When Ben Carson was in Miami two years ago, he got stuck in an elevator at an Overtown housing complex. The Housing and Urban Development secretary had gone on a national “listening tour” of public housing developments weeks after his 2017 confirmation.
For months, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has been reportedly looking into whether Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo — known to some as “Loco Joe” — broke campaign-finance laws to help his old pal, former state Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, in 2018. But in an explosive new lawsuit, Carollo’s former aide cut directly to the chase: In a suit filed Monday, the aide, Steven Miro, said publicly for the first time that he witnessed Carollo straight-up “engaging in a felony” while serving as a city commissioner.
Yesterday afternoon, Wall Street Journal politics reporter Tarini Parti was the first to announce that Wayne Messam — the mayor of Miramar, in Broward County — had raised just $5 this quarter for his incredibly long-shot bid for the 2020 presidency.
Florida’s next legislative session doesn’t begin until January, but already, lawmakers have filed dozens of bills with the potential to drastically change the way things are done here in the Sunshine State.
October 11, the top Democratic leaders in the state will meet in Orlando for the Florida Democratic Party’s annual convention. After a disastrous outcome in the 2016 election, the 2019 conference is perhaps the most important in recent history.
Last year’s American Priority Conference was, according to attendees, a bit of a joke. According to a Politico reporter who went to the inaugural event, the conference — pitched as some sort of yearly gathering for people who love Donald Trump and “American nationalism” — played to a lot of empty seats.
A person barred from buying a gun under Florida law is also prohibited from buying ammunition — but currently, there’s nothing to stop them from going to a gun shop and walking out with a few boxes of ammo.
Last week, New Times reported on a brouhaha stirred by a recent Facebook post from Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz, who has been accused of racist dog-whistling for writing, seemingly out of the blue, that “Dade County politics” are not needed in Pembroke Pines.
In a recent Facebook post, Pembroke Pines Commissioner Jay Schwartz wrote a single sentence in simple white text on a purple background: “I am sure you will agree, we don’t need Dade County politics in Pembroke Pines.” What came next was a flood of confused comments followed by much debate and…
A bill that would ban abortion after six weeks and criminalize the medical procedure was filed in the Florida House yesterday, the same day a federal judge in Atlanta temporarily blocked similar legislation in Georgia.
Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin and the founder of the Trayvon Martin Foundation to help families that have lost loved ones to gun violence, has picked up several major endorsements from members of the Democratic Party this week.
As the United States moves closer to admitting record low levels of refugees, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez says the county is ready to resettle additional people. But that might not be up to him anymore.
Florida is back to draining swamps, and for once, it’s not the Everglades. Long considered one of the most corrupt places in the country, the Sunshine State is apparently raising the bar when it comes to transparency around ethics enforcement.
Somehow it’s taken the Democratic Party roughly three years to notice Donald Trump probably should not be president. In addition to having a very weird haircut and being openly senile, Trump has been demonstrably violating the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution every day since he took office, has led a life of fraud and crime, is obviously unfit to run the nation, and, in general, is Donald Trump.
El dia que se ordenó su deportación de los Estados Unidos, Diego Alejandro Rojas no pensó en su propio bienestar. Sus pensamientos no se dirigieron al caos que seguramente lo esperaba en Venezuela. Tampoco contempló las amenazas de muerte de los grupos paramilitares locales que lo habían obligado a huir en primer lugar.
Joe Biden, the former vice president running to replace Donald Trump as America’s top porridge-brained senile mess of a leader, has had a hell of a week. Biden, age 76, seems so old that it might be actively dangerous to let him campaign for the presidency…
The battle over Florida’s controversial ban on sanctuary cities doesn’t look like it will be settled anytime soon. As state lawmakers return to Tallahassee this week to jockey over priorities for the 2020 legislative session in January, Hialeah Rep. Cindy Polo is taking square aim at the contentious anti-sanctuary law, which was forced through by Republican lawmakers in May at the behest of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
A veritable who’s who of right-wing con artists, alt-right media hounds, and outright racists apparently plan to hold some sort of Art Basel for Grifters conference in Miami this month.
As required for all stumping politicos, Joe Biden stopped in Miami yesterday for a meet-and-greet with Latinx voters. During an afternoon event in Little Havana at Ball & Chain, he did the requisite show of shaking hands and kissing babies. In a short speech, he spoke directly to the Magic City’s immigrant population.
In August 2013, longtime Commissioner Jose M. Diaz was appointed interim mayor of Sweetwater. It followed a corruption scandal that led to the expulsion of former Mayor Manuel Maroño. But soon after he took over the city’s top office, Diaz was accused of sexually harassing a mayoral assistant.
Murder is, believe it or not, illegal in the United States. That goes for adults, whom you certainly cannot kill with either your bare hands or some sort of physical weapon, as well as babies, who are morally speaking even less murder-able than grownups.
Stories about the U.S. government’s child migrant camp south of Miami have not been pleasant. Children have reported crying themselves to sleep every night, missing their families, and even cutting themselves at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, which was, as of earlier this year, the government’s largest detention center for immigrant kids.
