Life as a member of Rick Scott’s cabinet isn’t too rough. The jobs are a reliable slingshot to bigger and better gigs, whether its a gubernatorial campaign, which Ag Secretary Adam Putnam looks like set to launch, a Trump appointment in D.C., as AG Pam Bondi still seems to be…
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine might genuinely be the nation’s closest Democratic relative to Donald Trump. Levine can’t stop himself from tweeting out garbage: He spent last week calling the right-leaning Sunshine State News “#FakeJournalism,” for one. Then he spent Friday on an emoji-laden Twitter tirade against Airbnb, the home-sharing company that Levine is working hard to ban from the city.
This week, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s office will release a report detailing how the county could sell or lease 2.8 million square feet of publicly owned downtown land to developers. The vague plan is already sparking outcry, but it turns out one concrete negotiation in the proposal is already underway: All Aboard Florida, the company behind the Gov. Rick Scott-tied Brightline train system, is already in talks with Dade to bulldoze part of the county hall complex.
Greg Steube is a nightmare. Steube, a lawyer and military veteran, represented Sarasota in the Florida House of Representatives for six years before earning a promotion to the Florida Senate in 2016. With larger shoes to fill, Steube now appears to be swinging for the fences. He’s chucked a remarkable number of bills against the wall in the hopes that some will stick — and nearly all of them are next-level bananas.
After weeks of fiery protests and a contentious vote of support from the Miami-Dade County Commission, Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s move to back Donald Trump’s crackdown on sanctuary cities has been tossed out in court as unconstitutional. Miami-Dade Judge Milton Hirsch made the ruling Friday morning.
The stereotype of the drugged-out welfare queen is one of Republican legislators’ favorite tropes. There’s nothing a GOP-controlled government body loves more than raging about poor people taking government handouts and then using that cash to get high and avoid work all day. And, understandably, that would be a very bad thing to do.
Any sane person running Miami-Dade County would take a look at downtown’s traffic-clogged streets and crane-packed sky and realize developers are already running roughshod over the town. Such a reasonable leader might understand that failing to regulate sprawling developments had left the city in dire need of more open, green space.
The facts, at this point, aren’t in dispute: Attorney General Jeff Sessions told the Senate under oath last month that he’d never met any Russian officials during Donald Trump’s campaign. He said the same thing in a questionnaire he filled out for Sen. Patrick Leahy. But Sessions did meet with…
Tamarac, a sprawling South Florida suburb, is not all that special. For starters, the city’s name doesn’t come from a special natural wonder like a lake or, as it was long rumored, a nearby Native American tribe. No, the city was simply named for a local car wash called Caramat. “Tamarac” is just “Caramat” spelled backward. Caramat’s owner, Ken Behring, founded the city.
Does Donald Trump owe billions of dollars to Vladimir Putin-connected Russian oligarchs? Is his personal fortune so tied to loans from corporate fat cats that they’re secretly pulling the strings on all of his policy decisions? Trump swears the answer to both of those questions is no, but he also won’t let…
Recent reports suggest U.S. Customs and Border Protection is giddy about Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Department of Homeland Security agents have been ready to “take the shackles off” for years and feel “a new freedom to deport” under Trump.
In addition to being a charlatan, power-grabber, and unbridled coward, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is also just really, really bad at lying. He doesn’t lie like Donald Trump, who vomits falsehoods so outlandish that they take four full news-cycle days to rebut. He also doesn’t lie like, say, most mainstream Democrats, who promise people things such as universal health care or student-loan forgiveness every four years while blatantly knowing they won’t accomplish any of those things while in office.
Sen. Marco Rubio did not show up to a citizen-initiated town-hall meeting held in South Miami-Dade County last night. He was replaced by something that many of his constituents believe might be more useful: an empty suit that said and did nothing all night.
Marco Rubio spent the first half of the week in Europe on some sort of mystery tour through Germany and/or France. Details of that trip are remarkably scarce — but in that time, the U.S. senator from Florida used the journey as an excuse to skip out on a citizen-organized town-hall meeting in Tampa.
Marco Rubio has been in Europe all week. Why? No one really knows! Members of Rubio’s staff told the Tampa Bay Times yesterday that the U.S. senator from Florida is meeting with representatives from Germany and France this week to discuss alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. But Rubio’s office declined to say the cities he’s visiting or even the countries in which the meetings are taking place.
The federal government is run by a despotic regime that dictates laws and hands down rulings wholly incongruous with the vision laid out by America’s Founding Fathers, say two Florida lawmakers. According to state Sen. Keith Perry — a Republican who represents Alachua, Putnam, and portions of Marion Counties — and Rep. Julio Gonzalez, a Venice Republican, the regime now running the United States constitutes an oligarchy of wealthy elites that “must be dismantled for the sake of our republic and for the continued empowerment of its people.”
This past Friday, Miami-Dade commissioners spent hours blathering about how their vote to comply with President Trump’s ban on “sanctuary” communities was purely financial. Trump has threatened to pull funding for communities that refuse to hold suspects wanted on federal immigrant requests. That’s why they voted 9-3 Friday to comply, they said, despite hours of emotional testimony from worried residents.
Hundreds filled Miami-Dade County Hall today to demand that commissioners rescind County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s January 26 order that Miami comply with President Trump’s crackdown on immigrant-protecting “sanctuary” communities. Some residents even cried in front of the commission while recounting their own stories of immigration to the Magic City.
One of Donald Trump’s most enduring, unchallenged fictions is the idea that Cuban-American people adore him. He repeats the lie all the time. During the election season, Trump flew into Miami, made a pit stop at Versailles, and earned some cheers after promising Cuban immigrants he would crack down on the Castro regime. Ever since that visit, he has claimed he’s beloved in Miami’s Cuban community.
Donald Trump’s original pick to run the Labor Department, Andy Puzder, was apparently too much of a liability to work in an administration otherwise staffed with enough red flags to dizzy a rodeo steer. Puzder was a classic Trump choice: As the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardees, he was…
For a brief, delirious moment, Marlins fans thought they were rid of Jeffrey Loria. Sure, they’d have to trade the worst owner in sports for a family best known for propelling a xenophobic garbage bag full of rancid Tang into the White House. But that would almost be worth it…
Like most of America, John DeVore was astounded to see the Facebook photos posted by a random Palm Beach rich dude last weekend. Thanks to his membership at Mar-a-Lago, some guy named Richard DeAgazio managed to sidle up to the nuclear football for a selfie and watch a North Korean…
