In June, a group of avowed white nationalists harassed a gathering of peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters who’d gathered in Hollywood to demand that the city change three streets named after Confederate generals and the original grand-wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. After a massive, multi-day PR boondoggle, the city…
Over the weekend, a white supremacist drove a silver Dodge Charger into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The terror attack killed 32-year-old Virginia civil rights activist Heather Heyer and severely injured 19 others. Police have charged the driver, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., with second-degree murder.
This past Saturday, a Nazi-obsessed 20-year-old plowed a car into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was a brutal act of domestic terrorism that left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and dozens seriously injured — even though the president of the United States has so far refused to call it terrorism or even criticize the violent racist mob that the terrorist had come to Charlottesville to support.
At this point, it’s unclear why Opa-locka, the city of 16,000 people in Northwest Miami-Dade County, has a right to exist or what good the city government does for anyone. The city is transparently corrupt, money for basic public services has been squandered, and the police are forced to regularly…
In any race for the Florida governorship, it’s fair to question why a candidate’s political committee took $200,000 from a Ukrainian-born billionaire oligarch who owns a huge stake in an aluminum company with direct ties to the Kremlin. It’s doubly relevant in 2017, as Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans continue to question…
As part of a “sister city agreement,” Doral officials frequently visit foreign cities including the City of Armenia, Guatemala City, New Taipei City, Oranjestad, and Barranquilla, allegedly to foster trade. But recently, Doral residents have begun to protest their city council members’ seemingly frivolous spending, particularly after a recent trip in which Mayor Bermudez and Vice Mayor Cabrera, along with other officials, visited Guatemala City in late July.
Eight months ago, A.J. Delgado, a Cuban-American Donald Trump campaign adviser from Miami, hinted that Trump’s original White House spokesperson, Jason Miller, was having an affair with someone on the campaign staff. After she called Miller the “2016 version of John Edwards,” Miller resigned, and Politico later confirmed that the rumors…
Last week, Miami’s futbol faithful were left disappointed again when Major League Soccer owners declined to give David Beckham’s group final approval for a new franchise. Although they did give Becks the nod to keep negotiating, there are plenty of looming hurdles: a land deal with the county that isn’t…
Just last year, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called Breitbart News — the cartoonishly racist conservative news site that birthed Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Ben Shapiro — “not a credible source.” In February 2016, Rubio told Fox News that Breitbart is a website that peddles “conspiracies.” (For once, he wasn’t lying.) Breitbart responded by bashing Rubio throughout the 2016 election cycle.
The Virgina-based company Libre by Nexus has an obvious financial incentive to make sure the United States continues deporting increasing numbers of immigrants: It offers steeply priced bail bonds to people trapped in immigration court. Over the past few years, Libre by Nexus has been accused of exploiting immigrants trapped in the nation’s kangaroo-court deportation system…
According to virtually every sociologist except Harvard University’s George Borjas, the Mariel Boatlift in the 1980s did not hurt the wages of the Miamians who were already living here. In fact, some research shows the huge influx of Cuban migrants raised city wages in the long term.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo doesn’t live in Congressional District 26, the swath stretching from South Miami-Dade to the Florida Keys that he represents in Washington. There’s no big mystery why: When the Florida Supreme Court redrew his district in 2015, the new boundaries left him outside, according to state voting records.
Last week, Democratic IT staffer Imran Awan was arrested for alleged bank fraud. In and of itself, that news would rate as a relatively minor political scandal. But Awan worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who inspires some of the weirdest conspiracy theories on Capitol Hill.
It’s unclear what, if anything, Florida Rep. Charlie Crist believes. He won the Florida governorship as a Republican, spent his second term as an independent, and is now serving in Washington as a Democrat. He is a tanned, spineless nothing, a man with a backbone of a sea cucumber and apparently half the brain.
Modern-day robber barons Charles and David Koch inherited a glut of cash that their father Fred made in part by building a Nazi oil refinery for Adolf Hitler, according to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer’s landmark 2016 book Dark Money. Charles and David later turned their father’s company into Koch Industries…
A week after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Mosul’s liberation from ISIS, Miami native Jose Argueta paid a visit to the old city to document the ongoing humanitarian crisis. But in a turn of events, he found himself farther into the “belly of the beast” than he’d ever imagined. Escorted by Iraqi special forces to the frontlines, the 29-year-old freelance photographer realized that declarations of victory and liberation might have come too soon.
For nearly 20 years, Memorial Day in Miami Beach has been synonymous with Urban Beach Week, an informal hip-hop event that draws hundreds of thousands to the city for a days-long party. But that changed this year.
If Bruce Matheson wants to tank a real-estate deal, the heir to one of the richest and oldest families in all of Miami knows how to do it. Through sheer force of will, he’s successfully prevented the ultra-rich owners of the Miami Open tennis tournament from plowing over portions of Crandon Park…
Another day, another Florida Democratic Party official saying something racist, xenophobic, or otherwise offensive. Loose, extremely stupid lips have already gotten several Florida Democratic officials in trouble this year: Party Chair Stephen Bittel called the Democratic Black Caucus “children,” and the party’s second-in-command, Sally Boynton Brown, was taped saying poor…
Good news! We’ve finally found a bipartisan issue that has united Democrats and Republicans across the state of Florida! Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen have signed on to support a bill alongside Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ted Deutch, Alcee Hastings, Frederica…
Every five years, Miami-Dade County convenes a task force to propose changes to the county charter, which basically serves as the “constitution” for a 2.7 million-person metropolis. In 2012, Miami’s ultrapowerful lobbyist class was banned from serving on that Charter Review Task Force out of fear they’d introduce self-serving new…
The Republicans control every piece of machinery in Washington D.C., but they’ve been operating all that powerful hardware like a sketchy bus driver fresh off a five-martini lunch. Last night, their latest attempt to replace Obamacare collapsed. Their only remaining plan, according to Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, is to simply…
