After months of savage campaigning, untold hours of blowhards screaming at one another on television, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising, Florida’s vital 29 Electoral College votes are poised on a knife’s edge. The fate of the presidential election could well hinge on a few thousand votes in the…
New Times does not endorse political candidates. Sure, there are some really well-meaning people running for office this year, but as anyone who’s lived in Florida for more than 45 minutes knows, even the most well-intentioned of political neophytes might end up embroiled in a corruption probe or sexting scandal.
There needs to be a hell of a lot of hate in your heart to think lynching black people on Halloween is funny. Yet here we are, Miami. A homeowner in Three Lakes, a small community in West Kendall, is celebrating the holiday by lynching two black dummies…
In 2002, then-Florida House Speaker Tom Feeny thought he needed some help handling a brewing redistricting battle. So he hired longtime consultant Steve Cody, who says his job was to “script” a debate between members of the Florida House to ensure that two new districts were drawn.
For years, Jeffrey Loria has laid claim to title of most loathed public figure in Miami thanks to his toxic combination of repeatedly suing diehard Marlins fans while also gutting the team and robbing taxpayers of billions of dollars. Plus he lets his jerk son-in-law run the franchise.
Nobody won last August’s county mayoral primary vote. Yes, incumbent Carlos Gimenez got way more votes, but he failed to pull in 50 percent, which meant challenger Raquel Regalado forced a November runoff. But with less than two weeks before Election Day, Regalado is taking a severe beating in the polls.
In 1985, Marco Rubio spent part of his early summer living in a small house facing a tepid canal just north of Bird Road in West Kendall. Cages full of squawking macaws filled the acre yard. And a major drug ring stored kilos of cocaine in a spare bedroom…
Donald Trump attempted to say three whole Spanish words in Little Havana today.
Donald Trump has spent the past month complaining that the election results against Hillary Clinton may be “rigged” November 8. The nation and all sides of the media, from Fox News to MSNBC, have said Trump’s claims are without merit. Now South Florida has its own “rigged” election controversy.
In September 2015, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine had just one person on his Twitter block list: a user named “Asscakes,” with the handle @asscakessupreme. Levine voluntarily disclosed that information in response to a public-records request by California paralegal Angela Greben filed that year, which New Times has obtained.
Marco Rubio said during this week’s debate that, if Florida reelects him to the U.S. Senate this year, he’ll absolutely serve a full, six-year term and won’t quit early to run for president. Knowing Rubio, this pretty much definitely means he’ll quit four years from now to run again. In…
At this point, Miami will do pretty much anything DJ Khaled says, so long as he lists it as one of his major keys. Free all the lions in Zoo Miami and hold a big-cat rap battle in Bayfront Park? Overthrow City Hall and turn South Florida into a town…
In last night’s presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump said he was “at Little Haiti the other day in Florida….I want to tell you, they hate the Clintons, because what’s happened in Haiti with the Clinton Foundation is a disgrace. And you know it, and they know it, and everybody knows…
The more Americans get to know Marco Rubio, the less anyone appears to like him. Despite having better name recognition than almost any other politician in congress, a new Quinnipiac Poll released today says Rubio’s race against Democrat Patrick Murphy for Florida’s Senate seat is now “too close to call.”…
Miami Beach commissioners are already forced to disclose if their spouses have any sort of stake in the items they’re voting on. This is a standard government-ethics rule. But this Wednesday, the commission will discuss enacting a new law that will force commissioners to disclose if they’ve had a “dating”…
If you’ve been following Florida’s Senate race closely this year, you’ve likely been drinking heavily for months already. After November, one of the state’s two senators is guaranteed be either the gutless Marco Rubio — who failed to defeat Donald Trump and jumped back into the senate race after saying…
Last year, Commissioner Juan Zapata got caught using his $930,000 office budget to pay for a $30,000 master’s degree from Harvard, justifying it by saying his constituents would benefit from his continued education. That excuse didn’t go over so well. Within days, Zapata was outed by reporter Erika Carrillo of Univision and subsequently…
Donald Trump’s campaign is to presidential elections what the Challenger disaster was to Space Shuttle missions — a loud, fiery disaster no one seems capable of stopping. After Trump was accused of groping more than ten women this week, he’s taken a gigantic swan dive in the polls and has…
When two University of Miami professors decided in 2009 to write a book about the role of conspiracy theories in American politics, they figured the esoteric topic was worthy of more mainstream academic research. At the time, wild accusations about who really planned 9/11 and killed Princess Diana were blooming…
Steven Machat is confident he’d win Florida’s U.S. Senate race — if only he was allowed to get on the debate stage. The music industry veteran running as an independent last month sued the Federal Communications Commission and hosts of two upcoming televised debates, arguing that “as a proper candidate,”…
South Miami Vice Mayor Bob Welsh does not know what the word “badonkadonk” means. Reached on his cell phone today, Welsh insisted the slang term — which references a woman’s large rear-end — was actually a reference to the, ahem, frontal part of a lady’s nether-regions. “Badonkadonk is southern for vajayjay,”…
Conservative Twitter is abuzz this afternoon with a trending hashtag: #BlacksForTrump. The spark is clear: Thousands have retweeted photos from Trump’s rally in Lakeland, Florida this afternoon showing a small group directly behind the Donald enthusiastically waving “Blacks For Trump” signs. “Blacks are for Trump and the left can’t…
