The employment rate in Florida increased slightly in November to 11.5 percent, up from 11.3 percent in October according to the South Florida Business Journal. That’s the highest rate since May 1975, when 11.9 percent of Floridians were out of a job, and translates to roughly 1 million people out of work. However,…
Turns out the Epic Hotel has not been completely cleared as the cause of Legionnaires’ disease. [Herald]However, the disease might also be linked to the Liberty of the Seas cruise ship. [SFBJ]The Supreme Court of Florida has decided it’s no longer legal to put shackles on kids in court. [JustNews]Anyone…
Riptide has long been a proponent of changing our official State Song to “Happy Happy Joy Joy,” for no other reason than it’d be kind of funny, but now we have cold hard numbers to back us up: According to the Centers for Disease Control, Florida is the third happiest…
Miami Shark let you destroy our city with a blood thirsty, big fish with an indiscriminate pallet, but a new casual game let’s you build it up. If you ever wanted to play Carl Fisher or John Collins, Build It: Miami Beach Resort is your virtual chance.The new game from…
How is it that two generally respected political polling companies have come to such a different conclusion on the state of Florida’s Republican Primary with numbers released with in a day of each other? Yesterday’s Rasmussen poll found that Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist were in a tie, with 42…
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The John Birch Society is co-sponsering this years Conservative Political Action Conference. Don’t remember them? They’re the conspiracy-happy, paranoid anti-communist group that emerged in the late ’50s, and then preceded to circulate a letter calling Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, of all people, “a dedicated agent of the Communist Conspiracy,” had…
Turns out that the EPIC hotel was not the sources of those strains of legionnaires disease after all. [AP]Looks like a group of banks are going to take ownership of ICON Brickell. [WSJ]The Fire Station on Key Biscayne is now closed two days a week, so do try and not…
The legend goes that every year the ’72 Dolphins pop a bottle of champagne when the last remaining undefeated team looses. Typically, at this point in the season that mythical toast would have come and gone by now. Somewhere, Mercury Morris is getting nervous.As anyone even vaguely paying attention to…
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South Florida attorney Scott Rothstein might have run a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme and is, in general terms, a giant asshat with gaudy taste, but if he had his way, no one in the lower 48 would have ever heard of a certain pit bull in lipstick.Bob Norman at New…
Whoa, boy. Marco Rubio was once written off as a long shot in his race against Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination for Senate, but Rasmussen says the two are now neck-and-neck.They’re tied at 43 percent — in that poll anyway. Also according to Rasmussen, Democrat Alex Sink is slowly closing…
Feds yesterday arrested 30 people in three cities, including Miami, for Medicare fraud. Dr. Fred Dweck, 14 of his patients, and one unlucky guy who was photographed being handcuffed, man-tits and all, were among those arrested in Miami. [MLive | Herald]A thief is targeting churches and synagogues in Miami Beach and stealing audio equipment…
The above might not be their funniest comic, but, uh, it’s actually coming more or less true in South Florida, because we don’t exactly have an overrun of decent, normal human beings here. Arnim Ramdass won a share of a $19 million Florida Lotto with 16 of his co-workers at…
[jump] “I agree with the letter that was just received from Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. Accordingly, I have directed Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel to conduct an inquiry of the Department of Transportation,” Crist said in a statement.Meanwhile, we will eagerly continue to cover this scandal using the most…
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This seems almost as ridiculous as that Onion piece claiming Lil Wayne was recruited by the DEA to get rid of all the drugs in Mexico, but this one actually isn’t an attempt at satire.It’s no secret Weezy calls South Beach his part-time home and has his primary residence in…
Perhaps after a long, stressful day of crunching numbers and contemplating layoffs, some Miami Herald executive decided to go for a walk to clear his head. This being Miami and all, he came across a beggar asking for spare change. Wait, he could have thought, Maybe we have it all wrong…
It’s slightly amusing to read all the post-Art Basel coverage written by out-of-towners, especially when they set their sights not on art, but on our fair city. For the record, though, fellow scribes: Half the places you call Cuban cafés are not actually Cuban; Wynwood is a specific neighborhood and…
This makes a lot of sense looking back at it: Miami Dade College was responsible for administering tests to Miami-Dade Police officers to be considered for promotions, but the college screwed up the process. So cops who didn’t get good scores were sometimes promoted, while officers who did well sometimes were not. In one…
Seems like two life partners of Miami Heat players won’t be joining the ranks of Jose Canseco, Flava Flav, that guy who killed his girlfriend, New York, and various people with porny pasts in the pantheon of VH1 Reality shows after all. When VH1 and Shaunie O’Neal, Shaq’s wife announced plans…
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