For years, Jane Velez Mitchell was a cable news mainstay, having hosted her own show on HLN. After more than three decades in the business, she followed her heart and today runs a blog, JaneUnchained.com, which focuses on animal rights issues. Today she’ll be flying in from Los Angeles to protest…
Manatees need you. Federal authorities from the Fish & Wildlife Service say that with an estimated 6,300 West Indian manatees in Florida, and 13,000 worldwide, the critters are well-off enough to be removed from the endangered species list and considered “threatened” instead. They had been listed as endangered since…
As self-described “patriots” take over a wildlife refuge in Oregon, the Southern Poverty Law Center yesterday announced its annual count of right-wing militia groups in America. There are currently 276 such groups – up from 202 in 2014, a 37 percent increase. The nonprofit organization explained that “the number represents…
It’s easy to get depressed about the state of the world today, what with the scourges of terrorism, global warming, and Sandy Hook hoaxers. Well, there’s an antidote to that: 15-year-old Hannah Herbst. This smiley, bright, and poised-beyond-her-years 9th grader from Boca Raton has invented a device called an “ocean…
Fort Lauderdale attorney Brian Silber has started a petition in support of Peter Peraza — the Broward Sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed Jermaine McBean. Peraza’s fellow officers are also raising money for him. Last week, a grand jury decided that Peraza be charged with felony manslaughter with a firearm…
It was three years ago today that 20 little children were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Not long afterward, Florida Atlantic University professor James Tracy began spreading the idea on his blog that the shooting was a hoax. He sparked, or at least inflamed, a growing…
Reports are saying that an ex-cop from Palm Beach Gardens is behind an incredible mystery that has fascinated the tech world for years. Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that uses open source software to transfer money instantaneously, without the need for banks or governments. Its creator first launched Bitcoin…
You might think that a national preserve would be used to, y’know, preserve some natural land and protected species. Naw, you crazy! Parks and preserves are used for extracting resources, silly! Tomorrow night is an important meeting to determine the fate of oil exploration in the Big Cypress National Preserve. …
While the United Nations has been holding a climate change summit in Paris (November 30 to December 11), several indigenous leaders from Turtle Island (what you might call North America) voiced their frustration with the destruction that has brought us to this point. “We cannot live on the Moon or…
Death in June is a British post-punk band that has been around since 1981. According to one reviewer, “Early DIJ is basically Joy Division with trumpets,” but later albums include more acoustic guitar and sound more singer/songwriter-ish. As part of a 12-date American tour, the band is playing Tuesday, December 8 at…
Kenneth Moore, the proprietor of Fort Lauderdale bar and bike shop Two &, owns a small business and needs the parking area in an alley adjacent to it to operate. “We don’t allow any parking there, except deliveries, or people working for us,” he tells New Times. Furthermore, “not having customer…
Burning Man, the epic party in the middle of Nevada is a killer event … but unfortunately a few too many thousand miles away for most of us to enjoy. But you can thank Bram Portnoy, co-founder of the Edge Art Fair, for bring its anything-goes spirit and a dose…
First, we had “cool pope” Francis espousing all his liberal ideas like not judging gay people and caring about climate change. (Read his encyclical, Laudato Si, here.) Now we have Miami’s Catholic archbishop suggesting we welcome poor refugees. In an opinion piece about the Christmas spirit, Archbishop Thomas Wenski compared…
Chaz Stevens has been something of a gadfly in Broward County for a good decade, but he went national two years ago, when he made a very public point about the separation of church and state. He claimed to be a Satanist and applied to place a “Festivus Pole” made…
This year, some 25 million people will be traveling by air for Thanksgiving to eat till their hearts’ content. The airport workers who make those trips possible — including cabin cleaners, ramp workers, and baggage handlers — will go on a 24-hour fast today to protest low wages and bad…
A psychiatric evaluation has been requested for Harlem Suarez, a man from the Florida Keys who was arrested in July after he allegedly said he wanted to bomb a beach in Key West or Marathon. He also allegedly talked about South Beach in Miami as a target. His attorney, Richard Della…
His name sounds funny to Americans, but presidential candidate Zoltan Istvan says it’s totally normal in Hungary, from where his parents hail. Istvan himself was born in Los Angeles and worked for National Geographic for years — a job that led him to explore science, particularly the concept of transhumanism,…
Last night, the New York Times published a pretty damning story headlined “Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say.” It quotes one of his advisers saying they tried to “make him smart” but that Carson just wasn’t understanding complex international relations. Now, we need to get to…
As racial tensions made headlines throughout America this summer and gave rise to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, some Hollywood, Florida streets that are currently named after Confederate generals — Forrest, Hood, and Lee Streets — were spraypainted in protest, with someone on social media taking responsibility under the hashtag #BlackOutWhiteSupremacy. Some…
According to the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Florida), at least two mosques in the states have received phone calls threatening terror. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is said to be investigating and CAIR is calling for the perpetrators to be found and charged with hate…
When Florida’s week-long bear hunt ended at 9 p.m. October 25, officials initially said the number of bears killed was 295. But that figure has ticked up to 304 as additional information trickled in, said representatives from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission today in a media call Said…
When three Loxahatchee farms — Rancho Garcia, G.A. Paso Fino, and Medina Farm —were closed in a massive raid involving about 150 police officers on October 13, it was said to be the hugest-ever bust for animal cruelty in U.S. history. Animal rights activists with the group Animal Recovery Mission…
