Occupy Miami protesters took a break from camping out at Government Center this afternoon to fight an ill all too familiar to the Magic City — mortgage fraud and a foreclosure suffered by one of their own.Angela Samuels, a longtime community activist with One Miami, local unions, and Occupy Miami,…
Dozens of news cameras and reporters armed with tape recorders have attempted to explain the scene down at the Occupy Miami camp in Government Center, but sometimes someone armed with a sketchbook and a patient set of ears manages to capture the moment even better. Sarah Glidden, who recently published…
For years, someone calling himself “The Weedmanhippy” has been wedging cryptic, self-promoting fliers into the front of New Times boxes across Miami Beach. At first, we were kind of annoyed. Then, earlier this week, we finally gave in and called him.The Weedmanhippy is actually Billy Blank: part SoBe Socrates, part…
Video of America’s first African-American first lady being booed by a largely white crowd of NASCAR fans this weekend in Homestead was a slightly troubling sight, but Rush Limbaugh predictably hasn’t helped the matter much. He went on his radio show today to defend the NASCAR fans and excuse the…
Ritch Workman, the Republican state representative from Melbourne who has already introduced a bill to legalize dwarf tossing, is back with another stunningly stupid and controversial bill. Just eight days after Workman finalized his own divorce, he introduced a new piece of legislation that would radically rewrite the state’s alimony…
The first steps towards the possibility of legalizing medical marijuana in Florida are underway. Last month State Rep. Jeff Session, a Democrat from Lake Worth, introduced a resolution that would allow Floridians to vote on the matter in 2012. Now, state Sen. Larcenia Bullard, a Miami Democrat, has stepped up…
Since the Occupy movements started pitching tents and politically motivated fits alike, the rest of the world’s been asking, “What the hell do you expect to achieve from sleeping under the stars and smelling like last week’s lunch?” Futurist Jacque Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows, creators of The Venus Project, are…
Hundreds gathered in Jose Martí Park yesterday in Little Havana, tromped east on Calle Ocho into Brickell then paraded through downtown Miami in a protest march that heard just as many “Sak ap fets?” as “Que bola aseres?” alongside chants of “End The Fed,” and “If you can hear my…
The popularity of the U.S. Congress is at an all-time low. A recent CBS News/New York Times poll shows that just 9 percent of Americans approve of the federal legislative body. How bad is that? Well, just about the only thing Americans hate more than Congress is Fidel Castro…
Even with the unofficial entrance of Connie Mack IV into the race, the GOP Senate nomination in Florida is still a wide-open race. Today Nick Loeb, the grandson of one of the Lehman Brothers and, so much more important, the boyfriend of Sofia Vergara, will make an announcement in South…
We’d expect a poorly Photoshopped picture of President Barack Obama lip locking with Venezuela’s controversial leader Hugo Chávez to appear on some Miami Republican’s blog, not in an ad associated with a clothing company. Yet United Colors of Benetton is responsible for the bizarre image. It’s apparently supposed to get us…
All things considered, the Occupy Miami protests at Government Center in downtown have been relatively peaceful, and Miami-Dade County has been pretty lenient about dealing with protesters. Though, on Thursday they asked the protesters to move about 50 feet to the north lawn of the center while a crane was…
Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate would take direct action at the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church. The Kansas-based fringe church, classified by many experts as an active hate group, is well known for protesting military and other high profile funerals with signs reading “God Hates Fags,”…
Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones beat bribery and grand theft charges, and returned to office. Now we’ll see if she proves as invincible in civil court. Two former witnesses in the criminal case, who claimed that she used forgery to divert a $25,000 grant that was supposed to go to their…
Last year, George W. Bush headlined the Miami Book Fair International. While this year’s edition offers no presidential names on the bill, another former commander-in-chief is preparing for a literary visit to Miami this Fall. The Coral Gables location of Books & Books will be hosting Bill Clinton. He’ll stop…
It’s almost that time of year again when race fans across the nation descend on Homestead for the last race of the NASCAR season. This year they’ll be joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden, meaning that very likely Michelle Obama will become the first black…
All it took was word that Rep. Connie Mack IV was about to enter the GOP primary for the parties’ Senate nomination to finally heat up that sad race. Despite the fact that Mack hasn’t officially announced his candidacy, he now leads the latest Quinnipiac poll by 23 points. George LeMieux…
While several anti-Wall Street sit-ins around the country have devolved into violent stand-offs between police and protesters, Occupy Miami has been as peaceful as can be.Now, however, Miami-Dade County is revoking the protesters permit for Government Center.”The city is trying to get us to move camp tomorrow,” Occupy Miami organizers…
Yesterday we half-wondered if a poll that showed Herman Cain once again leading the GOP pack in Florida was something of an outlier. Well, now a new Quinnipiac poll released this morning and conducted from October 31st to November 7th shows that despite new news of Cain’s habit of settling…
So, you thought news of Herman Cain’s alleged sexual harassment past and his campaign’s subsequent bungling attempt to react to the news would doom the pizza man’s chance of winning the GOP nomination? Yeah, well, not in Florida at least. A new Rasmussen poll taken just yesterday shows that Cain…
Now, you may think that our tall, white, lanky, bald governor could be a horrible dancer, but we have to say he moves with such grace and enthusiasm it almost moved us to tears. His feet move like finely timed fireworks in slow motion, exploding with elegant energy. He’s a…
The paint has long dried on the victory signs declaring billionaire Norman Braman’s success in his drive to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez, and yet it’s hard to discern any meaningful policy change that has occurred in Miami-Dade since then. So, it’s not surprising that Braman is now threatening further…
