Eighty-two percent of Floridians support the legalization of medical marijuana, but Gov. Rick Scott isn’t one of them. Apparently, despite the broadly supported issue heading to the ballot at the same time as his re-election, Scott announced he would vote against legalization…
Following the lead of successful lawsuits in Utah and Oklahoma in recent months, six same-sex couples in Florida plan to sue the state in order to overturn ban on same-sex marriage. Back in 2008, Florida voters narrowly approved a constitutional amendment that banned not only gay marriage but any recognition…
Bullies, beware. You could soon find yourself hit with a misdemeanor in Florida if bill introduced in the state House and Senate prove successful. The bipartisan-backed bills would punish anyone who “willfully, maliciously, & repeatedly harasses or cyberbullies another person.”…
Former First Lady Barbara Bush is no stranger to speaking her mind, and when it comes to rumors that her second son, Jeb, might run for president, she’s not afraid to make her opinion public. She just straight up doesn’t think he should do it. It’s not the first time…
Hillary Clinton will be stopping by the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus February 26 to address students, faculty and invited guests at the BankUnited Center. Of course, any time a rumored presidential candidate makes a high-profile appearance in a donor-rich swing state, there are bound to be rumors it’s…
Last year, an attempt to rewrite Florida law to legalize beer growlers went nowhere fast in the state legislature. But with the craft beer industry continuing to grow in Florida, lawmakers are going to give it another shot. This year, another related bill would also legalize beer tastings, which are…
Miami Beach’s “starchitect”-designed convention center is dead. And we have killed it. Well, technically, it was new Mayor Philip Levine and the equally new city commission who killed it. But it was a death foretold last November, when Miami Beach voters overwhelmingly backed opponents of the $1 billion project. The…
Poor Republican legislators are surely going to be in a bind over this. On one hand, they’re used to bending to the whims of big business. On the other, they party has gone all in on the “Yeah, LGBT people are kind of icky” front. So what are they to…
After getting busted for cocaine possession and doing a stint at an outpatient rehab facility, Southwest Florida congressman Trey Radel is back to work on Capitol Hill as if nothing happened. Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott, a well-known and often outspoken Republican figure in Radel’s district, however, isn’t about to…
Rick Scott has officially picked Miami-Dade property appraiser Carlos Lopez-Cantera as his next lieutenant governor. The office was vacant for nearly ten months. A solid conservative whose main issue throughout his career as both property appraiser and a member of the Florida House has been lower property taxes, Lopez-Cantera will…
With HealthCare.gov’s problems are so well known you’d think the Obama administration would make sure their next website would work correctly. Apparently not so. CuidadoDeSalud.gov, HealthCare.gov’s Spanish equivalent, was launched quietly in December and is plagued with some of the same problems found on HealthCare.gov. It also appears to have…
Florida hasn’t had a lieutenant governor for well over nine months, and the pressure is on Gov. Rick Scott to finally get around to picking a replacement. After several candidates on a leaked short list publicly removed themselves from consideration, Scott seems to have expanded the search and according to…
Remember how Charlie Crist was going to write a tell-all book about breaking up with the Republican Party? Well, it’s here. The Tampa Bay Times got an early copy and apparently it contains some juicy stuff, including an anecdote about Karl Rove calling the then GOP gubernatorial candidate “chickenshit” for…
Despite widespread local approval in the legal community and a surprising show of support from religious leaders, Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas will not receive a promotion to the federal level with a spot in U.S. District Court for the Southern District. Thomas would have been the first openly gay, black…
It’s been over nine months since former Lt. Gov Jennifer Carroll resigned in disgrace, and Rick Scott has still not picked a replacement. Sure, it’s not like the lieutenant governor, and as long as Scott doesn’t bite the dust, Florida can run pretty smoothly without one. But new lawsuit claims…
Charlie Crist, the man of a thousand stances, recently sat down for his first interview with the gay press. While a Republican Governor in 2008 he publicly backed Amendment 2, which banned gay marriage and civil union in Florida. During his ill-fated 2010 Senate run he held firm on that…
For all those worried that O.J. Simpson is such an upstanding citizen dedicated to civic involvement that he’d try and vote despite his felony convictions and the fact he’s sitting in a Nevada jail cell can finally breathe a sigh of relief. He’s officially been scrubbed from Miami-Dade’s voter rolls…
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, himself the son of Cuban immigrants, has promised to champion immigration reform that would pave a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents. Though, many are frustrated that the Republican really hasn’t done much of any actual work on the issue, so they decided to send…
For Trey Radel, anything must seem possible. He’s already performed the insane mental gymnastics required to re-imagine Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” as a conservative anthem. And he was able to withstand the cognitive dissonance that must come from being a narcotics abuser and alcoholic who insists that food stamps…
There’s no such thing as a free ride. The popularity of the City of Miami’s 2-year-old free trolley system has surpassed expectations, but so has its budget. Though the city allocated $2.36 million a year to the system, operating costs are closer to about $3.8 million. So to fill the…
In addition to the public polls touted by the news media, politicians have pollsters taking the public’s pulse for their own internal campaign purposes. Usually when those internal polls get leaked to the press it’s because they’re more favorable to the candidate than the independent media polls. Well, Politico got…
Supporters of special interest group “Big Firearm” are at it again, trying to impinge on freedom-loving Americans’ constitutional right not to own a gun. Some fancy organized group calling itself the Marion County Campaign for Liberty is pushing for an ordinance in the Florida county of Marion that would require…
