In 2002, when Miami-Dade voters approved a half-penny sales tax to fund mass transit in the county we were promised the moon: namely, widely expanded MetroRail and bus services. We got, at best, the equivalent of a few orbiting space rocks. Now, the Miami-Dade Commission may consider asking voters to…
Marco Rubio says he’s not open to being anyone’s running mate, and that when his Senate term expire in January he’ll return to the private sector. Then again, Rubio says a lot of things he later goes back on. When he originally won that Senate seat he said he wouldn’t use…
On the campaign trail and his personal websites, Donald Trump has bragged that he’s an “ardent philanthropist” who’s given more than $100 million in recent years to worthy causes. To back up that claim, he sent reporters a 93-page document noting all his contributions. Well, the Washington Post took…
Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign was a slow-motion dumpster fire. In state after state, he struggled to find a win. And by the time he had lost every single county except for Miami-Dade in the Florida primary, Rubio couldn’t avoid the truth: his party’s voters had made it painfully clear that…
Back in 2003, photographer Kenneth Adelman was working on a project that documented the coastline of California, which includes the cliff of Malibu, which happens to include the home of Barbara Streisand. Adelman posted his photos online, and, well, not many people actually bothered to pay attention to the project…
Governor Rick Scott is vastly unpopular. Almost half of Floridians disapprove of the job he’s doing, while only 38 percent approve of his work in Tallahassee according to the latest polls. Which isn’t news. His approvals ratings have famously been horrible practically since the moment he stepped into office. Yet, somehow we’ve…
The Office of Congressional Ethics dropped its report on Rep. Alan Grayson today, and found that there is “substantial reason to believe” that Grayson broke the law and ran afoul of House ethics rules while he ran a small hedge fund. Grayson’s campaign has shot back by calling the investigation a “politically…
The area between Alton Road and West Ave in South Beach is suddenly a booming nightlife hub. Places like Bodega and Foxhole are pulling crowds over from the eastside of the beach, and more venues are in the works. That doesn’t sit well with everyone. Namely mainy residents who live…
Marco Rubio failed to land a top job at a once-great institution that is now a sad, messy parody of its former self (the national Republican party) and is now might just be seeking a top job at another once great institution that is now a sad, messy parody of…
A few weeks ago we were reminded of the fact that “scandals” that seem almost unnoteworthy here in Miami can appear absolutely shocking to the rest of the country. At the time, we were discussing Marco Rubio’s many mini-scandals: his coincidental sort-of-connection to amateur gay porn, his spotty driving record,…
The Republican establishment is rightfully worried that placing Donald Trump on the top of its ticket in November could lead to disastrous election results. His favorability rating among the general electorate is historically underwater, and in an average of the latest polls, he’s trailing Hillary Clinton by 11.2 points in a…
The Republican primary race this year is rewriting all the rules of conventional wisdom, and perhaps there’s been no bigger victim of the historical insanity than Marco Rubio. In fact, Rubio’s loss in his home state of Florida leaves him with a dubious historical distinction. He’s only the third Republican…
You won’t often hear Donald Trump admit he made a mistake, but his personal charity has for donating to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s election campaign. See, Trump and Bondi go way back. Well, at least as far back as 2013. Bondi was deciding whether or not her office should…
More than 200 Cuban protestors were arrested over the weekend as the island prepared for President Obama’s historic visit, which started yesterday. Dissidents of the human rights movement, #TodosMarchamos, including the Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White), and Unión Patriótica de Cuba (Cuban Patriotic Union, UNPACU), gathered at calle 26 and…
Everyone knows Cuban-Americans in Miami vote Republican. That’s been common knowledge for years. After all, 70 percent of that demographic voted for George W. Bush in 2000. Sure, Miami-Dade is, in most cases, a reliably blue county, but Democrats win here by margins slimmer than those in neighboring counties. If…
Following his crushing loss in the Florida primary on Tuesday, the press has been churning out lots of “What will Marco do next?” stories. Speculation that Marco Rubio could try to run for Florida governor in 2018 existed even before he dropped out. The one thing he promised at the…
Former Rep. David Rivera loves holding political office. He loves it so much he once, amongst other allegations, illegally funded a ringer candidate in a primary race against his Democratic opponent. Miami-Dade voters apparently no longer like having David Rivera in political office. After serving a single term in the…
It wasn’t an endorsement as much as a call for unity, but Florida Governor Rick Scott has finally thrown his chips in the Donald Trump pile. Sort of. In a message on Facebook today, Scott urged Republicans to basically just give up on any hope of anyone else winning the nomination…
Florida, it seemed, was never going to feel the Bern. Sure, young voters aged 18-29 came out in large numbers (they made up 16 percent of primary voters, compared to just 9 percent in 2008) and largely voted for Sanders, but Clinton won, well, almost everyone else across the board…
In the days leading up to yesterday’s vote on whether to build a massive new convention center and hotel in the middle of South Beach, skeptics voiced a number of concerns: The snarled traffic in the heart of SoBe, the outsized scale of the building, the environmental impact. But when…
Six years ago, Marco Rubio rode an wave of insurgent resentment at the Republican Party to become “the first Tea Party senator.” But in the years since, the rebel became the establishment. And tonight, the same anti-Beltway GOP sentiment that sent him to Washington sent him tumbling out of the…
In a result widely forecasted in polls, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has won their party’s perspective primaries in Florida by hefty margins. Clinton is besting Bernie Sanders all across the state, but is doing particularly well in the tri-county area of South Florida, which is home to the state’s largest…
