The numbers are starting to look as obvious as a Donald Trump spray tan: To have any realistic shot at the White House, the GOP nominee absolutely has to win Florida in November. But that possibility is looking more and more like a long shot. A new poll out this morning has…
On August 2, a group called Accountable Miami-Dade sent the county two U-Haul trucks packed full of signed petitions demanding a public vote on new campaign finance laws that would make it harder for wealthy contractors and lobbyists to donate wads of money to politicians. Two weeks later, those 127,000 petitions…
A few years back, in preparation for retirement, Illinois OB-GYN Jean Alexandre began looking for an investment property in Florida he could rent out to supplement his monthly income. In October of 2013 he sealed the deal, wiring $68,000 and writing a check for an additional $2,000 to North Miami…
If Marco Rubio wants to deny Zika-infected women the right to abortions, Alan Grayson has a suggestion for him: He should be willing to personally adopt every single baby born with microcephaly. In an interview Wednesday with New Times, the liberal Orlando congressman blasted the Florida Republican senator’s comment to…
Even for a shameless opportunist like Marco Rubio, agreeing to host an event by a virulently anti-gay conservative group in Orlando later this month went beyond the pale. After all, Rubio had used the massacre of gay patrons at Pulse Nightclub as an excuse to get back into his Senate…
Headlines about Donald Trump saying insane things have become as routine as morning weather reports. Yet Trump’s suggestion yesterday that “Second Amendment people” might “do something” if Clinton is elected feels different. The Secret Service is investigating it. Thomas Friedman called Trump “a disgusting human being.” Even his old friend…
To Hillary Clinton supporters, Donald Trump is a boogeyman, a know-nothing Kremlin stooge, and a borderline fascist salivating at the idea of raining nuclear bombs down on anyone who insults him online. To Trump fans, Clinton is an oligarch run wild, a conspiratorial murderer, and a war criminal. Tension between…
When Wikileaks published a trove of hacked Democratic National Committee emails in July, website founder Julian Assange promised the world he’d upend the 2016 presidential election. That hasn’t quite happened, but Assange did get to at least claim one politician as a trophy: The document dump forced Rep. Debbie Wasserman…
By any measure, South Florida’s zika outbreak is far from under control. At least 15 people have now been locally infected in Miami, with the latest reported case transmitted outside the hot zone of Wynwood. Serious questions are being asked about lacking state and local funding for mosquito control. And…
When the Miami Herald asked State Rep. Daphne Campbell in 2012 about $145,000 in tax liens the Internal Revenue Service had placed against her, Campbell denied that the liens even existed. “I don’t have no tax liens,” she told the paper, despite the fact that the Herald had obtained federal documents that said…
Even by Donald Trump’s standards, his war of words with Khizr and Ghazala Khan — the Muslim parents whose son died fighting for the U.S. in Iraq — has been a truly ugly piece of political theater. Trump’s unabashed attacks on the Khans left top Republicans scrambling this weekend, with…
Marco Rubio, Florida’s most brazen political opportunist, used the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando as an excuse to run for Senate reelection, despite having said about a thousand times that his career as a U.S. Senator was over. After the shooting, he told the Advocate, the nation’s largest LGBT magazine, that the…
Moishe Mana loves America, and he certainly isn’t going to let a man like Donald Trump walk all over it. During an interview with New Times yesterday, the Miami super-developer, who owns most of the southern end of Wynwood, sounded choked up talking about his pride for this country. “I came…
Modesto “Mitch” Maidique is so convinced there’s a divide between what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says and what he truly believes, he says he’s “almost at the point of making a Trump dictionary.” “Trump says we have to build a wall because all of these people, some of whom…
When Justin Bieber gets in a jam or things get a little too wild for Girls Gone Wild head honcho Joe Francis, they know who to call: Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black. The famed attorney has represented scores of celebrity clients, appeared on “The Law Firm,” a short-lived legal version…
The fallout from the trove of Democratic National Committee emails published by Wikileaks has been swift. Bernie supporters have raged over his treatment by DNC staffers, and our own Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had to step down as the organization’s head. But the leak also shows that DNC staffers were…
Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided that her latest gaffe as Democratic National Committee chair will be her last. Today, the Florida congresswoman — whose 23rd Congressional District encompasses Miami Beach and the southern third of Broward County — announced she will resign as DNC chair after the party’s convention in…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi did not enter the Republican National Convention this week with the best credibility on ethics. Just last month, news broke that she’d personally solicited a $25,000 donation from Donald Trump just before dropping an investigation into fraud complaints against his private university. So it was a…
For a few months earlier this year, Sen. Marco Rubio seemed to have actually grown a spine. On the campaign trail, he dished out hard truths about Donald Trump, arguing passionately that Republicans would be making a historic mistake by nominating the xenophobic, serially dishonest populist. Then came Rubio’s crushing…
When fliers advertising a “no ID” teen party at King of Diamonds began circulating across social media earlier this year, local politicians reacted with horror. After the outcry, the promoter canceled the party at the famed strip club. But now some Miami-Dade commissioners want to make sure minors are not…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
Donald Trump just can’t get enough of that sweet, sweet, South Florida cash. After canceling a thinly veiled money-begging opportunity in Miami earlier this month due to the recent police shootings in Dallas, Trump has announced that he’s coming back to South Florida at the end of July. This time,…
