Outside of Washington, D.C., itself, Miami might be ground zero for Republican establishment-types who can’t stand Donald Trump. Both the city and county mayor refuse to endorse him. Local GOP power-players like Ana Navarro deplore him. All three local Republican members of congress want nothing to do with him. (At…
The PGA is pulling its annual event out of the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort according to multiple reports and even Donald Trump himself. The World Golf Championship event may wind up in, of all places, Mexico City instead. Trump, the presumed Republican presidential candidate, actually broke the news…
As Marco Rubio’s campaign buckled under a Donald Trump tsunami back in February, the Miami senator tried a last ditch maneuver to stem the tide: He started outright mocking a guy famous for brutally making fun of his opponents. Rubio — correctly — called him “orange” and a “con man.”…
Donald Trump’s two-pronged line of attack against Marco Rubio was that he was a tool of the Republican establishment with an abysmal attendance record as a U.S. senator. The line of attack worked so well that Trump shellacked Rubio by nearly 19 points in Florida. Rubio’s home-state loss was in…
King of Diamonds is arguably the hip-hop world’s most famed strip club. It’s a 50,000-square-foot warehouse packed with more than 200 dancers, some famous for clinging to the rafters before spiraling down a pole as dollar bills fall like a summer downpour. “It’s like going to a party at LIV,…
There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Florida Governor Rick Scott. Two videos purporting to be from the loosely organized hacktivist group “Anonymous” fail to make them. The videos, produced in the familiar style of Anonymous, popped up in the past few days on an obscure Facebook profile registered…
Jeb Bush built up a pretty nice life for himself after he left Florida’s Governors mansion. He snagged some cushy corporate gigs to bring home the bacon, and continued his public policy work through his involvement with various foundation. Most notably, he set up his own Foundation for Excellence in Education…
A day before he was scheduled to surrender to the Miami-Dade state attorney’s office on corruption charges, Opa-locka City Commissioner Terence Pinder drove his car into a tree near Opa-locka Executive Airport. The crash proved fatal, and by all indications, it appears that Pinder planned to commit suicide. According to The Herald, police…
Florida is the biggest swing state prize in the general election. It’s also one of the most complicated to win. So, with Donald Trump having all but officially wrapped up his party’s nomination, you’d think his campaign would already be at work plotting out its path to victory in the…
There’s already a Little Haiti Cultural Center and a Little Haiti Park. Ask any Miamian for directions to Little Haiti and they won’t hesitate to point you toward the Caribbean area centered on NE 2nd Avenue. And yet Little Haiti has never been an officially designated neighborhood in the City…
Bernie Sanders’ war to take down Hillary Clinton looks close to sputtering out. But that doesn’t mean the Vermont insurgent is done trying to reshape the Democratic Party. Sanders is now asking his considerable grassroots support to aim their ire at a South Florida target: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the…
As we slog on towards the official end of this presidential primary season, perhaps the last thing you want to read about is more politics. Though, if we’ve taken one thing away from the past few months it’s that people are sick of the status quo and the establishment and…
On Friday, The Obama administration issued a set of guidelines directing public schools to respect the gender identity of transgender students or risk losing out on federal funding under Title IX. The response from Florida has been noticeably quiet. Both Governor Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi haven’t commented…
When your political opponent posts a full, unedited video of your recent cables news interview to his YouTube page it’s probably an indication that the interview didn’t go so well. Rep. Patrick Murphy didn’t even bother to cut an attack ad against Rep. Alan Grayson, his opponent for the Democratic…
Despite being a stronghold of support for Barack Obama in both his presidential races, Miami’s two most prominent mayors — City Mayor Tomás Regalado and County Mayor Carlos Gimenez — are both Republicans. That’s a quirk of the outsized role traditionally Republican Cuban-Americans play in local politics. But that party…
In his short time campaigning for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, Miami native Carlos Beruff has already earned his nickname — the Cuban-American Donald Trump — with extreme positions like a call to end all travel from the Middle East to the United States. So it shouldn’t be the shock of…
For months, fiery debate has raged over the future of Liberty Square, the notoriously dangerous housing project better known as Pork ‘n’ Beans. After Mayor Carlos Gimenez revealed an ambitious plan to raze the property and rebuild new housing, corruption allegations and fears that current residents will be shut out…
Florida Congressmen Alan Grayson stormed into yesterday’s meeting of the Progressive Caucus apparently thinking he was Beyoncé armed with a baseball bat in the “Hold Up” video ready to righteously smash things up with a devious smile on his face. Metaphorically at least. He was looking for Senate Minority Leader…
On the campaign trail, Marco Rubio painted the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency like some combination of allowing Bernie Madoff and Pol Pot into the White House. A brief selection of words Rubio used to describe Trump include “con man,” “dangerous,” “strong man,” and “catastrophic.” He (correctly) called him…
Medical marijuana will be back on the ballot in Florida in November, and according to the latest poll numbers it should pass easily. Eighty percent of all Floridians say they plan to vote for the amendment, and that includes vast majorities among all groups, including Republicans and those 65 and…
Florida’s Agriculture Commission Adam Putnam clarified today that he intended to vote for Donald Trump. His reasoning: Trump isn’t Hillary Clinton. Which isn’t exactly the world’s strongest endorsement. It’s essentially the political equivalent of the ¯_(ツ)_/¯ emoticon. if there ever was one. Putnam is one of four elected members of Florida’s…
As the GOP primary melted down into a carnival sideshow even Hunter S. Thompson on acid couldn’t have dreamed up, many Democrats and neutral voters have been happy to point and laugh at the mess, assuring themselves that someone as bigoted, xenophobic and misogynist as Donald Trump could never carry…
