Back in 1963 Aerojet competed to build the first rockets that would propel a man to the moon, and they planned to build them in a plant out in rural Southwest Miami-Dade near the Everglades. Aerojet eventually failed to win the NASA contract, and the plant was abandoned, but still…
Ever wonder how much you’re making in comparison to the rest of the workforce in Miami-Dade. Well, if you’re pulling in less than $57,034-a-year you’re below average, according to statistics compiled by The Business Journals. That makes Miami-Dade the fourth best compensated county on average in Florida, and the 116th…
The Ohio State Buckeyes are still reeling from a memorabilia-for-tattoos scandal that caused coach Jim Tressel to resign and star quarterback Terrelle Pryor to leave for the pros. Though, there’s plenty of people out there who don’t think the idea of players selling or trading memorabilia is all that scandalous,…
Bradenton, Florida resident Natasha Larson really doesn’t like her new husband’s ex-wife, Tracy Wilder. So she decided to post ads on Craigslist while posing as the ex looking for men who would be interested in coming by and roughing Wilder up. Larson has now been arrested and faces criminal charges…
Singer Paulina Rubio has continued her string of alleged odd behavior. The Mexican singer was involved in a car accident this weekend in Little Havana, which lead to an arrest after a hysterical confrontation with police. However, she was let go in order to go home and breastfeed her young…
So apparently Mike Huckabee reads Riptide, and apparently he thinks we’re just idiots. The former Arkansas Governor-turned-Fox News host had Rick Scott on his program this weekend, and the two discussed Scott’s dismal poll numbers. Huckabee decided to blame the press, and as evidence flashed a Riptide blog post headline…
There’s not many scenarios under which President Obama can win reelection in 2012 without winning Florida (especially considering we’ll have two more electoral votes this time around). New numbers from Public Policy Polling show that while Obama is leading all Republican candidates right now in Florida, he only surpasses the…
It’s worth noting that a man who doesn’t believe a woman has the right to chose what she does with her own body is being supported by a man who brought us such songs as “Dick Almighty” and “The Fuck Shop.” It’s also worth noting that neither Luther Campbell or…
Free gay porn! Free gay porn! Complimentary homosexual pornography! Recordings of men having explicit sexual relations with each other you can watch without providing payment in return!Hopefully that should provide Riptide tons and tons of easy page views considering we are a blog that caters to Florida readers, and apparently…
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The party that supposedly favors deregulation and keeping the government out of people’s lives passed a state law this year that barred doctors from asking patients about gun ownership. Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill into law, but now a group of thousands of doctors and gun control groups…
Charlie Crist is still married to an actual lady, and even though he failed to make Carole Rome a D.C. power wife she just sold her apartment on fancy Fisher Island so she can live with Crist in St. Petersburg full time. Rome sold the apartment for $3 million according…
You thought you were having a bad morning? At least you didn’t spend it dangling helplessly from the side of the 63 floor 900 Biscayne Bay building in downtown Miami. Luckily, the maintenance worker was rescued without injury, though another worker who witnessed the incident was treated for shock…
Fresh off of its Republican primary poll yesterday, Public Policy Polling, a democratically-aligned polling firm, has released new numbers showing that large numbers of Florida voters are less likely to vote for a Republican presidential candidate in 2012 thanks to the actions of Rick Scott. The poll comes on the…
On June 6, 21-year-old Luis Fumero pulled over a woman with a fake police badge and tricked her into having sex with him in order to avoid arrest. Now, Fumero is the one facing very real criminal charges…
Social issues have not been a driving force in local Miami-Dade politics for some time, with most voters more concerned with pressing issues like property taxes and budget problems. Today, however, the Christian Family Coalition of South Florida injected a big dose of social conservatism into the race by endorsing…
Nearly 10 years ago President George W. Bush signed into law the “No Child Left Behind” act. Among other goals, Bush believed his education reforms would help close the achievement gap between white and minority students. Well, the Department of Education released new data today showing that the achievement gap…
Elisha L. Dawkins was born in the Bahamas but immigrated to Miami as an infant. He was brought up believing he was an American citizen and after high school enlisted in the Army, where he served what he thought was his country in both Iraq and Guantánamo Bay. Now he…
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Mitt Romney is the man to beat in Florida as the 2012 Republican primary horse race heats up. Romney holds a ten-point advantage over second place finishers Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Romney also benefits from incredibly low support for similar candidates like John Hunstman and Tim Pawlenty in the…
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that requires all people seeking welfare take mandatory drug tests. Interestingly, it turns out Scott has a younger brother who receives welfare and seems to have a history of drug charges…
Retired Gen. Rene Sanabria, who once ran Bolivia’s national anti-narcotics police unit, has pleaded guilty in a Miami court to smuggling cocaine. Sanabria and his co-conspirators were arrested in March and charged with trying to sneak about 315 pounds of cocaine into the Port of Miami…
