Gov. Rick Scott’s latest target for major reforms: the state’s university system. It’s not like his concerns are without merit. The state could use more students majoring in things like engineering and science. And, yes, it would be nice if more classes were taught by actual professors and not graduate…
We know it’s hard to keep track of all the various scandals involving anti-gay Republican politicians being caught in gay sex scandals, but maybe you remember the tale of Indiana state Rep. Phil Hinkle. He promised to pay a teenager he met on Craiglist $140 for a “really good time.”…
Back when he was running for Governor, Rick Scott promised that he’d add 700,000 jobs in Florida over seven years in addition to what the economy would produce regardless of who was Governor. It seemed like a simple enough promise at the time, but now ten months into his term he’s still…
Who’s Florida’s political golden boy? Well, based on all the fawning press and attention he’s received, you might believe it’s our first-time Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Well, apparently the honeymoon is coming to end. Now more Floridians disapprove of the way Rubio is handling his job than disapprove of the milquetoast Democratic Senator…
Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, is tired of Florida’s Big Brother government standing in the way of people getting jobs. Jobs that include being tossed around by drunk dudes specifically, so he’s on a mission to repeal the state’s two-decade-old ban on dwarf tossing. …
Rick Scott’s pledge that he’d create 700,000 new jobs for Floridians in addition to expected job growth was perhaps one of the least controversial themes of his election campaign. Yeah, well, sorry — he’s flip-flopped on that. He’s no longer promising 700,000 jobs in addition to the jobs the state…
I never really knew that she could serve on presidential advisory boards like this. She makes Obama wants to speak Spanish. Como se llama? Bonita! Mi Casa Blanca es tu Casa Blanca!In a hip-shaking move surely aimed to help his Hispanic outreach efforts, Barack Obama has appointed international pop star Shakira to his…
Despite being a common practice in developed countries for nearly 70 years and dubbed “one of the greatest public health achievements of the century” by the CDC, water fluoridation has joined the likes of Charlie Crist and Barack Obama as the latest enemy of the Tea Party in Florida. Tea Party…
”Welcome to RazzleDazzle Barbershop,” the video says before cutting to a photo of a busty young woman in a skimpy Moulin Rouge-style outfit. “Haircuts with a view. Only $20.”As blogger Al Crespo pointed out last week, the video — found on the City of Miami’s homepage — is straight-up creepy…
Yes, there’s a million different polls coming from all different directions, but the latest from War Room Logistics, a Republican aligned firm bases in Gainseville, is worth a look. Unlike most polls this early in the race, the survey polled likely Florida voters and not just registered voters. The poll also…
They came. They saw. They arranged to convene at a later date.Ar-Miami-geddon didn’t happen, but more than a hundred “Occupy Miami” protesters did meet on Saturday in Bayfront Park downtown. They agreed to gather again this Saturday to plan a camp-out beginning on October 15.With 700 protesters arrested on Saturday…
Brace yourself for waves of socially responsible hipsters.”Occupy Miami” — a protest against corporate greed modeled after the two-week sit-in currently clogging Wall Street in New York — will take over Bayfront Park tomorrow.But how will our soulless city respond? And will Miami Police bring out the storm troops like…
Sunshine or granite? Sex on the beach or maple syrup on hotcakes? “Welcome to Miami” or “Live Free or Die”?It’s been fun Florida, but you’re just too damn crazy for Jon Huntsman.After a three-month flirtation, the Republican presidential hopeful is ditching the nation’s dong and focusing on a state one…
The first poll of Florida voters taken after Herman Cain’s surprise win in the Florida Presidency 5 straw poll is out, and combined with his crazy straw loss and fumbling performances in two debates Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign seems to have hit a snag in the state. He’s fallen…
The race for the Republican nomination to take on Sen. Bill Nelson next year is in a sad state of affairs. Some grassroots nobody named Mike McCallister is leading the pack with 17 percent of the vote, but 58 percent of Republican voters are still undecided. Meanwhile, the two establishment…
The National Organization for Marriage, the sometimes fumbling and controversial anti-gay marriage group, is targeting Miami-area Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in its latest publicity stunt. Last week, Ros-Lehtinen became the first and so far only Republican to sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which furthered…
Former Florida Gov. Claude Kirk has died at the age of 85. Taking office in 1967, Kirk was Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and the first Republican governor elected in a Southern state in modern times. Kirk is remembered for his outsize personality and flair for controversy. A strong…
Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn’t know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted…
With Genting Group ready to plop down billions on a planned new high end casino in downtown Miami after a law-changing stop in Tallahassee, few prominent politicians are opposing it, as much as they are making sure their interests get that tax money. Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado wants to make…
In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won’t have it. Not because of anything like “prove facts” or a “rationale and informed understanding of the issue,” but because she read somewhere…
A bunch of the state’s Republican activists gathered this weekend at the Presidency 5 conference and held one of those crazy, meaningless straw polls of which they’re so fond. Of course, with a wide-open and ever-changing Republican field, the contest did take on extra meaning. Texas Gov. Rick Perry had…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is boldly breaking away from the rest of the Republican party to become the first and likely only Republican to co-sponsor a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Ros-Lehtinen, currently the most senior female Republican member of the house and chairwoman of the House…
