Marco Rubio doesn’t want to be Florida’s Senator anymore. This much is clear. A New York Times article form the summer quoted anonymous friends claiming that Rubio had grown tired of the work. That’s a big part of the reason he’s running for President, and has sworn he won’t backtrack…
The breeze whips off the sand as Kirk Paskal sweats under a hot October sun, his back to the turquoise Atlantic. With one hand over his brow, he squints longingly at a boxy, two-story beige hotel. Formerly known as the Ocean Way, the hotel is decayed, the paint now cracked…
Jeb Bush is not having a very good time. He’s currently stuck in 5th place in the polls, facing nearly daily snipes from Donald Trump and had to lay off a large chunk of his Miami-based campaign staff. Over the weekend, he gave his most candid public comments about his…
Aylen Hidalgo says her supervisor has always been a stickler for clocking in on time and not leaving her desk or making personal calls. As a result, her job in finance at CareerSource South Florida, a county agency with a $70 million budget to help job seekers, has always been…
Is there a better way to summarize what’s happened so far in the GOP presidential primary by pointing out on the same day that Donald Trump makes his first official Florida campaign stop in Miami, Jeb Bush announces that he’s drastically cutting payroll and staff at his campaign’s Miami headquarters?…
The latest twist in Miami’s years-long soccer stadium saga—an unlikely partnership between David Beckham’s group and the Miami-Dade County school board—is looking ever more likely: At a school board meeting yesterday, members expressed unanimous support for a possible deal, voting to allow superintendent Alberto Carvalho to proceed with negotiations for…
If there’s one place in America where the “build a stadium and the money will come” lie shouldn’t fly, it’s Miami. We’ve already suffered third degree burns from that tale tale. It’s exactly what politicians promised would happen in Little Havana as they crafted the worst deal in history to build…
It seems that certain Republicans in Florida see controversy erupt over legislation in other states and think to themselves, “Hmmm, how do we bring that controversy to the Sunshine state?” Rep. Julio Gonzalez, a freshman Republican lawmaker who was enthusiastically endorsed by Senator Marco Rubio, has introduced a wide-ranging “right…
We always took Jeb Bush as a bit of nerd, but apparently we were wrong. Turns out he’s just a creepy fake comic book fan bro, and we found this out in what might not be the biggest blunder of Bush’s presidential campaign so far, but certainly is the oddest. …
LeLe Pons is probably the most famous Miamian right now that no one over 21 has heard. She’s one of the most popular personality on the Vine social network, and came in at 6th on our list of most followed Miami Instagram accounts, ahead of bonafide celebs like Pitbull and…
Florida Democrats just really, really love Hillary Clinton, and nothing can shake their resolve. Back in 2008, Clinton took a brief break from getting bested in earlier primary states by our current president, and absolutely crushed both Barack Obama and Johns Edwards in the Florida primary. Now polling for 2016…
Elections are coming up in the City of Miami, and in the race for the city’s highest profile commission seat, the fundraising, at least, isn’t even close: The big money is in the hands of Teresa Sarnoff, wife of incumbent Marc. Sarnoff is running to represent District 2, the jurisdiction…
Pitbull’s entire image is of a globe trotting cool guy who attends the coolest parties and hob knobs with the elite. Listening to his lyrics it seems like his entire life is one of refined hedonism. But apparently in real life he does do some boring things, like occasionally having…
The Florida Senate was going to mess around when it came to removing the Confederate flag from its official seal. The Senate started its third special session of the year. The official business at hand is yet another attempt to redraw Florida’s unconstitutional congressional districts, but, surprising many, the Senate…
Despite the fact that two of his biggest competitors are actual Florida politicians, Donald Trump holds onto a slim lead amongst likely Florida Republican primary voters. He’ll up to firm up that lead by dropping by Florida later this week. A jaunt that will include Trump’s first public visit to…
Everyonce in a while someone comes along and tries to rebrand and rename a neighborhood somewhere in Miami. There was an attempt to brand a stretch of Mid-Beach as “Wunder Mile.” Developers tried to get people to call a portion of Overtown as “SoWyn.” There were even attempts in the…
Sometimes it seems like Florida only has have like five actual politicians. It doesn’t matter if you keep losing races. You can just keeping running for things until you actually win something, and apparently there will be big time donors and your party’s establishment there to support you. People are…
After seven years of filing complaints against their prominent county boss, Linda Pierre and other female employees finally found traction in August. An investigation by the federal government found that CareerSource South Florida executive director Rick Beasley subjected female employees to a “pattern of harassment, intimidation, exclusion, bullying…conditions due to…
Two years ago the Florida State Supreme Court suspended Jeffrey Norkin from practicing law for what they found to be grossly unprofessional behavior in court. Yeah, well, Norkin continued to practice law and continued to exhibit grossly unprofessional behavior while doing so. So now the Supreme Court has decided to…
In recent years, at least four employees at CareerSource South Florida filed complaints with the county about Roderick “Rick” Beasley, the executive director of a public agency that uses $70 million in state and federal funds to find employment for local job seekers. They alleged that Beasley — who earns…
When the NRA says “jump,” Republicans in Florida’s state legislature ask “how high,” and then manage to jump even higher. The state has long been a leader in passing NRA-backed legislation. It’s why we’re known as the “Stand Your Ground” state after all. Florida’s passage of a “shall issue” concealed…
Embattled CareerSource South Florida executive director Rick Beasley, already likely to face criticism week over alleged workplace bullying, has a new problem. Three current and former employees accuse him of religious discrimination. CareerSource, the largest operation of its type in Florida, uses $70 million in state and federal funds to connect local…
