President Obama last night addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala, where he touted the number of Hispanics he has appointed to high-level positions and his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, and stressed that the problems Hispanics face are the problems America as a whole faces. An excerpt from his speech (full remarks available here): Now,…
Hannah Giles — the 20-year-old FIU journalism student, minister’s daughter, and fake hooker who, along with an accomplice, exposed some ACORN offices’ habits of offering business advice to pimps and hoes — is garnering praise from Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and even Jon Stewart. Giles and a male accomplice, posing…
The group that gathered last night for the City of Miami mayoral debate between commissioners Tomas Regalado and Joe Sanchez made Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams look like upstanding examples of manners. Maybe they didn’t get the message they’re supposed to act civilly for the next week or…
Manny Diaz sent letters to a hundred Miami Police officers informing them they’d be let go unless the police union agrees to pay cuts. [Herald]Doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine were able to use a portion of a woman’s tooth to restore her eyesight. [ABCNews]Yet another…
A spanish radio station has exposed what some are labeling as a teen fight club taking place in the courtyard on Coral Gables High School, with a few of the fights being posted on YouTube.The fights caught on camera seem to be more for the entertainment of other students than…
Normally politicians’ Twitters are horrendously boring things. Dan Gelber’s is no exception, except for about a minute ago when the state senator from Miami Beach and attorney general candidate roasted Charlie Crist, and in effect, RPOF chair Jim Greer.Crist visited Toussaint L’ouverture Elementary School today for a hurricane preparedness visit…
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Today’s photo comes from Michelle Eve’s Flickr…
Yesterday, from his Miami techno-hermit compound, Matt Drudge decided to run with “White Student Beaten on School Bus; Crowd Cheers,” as the top story on his website in all its race-baiting glory. The story about two high school students who happened to be black beating up another student who happened to…
Facing criticism that his mind has been elsewhere, Sen. Bill Nelson has finally given his talk about Chinese drywall, snakes, space, and Chinese snakes in space a rest to address the nationally pressing concern of health reform. The man does sit on the Senate Finance Committee after all, which yesterday released its…
A quarter of a century ago, South Beach was a rundown crime pit populated by cocaine cowboys, pimps, junkies, and quite a few retirees on modest budgets. Then, on September 16, 1984, along came Crockett and Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police vice squad detectives with their trademark pastel Versace suits, fast cars, and…
After admitting to the crime, 17-year-old Andy Rodriguez has been charged with one count of second-degree murder following yesterday’s fatal stabbing at Coral Gables High. Students will return to school today, many wearing black. [WSVN]The Herald’s Myriam Marquez wrote a column that was basically, “Yo, Carlos Alvarez, I’m really happy for…
The Florida Personhood Amendment we wrote about last week would not only outlaw abortion in the state, but also potentially ban birth control pills and other forms of contraception.The American Life League, one of the main groups behind the push (when it’s not busy printing tacky “Bury Obamacare with Kennedy” signs) says…
Last night, Kimbo Slice made his debut in the Random Things Fighting Against Each Other to Advertise Other Things League against a Caterpillar. The Caterpillar defeated Slice by technical slicing-his-arm-off-with-laser-vision knockout 14 seconds into the first round of the bout.”The promoters kinda hinted to me and they gave me the money…
Today’s photo comes from Sporadic’s Flickr. We’ll just pretend it’s our tribute to The Guiding Light, whose final episode airs this Friday, after 72 years. …
CSI: Miami’s producers have finally realized who the true star of the show is: Horatio Caine’s sunglasses. In a perfect world, the sunglasses would talk (preferably voiced by Mo’Nique or Emo Philips), helping Horatio solve his cases, but they’re doing the next best thing in the show’s eighth season premiere: giving…
I don’t know if Vince Shlomi — the ShamWow pitchman who met a hooker at Louis at the Gansevoort and took her to his room at the Setai, where she promptly tried to bite his tongue off and he responded with a few blows to her face — ever really…
Florida dominates the list of 20 metropolitan areas still struggling to make an economic turnaround. Eight Florida areas make up the bottom rung of worst-performing cities in Brooking’s latest MetroMonitor Report. In addition to Miami/Ft. Lauderdale/Pompono Beach, Bradenton, Cape Coral, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Orlando, Palm Bay, and Tampa are also included in bottom…
The U.S. embargo on Cuba has been extended for at least one more year. [NBCMiami]A student was stabbed to death this morning at Coral Gables Senior High. Another student is in police custody. [Herald]Heat staff will take pretty sizable pay cuts to avoid layoffs. The team will also not have a full…
When the editors of Children’s Health describe the perfect locale to raise a family as “the kind of place where a child can slip on her rubber boots, grab her colorful umbrella, and play on the quiet, tree-lined street outside her home without worry,” I knew Miami wouldn’t come in…
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report was released today, and between 2007 and 2008, America saw a 1.9 percent drop in violent crime, a 3.9 percent drop in murder, and a 1.6 percent drop in rape, but those decreases didn’t materalize in Miami-Dade County. An estimated 8,749 violent crimes occured in the county last year, a…
