Former Hialeah Mayor and Miami-Dade mayoral candidate Julio Robaina could soon be indicted on charges of tax evasion and loan sharking soon, at least according to Local 10. The former Hialeah kingpin has been under investigation by federal agencies for three years now, and a defense attorney for another man…
If you need a car, truck or van. Who you gonna call? Not Maroone. The mega car dealership chain is changing its name, and will from now on be going using the name of its parent company, AutoNation.But does this mean that South Florida most ubiquitous jingle is going anywhere?…
Both the records for the most expensive sale of a private residence in Miami Beach and the most expensive condo in all of South Florida have been busted once again. Penthouse B at the Setai broke the record by selling for a cool $27 million. Its actually the second time…
The shocking hypocrisy of the NCAA admitting its own ethical flaps while investigating those of the University of Miami was tailor made for Twitter snark, and the Twitterati didn’t disappoint. Though, it shouldn’t be much a surprise that no one likes the NCAA…
You know who really likes billionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross’ idea to put taxpayers on the hook for half of the $400 million in renovations to Sun Life Stadium? Other rich people!In fact, the Dolphins blasted out a press releases today touting the support of the Trump Brand. Because if…
Walmart is still marching on with its plans to build a store in the heart of Midtown Miami, but has retreated a little bit to redesign the space. In an unusual move for the retail giant, the store’s new plans would include about 16,000 square feet of non-Walmart retail on…
For most of my life, every time I’ve walked into a gas station or a grocery store I’ve been greeted one way or another by the delightfully ’80s logo of the Florida Lottery. Most things have changed since 1988. That logo has remained a constant.Until now. The Florida Lottery logo…
Unfortunately in Miami we’re all too familiar with bad service, ridiculous pricing and shady business practices, so to become Miami’s most hated industry you really, really have to go out of your way to be terrible.So congratulations vehicle repair shops of Miami-Dade County. You truly are the worst…
Florida Republicans are perhaps the most loyal lapdogs of the National Rifle Association. So maybe it’s not much of a surprise that Rick Scott gave a gun manufacturer a “sweetheart” $1.6 million tax subsidy back in 2011…
Chances are, when you heard that the GOP-controlled House had finally relented on a deal that kept the nation from plunging Wile E. Coyote-style off a fiscal cliff, you popped a little mental champagne. But even though the compromise prevents huge tax increases and keeps unemployment benefits in place, analysts…
South Beach’s famous Raleigh Hotel has been sold for $55 million, and the new owners are already quite familiar with the area’s hospitality industry. They own some of the Raleigh’s rivals. Sam Nazarian, who just opened the SLS Hotel on the same block, and David Edelstein, owner of the W…
Lets party like it’s November 2008. Yes, Florida’s unemployment has dropped to its lowest level since that month.The state released new unemployment figures for November 2012 today, and the rate now stands at 8.1 percent. That’s a drop of 0.4 percent from the previous month’s rate of 8.5 percent. It’s…
With Miami’s luxury market going bananas again and Indian Creek mansions hawking for $47 million a pop, it’s easy to forget that the average Dade homeowner is still deeper underwater than James Cameron’s submarine. In fact, a new report out this morning says Miami now has the fifth highest rate…
Rick Scott tapped Hunting Deutsch to lead the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity earlier this year, a position some refer to as the “Job Czar.” Which is kind of ironic, considering Deutsch hadn’t been able to find himself a job for nearly three years prior to the appointment. After losing…
Patrons of Miami’s only nudist beach are worried they’ll be getting an eyeful of Miami-Dade’s newest erection — a big ol’ boat house right in the middle of their parking lot. Nudists are headed to Tuesday’s county commission to protest plans sponsored by Councilwoman Sally Heyman for a large boat…
It was a two-story house, periwinkle blue with white window frames and a mottled stone chimney facing the street. It was built in 1926 on NE 68th Street in a neighborhood called Elmira, so named for the upstate New York town from which its first residents had come. It, along…
While scores of Miamians lined up to get deals on $2.99 waffle presses and half-priced flat screens, or whatever it is that whips those Black Friday shoppers up into a frenzy, several disgruntled Walmart workers were there to great them.The local workers joined a national movement protesting Walmart’s questionable treatment…
Lets party like its …um, 2008. We’re still not quite back to pre-economic meltdown levels yet, but Florida’s unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest number since October of 2008.As of last month, Florida’s unemployment rate was 8.5 percent. That’s down from 8.7 percent in September…
As evidences by this BuzzFeed listicle the racist folks of American Twitter were none too pleased that President Barack Obama won reelection on Tuesday, and a new analysis by Floating Sheep found that most of the racist Tweets were coming out of — surprise! — the South. Don’t worry though,…
So, as we informed you this morning, it’s totally illegal in Florida to take a picture of your marked ballot. Well, the Connie Mack campaign only reads Riptide when we write something about Connie Mack (usually followed up by a terse e-mail). So, Mack is just retweeting out pictures of…
They can be truly hard to find in Miami, always lost between the film crews chasing Kardashian sisters to their next luxury club, the Russian oligarchs loudly racing Brazilian expats in souped up Lotuses, and the parade of art-collecting billionaires snapping up property in Fisher Island.But Miami does have a…
If only we could find a way to host Wrestlemania not just every few years, but all year long. Then maybe we’d get our economy heading back in the right direction. According to a study commissioned by World Wrestling Entertainment, this past year’s Wrestlemania, held at Sun Life Stadium, had a…
