Well, well, well. Look who’s no longer universally hated. Yes, Governor Rick Scott has a positive approval rating for the first time since his first month in office in the history of Quinnipiac University’s tracking of Florida Governor. 45 percent of Floridians said they approve of the job Scott is…
According to a new poll from Quinnipiac University, more Floridians generally support the policies of Barack Obama and his Democratic party, but the controversial Iran Arms Deal is a bridge to far for most. It’s widely disapproved of in the state. Though, continuing federal funding to Planned Parenthood, allowing undocumented…
In public, Mayor Philip Levine strives to come across as the affable politician, a grinning multimillionaire populist who transitioned from media mogul and major Clinton donor to top dog in Miami Beach. But as heat has mounted around Levine’s role in raising more than a million dollars for a political…
Earlier this week, hackers dumped more than 40 million records from cheating website Ashley Madison. That’s sparked a nationwide scramble, with politicians grasping to explain why their info was on the site, the Pentagon opening a probe in the 15,000 government and military accounts included in the leak, and municipalities…
For the second time this year alone, the Florida legislature has vowed to give up on the tasks they were elected by Floridians to do instead of coming to a consensus. After the state Supreme Court ruled that the federal congressional district maps drawn by the Republican-controlled legislature in 2012…
Here’s the good news for those wary of Donald Trump’s surging popularity: Amongst the major Republican candidates polled against major Democrats in three major swing states, Donald Trump does the worst. Here’s the bad news: In Florida he’s still beating Hillary Clinton. The data comes from Quinnipiac University’s latest telephone survey…
Marco Rubio is a big Dolphins fan, so its quite possible that after watching Ryan Tannehill struggle with last year’s crop of receivers that this is just how he thinks football is played now. Rubio was hanging in Iowa with his family for the Iowa State Fair, and started up…
Following the release of a series of controversial and highly-edited videos showing officials at Planned Parenthood centers in other states discussing the donation of tissue from abortion procedures, Governor Rick Scott launched an investigation into Florida’s 16 Planned Parenthood offices. This despite the fact that donating tissues from abortion procedures…
Eventually, medical marijuana will be legal nationwide. Yes, even in Florida, where 58 percent support at the ballot box last time around wasn’t enough to enshrine the change in state laws. In fact, the campaign behind that last Florida medical weed effort — United for Care — is pushing hard…
Same-sex Marriage became legal in Miami-Dade on January 5th (a day before the rest of the state), and Cathy Pareto and Karla Arguello were the first couple in the entire state to get married. Since that historic day, Florida has dragged its feet catching up to reality. LGBT people can still…
You can now get married to your same-sex partner in Florida, but its still legal in much of the state to get fired or denies housing simply for being gay. Legislators, mostly Democrats, have tried for the past ten years to pass a law that would protect LGBT people from…
According to post-debate polls, Marco Rubio didn’t come out of last week’s Donald Trump-dominated Republican debate any stronger, but he did leave aligned more closely than ever with pro-life positions. Rubio told the crowd that the didn’t support abortion even in cases of incest and rape, and he’s spent the…
The Democratic senate primary between Reps. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson will likely be colored as moderate vs progressive, but Grayson is already trying to frame it more as effective congressman vs do nothing congressman. Grayson certainly go some help in the category last week from congressional tracking website Inside…
After decades of inaction from city leaders and the Miami Heat on creating a promised park behind American Airlines Arena, Miami activists took matters into their own hands in June. Hundreds gathered to rechristen a stretch of waterfront asphalt as “Dan Paul Park,” named for a pioneering parks activist, aiming…
It wouldn’t be a presidential election without a debate in Miami, and today the Democratic National Committee announced that Hillary, Bernie and whoever else jumps in or is still around by that time will be coming to Miami in either February or March. The debate will be co-sponsored by Univision…
After the state Supreme Court threw out Florida’s congressional districts as unconstitutional and politically motivated, the state legislature will assemble for its second special session of the year next Monday to redraw fairer district. House Speaker Steve Crisafulli and Senate President Andy Gardiner, both Republicans, instructed staff to draw up a…
Whooping cough may be one of the nastiest diseases to get. Symptoms can last for weeks or even months, and coughing fits can be so severe that patients have been known to vomit or break a rib in the midst of cough and gasping for air. Vaccines have helped to…
Ten years after we reached peak-Hipster, mainstream political candidates are finally getting in on all those super trendy hipster fashions. Miami’s Jeb Bush seems to be leading the way on the Republican side. In fact, the candidate just unleashed some new merch that wouldn’t seem out of place on the…
Just nine months after rejecting a medical marijuana amendment, Floridians overwhelmingly say they’re ready to approve it in 2016. Continuing on that surprising progressive street, most Floridians also agree that the minimum wage should be raised to at least $10.00 an hour. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the vast income inequality that…
Just months before he decided to run for President, Donald Trump was the center of a much smaller controversy at the municipal level. The city of Doral went back and forth on whether to give Trump its key to the city for renovations he made to the historic Doral Golf…
Some of Rep. Alan Grayson’s more colorful comments may get him labeled a crazy liberal, but what’s that old cliché about the true definition of Insanity. The one Bill Clinton, of all people, repeated several time during his 1992 campaign? Oh, right. Doing the same thing over and over and…
Despite the controversy he leaves in his path everywhere he goes, Donald Trump is now in first place in the Republican primary in many national polls. Conventional wisdom however had it that there’d be no way he’d be able to take the lead in Florida. For one thing, our former…
