Your kids’ ride to school every morning could soon be sponsored by Coca-Cola, Kendall Toyota or Disney Channel. A new bill introduced in the Florida House of Representatives would allow school districts to sell advertising space directly on the school bus…
Three years ago, nine Miami-Dade County commissioners voted in favor of the Marlins Stadium deal, and to no one’s surprise a few of them now regret the decision. The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson called up eight of the nine and asked them how they feel about the deal now. Commissioner…
Are Democrats warming up to the idea of Charlie Crist becoming their 2014 nominee for governor? Over the weekend, two high profile Florida Democrats took the airwaves and seemed to have nothing but nice things to say about Crist, including Bob Graham, who even after years out of office remains…
Oh, you thought we were done with all that Birther nonsense? Nope, not by a long shot.Michael Voeltz, a Broward county man who claims to be a registered Democrat, has filed a lawsuit in Florida claiming that Barack Obama was not eligible to be on the state’s ballot because he’s…
Christin Slater was once on Hollywood’s A-List, but he wasn’t on Miami-Dade’s voter list.Like almost everyone in Miami-Dade, Slater (who lives here now, who knew?) had a hell of a time voting on Election Day. After waiting in line for four hours, he was told he wasn’t properly registered. He…
Sorry, guys. We won’t be getting any more info on the rumors that top Republican Party of Florida officials held a fundraising shindig in the Bahamas that featured a golf cart full of hookers. At least not anytime soon, it seems. A court today blocked the release of investigative reports…
This is an actual press release sent out by an actual political party. The Republican Party of Florida to be exact. Someone (or perhaps multiple someones) actually wrote this, and made a Photoshop and decided it would be a good idea to send out…
As Riptide reported yesterday, Barbara Jordan believes Miami-Dade public employees’ salaries shouldn’t be available online. She’s even introduced a resolution to strip that info from the web.Maybe it was the county commissioner’s commanding Aug. 14 re-election that emboldened her to make such a move. Or perhaps, as she claims, it’s…
A City Commissioner calling the chief of police to get out of a traffic ticket is that kind of trite, light public corruption people joke about, but you never actually hear anyone getting punished for it. Well today, the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics & Public Trust found probably cause that City…
Jeb Bush spent most of the past four years denying that he would run for president …in 2012. He literally never missed an opportunity to tell anyone who would listen in no uncertain terms that he would not be running, but when asked about 2016 he seems to have a…
Remember that fun time earlier this month when you waited for like four hours in line to vote? Well, that was partially thanks to new Republican-backed voter laws signed by Gov. Rick Scott. Of course, GOP officials say the new laws were to save money and cut back on voter…
This fall’s presidential race was the first since 1976 where neither a Bush nor a Clinton took part as a candidate, running mate, or primary contender. But by the looks of things there’s a good possibility we’ll see a Bush (not to mention a Clinton) contending in 2016. The New…
Some Democrats are already smiling like they’ve got Florida’s 2014 gubernatorial race in the bag, and with Rick Scott’s consistently abysmal poll numbers, it’s easy to see why. Though, that also might explain while there’s a brewing interest among some GOP circles to see someone run against Scott in a…
Marco Rubio didn’t exactly have the nicest things to say about either Miami rapper Pitbull or the field of science in his interview with GQ published yesterday. He claimed Pit wasn’t a poet, and cast doubt on generally accepted science that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. He’s since…
Well, we don’t have Allen West to push around any more. After two weeks fighting his razor thin loss to newcomer Patrick Murphy, demanding recounts, and calling on fellow Tea Party patriots to battle for his cause, the craziest guy in Congress has finally conceded this morning. And, in vintage…
Marco Rubio and Pitbull may be the two Cuban-American Miamians who, more than anyone else, have shot to national prominence in their own ways in the past few years, but don’t expect the two to be hanging out anytime soon. In a new interview with GQ, Sen. Rubio starts some serious…
Miami-Dade Judge William Thomas will make history. He’s been nominated by President Obama to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and if his appointment is approved by the Senate, he’d become the first black, openly gay man to ever serve as a federal…
Barack Obama might have gay voters to thank for his reelection, especially right here in Florida. A new analysis suggests that if only straight people went to the polls here, Romney would have pulled off a win by something like two percentage points…
President Obama has come out strong in favor of raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but Marco Rubio thinks that’s a fool’s errand. In Rubio’s mind, the rich just have too much money to waste on things that will get them out of paying taxes anyway…
The growing scandal involving the affairs of Gen. David Patraeus and Gen. John Allen looked for a minute like it was about to include, at least peripherally, former Gov. Charlie Crist as well. Yesterday, English paper The Daily Telegraph reported that Natalie Khawam, the twin sister of Jill Kelley, used…
Victoria Jackson is continuing her post-election meltdown. After declaring “America died” on election night, Miami’s own SNL start turned Tea Party queen, is now trafficking in conspiracy theories that Barack Obama didn’t actually win the election, and is now a big supporter of the burgeoning secession movement…
Ever since Election Day, the New Times office has descended into tribal taunts as each employee has tried to claim that his or her ‘hood was the nail in Mitt Romney’s coffin or the only thing keeping Democrats from ransacking the House of Representatives.To settle the issue, we’ve prepared a…
