Despite last ditch efforts to block a 24-hour abortion waiting period in Florida, the law went into effect Wednesday, with clinics across the state instructing patients seeking abortions to come back at least 24 hours after a consultation to have the procedure. Though it’s a big blow to pro-choice groups,…
Donald Trump announced yesterday that he’s suing Univision for $500 million — that’s half a billion dollars — over their refusal to air his Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. To put that in perspective the original deal between Trump and Univision was wroth just $13.5 million (and Univision is…
In a historic announcement this morning, Barack Obama officially announced that the United States and Cuba are officially re-establishing diplomatic relations. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana later this summer to open an embassy. Of course, embassies are lead by ambassadors. Ambassadors must win confirmation from the…
Yesterday, Jeb Bush dropped more than a thousand pages worth of his personal tax returns on the web — 33 years worth of financial info in all. The document dump represents the most tax documents ever released by a presidential candidate. Reporters are still dredging through all that paper, but…
Washington and Miami will announce Wednesday that they have agreed to open embassies in each others’ countries. In a historic decision that was widely reported Tuesday afternoon, the two countries will reverse a Cold War policy that has had the two nations at loggerheads almost since the Cuban Revolution in…
Though people in the political sphere often forget it, actions do speak louder than words. Jeb Bush’s actions as Florida Governor had already put him on record as to where he stood as to whether Confederate flags should be flying on the grounds of state capitols. He already removed on…
The fight over how to help Miami’s downtown homeless population has already devolved into poop maps, feces videos and ugly words between the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and the Homeless Trust. At issue: Who should pay for more toilets downtown for transients. Tomorrow, that fight is going to reignite. The…
Florida’s official state flag may be the only state Flag in the entire union to feature a woman of color on it, but is it also “the most overtly racist symbol in the United States?” That’s what T.D. Allman, historian and author of “Finding Florida: The True History of the…
Donald Trump is the kind of shrewd businessman that if you cross you can be assured he’ll extract his revenge. Usually in an over-the-top, childish way that actually makes him look worse …but he will extract his revenge. Yesterday, Univision announced that it was dropping its coverage of all Miss…
When a deadline passed last week, more than 250,000 Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent living in the D.R. suddenly faced the specter of deportation back to Port-au-Prince. On Thursday, hundreds from both nation gathered outside the Dominican Republic’s consulate in Brickell to protest the move, which many called racist and…
Donald Trump had harsh word for Hispanics who come to America in his Presidential campaign announcement speech, and now America’s largest Spanish-language broadcaster wants nothing to do with him. Univision announced its intentions today to halt all business with Trump, meaning the network will cancel its planned broadcasts of Trump’s Miss…
Today the Supreme Court voted 6-3 in a case that left Obamacare in tact as designed. Local Democrats celebrated like it was a final victory for permanent healthcare reform in America while Miami’s two presidential candidates vowed to keep fighting against the law. Other major state and local Republicans, including…
For more than a year before he was brutally murdered, Pinecrest native and freelance journalist Steven Sotloff was held captive in Syria in often torturous conditions. On the advice of security experts, Sotloff’s family in Miami kept the news of their son’s kidnapping quiet, fearing publicity would only further endanger…
After years of skittering its feet, Florida legislature finally formally outlawed sex between animals and humans in 2011. The Miami-Dade County Commission however really wants to drive the point home that beastiality is not welcomed here, and is poised to consider a 300 word update to its animal-cruelty ordinance. Proposed by…
The National Statuary Hall Collection is a neat feature of the United States Capitol where each state gets to erect statues of two of its more prominent historical citizens. Guess which two people are honored by Florida: a guy who invented an early precursor to air-conditioning (this is true, and honestly…
With little advanced notice, Governor Rick Scott quietly signed the budget passed by the Republican-controlled legislature during special session, and used his line-item veto power to slash $461 million in funding from the original $78.6 billion state budget. Now several notable Republicans are criticizing Scott’s spend-thrift ways, noting that he’s…
The Florida Democratic Party has a history of placing bets on safe moderates, so its no surprise that the party establishment has clustered around Rep. Patrick Murphy as their favored candidate to run for Marco Rubio’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat. The problem is that those safe moderates don’t actually go on…
When Jeb Bush was governor, Florida was roiled with the kind of debate that only happens in Deep South states with long histories of Civil War strife and segregation. As activists pushed for Florida to stop flying the Confederate flag — a symbol of racism to many African-Americans — Bush…
Bill Nelson is a 72-year-old man who has spent a total of 32 years in public office. He is Florida’s longest current serving state-wide elected politician. He flew on the space shuttle Columbia. He has literally been to space. He is a former Army captain. The man deserves some measure…
Though, Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio’s home-state advantage in Florida may not guarantee victory in a general election (they’re both trailing Hillary Clinton in Florida), it certainly seems to be helping them among Florida primary voters. Another new poll released today by Quinnipiac shows that Bush is the frontrunner in…
In a sea of Jeb supporters at his announcement Monday, Lucy Orlando stood out as a particularly impassioned. The 71-year-old grandmother of nine was decked in a red T-shirt of Jeb’s smiling face above “We love you, Jeb! From the Lucy Orlando Team.” “Jeb is Unique…He loves people…He loves education…
Even as Donald Trump announced his campaign for President of the United States of America earlier this week, his actions were still under review by the Miami-Dade County Ethics Commission. Coincidentally, the Commission cleared Trump of any wrongdoing in a meeting yesterday. Back in late 2013, Donal Trump just happened…
