Remember during Rick Scott’s campaign he promised to bring Arizona-style immigration laws to Florida, open our coasts to offshore drilling, and ban embryonic stem cell research in the state? Yeah, well none of that has actually happened. In some cases Scott didn’t even bother to actually pursue those ideas. In…
For the first time since he’s taken office, Senator Marco Rubio’s approval ratings among Floridians are now dipping underwater. A new Public Policy Polling poll finds that more Floridians disapprove of Marco Rubio’s job performance than approve…
Because what we really need more of in Washington, D.C., is partisan bickering and petty name calling, Miami-area Rep. Joe Garcia took to the House floor yesterday to compare House Republicans to the Taliban…
Charlie Crist hasn’t officially announced his candidacy yet, but with Alex Sink deciding to forgo another run, there’s a good chance he’ll be the Democratic candidate for governor in 2014. And, if this latest Public Policy Polling survey is any indication, there’s a good chance he’ll be governor once again…
Thanks to the government shutdown, national parks are closed, hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been sent home without a paycheck, and all federal government activities considered nonessential will effectively halt. However, controversial and ineffective government-sponsored broadcasts to Cuba through Radio and TV Martí will continue with little change…
If you’re texting a link to this story on your iPhone while you sip coffee and weave through morning traffic on the Dolphin Expressway using your knees — JUST STOP IT. Years of appealing to your common sense clearly hasn’t helped, so perhaps you’ll respond to the news that beginning…
[Insert joke about a bill causing fireworks in Tallahassee here.] Florida bans regular citizens from buying fireworks that shoot of into the air for most purposes, but a bill filed by state Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Ft. Walton Beach) could reverse that. Fire chiefs across the state however aren’t celebrating…
In the second high-profile case of a white powder leading to the evacuation of a government office this week, a white substance was sent to Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia’s office in Key West. This one probably wasn’t crack cocaine, but it was oddly marked “Tea Party.”…
City politics is supposed to be simple. Private companies vie for public projects, with the job going to the best bid. But not in Miami Beach. Here, city officials secretly conspire to award friends with lucrative contracts in exchange for envelopes full of cash (just Google “Gus Lopez”). Government on…
Charlie Crist’s possible return to the top of Florida’s government, this time as a “Democrat,” just got a whole lot easier. Alex Sink, the state’s former CFO and the Democratic nominee in 2010 who lost to Rick Scott by about one point, has announced that she will not run again…
Apparently if you fail in Miami Beach, you just make your way a little up the island to one of those fancy little towns. Former Miami Beach police chief Donald DeLucca ended up in Golden Beaches, and now former Miami Beach city manager Jorge Gonzalez is set to serve that…
If the results are any indication, Hilda Caballero Diaz-Balart was a supermom. Her sons Lincoln and Mario grew up to become congressmen. Her son Rafael is a banker, and her other son Jose is the main national news anchor for Telemundo. The Cuban matriarch passed away yesterday afternoon at the…
As his reelection efforts ramp up, Florida Governor Rick Scott thought it would be a good idea to raise money by killing some of Florida’s most iconic creatures. He was all set to host a $25,000-a-person gator hunt in mid-October. Now Scott has canceled the event. Not because it was…
Yesterday in a column torn to shreds by our Northern brethren over at The Pulp, Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino suggested that Tim Tebow would make an excellent choice for Rick Scott to pick as his next Lieutenant Governor. Hold your groans. It’s actually a brilliant idea. So elegant,…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has pretty much admitted she values money more than justice. Bondi has come under fire for postponing the execution of a cold-blooded killer and rapist who committed ghastly crimes in Miami-Dade so that she could instead attend a lavish fundraiser meant to kick off her…
So you think that Thanksgiving is a November holiday started in Plymouth Rock and celebrated with turkey and mash potatoes? Well, according to Adam Putnam, Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner, you’re wrong. Putnam claims that Thanksgiving really originated right here in Florida more than 50 years before the Plymouth Rock affair. Apparently…
A group of animal rights activists want to send a big message to the Miami-Dade County Commission for not passing an animal welfare plan. They plan on recalling one of the commissioners who voted against the plan. They’re just not sure which one, so they are literally going to put…
Last year, two Miami reps pushed a bill banning red light cameras through a committee with some loud public support (thanks in part to a Tampa TV station’s investigation showing Florida had helped shorten yellow light times to collect more ticket revenue). But that bill eventually flopped in the full…
So Francis Suarez called off his run for City of Miami mayor after a few minor (well, by Miami-Dade standards at least) “scandals,” but most politicians in Miami aren’t as easily shook. Blind ambition rarely finds its bounds down here. So it’s not really all that surprising that just two…
While news that Miami-Dade County decided to keep all existing libraries open may have seemed like a win, now Mayor Gimenez has released a new plan that could see some of those spared branches open for only 16 hours a week. That’s three to five hours a day for four…
Governor Rick Scott will be in Miami tonight to grab dinner with former Gov. Jeb Bush, Board of Education chairman Gary Chartrand and State Senator John Thrasher. Of course, John Thrasher has been touted lately as a possible replacement for ex-Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. Though, Scott’s staff says tonight’s dinner…
Have you ever shared your name with a Hurricane? It makes for a rather odd week when Hurricane [Your Name] is churning toward Florida and threatening to destroy it. Well, environmental advocacy group 350.org has come up with a new way to name Hurricanes that would spare people who happened…
