Migrant children are still being housed without parents in Miami-Dade County. The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children is still operational: Kids are living on the compound, taking classes there, seeing doctors, and playing sports on the recreation fields. But they’re not allowed to leave…
Thousands of Democrats led by former President Barack Obama flooded Ice Palace Studios just north of downtown Miami Friday afternoon. They chanted “Bring it home,” decried the “world of hate” President Donald Trump has forged, and tried to whip up enthusiasm four days before the November 6 election.
The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children costs $17 million per month to run.
This was supposed to be the year young people hit the polls in droves, pushing back on years of dismal youth turnout in the midterms. Parkland student activists like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez traveled the country all summer to sign up new voters and last month appeared in…
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton stood today in Miami’s Freedom Tower — a building famous for housing Cuban refugees fleeing political oppression — and praised the election of the neofascist wannabe dictator of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Bolton, who also labeled Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela the “Troika of Terror,”…
Over the past few months, former President Barack Obama has endorsed hundreds of Democratic candidates in the November midterms elections. None were running for municipal positions in Florida. Yet a flyer circulating in North Miami Beach claims Obama has endorsed five candidates vying for mayor and the city commission.
The United States jails more of its citizens than any nation on Earth. Florida’s incarceration rate is higher than any country’s. So it would seem logical to ratchet down the War on Drugs, demilitarize local police departments, and persuade local cops to arrest fewer people.
With the election less than a week away, Florida for the next few days becomes the epicenter of campaigning by presidents past and present. Donald Trump hits the Hertz Arena in Fort Myers tonight at 7 p.m. A large crowd is expected and cops are warning people to…
It’s just before 7:30 p.m. on a Tuesday in October, and Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is glad-handing with constituents at the Shenandoah Park recreation center. He shakes hands with a couple of uniformed cops and plants a kiss on an older woman’s cheek. Dressed in a trim navy suit, he…
Over the summer, the New York state attorney general whacked President Donald Trump with a massive lawsuit for misusing funds from his charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation. Among the allegations was a charge that Trump used $10,000 of foundation money to purchase a portrait of himself at a 2014 a children’s charity auction at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach. Internet sleuths later tracked down the painting hanging at the Trump National Doral Miami golf resort.
Florida is one of three states that permanently strips you of the right to vote if you’re convicted of a felony. But if you’ve served your sentence, should you be barred from the ballot box for the rest of your life? If you made a mistake or an error in judgment and paid for it, should you forfeit your say in what happens in your city or state or country forever? The answer is no. Which is why you should vote yes on Amendment 4.
This past Sunday, the New York Times published an explosive report outlining the Trump administration’s plans to create a new definition of sex. Under the proposal, gender would be limited to either male or female and defined as permanent from birth. According to the Times, the Department of Health and Human Services has asked four federal agencies, including the Department of Labor, to adopt the narrow definition.
The Florida Commission on Ethics today released a trove of documents that darkens the cloud that has hung over Andrew Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign for months. They show an undercover FBI agent gave the Tallahassee mayor tickets to see the blockbuster Broadway show Hamilton during a 2016 trip to New York City.
Rick Scott took a page from an old Miami playbook Monday when he issued an ad in Spanish that contradicts what he is saying and doing in English. It is designed to bolster the Florida governor’s campaign to unseat incumbent Bill Nelson in the race for the U.S. Senate.
Florida has endured three horrific mass shootings in less than three years: Fifty were killed in June 2016 at Pulse nightclub, another five at the Fort Lauderdale airport in January 2017, and 17 more at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February of this year. Yet despite all the…
Florida might not seem like a natural setting for bone-chilling horror. Gothic mansions on dark hillsides are tough to come by in the Sunshine State. Dracula would wilt in ten seconds flat in the tropical sun, and Michael Myers would probably require hospitalization for heatstroke before he could knock anyone…
Early voting begins today, and the City of Miami Beach wants us all to vote for another general obligation bond — a loan proposed by elected officials that uses funds for various capital improvement projects. It’s voted on by residents and paid for, over time, by raising property taxes.
Early voting begins this morning in what might be the most important midterm election of our lifetimes. With Florida’s environment hanging in the balance and the majority on the line in not only the state Senate but also U.S. Congress, this year will likely be historic. Not only that, but a proposed change to the state constitution could forever substantially rebalance the st
For years, Florida has had one of the highest rates of uninsured residents. So it’s no surprise health care is a top issue for voters going into the November midterms. According to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than a quarter of Florida voters said health care was the most important issue they were considering this election season.
Stuart Sheldon’s oldest son was in elementary school the day 20 children were gunned down in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary. The idea of someone aiming an AR-15 at first-graders was the worst thing Sheldon could imagine, and when nothing changed in its aftermath, he responded the best way he…
The collection of ultrarich vampire people known as the DeVos clan has risen again from its dank cellar to put its collective thumb on the scale of Florida’s gubernatorial race. According to political action committee records, four members of the DeVos clan, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ husband, Richard M. DeVos Jr., donated a total of $200,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC October 11.
For years, a 501(c)(4) “dark-money” nonprofit called Florida Strong has been supporting Democratic candidates across the state. Though the secretive group has been more than deserving of its own criticism over the years, there’s apparently now a second and perhaps even more shady organization called “Florida Strong” now funded by right-wingers operating…
