If you woke up this morning with a hard-on for sky-high interest rates, a hankering for anarchy, and hopes of seeing the sobbing shell of our once-stately president crumpled over the corpse of Obamacare, we have some bad news for you. Last night, Congress voted to end the 16-day government…
Apparently when it comes to the government shutdown battle over the implications of Obamacare, all Senator Marco Rubio has to offer is lame pop culture jokes. In the same day that Rubio said he will not vote for a deal to end the shutdown and raise the debt limit, he…
Less than a year after gaining seats and ending the Republican’s supermajoirty in the state house, Florida Democrats picked up another seat last night in a bit of a special election upset. Despite being out-funded by a near 3-to-1 ratio, first time candidate Amanda Murphy beat Republican Bill Gunter in…
Bill Edwards is one of Rick Scott’s top individual donors. He wrote a $500,000 check to Scott’s Let’s Get to Work re-election PAC. Ironically, almost 500 of Edwards’ employees will not get to work soon. One of his companies, Mortgage Investment Corp. (MIC), abruptly announced yesterday it’s laying off 476…
There’s still tons of people who actually live in Miami Beach who have no idea who they’re going to vote for in the November 5th election for Miami Beach’s next mayor, but apparently ex-President Bill Clinton has made up his mind already. Clinton turns out is buddy-buddy with multi-millionaire candidate…
Since the day he was elected, Rick Scott has been one of the most unpopular governors in America, often hovering below 30 percent in polls. He’s tried everything from casual Fridays to flipping hamburgers in local restaurants to boost his numbers. But the most recent Q poll still shows nearly…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is such a part of Miami-Dade’s political firmament it’s hard to imagine the moderate Republican losing her seat until she’s ready to retire. But a new poll shows Ros-Lehtinen trailing a generic Democratic opponent by two points. Is this just a temporary manifestation of the anti-incumbent and…
With Capitol Hill still locked in a debt-ceiling full nelson, President Obama offered a compromise last night on one thorny shutdown issue: States can now reopen national parks using their own money. Governors in at least four states have jumped at the offer. After all, millions of tourism dollars have…
There’s no soul more blighted in the Miami Beach panorama than a car-locked driver around 9 a.m. at 14th and Alton, who sits behind dozen of cars, wondering just what in God’s name is happening at the front of the line to engender such congestion. Worse, there’s no clear answer…
The nationwide salmonella outbreak has hit Miami-Dade County. Three cases were reported here in an outbreak that is believed to have started with a chicken producer all the way in California…
As I’m reminded everytime I log onto Facebook or Twitter this week, just about everyone has an opinion on the federal government shutdown. Well, almost everyone. Rick Scott is refusing to clarify where he stands on the issue…
It’s been a tough few days for Miami Beach mayoral candidate Philip Levine. First, at last week’s mayoral debate, the businessman was charged with making a racist comment after he promised to change the city hall ethos from “being mañana, lazy.” Then, he suffered a scathing writeup in the Miami…
College football may finally be coming back to the land where the Orange Bowl stood for decades. According to ESPN, a new bowl game tentatively titled the Miami Bowl we be played in Marlins Park starting in 2014…
In today’s world of hyper-partisan political bickering, we’re not sure where the line of good taste lies anymore. But we’re pretty sure making fun of a cancer patient for having cancer decidedly crosses that blurry line. Republican Pinellas County Committeeman Dan Tucker is in hot water for making such a…
Remember during Rick Scott’s campaign he promised to bring Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida, open our coasts to offshore drilling, and ban embryonic stem cell research in the state? Yeah, well none of that has actually happened. In some cases Scott didn’t even bother to actually pursue those ideas. In…
For the first time since he’s taken office, Senator Marco Rubio’s approval ratings among Floridians are now dipping underwater. A new Public Policy Polling poll finds that more Floridians disapprove of Marco Rubio’s job performance than approve…
Because what we really need more of in Washington, D.C., is partisan bickering and petty name calling, Miami-area Rep. Joe Garcia took to the House floor yesterday to compare House Republicans to the Taliban…
Charlie Crist hasn’t officially announced his candidacy yet, but with Alex Sink deciding to forgo another run, there’s a good chance he’ll be the Democratic candidate for governor in 2014. And, if this latest Public Policy Polling survey is any indication, there’s a good chance he’ll be governor once again…
Thanks to the government shutdown, national parks are closed, hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been sent home without a paycheck, and all federal government activities considered nonessential will effectively halt. However, controversial and ineffective government-sponsored broadcasts to Cuba through Radio and TV Martí will continue with little change…
If you’re texting a link to this story on your iPhone while you sip coffee and weave through morning traffic on the Dolphin Expressway using your knees — JUST STOP IT. Years of appealing to your common sense clearly hasn’t helped, so perhaps you’ll respond to the news that beginning…
[Insert joke about a bill causing fireworks in Tallahassee here.] Florida bans regular citizens from buying fireworks that shoot of into the air for most purposes, but a bill filed by state Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Ft. Walton Beach) could reverse that. Fire chiefs across the state however aren’t celebrating…
In the second high-profile case of a white powder leading to the evacuation of a government office this week, a white substance was sent to Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia’s office in Key West. This one probably wasn’t crack cocaine, but it was oddly marked “Tea Party.”…
