Get ready for a Romney-Rubio ticket, Florida. Even as Miami’s favorite Tea Party son tells everyone who will listen that he has zero plans to run as vice president this year, the Tampa Bay Times reports that he’s studiously following the textbook on how to prepare for a vice presidential…
An observation: the police officers in Surfside — the little town south of Sunny Isles where I’ve lived for over three years — might be the biggest horndogs in the state. They hide in the bushes of a parking lot on Harding Avenue, trapping drivers doing 37 MPH, and lay…
Fudge your expenses at work and you could get fired. Fudge them when you’re in Congress and you’ll probably get away with it.A new anti-corruption report spells out how hundreds of U.S. representatives use their positions to enrich themselves and their families. According to the report, those engaged in shady…
A Senate Committee in Tallahassee played redistricting bingo late yesterday. The idea: Shout so loud the Florida Supreme Court might actually accept its new plan. B-I-N-G-O. They used one of those wire rollers with a handle and a bunch of ping pong balls.Senators who drew white balls got four-year terms…
In what is perhaps a sign that some in the GOP establishment are growing wary off the drawn-out Republican presidential primary and are ready to rally around a frontrunner, former Florida governor Jeb Bush broke his neutral stance this morning and officially endorsed Mitt Romney…
In this week’s Miami New Times feature story, Michael Miller explores Occupy Miami’s strange journey after getting booted from downtown’s Government Center. Displaced protesters moved to a ramshackle apartment complex in Overtown, where the building’s owner — who calls himself “Señor Paz” — invited them to live for free.You can…
The number of “justifiable” deaths in Florida that have resulted from self defense has tripled since 2005 when then-Governor Jeb Bush signed the “Stand Your Ground” law. That’s the same law that has so far kept George Zimmerman out of jail for shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Though, even the original…
Tallahassee lawyer Stephen R. Andrews has been a pain in Gov. Rick Scott’s ass since before he took office. Before Scott won the governor’s race, Andrews filed a lawsuit alleging that his ties to Solantic — the medical firm that would reap a profit bonanza from the drug testing Scott…
President Barack Obama was just at the University of Miami, so you’d think that his staff could get the name of the school correct. Apparently not. The White House sent out a press release today describing University of Miami president Donna Shalala as “President of Miami University.”Miami University is a…
Barack Obama continues to hold the slightest of edges over the GOP field among voters in the crucial swing state of Florida according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll.While it’s statistically irrelevant, Santorum does actually pull closer to Obama than Mitt Romney. Up until now the general thinking is that…
Never mind the fact that Connie Mack IV’s history of bar brawls and financial problems have been talked about heavily for the past month. It hasn’t apparently hurt his campaign in any way. The Republican Senate hopeful has opened a seven-point lead over Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson…
More than two dozen cops swarmed Occupy Miami’s Overtown safehouse yesterday afternoon after responding to what appears to have been a bogus terrorism tip The raid was the second on Occupy Miami in the past six weeks. On January 31, Miami-Dade cops evicted protesters from Government Center. This time it…
We weren’t all that familiar with U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns — a gray-haired motel magnate from Ocala — until Tuesday, when he tried to revive the long-exploded birther movement by questioning President Obama’s birth certificate at a town hall meeting. Well, that must have been one hell of a town…
The family that pays fines together, binds together, we guess.Both Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and his daughter Raquel Regalado, a Miami-Dade School Board member, have been fined for sloppy bookkeeping during his 2009 campaign for office…
Did Obama coast to victory just because he had a deeper voice than John McCain? Did Alex Sink lose to Rick Scott in the Florida governor’s race because of her high-pitched southern twang? New research by a University of Miami political science professor suggests it may be part of the…
Remember when actual elected Republicans were all jumping aboard the birther train and openly questioning whether President Barack Obama was actually a natural-born U.S. citizen? Then the president presented his long-form birth certificate and that seemed to put an end to it? Well, apparently not for one Florida Republican congressman. …
Tonight, North Miami commissioners will vote on the future of the city’s most important asset — 193-acres of waterfront land that have been in limbo since the real estate bust killed the last development and a more recent idea — to let a business partner of Mayor Andre Pierre build…
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a habit of reminding everyone just how very, very rich he is, and lately, just how very, very rich and powerful all of his friends are.About a month ago while discussing NASCAR, he mentioned how he was friends with several team owners. This morning,…
In an epic political fail for Senate Republicans, the Florida Supreme Court ruled this morning that recent redistricting efforts amount to illegal gerrymandering.”We conclude that the challengers have demonstrated that the Senate plan… violates the constitutional requirements,” Justice Barbara Pariente wrote in a 5-2 majority opinion. She argued that politicians…
Today is one of our least favorite times of the year: the final day of the Florida legislative session. It’s like the dying moments of a drunken high school party, when everyone makes hasty, poor decisions that they will come to regret. So, how have our duly elected representatives spent…
One would think that Democrats would have the advantage when it comes to correctly quoting Jay-Z lyrics. Apparently that’s not the case up in Tallahassee. Dean Cannon, the Republican Speaker of the House, corrected Democratic Rep. Alan B. Williams for misquoting a Jay-Z song today on the House floor…
Fresh off their devastatingly progressive move to legalize rabbit-dyeing, the Florida House passed another landmark law for human rights by banning, at last, state prisons from handcuffing pregnant women during live birth. Next on the agenda: Outlawing forced marathons for disabled veterans in jail and prohibiting wardens from pouring salt…
