Wayne Rosen does not fit the bill of a low-income individual living in a blighted community. In fact, he’s the wealthy owner of Shores Development, one of the biggest homebuilders in southwest Dade. Rosen himself lives in a $3 million Coral Gables mansion and enjoys showering political allies with donations…
Florida politicians, as a group, aren’t exactly known for being on the rails to begin with, but Donald Trump has gone so far off the rails that Sunshine State pols on both sides of the aisle are calling him out in no uncertain terms. After Trump’s call for “a total and…
It’s been more than a month now since we fell back to standard time, but if you’re like, you still probably haven’t gotten used to it getting dark so early. Well, consider state Rep. Kristin Jacobs your new hero. The Broward County Democrat has introduced a bill that would keep Florida…
If you opened The Miami Herald yesterday, you might have noticed a giant full-page ad blasting Donald Trump as a “narcissistic BULLYionaire” and comparing him to Hitler. The ad was paid for by Mike Fernandez, a Miami-based healthcare magnate and billionaire in his own right. Fernandez is also one of the…
There is nothing more that Rick Scott hates more than Florida’s corporate income tax. He’s made it his mission as Governor to try as best he can to completely eliminate those taxes. He wants to stalk those taxes around an art fair and stab them with an X-acto knife just…
At first glance, the tour bus looks like the real thing: It’s huge, it’s painted the right color blue, and covering one side, in all caps and that signature white font, it’s painted with TRUMP. But look again. A large period has been painted after the T, so the bus…
Welcome to Florida. Where we can’t even draw proper congressional districts. Every ten years the state legislature is entrusted with redrawing the boundaries of both state and federal congressional districts to account for changes in population. The process began four whole years ago, but the original districts drawn were thrown…
Climate change and rising sea levels are very real threats, but there’s no need to be hyperbolic about it. “Hey, large portions of highly populated land could go completely under water in the next few centuries,” seems alarming enough to us. Yet, while speaking at a new conference during the Organization…
The archetypical tale of the young grasshopper surpassing his mentor is still playing out between Miami’s two native presidential candidates. Except in this case, the mentor is desperately outspending his protege — and everyone else for that matter — in a last-ditch effort to stay relevant. And so far, it’s…
There’s tons of exclusive parties in Miami this week, but not every single one of them will have New York hipsters trying to crash them. Take for example a fundraiser for Jeb Bush, Miami’s somewhat now embarrassing presidential candidate, hosted by Romero Britto, Miami’s somewhat now embarrassing celebrity pop “artist.” …
A petition drive is building steam to stop construction of a Wellness Center on one of Miami Beach’s last oceanfront respites, Allison Park Park — at 65th Street and Collins Avenue. The three-acre-park is among the city’s smallest. The Sabrina Cohen Foundation, a group focused on helping people with disabilities,…
First it was the Port of Miami. Then a boat slip next to the American Airlines Arena. Finally, with a plot next to Marlins Park in Little Havana it seemed like David Beckham’s group had at last found a spot to build a stadium for a new Major League Soccer…
Aaah, Thanksgiving. The holiday when we’re called to give thanks for the fall harvest and harken to centuries past, when scores of immigrants arrived to the shores of the New World to begin to build the United States of America. It’s a time to share — and to be grateful,…
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission approved net neutrality rules designed to prevent internet providers from speeding up the connections to certain websites, while slowing down others. But in September, U.S. presidential candidate and former Florida governor Jeb Bush said he’d repeal it entirely if elected. Someone didn’t like that…
When asked last night on Fox News if he’d follow Donald Trump’s suggestion of possibly shutting down American mosques in the fight against ISIS, Rubio decided to do him one better by claiming he’d go as far as shutting down Radical Muslim cafés and diners too. Do those things even…
Things appear to have slightly improved for Governor Rick Scott since he was awarded the title of America’s worst Governor back in 2011. According to a new survey from Morning Consult, Scott is now just the 8th least popular governor in America. That’s actually something of a surprise for a…
The dynamics of Florida’s Democratic Senate primary is one of a milquetoast moderate vs a firebrand progressive, and the moderate in that equation, Rep. Patrick Murphy, certainly drove the point home by being one a small number of Democrats today to cross party lines and vote for a bill that…
For the past seven years, multiple employees at the taxpayer-funded CareerSource South Florida have maintained that their boss, who earns more than Mayor Carlos Gimenez, is a workplace bully. In complaints filed with the county, state, and federal government, they have accused executive director Roderick “Rick” Beasley of verbally abusing,…
If a new Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative is any indication, Donald Trump’s grip on first place in the Republican primary isn’t going away anytime soon, but the placement of the rest of the field continues to shift. The poll shows that Senator Marco Rubio is now…
A bill that would give the terminally ill in Florida the “right to try” medical marijuana is moving through the Florida legislature smoothly. Introduced by Republican state Rep. Matt Gaetz and state Sen. Rob Bradley last month, the bill passed the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee in a 9-4 bipartisan vote…
Local election season in Miami-Dade is now officially over with voters heading to the polls today in two commission runoffs in both Miami and Miami Beach. In Miami, Ken Russell has now officially been declared victor in the “election that didn’t matter.” Meanwhile in Miami Beach, two weeks after voters…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal Grandparents were Sephardic Jews who fled what is now present-day Turkey because of the fallout of the Balkan War. They settled in Cuba, where Ros-Lehtinen would be born, but at seven-years-old her family fled the Communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro for America. Which is say Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s entire…
