Festival will have to find a new home next year. The City of Miami Commission voted this afternoon to deny a new five-year agreement for the festival to remain at Bayfront Park.
For the past two decades, Pastor Rick Wiles has built a career on the far fringes of the evangelical movement by railing against Jews, gays, and immigrants in language so over-the-top it would make Pat Buchanan blush. Wiles blamed Hurricane Harvey’s devastation in Houston on the city’s “LGBT devotion,”…
The proposed Magic City Innovation District would instantly transform Little Haiti from an area of Caribbean immigrants and locally owned shops into a glitzy, landlocked version of Miami Beach. Though Little Haiti is already gentrifying at a rapid clip, locals worry the development would guarantee that the last stretch of affordable housing in the area would vanish.
Maurice Symonette has become a political celebrity thanks to Donald Trump’s staff, which has repeatedly given the ex-member of Miami’s deadly Yahweh ben Yahweh cult prime seats behind the president at nationally televised rallies to show off his “Blacks for Trump” signs. But Symonette recently told a bankruptcy court that he’s dead broke…
The rally, organized by South Florida LGBTQ groups SAVE, Equality Florida, and the Human Rights Campaign, was a stark contrast to the crowd Gillum drew in Wynwood just seven weeks ago, when a Miami artist unveiled a mural of Gillum outside 004 Connec on NW 24th Street.
CNN aired some pretty depressing footage from a Miami-based Brett Kavanaugh “focus group” last week. The network claimed to have found five typical Latina voters who all believe that Supreme Court nominee and very normal carpool dad Kavanaugh did not try to rape Christine Blasey Ford when the two were in high school. All five women appeared to live in the feminist version of the Sunken Place.
Florida’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis not only has said and done racist things but also continues getting caught hanging out with racist nutjobs. New Times in April disclosed that he spoke at a virulently anti-Muslim event with Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017. Then the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting found that DeSantis appeared…
No matter your thoughts on the political and economic crises in Venezuela, the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, definitely should not be seen snacking on luxury meats while his constituents starve. This is something of a recurring problem for Maduro.
Just before the November 2016 election, a federal judge forced the Florida Division of Elections to allow rejected absentee-ballot voters to correct mistakes on their mailed-in forms. Yet somehow even more ballots ended up being rejected in that election than in 2012 — and younger voters and voters of color, who overwhelmingly lean to the left, had their ballots invalidated at a far higher rate.
For the past ten years, Rhyelle, a 72-year-old Sarasota County resident, hasn’t been able to cast a ballot. He is one of the roughly 1.5 million Floridians who lost their right to vote because, in 2008, he was convicted of a felony for growing marijuana for his personal use in his home.
When the Washington Post revealed earlier this month that Ron DeSantis, Florida’s #MAGA GOP gubernatorial candidate, had appeared at conferences organized by David Horowitz — a guy who has minimized the impact of slavery in American history and argued there’s a “race war” against white people — DeSantis lashed back and insisted he was the victim of a “smear campaign.”
Confronted earlier this year by investigators from the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo admitted he showed up outside a valet parking lot for the Little Havana nightclub Ball & Chain around 1 o’clock on early morning in February. But he denied claims he whipped…
Medical marijuana is legal in Florida for the simple reason that more than 70 percent of voters wanted it to be legal. But despite that overwhelmingly clear mandate in November 2016, legislators in Tallahassee have dragged their feet on setting statewide rules like petulant kids getting hauled to the dentist.
Americans have the right to express their political beliefs without threats from the government. But according to a New York Times report published late yesterday, FBI agents are scouring Miami to knock on the doors of Cuban-Americans who have agitated to end the anti-Castro embargo.
Miami’s city charter is crystal clear: It’s flat-out illegal for elected officials to give direct orders to city staffers such as fire inspectors or code enforcement employees. If the mayor or a city commissioner breaks that edict, they can face a $500 fine, 60 days in jail, and immediate removal from office.
It’s impossible to know whether Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis is, in fact, a racist. But it’s sure easy to point out how often he does racist stuff or fraternizes with racist people. There’s that appearance next to Steve Bannon at an anti-Muslim conference and the time he used the…
In the 1990s, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo didn’t get along with then-Mayor Stephen P. Clark. Carollo, a square-headed paranoiac who sees communist symbols in burnt toast and cloud formations, is not exactly an easy guy to get along with. But during a particularly nasty battle in 1996 over the then-extant Miami Arena…
In Little Havana, it was an open secret that Luis Posada Carriles had blown up a Cuban airliner in 1974, killing 73 people. And many observers later suspected Carriles was also behind a series of 1997 attacks on Cuban hotels that killed an Italian tourist and injured 11 others. But…
