Maybe its the fact that all three Florida teams suck this year. Maybe its the fact that financially strapped Floridians don’t want to shell out for tickets. Whatever the case, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars and Miami Dolphins have all had to deal with the threat or reality of…
As part of his “Let’s Get to Work” publicity stunt, Florida Governor Rick Scott will be spending the day working at the Port of Miami. Scott was spotted in a hardhat, orange vest and work gloves at the port early this morning, and will spend time working for ocean transportation company…
A graffiti artist’s effigy of a banker hanging alongside Miami’s I-95 has struck a global chord. Since we first reported on the suit-and-tie (and head-covering sack) wearing mannequin that guerrilla artist Above hung to complement his Occupy Miami-themed 255-foot-long mural reading “Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he…
How well does Gov. Rick Scott really know Florida? Apparently not well enough to know that the area including St. Petersburg, Tampa and Clearwater — you know, the second biggest metro area in his state — is pretty commonly referred to as “Tampa Bay.” We don’t like to pull the…
Some Democrats have accused Republicans of intentionally trying to slow economic recovery for political gain. Republicans have tried to dismiss that theory, but it’s not just partisan Dems who believe it. Nearly half of voters in Florida believe “Republicans are intentionally hindering efforts to boost the economy so that President…
In Oakland last week, police at an Occupy protest shot a military vet in the head with a rubber bullet, landing him in critical condition; other video showed officers lobbing dangerous flash bombs into peaceful crowds. In Portland, Maine, a homemade bomb went flying into the demonstration. Police from coast…
Maybe it’s because as secretary of state, she’s not directly involved in DC’s tense fight over economic policy. Maybe it’s because people have a nostalgia for her husband’s terms as president where our biggest national issue was a blowjob. Maybe Hillary Clinton is just a badass. Whatever the case, the…
Will Matti Herrera Bower be able to slide past joke candidate turned semiserious competitor Steve Berke to regain her job as Miami Beach Mayor? Will Raul Martinez return once again to the seat of Hialeah Mayor he held for decades? Will there be any sort of serious shake up on…
Today, The New York Times tallied up the list of U.S. Representatives who have missed the most votes so far this year. A local name popped up at 6th on the list: Frederica Wilson. The first term congresswoman from District 17 hasn’t cast a vote since October 3rd. …
Hey, Miami, you’re welcome. Thanks to the nationwide Occupy movement — including the 305’s very own budding revolt at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center — Bank of America just announced it’s no longer planning to rip off debit card users by charging them five bucks a month. One for Occupy,…
The Occupy movement started with mass outrage against Wall Street, and while Miami may not be home to the slimy realm of Gordon Gekko, protesters outside the Stephen P. Clark Government Center are turning their economic outrage onto the local equivalent: the downtown Bank of America headquarters.Around 10 a.m. this…
Hey, it’s your favorite morning of the year! The one where you stumble out of bed to realize you spent the night next to a stranger dressed like Muammar Gaddafi (too soon?), scrape the caked zombie makeup off your face and stumble to work through a grade-five hangover. But then…
What with all of his insane lawsuits against the Clintons, Facebook, Rachel Maddow, President Obama, and his own mother, conservative Florida activist and lawyer Larry Klayman is pretty damn busy. Too busy to defend his real clients, apparently. The Florida Bar has issued a public reprimand of Klayman for taking…
A week ago, the Washington Post slammed Florida’s freshman Sen. Marco Rubio for “embellishing” his family story by claiming his parents arrived in Miami after Fidel Castro took over Cuba when, in fact, they arrived three years earlier.Well, it didn’t take Democrats very long to recognize the opportunity.American Bridge 21st…
So far the Republican primary to decide who gets to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012 has been a big, wet, cold heap of “ain’t nobody care.” Neither George LeMieux nor Adam Hasner have caught on with GOP voters, and pretty much every poll has shown that most…
Florida has apparently stopped gorging itself on pizza man Herman Cain, and ol’ reliably boring Mitt Romney has taken a giant lead in the latest poll conducted by Time and CNN. Romney leads the pack with 30 percent, while Cain is now a distant second with 12 percent. Compare that…
Terry Jones, the press hungry pastor of a tiny Gainesville church that damn near caused an international incident by promising to host “Burn a Koran” day, has decided he’s going to run for president. Because that’s exactly what we need: more wackos people running for president! In his press release…
After passing four different bills last year placing restrictions on abortion, is the Republican dominated Florida legislature ready to totally ban abortion in Florida? House Republican Charles Van Zant hopes so. He’s once again introducing his “Florida for Life” bill that would almost completely outlaw abortion in the state and…
But no, it is not real. For the past week, graffiti artist Above has been working on a giant, attention-grabbing mural in Wynwood next to the I-95 northbound lanes as part of Primary Flight. It reads in block letters: “Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he will hang…
Even though her husband has been out of office for nearly a year, former first lady of Florida Carole Crist still makes the gossip pages. First there was the news that she was registered as a Democrat and was openly asking top Democrats if her hubby Charlie Crist had any chance…
In a little over two years, Chris Dorworth will be the second-most powerful man in Tallahassee. Barring some sort of momentous Democratic take over, the Republican has already been elected to serve as Speaker of the House from 2014 to 2016. Funny thing is, back in 2009, Dorworth was nearly…
The fallout from this morning’s take down of Marco Rubio’s supposed family story in the Washington Post has been fierce and fast. First, The Miami Herald came to Rubio’s defense and challenged some of the Post’s assertions. Now Rubio has penned his own editorial for Politico and calls the story…
