Eventually, medical marijuana will be legal nationwide. Yes, even in Florida, where 58 percent support at the ballot box last time around wasn’t enough to enshrine the change in state laws. In fact, the campaign behind that last Florida medical weed effort — United for Care — is pushing hard…
Same-sex Marriage became legal in Miami-Dade on January 5th (a day before the rest of the state), and Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello were the first couple in the entire state to get married. Since that historic day, Florida has dragged its feet catching up to reality. LGBT people can still…
You can now get married to your same-sex partner in Florida, but its still legal in much of the state to get fired or denies housing simply for being gay. Legislators, mostly Democrats, have tried for the past ten years to pass a law that would protect LGBT people from…
According to post-debate polls, Marco Rubio didn’t come out of last week’s Donald Trump-dominated Republican debate any stronger, but he did leave aligned more closely than ever with pro-life positions. Rubio told the crowd that the didn’t support abortion even in cases of incest and rape, and he’s spent the…
The Democratic senate primary between Reps. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson will likely be colored as moderate vs progressive, but Grayson is already trying to frame it more as effective congressman vs do nothing congressman. Grayson certainly go some help in the category last week from congressional tracking website Inside…
After decades of inaction from city leaders and the Miami Heat on creating a promised park behind American Airlines Arena, Miami activists took matters into their own hands in June. Hundreds gathered to rechristen a stretch of waterfront asphalt as “Dan Paul Park,” named for a pioneering parks activist, aiming…
It wouldn’t be a presidential election without a debate in Miami, and today the Democratic National Committee announced that Hillary, Bernie and whoever else jumps in or is still around by that time will be coming to Miami in either February or March. The debate will be co-sponsored by Univision…
After the state Supreme Court threw out Florida’s congressional districts as unconstitutional and politically motivated, the state legislature will assemble for its second special session of the year next Monday to redraw fairer district. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and Senate President Andy Gardiner, both Republicans, instructed staff to draw up a…
Whooping cough may be one of the nastiest diseases to get. Symptoms can last for weeks or even months, and coughing fits can be so severe that patients have been known to vomit or break a rib in the midst of cough and gasping for air. Vaccines have helped to…
Ten years after we reached peak-Hipster, mainstream political candidates are finally getting in on all those super trendy hipster fashions. Miami’s Jeb Bush seems to be leading the way on the Republican side. In fact, the candidate just unleashed some new merch that wouldn’t seem out of place on the…
Just nine months after rejecting a medical marijuana amendment, Floridians overwhelmingly say they’re ready to approve it in 2016. Continuing on that surprising progressive street, most Floridians also agree that the minimum wage should be raised to at least $10.00 an hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the vast income inequality that…
Just months before he decided to run for President, Donald Trump was the center of a much smaller controversy at the municipal level. The city of Doral went back and forth on whether to give Trump its key to the city for renovations he made to the historic Doral Golf…
Some of Rep. Alan Grayson’s more colorful comments may get him labeled a crazy liberal, but what’s that old cliché about the true definition of Insanity. The one Bill Clinton, of all people, repeated several time during his 1992 campaign? Oh, right. Doing the same thing over and over and…
Despite the controversy he leaves in his path everywhere he goes, Donald Trump is now in first place in the Republican primary in many national polls. Conventional wisdom however had it that there’d be no way he’d be able to take the lead in Florida. For one thing, our former…
A series of highly-edited undercover videos showing people associated with Planned Parenthood officers talking about donating tissues after abortion procedures has the Pro-Life crowd in an uproar and claiming that Planned Parenthood sells “baby body parts.” Florida Governor Rick Scott has now launched an investigation into Florida’s 16 Planned Parenthood…
Your Facebook has likely been full of rage this week over the death of Cecil the Lion at the hand of Minnesota dentist Walter J. Palmer. Of course there’s a Florida connection: Palmer owns a second home over in Marco Island, but it’s another Marco who has provided an even weirder…
Hillary Clinton may be by all accounts the leading presidential candidate, but she’s been criticized for holding few events open to the public so far. That might change this Friday at Florida Intentional University …or it might not. All we know for sure is that Clinton will be on Campus…
Yes, the 2016 election is more than 15 months away and you’re all already sick of the Presidential race (thanks Donal Trump), thanks to Marco Rubio aiming for the White House, Floridians will also have a wide open Senate race to decide. A lot of the candidate are relatively unknown…
Over 1 out of 10 Florida adult citizens are unable to vote. That’s the highest rate in the nation by far. In fact, about half of all disenfranchised Americans in the entire country are right here in Florida? Why is that? Because Florida places some of the toughest standards on…
Donald Trump may be the leading Republican candidate nationally according to both the Real Clear Politics and Pollster average of polls, but in Florida he’s an also ran candidate. In fact, a recent poll found that Trump is in a distant fourth place in the Sunshine State behind native boys…
You’ve undoubtedly seen the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag all over the internet this past year. Which means, if you were paying attention, you’ve probably seen some white person glide into Facebook comments or someone’s Twitter replies to declare, “Um, excuse me, but don’t you mean all lives matter?” This now familiar internet…
Just over one year ago, Miami voters approved a ballot measure giving developer Jeffrey Berkowitz the go-ahead to build an oddly shaped, 1,000-foot bay-front tower called Skyrise Miami. The tower would lure hundreds of thousands of tourists, Berkowitz pledged, and even better, taxpayers wouldn’t foot a cent. City Mayor Tomas…
