Marco Rubio — the Tea Party’s wunderkind, GOP’s great not-too-white hope, and water’s most awkward chugger — had his moment in the national spotlight last night, delivering a rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union speech in both English and Spanish. The reviews are in, ranging from the Daily…
Finally! Frivolous legislation out of Tallahassee we can finally get behind!State Sen. Darren Soto, an Orlando-area Democrat, has filed legislation that would keep Florida on daylight-saving time (DST) all year long…
Marco Rubio may be delivering the Republican response to Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight, but he won’t be the only local face you’ll see on TV. Desiline Victor, age 102, has been chosen to sit with First Lady Michelle Obama during the proceedings…
In an article teasing “the Miami hotel that could pick the next president,” BuzzFeed has done its best to paint Miami’s Republican power base as a nighttime soap opera featuring the brewing battle between two favorite sons, all centered on the glamorous Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. They’ve even illustrated…
Marco Rubio continues to be everywhere this week, including peering out at you from the news stand on the cover of Time magazine. The last remaining major news weekly splashed “The Republican Savior” in big, bold yellow letters across the Florida Senator, but Rubio has taking issue with the characterization. …
Any doubts that the Republican party is pinning all hopes of recouping Hispanic voters on Miami’s own Sen. Marco Rubio should be dispelled by the news out this morning: Rubio isn’t just going to deliver his party’s rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union speech next Tuesday, he’ll be…
Everyone thinks Jeb Bush should have presidential ambitions, but apparently last summer he was more interested in another one of his brother’s old jobs: Major League Baseball team owner. According to the Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson, Bush put together a group of investors and tried to buy the Marlins from…
Yesterday, Sen. Marco Rubio released his Spotify playlist on the world. It got us thinking about the musical tastes of other Florida politicians. We don’t really expect Gov. Rick Scott to be dropping his mixtape anytime soon, so through the wonderful powers of satire, Riptide has imagined what that mixtape might include. …
In further a effort to prove he’s totally hip and with it, Sen. Marco Rubio sat down with Buzzfeed, a .GIF site with some political reporters, to discuss a wide ranging series of topics over beer with editor Ben Smith. Rubio discussed a number of issues, including his belief that gay…
The Miami Dolphins won their first legislative battle in a war to secure taxpayer money to cover half of the planned $400 million upgrades to Sun Life Stadium this morning as the bill passed its first Senate committee unanimously. …
Marco Rubio may be on his way to being one of the most powerful men in Washington, DC, but that doesn’t mean he’s lost his common touch. Florida’s junior senator unleashed his latest Spotify playlist on the world, and his music taste is pretty much that of an average Y100…
On the same day Rick Scott’s secretary of state issued a plan to avoid a repeat of November’s catastrophic voting delays, a Miami commissioner put out his own, more radical idea: Printing Dade County’s ballots in a single language, instead of the lengthy documents in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.Don’t…
Our own Senator Spacesnakes is apparently one of the biggest bad asses in all of Washington D.C. He’s been named by U.S. News and World Reports as one of the top ten “toughest” politicians in America. …
Say bye, bye to Marco Rubio. He’ll no longer be your neighbor. The superstar junior Senator has decided to sell his Miami home, and will move his wife and kids to Washington, D.C. according to The Daily Caller…
So, remember that flap over Gov. Rick Scott adopting a shelter dog, naming it Reagan, using it for campaign publicity, and then dumping it on another family as soon as he was inaugurated? Yes, we know it’s hard to keep Rick Scott scandals straight.Well, its appears to have cost Brian…
LeBron James isn’t intimidated by much. The Heat’s championship run last season was a testament to that. Though, when the team traveled to the White House today to be honored by President Obama, James seemed pretty starstruck and amazed he was actually being honored at the White House…
So, it turned out that those “Satanists” who announced that they were rallying in favor of Rick Scott were really actors for a mockumentary about “the nicest Satanic cult in the world.” Though it may have been fiction, the rally still went down as planned this week on the steps…
Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz’s name has long been thrown around when it comes to possible Democratic candidates for statewide office, but it appears he may finally be preparing to run for Governor. He hasn’t said anything publicly, but Naked Politics reports that there are plenty of signs that a…
Mitt Romney’s loss left Republicans with a lot of soul searching to do. Rather than reevaluating their message, voter outreach or image, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has endorsed a bizarre plan that would make one of the oddest elements of American democracy — the Electoral College — even…
Remember those ridiculously long lines on Election Day? Well, according to a new analysis about 201,000 Floridians were so frustrated they gave up and got out of line before actually casting their ballot. That’s a relatively small number of the 8.4 million Floridians who did vote, but in a presidential…
Earlier this week, Riptide was the first to report that recalled Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez has now reinvented himself as a championship-winning senior bodybuilder. In case you needed proof that those picture of the former pol overly tanned, super muscled and in something so small we don’t even think it…
Hopefully you don’t have a midnight massage habit, because the state of Florida may limit the hours massage therapists can work from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The bill recently passed a state House subcommittee, and if the whole House passes the law, it could go into effect as soon…
