Workplace conditions at a county office have come under scrutiny in recent months. An investigation by the federal government found that the executive director of CareerSource South Florida, a public agency that uses $70 million in state and federal funds to help local job seekers, had subjected female employees to…
If your dog bites someone, even if it hasn’t been previously declared a dangerous dog, and investigators declare the resulting wound “severe,” your dog will be put to death. That’s the law in Florida, but a case involving a black lab in Bradenton, Florida named Padi has caused so much outrage…
How bad can Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign get? The one-time frontrunner has spent this week trotting out a hashtag as custom-made for Internet mockery as “Hotline Bling” and putting all his hopes in a new book about how awesome he was at email in the early ’00s. Voters have just about…
Today’s election slate might not be the most jam-packed or exciting, but the results will have reverberations in some of Miami-Dade’s most important cities for years to come. Though, local elections (especially in these parts) are plagued by notoriously low turnout, that does mean that, hey, we could be in…
If you’re a Democratic primary voter chances are you’re either feeling the Bern or silly for Hillary, but not former mayor of Miami Manny Diaz. Nope. He’s a Martin O’Malley guy all the way. In fact, when it came time for O’Malley’s campaign to round up state leadership teams, Diaz…
In a small room inside the beachfront Days Inn Hotel in North Beach, a dozen business owners and condo heads sidled up to mics to support a plan to drastically change this neighborhood. Voters will decide today whether to allow developer Sandor Scher to build a 250-foot luxury condo and…
Jeb Bush remains intensely popular in his home base. The Miami media market in fact may be one of the few places left in the country where the former Governor remains the most popular choice for the Republican Presidential nomination, but Bush’s popularity in the rest of the state continues…
There are a few non-negotiable rules of doing big business in Miami. Speak at least a little Spanish. Learn to enjoy cigars. Never speak ill of the Estefans. And — this one is important — do not, under any circumstances, reveal your admiration for Fidel Castro or Che Guevara. Marcelo…
For the least seven years, numerous female employees have been reporting their prominent county boss and the work environment at his agency to the authorities — all to no avail. Then, in August, the federal government handed down a ruling after investigating allegations against CareerSource Souht Florida’s executive director Roderick…
Is there nothing Republican can’t find to blame on Hillary Clinton? Apparently not. Marco Rubio is under fire this week after everyone collectively woke up and realized he hasn’t been doing his job as an elected US Senator of the third most populace state in the nation. He’s missed about…
The results of local elections have a huge impact on our lives. But across Miami, local election turnout has historically been meager. In the last Miami Beach mayoral race, in 2013, just 25 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. In Miami, that number fell to 11 percent. And across…
Jeb Bush helped created Marco Rubio. He cheered him through his early victories in tiny West Miami. He even gave him a damned golden sword on the floor of the Florida House while blessing him as a “great conservative warrior.” And last night in front of a national TV audience,…
The science is conclusive: vast swaths of Miami-Dade will someday be underwater thanks to rising sea levels caused by carbon emissions. How much of Miami-Dade ends up underwater however may depend on what we do now to curb carbon emissions. So it’s quite odd that Attorney General Pam Bondi announced…
Miami Beach voters are no strangers to shady election scuffles, but one commission race has now entered only-in-Florida bizarre territory, with one candidate sending out hundreds of mailers about charges that his opponent had battered a security guard — but neglecting to redact his Social Security Number from the police…
Marco Rubio doesn’t want to be Florida’s Senator anymore. This much is clear. A New York Times article form the summer quoted anonymous friends claiming that Rubio had grown tired of the work. That’s a big part of the reason he’s running for President, and has sworn he won’t backtrack…
The breeze whips off the sand as Kirk Paskal sweats under a hot October sun, his back to the turquoise Atlantic. With one hand over his brow, he squints longingly at a boxy, two-story beige hotel. Formerly known as the Ocean Way, the hotel is decayed, the paint now cracked…
Jeb Bush is not having a very good time. He’s currently stuck in 5th place in the polls, facing nearly daily snipes from Donald Trump and had to lay off a large chunk of his Miami-based campaign staff. Over the weekend, he gave his most candid public comments about his…
Aylen Hidalgo says her supervisor has always been a stickler for clocking in on time and not leaving her desk or making personal calls. As a result, her job in finance at CareerSource South Florida, a county agency with a $70 million budget to help job seekers, has always been…
Is there a better way to summarize what’s happened so far in the GOP presidential primary by pointing out on the same day that Donald Trump makes his first official Florida campaign stop in Miami, Jeb Bush announces that he’s drastically cutting payroll and staff at his campaign’s Miami headquarters?…
The latest twist in Miami’s years-long soccer stadium saga—an unlikely partnership between David Beckham’s group and the Miami-Dade County school board—is looking ever more likely: At a school board meeting yesterday, members expressed unanimous support for a possible deal, voting to allow superintendent Alberto Carvalho to proceed with negotiations for…
If there’s one place in America where the “build a stadium and the money will come” lie shouldn’t fly, it’s Miami. We’ve already suffered third degree burns from that tale tale. It’s exactly what politicians promised would happen in Little Havana as they crafted the worst deal in history to build…
It seems that certain Republicans in Florida see controversy erupt over legislation in other states and think to themselves, “Hmmm, how do we bring that controversy to the Sunshine state?” Rep. Julio Gonzalez, a freshman Republican lawmaker who was enthusiastically endorsed by Senator Marco Rubio, has introduced a wide-ranging “right…
