Cable television failed the American public in many ways this election cycle. But perhaps its biggest failure was letting the candidates get through three debates without asking a single question about climate change. For South Floridians, neither candidate was forced to answer any substantive questions about how he or she would handle the…
In 1837, white men in Florida first floated the idea of draining a swamp. Men, who’d traveled from the north and had no real business being there, saw a wide, slow-moving sheet of shallow water barbed with sawgrass as a threat, a scourge, and a waste of valuable real estate…
Well, here we are. It’s been 17 months since Donald Trump announced his candidacy by declaring that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists. It’s also been two days since the FBI announced it won’t charge Clinton for her deleted emails, but those last 48 hours somehow managed to feel longer…
Kate Jacobson had already picked out her seats and keyed in her credit card number for a last-minute flight to Fort Lauderdale when she decided to check the mailbox one last time. For weeks she’d been waiting at it “like a lovestruck teen,” but her absentee ballot was a no-show.
Florida sure looks like it’s on the verge of legalizing medical marijuana. Poll after poll shows Amendment 2 riding well above the 60 percent threshold needed to pass. And although casino magnate and Trump BFF Sheldon Adelson has dropped $1.5 million to defeat the measure, that’s way less than he…
In a year when an orangutan-colored casino franchiser wants to become president and grab the nation’s women by their you-know-whats, it’s easy to ignore the smaller local races. But it’s possible that Greg Capra, a man running for city commission in tiny Sunny Isles Beach might be the most entertaining candidate in Miami’s down-ballot elections.
If you’re even the tiniest bit etiquette-minded, you’ve probably spent the past year politely changing the subject when your dad, boss, or Aunt Sally starts talking about why Shillary belongs in jail or when your college roommate blathers on and on about why he’s expending his vote on Jill Stein.
We’re at the point in this election cycle where time seems to slow down and stop functioning like normal. Candidates appear, speak, and then reappear just days later, having somehow criss-crossed the entire country. With just one weekend left before Election Day, the candidates’ planes are in overdrive: Today, Clinton will…
Scott Melker lived in the same freshman dorm at UPenn as Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump’s longtime supporters knew the drill at this point. Once Trump started name-dropping the “lying,” “dishonest,” “liberal” media corralled into a pen at Miami’s Bayfront Park today, the audience wheeled around and started shouting obscenities at them, per usual. A “CNN Sucks” chant bounced up from the crowd, to…
Whether you are a “nasty woman” or a “bad hombre,” this election cycle has been some kind of joke. And soon the electorate will deliver its punch line: “GOP, you’re fired!” Though the boundless bizarre badinage of the presidential race is getting more attention than your 13-year-old cousin on Instagram,…
When unarmed Miami Gardens teenager Trayvon Martin was gunned down by wannabe cop George Zimmerman in 2012, protests erupted across the nation. Many demonstrators wore hoodies to push back against suggestions that Martin’s clothing choice had made him “suspicious.” The entire Miami Heat team, including LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, even took part.
We know: You’re tired of it. We, too, are tired of it. You’re tired of seeing Donald Trump’s face. You’re tired of hearing Hillary Clinton say the phrase “Trumped-up, trickle-down” over and over. You’re tired of the bickering and the fighting and the insults and that whole maybe-America-might-actually-end feeling you’ve had since September.
After months of savage campaigning, untold hours of blowhards screaming at one another on television, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on advertising, Florida’s vital 29 Electoral College votes are poised on a knife’s edge. The fate of the presidential election could well hinge on a few thousand votes in the…
New Times does not endorse political candidates. Sure, there are some really well-meaning people running for office this year, but as anyone who’s lived in Florida for more than 45 minutes knows, even the most well-intentioned of political neophytes might end up embroiled in a corruption probe or sexting scandal.
There needs to be a hell of a lot of hate in your heart to think lynching black people on Halloween is funny. Yet here we are, Miami. A homeowner in Three Lakes, a small community in West Kendall, is celebrating the holiday by lynching two black dummies…
In 2002, then-Florida House Speaker Tom Feeny thought he needed some help handling a brewing redistricting battle. So he hired longtime consultant Steve Cody, who says his job was to “script” a debate between members of the Florida House to ensure that two new districts were drawn.
For years, Jeffrey Loria has laid claim to title of most loathed public figure in Miami thanks to his toxic combination of repeatedly suing diehard Marlins fans while also gutting the team and robbing taxpayers of billions of dollars. Plus he lets his jerk son-in-law run the franchise.
Nobody won last August’s county mayoral primary vote. Yes, incumbent Carlos Gimenez got way more votes, but he failed to pull in 50 percent, which meant challenger Raquel Regalado forced a November runoff. But with less than two weeks before Election Day, Regalado is taking a severe beating in the polls.
In 1985, Marco Rubio spent part of his early summer living in a small house facing a tepid canal just north of Bird Road in West Kendall. Cages full of squawking macaws filled the acre yard. And a major drug ring stored kilos of cocaine in a spare bedroom…
Donald Trump attempted to say three whole Spanish words in Little Havana today.
Donald Trump has spent the past month complaining that the election results against Hillary Clinton may be “rigged” November 8. The nation and all sides of the media, from Fox News to MSNBC, have said Trump’s claims are without merit. Now South Florida has its own “rigged” election controversy.
