Things appear to have slightly improved for Governor Rick Scott since he was awarded the title of America’s worst Governor back in 2011. According to a new survey from Morning Consult, Scott is now just the 8th least popular governor in America. That’s actually something of a surprise for a…
The dynamics of Florida’s Democratic Senate primary is one of a milquetoast moderate vs a firebrand progressive, and the moderate in that equation, Rep. Patrick Murphy, certainly drove the point home by being one a small number of Democrats today to cross party lines and vote for a bill that…
For the past seven years, multiple employees at the taxpayer-funded CareerSource South Florida have maintained that their boss, who earns more than Mayor Carlos Gimenez, is a workplace bully. In complaints filed with the county, state, and federal government, they have accused executive director Roderick “Rick” Beasley of verbally abusing,…
If a new Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative is any indication, Donald Trump’s grip on first place in the Republican primary isn’t going away anytime soon, but the placement of the rest of the field continues to shift. The poll shows that Senator Marco Rubio is now…
A bill that would give the terminally ill in Florida the “right to try” medical marijuana is moving through the Florida legislature smoothly. Introduced by Republican state Rep. Matt Gaetz and state Sen. Rob Bradley last month, the bill passed the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee in a 9-4 bipartisan vote…
Local election season in Miami-Dade is now officially over with voters heading to the polls today in two commission runoffs in both Miami and Miami Beach. In Miami, Ken Russell has now officially been declared victor in the “election that didn’t matter.” Meanwhile in Miami Beach, two weeks after voters…
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s maternal Grandparents were Sephardic Jews who fled what is now present-day Turkey because of the fallout of the Balkan War. They settled in Cuba, where Ros-Lehtinen would be born, but at seven-years-old her family fled the Communist dictatorship of Fidel Castro for America. Which is say Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s entire…
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, his face contorted in a scowl, doesn’t get up to greet Alex Villalobos when the big-eyed 42-year-old state senator enters the dimly lit office connected to the executive suite of Tallahassee’s Capitol building. It’s early May 2006, shortly after the last day of the legislative session,…
Like the rest of the world, Miami spent the weekend in grief and shock over the brutal terrorist attacks that killed 129 in Paris. Our two native sons who are currently jousting for a chance to lead the free world went quite a bit further, however. Jeb Bush and Marco…
For months leading up to the District Two commission race, Ken Russell’s fundraising lagged far behind his chief rival, Teresa Sarnoff. By election day, he’d hauled in just $158,560 compared to Sarnoff’s $747,000 war chest. But hours after the shock results of the Nov. 3 ballot — in which Russell…
The final details on a soccer stadium in Little Havana — owned by the Miami-Dade School Board and built and operated by David Beckham and his partners — may have just been hammered out at the SoHo Beach House in South Beach last night. That’s where Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and…
Last night on MSNBC’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews stumbled into the tricky issue of Cuban identity and completely fumbled on the issue. Naturally, the host and his panel were discussing Tuesday’s Republican Primary debate, and while talking about an interaction between Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, Matthews just decided…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez only filed his official paperwork to run for his second full term on October 1st, but the incumbent has already amassed a campaign war chest of nearly $2.5 million. Meanwhile, his biggest declared competition, School Board member Raquel Regaldo has collected $512,000 this year. Although the…
Florida had one of the highest rates of people living without health insure before President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was passed, and now five years after it initially passed, Florida still ranks third in the nation for those left uninsured. The good news however is that that still means there’s now…
People who are cynical about American democracy claim that your votes don’t matter and that elections are actually determined by the moneyed elite. Yet, Ken Russell, who just last year was merely a citizen concerned about toxic soil in his local park, will be Miami’s next District 2 commissioner. He…
When Florida considered whether to legalize medical marijuana back in 2014, one of the its loudest detractors was state Attorney General Pam Bondi. She tried everything in her power to try and block the proposed amendment from appearing on the ballot then. As it turned out, the amendment did make…
Laura Pierre postponed college to work full-time at Chipotle, hoping to save up for higher education. But the 18-year-old Miamian says she’s realized that’s an impossible dream with Florida’s $8.05 per hour minimum wage. Her mother, a healthcare worker who also makes less than $10 an hour, relies on Pierre to…
We have it on good word that Carlos Hernandez is a 54-year-old male who has graduated from college and spent ten years as either a commissioner or mayor for the city of Hialeah. “Wow, sounds like that guy has it together? He probably wouldn’t try to pull any juvenile stunts…
Conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are having a little fun now with their support off outsider oddball candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson, but when it comes times to actually buckle down and start voting they’ll shift towards a more “electable candidate.” Well, if the latest poll…
Yesterday, Teresa Sarnoff ended a runoff with city commission opponent Ken Russell in the most dramatic way possible, by abruptly dropping a letter withdrawing from the race and blasting the dirty politics she says have dominated local elections. But is the race actually over? Russell certainly doesn’t think so. His…
Turns out that residents of Miami’s District 2 won’t need to head back to the polls later this month to decide a city commission runoff match between Teresa Sarnoff and Ken Russell. Sarnoff has now just up and dropped out and decided to do so with a message. Basically she…
Jeb Bush is desperately trying to reinvigorate his flailing campaign. He unleashed a new slogan, “Jeb Can Fix It,” took a short tour through the friendly lands of his home state of Florida, and is now back in New Hampshire trying to re-sell his message to the first in the…
