Commissioner Ricky Arriola is reportedly the subject of an investigation into attempted sexual battery, the Miami Herald reported minutes ago. Both Miami Beach Police and Arriola himself confirmed the existence of the investigation to the Herald. He has not been charged with a crime.
Broward and Miami-Dade County U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a leading Democrat, just helped hand Donald Trump, a man too dumb to tweet the word “tap” correctly, extra powers to spy on American citizens without a warrant. She joined 54 other Democrats in voting down a measure to rein in the U.S. National Security Agency’s unprecedented warrantless spying program.
When you’re pals with the dumbest person ever elected U.S. president, it’s pretty easy to convince the Leader of the Free World to do some stupid shit that makes you look good. Take Florida Governor Rick Scott: After Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, announced a plan this…
For one brief moment, it appeared the congressional race to replace retiring GOP Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in her central-Miami district would be boring. The Republican candidates, led by the charismatic-as-a-rock Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, couldn’t scrape together 10 cents among them.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine wants to be governor, but the outlook is bleak.
Today marks the official beginning of the 2018 Florida legislative session (joy!), which means Tallahassee’s brightest and most powerful lawmakers are rolling out their signature legislative proposals for the year. In the leadup to today, Richard Corcoran, the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, has filled out the equivalent of an entire “lunatic Republican” bingo card. During the past few weeks, he has:
Few American airports shuttle more travelers out of the country than Miami International. But many travelers who’ve flown internationally from MIA since September 1 have been stopped by agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and guided to a small kiosk with a camera inside that resembles an iPhone the size of a shoebox.
The only definitive conclusion to be drawn from Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s latest interview with the Southwest Florida daily News-Press is that a swarm of wasps didn’t immediately spill out when the state’s junior U.S. senator opened his mouth. Otherwise, he conducted himself like the pathetic, indecisive jackass we all know and love. Asked about the catastrophic tax bill he just voted for this month, he full-on admitted the entire thing was based on a pile of lies and not likely to grow the economy or help anyone except major corporations. Merry Christmas!
The president of the United States has spent more than a third of his time in office at his personal properties and a fourth at his golf clubs, Business Insider reported this week.
This was the year when Miami politics went full drunken circus. Donald Trump repeatedly gave prime seats to a notorious former Miami cult member who once stood trial for murder. His top adviser had a secret South Florida history tied to drug dealers and mystery apartments. And Marco Rubio continued to be a spineless embarrassment.
Ever since Republican Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted this year for the so-called “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” the much-maligned tax overhaul that cuts taxes for the country’s wealthiest people while doing relatively squat for the poor (and undermining the Affordable Care Act), he has repeatedly called the bill a…
It was early morning in the Florida Capitol, and Sen. Jack Latvala — among the most powerful men in the Senate — was furious. He wanted doughnuts, and there were no doughnuts to be found. He was so angry he berated a junior staffer for the Senate majority leader, who then called in Rachel Perrin Rogers, a high-ranking aide.
The Florida legislature is run by cold, dead-eyed lunatics, lecherous men, and vampires without the parts of their brains that let them feel empathy. Tallahassee is such a horrid place that it’s barely even news when someone proposes letting people openly carry shotguns while riding mountain bikes, or putting a…
Local snail-person and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio surfaced yesterday and briefly set Washington, D.C., ablaze by saying he wouldn’t vote for the much-maligned Republican tax-cut package unless it did more for working families.
Sen. Marco Rubio has gleefully pushed the GOP tax bill even though analysts say it will do nothing for Miami’s middle and working classes while giving huge tax breaks to millionaires in Brickell. But Rubio has tried to put some gloss on that plutocrat’s dream package by insisting that his colleagues slightly increase the corporate tax to pay for tax breaks for 9 million low-income families with children.
Florida Democrats are, for the most part, huge failures. Democrats outnumber Republicans in both Miami-Dade County and in the state as a whole — but they’re so terrible at messaging that local and state politics are dominated by GOP wackadoodles. During Donald Trump’s first year in office, one would think…
Wherever he’s brought his giant inflatable caricature of Donald Trump as a snaggle-toothed rat, John Post Lee has been amazed by the response from others horrified by the regime. But when he started calling around and looking for a place to set up his signature balloon during Miami Art Week, the…
Two weeks ago, financial analyst Matthew Hanna, a 35-year-old from Brickell, released a $25 trivia card game on Amazon that measures players’ levels of racism and political correctness. The game, he says, provides a platform for constructive dialogue — a response to the tense political climate in the country.
Donald Trump’s decision yesterday to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel pissed off the United Nations, the European Union, virtually all of America’s allies, Palestinian people everywhere, and even the pope. Intelligence analysts are so worried about an upswell of violence that U.S. diplomats have been ordered to stay away from the city until further notice.
Next time you see a cruise ship at PortMiami, consider this: Because of a loophole in the U.S. tax code, the companies that rake in billions of dollars each year selling cruises to Kid Rock fans and spring breakers pay no corporate income tax.
Miami Beach’s complete ineptitude when it comes to building affordable housing would be funny if it weren’t screwing over taxpayers and the poor. Earlier this year, the city admitted its affordable-housing practices had failed to create homes that the city’s workforce can use, thereby forcing many of the food-service workers and housekeepers to make hours-long bus commutes on and off the barrier island every day.
During this year’s state legislative session, a bill transparently designed to cripple labor unions came close enough to passing that Florida public schoolteachers had to go on a PR blitz to beg lawmakers not to rip their rights away. Teachers, nurses, housekeepers, and every other union-protected industry breathed a sigh of relief when the measure failed during the 2017 legislative session — but the bill has been revived verbatim for 2018 and yesterday passed through its first voting hurdle toward becoming law.
