Laura Pierre is an eighteen-year-old high school graduate who now works full time at a Miami Chipotle. Yesterday, she gathered with dozens of other fast-food, airport, and home-care workers with a simple demand local politicians: minimum wages to match the $15 an hour that New York’s wage board recommended for…
According to Open Secrets, the second-largest for-profit prison operator in the country, GEO Group, is one of the top contributors to Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. Between 2013 and 2014, GEO Group gave Rubio $41,500, more than any other presidential candidate . The group is the ninth highest contributor to Rubio’s…
Last November, 58 percent of Florida voters supported Amendment 2, which would have made medical marijuana legal in Florida. Even though the majority of voters were in favor of the amendment, it wasn’t enough to pass. The vote was just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold. But the…
With diplomatic ties between the U.S. and Cuba now formally re-established and a Cuban embassy up and running in Washington, the next question is where Cuba’s first consulate will go. Not that there’s much question where it should go, based on logic alone: WIth 800,000 or so Cuban-Americans in South…
On June 28, Chloe Arenas woke up before the sun to pick up her mother and grandmother from an early morning flight. But the 21-year-old University of Central Florida student never reached the airport. Soon after worried friends and family called police, her car was found submerged in a retention…
Donald Trump is none-to-popular with Hispanics voters right now thanks to his comments about Mexican immigrants. So much so that Cuban-American Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo is now widely theorizing in interviews with Spanish-language media that Trump may actually be a secret Democratic plant working to tarnish the reputation of the…
While Donald Trump makes many Democrats want to simply jump, many are jumping for joy at the perceived damage the demagogue is doing to the Republican brand. On the flip side, GOP Chair Reince Priebus is actively trying to get Trump to tone it down for the sake of his party…
You ever wonder how Florida has more Democratic voters than Republicans, has voted for Obama in the past two presidential cycle, has razor-close Gubernatorial elections and yet still send 17 Republicans to the House and only 10 Democrats? It just doesn’t make sense, does it? Well, Gerrymandering and the way…
Unlike some Republicans, Jeb Bush at least recognizes climate change as a reality. He won’t say what he thinks is causing it. He won’t say how large of a problem he thinks it is, but in an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader he did offer his vision of how…
Alan Grayson might be the most interesting man in Florida politics, and should he officially announce his run for Senate tomorrow he could make the race one of the most interesting to watch in the nation. With Marco Rubio running for the presidency, that leaves his Senate seat wide open…
You know as far as Republican members of Congress go, Miami’s Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is probably one of the coolest to intern with. She’s got a well documented sense of humor. She’s the longest serving female Republican in the House. She sits on the powerful Foreign Relations committee. She’s down…
Randall Hill has quite the Miami biography. A native, he won a national championship ring with the Miami Hurricanes in 1989. Known as “Thrill” Hill, his most memorable came during the 1991 Cotton Bowl when he scored a touchdown against the Texas Longhorns and continued running all the way to…
If you’ve ever wanted to see a few of your elected leaders half-naked and battling it out against each other in a pool, today is your chance. But don’t worry, it’s for a good cause. County Commissioner Xavier Suarez and City Commissioner Marc Sarnoff are set to take on City…
Miami-Adde Commissioner Daniel Levine Cava called for a county-wide on Donald Trump earlier this week. Well, at least a ban of the county holding any official events at any Donald Trump-owned properties in the county. At their Wednesday meeting, commissioners didn’t quite go that far, but they did pass an…
Despite last ditch efforts to block a 24-hour abortion waiting period in Florida, the law went into effect Wednesday, with clinics across the state instructing patients seeking abortions to come back at least 24 hours after a consultation to have the procedure. Though it’s a big blow to pro-choice groups,…
Donald Trump announced yesterday that he’s suing Univision for $500 million — that’s half a billion dollars — over their refusal to air his Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. To put that in perspective the original deal between Trump and Univision was wroth just $13.5 million (and Univision is…
In a historic announcement this morning, Barack Obama officially announced that the United States and Cuba are officially re-establishing diplomatic relations. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana later this summer to open an embassy. Of course, embassies are lead by ambassadors. Ambassadors must win confirmation from the…
Yesterday, Jeb Bush dropped more than a thousand pages worth of his personal tax returns on the web — 33 years worth of financial info in all. The document dump represents the most tax documents ever released by a presidential candidate. Reporters are still dredging through all that paper, but…
Washington and Miami will announce Wednesday that they have agreed to open embassies in each others’ countries. In a historic decision that was widely reported Tuesday afternoon, the two countries will reverse a Cold War policy that has had the two nations at loggerheads almost since the Cuban Revolution in…
Though people in the political sphere often forget it, actions do speak louder than words. Jeb Bush’s actions as Florida Governor had already put him on record as to where he stood as to whether Confederate flags should be flying on the grounds of state capitols. He already removed on…
The fight over how to help Miami’s downtown homeless population has already devolved into poop maps, feces videos and ugly words between the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and the Homeless Trust. At issue: Who should pay for more toilets downtown for transients. Tomorrow, that fight is going to reignite. The…
Florida’s official state flag may be the only state Flag in the entire union to feature a woman of color on it, but is it also “the most overtly racist symbol in the United States?” That’s what T.D. Allman, historian and author of “Finding Florida: The True History of the…
