When new host takes over a storied late night chat show franchise they look to start the show with the biggest guests they can get. Stephen Colbert is no exception. He’s booked George Clooney as his first guest ever when he kicks off his duties on The Late Show next…
In the heat of summer, it seems President Obama is dancing la salsa dura. Along with 40 artists, including Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin and Bob Marley, the President chose Miami-based Colombian salsa band Sonora Carruseles to appear on his summer POTUS playlist late last month. The chosen song, “La Salsa…
She remembers the way he smelled. Groomed and clean. No cologne, no cigars. Just soapy. His beard was soft. When she called home from her hotel room the following night, her daughter Maggie, then age 13, answered. “Mom!” She sounded panicked. “What?” Magda said, thinking, Christ, what now? Which one…
Donald Trump is currently the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president. This despite the fact that the guy has a lifelong history of supporting several ideas more at home in the Democratic party. Jeb Bush, whose undergone a stunning fall from front runner to third place candidate, seems…
You’re Donald Trump. You’re running a Presidential campaign where the only clear part of your platform is that you insult Hispanic immigrants and want to deport every undocumented one. The single most profitable business in your portfolio however happens to be a golf resort in the middle of a county…
In just a few months, Donald Trump has already had more politically deadly moments than most candidates manage in a lifetime. Only a campaign that’s playing to the most intolerant, xenophobic wings of American society could survive everything from Trump’s crass John McCain insults to his misogynistic Megyn Kelly rants…
ABC’s long running ladies’ chat program The View has hit a slump. The backstage gossip involving the program’s ever revolving carousel of co-hosts has proven far more compelling than anything they’ve put on air lately. Execs have announced an overhaul of the program in time for the shows 19th season,…
Well, well, well. Look who’s no longer universally hated. Yes, Governor Rick Scott has a positive approval rating for the first time since his first month in office in the history of Quinnipiac University’s tracking of Florida Governor. 45 percent of Floridians said they approve of the job Scott is…
According to a new poll from Quinnipiac University, more Floridians generally support the policies of Barack Obama and his Democratic party, but the controversial Iran Arms Deal is a bridge to far for most. It’s widely disapproved of in the state. Though, continuing federal funding to Planned Parenthood, allowing undocumented…
In public, Mayor Philip Levine strives to come across as the affable politician, a grinning multimillionaire populist who transitioned from media mogul and major Clinton donor to top dog in Miami Beach. But as heat has mounted around Levine’s role in raising more than a million dollars for a political…
Earlier this week, hackers dumped more than 40 million records from cheating website Ashley Madison. That’s sparked a nationwide scramble, with politicians grasping to explain why their info was on the site, the Pentagon opening a probe in the 15,000 government and military accounts included in the leak, and municipalities…
For the second time this year alone, the Florida legislature has vowed to give up on the tasks they were elected by Floridians to do instead of coming to a consensus. After the state Supreme Court ruled that the federal congressional district maps drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012…
Here’s the good news for those wary of Donald Trump’s surging popularity: Amongst the major Republican candidates polled against major Democrats in three major swing states, Donald Trump does the worst. Here’s the bad news: In Florida he’s still beating Hillary Clinton. The data comes from Quinnipiac University’s latest telephone survey…
Marco Rubio is a big Dolphins fan, so its quite possible that after watching Ryan Tannehill struggle with last year’s crop of receivers that this is just how he thinks football is played now. Rubio was hanging in Iowa with his family for the Iowa State Fair, and started up…
Following the release of a series of controversial and highly-edited videos showing officials at Planned Parenthood centers in other states discussing the donation of tissue from abortion procedures, Governor Rick Scott launched an investigation into Florida’s 16 Planned Parenthood offices. This despite the fact that donating tissues from abortion procedures…
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…
