It was blindingly sunny and at least 90 degrees as Emma Collum made her way through an Oakland Park neighborhood of colorful ranch houses with manicured front lawns. Dressed in a T-shirt bearing her name, light-blue shorts, and a Dolphins hat, the fast-talking 33-year-old with long dark hair and a…
From 1992 through 1998, Bruno Barreiro served in the Florida House of Representatives. From 1998 until this year, he was a Miami-Dade County commissioner. In that time, Barreiro did such a remarkably poor job, was so universally reviled, and was so routinely ridiculed for being a dunce that the Miami Herald…
Florida, Jeff Greene wants to be your next governor. This will perhaps be a difficult accomplishment for Greene, because, and this is key, he appears to be a massive idiot. A huge, honking stooge. Just a grade-A fool-boy. Despite being a billionaire, or perhaps due to the fact that he is filthy rich, Greene appears to have legit zero idea…
Boca Raton’s private-prison juggernaut, the GEO Group, makes more money from Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts than any other company in America. The company has been repeatedly sued for allegedly forcing immigrant detainees to work for food and itself has threatened to sue critics for protesting the company. Earlier this month, a fringe white-supremacist group, Identity Evropa, showed up at an ICE facility in Colorado and handed the workers there a thank-you card and gift basket.
There Joe Carollo is, caught in a grainy image like he’s some unholy cryptid combination of Bigfoot, Angela Lansbury, and Alex Jones. The fact that the photo is low-res and black-and-white somehow makes it more compelling. Look at how his eyes glow like he’s the Loch Ness monster, but with a forged private detective’s license.
There’s good reason Miami’s former mayor earned the nickname “Crazy Joe” Carollo. So when voters elected him to the city commission last fall, it’s no surprise he brought that gravitational mass of insanity back to Dinner Key. Now Carollo is allegedly harassing his enemies in parking lots at 1:30 in the morning and yelling, “I am the law!” when confronted. Good job, everyone!
Last Friday, Miami Beach City Attorney Raul Aguila schooled the town’s mayor and commissioners in how to avoid getting in trouble during election season. He sent all the officials a three-page memo, written by the county’s Commission on Ethics & Public Trust, spelling out some clear ground rules…
Daphne Campbell is the worst candidate on this month’s primary ballot. She lies about basically everything: her dead mother, her liens, her debts to the federal government, and the cash a lobbyist stuffed into her purse on camera. When reporters question her about these lies, she either pretends she’s not Daphne Campbell or calls the cops.
In 2014, Russian hackers nearly wreaked havoc on Ukraine’s presidential elections. Their plan: Sneak into the country’s election website to make it look like an ultra-right-winger had won with 37 percent of the vote, when in reality he’d received barely 1 percent. That plan was foiled at the last minute, but a similar disinformation campaign might be way too easy to pull off in Florida.
The Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group formed near the beginning of the Black Lives Matter movement, has helped turn the GEO Group, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s single largest contractor, from a largely unknown private prison firm hated by justice-reform activists into a toxic company from which even some Republican politicians are now refusing donations.
Miami Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart is not exactly known in local political circles for being particularly bright. But, in what might be the single most-boneheaded thing he’s done ever, the congressman on Tuesday tweeted out a photograph of himself at an anti-Nicaraguan-President Ortega rally — posing with a man in a…
In 2016, Miami Beach became one of the hardest places in America to book a short-term vacation rental. Thanks to laws enacted over the past two years, the city now levies fines as high as $100,000 on property owners with illegal rentals and has plans to target platforms such as Airbnb.
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills has been kneeling during the national anthem to protest the racist American justice system for portions of the last three NFL seasons. Stills is extremely serious about his activism — in February, he took a road trip in an RV to meet civil-rights supporters…
Democratic North Miami state Sen. Daphne Campbell is a lawmaker so ethically compromised that her own Miami-Dade County Democratic Party today suggested she might be a Republican in disguise. Her latest reelection campaign seems in shambles — after a string of utterly absurd headlines, including getting caught passing around…
The Miami-Dade Democratic party sent a letter to state Sen. Daphne Campbell on Tuesday questioning her ties to Republicans and her history of less-than-stellar ethics.
At President Trump’s rally in Tampa last week, a familiar face made it back in the national news. Maurice Symonette, also known as Michael the Black Man, was front and center in a crowd hurling invectives at CNN reporter Jim Acosta, waving a “Blacks for Trump” sign. Symonette has…
Boca Raton’s GEO Group — the single largest contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — absolutely does not want anyone to accuse it of caging people or separating families. GEO is so upset by such allegations that it threatened to sue Dream Defenders, a Florida civil rights group, all…
With just 21 days until the primary, one wall in Wynwood is sporting a new look. Over the weekend, Miami-based artist Disem used spray paint to create a mural of Tallahassee Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum on a wall outside of 004 Connec on NW 24th Street.
On Thursday, Republican voter William Stuttgen found something unusual in his mailbox. It was a mailer from “Republican Neighbor Choice” listing Republican candidates for the Florida primary August 28: Rick Scott, Adam Putnam, Daphne Campbell — wait, what? Democratic state Sen. Daphne Campbell’s name was listed along with Republicans on a…
Unless you spent the weekend off-the-grid vacationing in the Caribbean, you’re probably keenly aware that Donald Trump and LeBron James are in the news. Not separately — that wouldn’t be weird at all. They’re currently in the news together, and for exactly the reason you’d expect: a total shit-show…
Maurice Symonette’s story is baffling, to put it mildly. Symonette, who also goes by the name Michael the Black Man, somehow went from being a part of the murderous Yahweh ben Yahweh cult to getting acquitted of murder charges himself to being a staple at Donald Trump’s presidential rallies…
Marco Rubio, a surrealist art project that accidentally became sentient and was elected to the U.S. Senate, spends a lot of time tweeting about how America needs to get “tough” on Vladimir Putin. If you need someone to sponsor an extremely lame amendment “trolling” Putin by renaming the Russian embassy’s street in Washington after a dead Russian dissident, Marco is your guy.
