The right wing’s most influential techno hermit, Matt Drudge, lives in a mansion out in the Redland and was driving around Southwest Dade yesterday when he saw two things that freaked him out: the word “Obamacare” and the Spanish language. He tweeted a picture of a van touting an Obamacare…
Charlie Crist may be running on a “man of the people” platform, but that hasn’t stopped him from moving to Florida’s most expensive and exclusive zip code. Crist and his wife Carol Rome are apparently spending so much time in South Florida that they’re now renting a condo on ritzy…
On the one hand, mass drug testing laws are inherently evil and unconstitutional. But on the other, required screening for the same elected officials who keep trying to force drug tests on welfare recipients and minimum wage-earning state employees would be beautifully ironic — especially in the wake of one…
Protests have rumbled through President Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela for the past month, but in a televised press conference today, Hugo Chavez’s successor seemed more concerned with what was going on in Miami and Washington, D.C. Maduro singled out Senator Marco Rubio and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinene as leaders of a “Miami…
Gen. John F. Kelly, the chief of the Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, gave a surprisingly candid testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. He said that because of budget cuts and inadequate funding he’s only able to stop about 26 percent of illegal drugs that head from Latin America…
Reubin Askew, the Democratic Governor who helped bring Florida into the modern age, died early this morning at the age of 85. Rated as one of the top ten governors of the 20th century by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Askew’s legacy still resonates throughout the state. He…
Because there are no two phrases Americans still recovering from the recession like to hear in the same sentence more than “Bush” and “Wall Street,” Bloomberg News reports that Wall Street’s money men are really hot on the idea of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush running for president in 2016…
In December, a New Timesinvestigation showed how an unlicensed doctor like Tony Bosch could sell tightly regulated drugs like steroids so openly from his Coral Gables clinic — including to superstar athletes like Alex Rodriguez. The answer: Florida’s laws include a giant loophole allowing clinics that only accept cash to…
Alex Sink just can’t seem to win anything. Four years after her narrow loss to now governor Rick Scott, Sink again came up short yesterday in a special election for Florida’s 13th congressional district. The contest was closely watched across the country. It was widely billed as a bellwether for…
Gov. Rick Scott has found time in his busy schedule to write a book. It’s called Chasing Sunshine: Remarkable People Who Found the American Dream in Florida. One of those people happens to be Tramar Dillard, AKA the rapper Flo Rida, AKA the guy who had a number one song…
Because Florida Republicans can’t find a gun violence problem they don’t think they can fix with more guns, a new bill that would allow teachers to pack heat in the classroom has passed its first state Senate panel…
Ana Alliegro, the woman at the center of one of Miami’s strangest political sagas, has been arrested in Nicaragua and will be deported back to America. She’s wanted on conspiracy, illegal campaign donations and false statements. See Also: Exclusive: Miami New Times Finds David Rivera’s Missing Pal Ana Alliegro…
After decades of the war on drugs, countless efforts to decriminalize dope, and tens of thousands of drug arrests, Florida has finally reached a turning point. The marijuana movement has reached critical mass. In January, the state supreme court ruled that voters can decide whether or not to legalize medical…
Sen. Marco Rubio doesn’t think discriminating against gay people is cool all the time. Just some of the time. Commenting on Arizona’s vetoed anti-gay, right-to-discriminate bill this weekend on Meet the Press, he claimed he didn’t believe that, for example, gay people should be denied service at a restaurant. However,…
A Florida restaurant chain is out to make your bill political. Eight restaurants that are part of the Gator’s Dockside chain are adding a one percent surcharge to customer’s bills and clearly marking it as an “ACA surcharge” on customers’ receipts. Signs, doors and tables at the restaurants also trumpet…
The Miami area hasn’t held a presidential nominating convention since both the Democratic and Republican parties held their conventions in the Miami Beach convention center back in 1972. Despite Florida’s transition into one of the most crucial swing states over the past two decades, neither have returned. Well, Miami is…
Turns out Michelle Obama did more than promote her Let’s Move initiative during her trip to Miami earlier this week. And it turns out there was a good reason that Amy Poehler seemingly randomly accompanied her. The First Lady filmed a scene for Poehler’s show Parks & Recreation while in…
First lady Michelle Obama stopped by Miami yesterday afternoon to announce that the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the National Recreation and Park Association would be serving more fruits and vegetables during after-school programs as part of her anti-childhood obesity initiative. FLOTUS, however, was joined by a secret…
The special election to replace deceased Florida Congressman Bill Young in Florida’s 13th congressional election is getting more national coverage than your average House race. In one of Florida’s few true swing districts, the outcome of the race between Republican David Jolly and former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has…
While top Republicans like Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi are opposed to legalizing medical marijuana in Florida, the issue isn’t necessarily a left vs. right issue. Don Gaetz, the Republican President of the Florida Senate, has made the blunt admission that he once bought pot to ease…
In December, Miami New Times published the third story in a series of investigations into Biogenesis, the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that had been selling performance-enhancing drugs to a number of pro athletes including Alex Rodriguez. That final story looked into how gaps in state regulation let scores of unlicensed…
When you’re arrested in Florida your mug shots gets splashed across the internet in a matter of days. That’s because Florida police agencies and sheriff’s departments release the photos online in compliance with Florida’s progressive public record laws. Though, in recent years several commercial websites have popped up that keep…
