Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill stepped up against the Chicago Bears on Sunday and spoonfed everyone a giant heap of STFU with a brilliant 277-yard-passing, 48-yard-rushing, two-touchdown performance, leading Miami to a 27-14 victory. Tannehill, who has had it rough as of late, dissected the Bears defense, completing 25 of 32…
As it is with everything in life, Barack Obama’s new Ebola Czar has a Florida connection. On Friday, Obama announced that former Al Gore chief-of-staff Ron Klain would be his new Ebola Czar. Klain’s objective is to basically be ahead of any new updates on the virus, as well as…
Well, this is one way to try to stall your sentencing. A Broward County courtroom was forced to clear out Friday morning when an inmate told the judge he had Ebola during the morning bond court hearing. Judge John “Jay” Hurley, who conducts the hearings with inmates over a video…
FanGate is only going to get more insufferably weird before it finally dies down. Debate organizers Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association said in their statement Thursday that Crist had agreed to not bring his fan if the temperature were cool enough. Organizers also say that both candidates signed…
The Florida Supreme Court fired a shot across the bow of Broward Sheriff Scott Israel yesterday. In a 5-2 decision, the court ruled BSO cops had no right to stop and arrest Shawn Tracey, whom they stopped with a brick of cocaine and $23,000 cash. The court said police need…
The 2014 Miami Dolphins season is well underway! And while lots of other sites will be breaking down each game and list reasons why the Dolphins will or won’t win while analyzing players, coaches, and match-ups against their respective opponent week to week, we won’t. Not us. Not here. Instead,…
Because Florida is Florida, the topic of the day Thursday is, of course, FanGate. And now debate organizers have released a statement saying that Charlie Crist did, intact, break debate rules by having his trusty fan with him onstage. The statement from the Leadership Florida and the Florida Press Association…
On Wednesday, news broke that a Dallas nurse who had tested positive for Ebola flew on a commercial airline that made a stop at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immediately told the media via a conference call that neither the nurse, 29-year-old Amber Joy…
UPDATE: The Bimini SuperFast is no longer running out of Port Everglades. The ship now only departs from PortMiami. It’s 5:33 p.m. Bimini is at our backs now as dozens shuffle aboard the boat that brought us the roughly 50 miles that separates Florida’s coast from the tiny island. We’re…
Rick Scott might be trying to recover this morning from one of the more idiotic and childish political blunders since barefoot Greeks first started tallying votes in the Acropolis. But the current governor of Florida actually might have a bigger issue starting today. Scott — whose personal wealth is huge…
The room was cluttered with a dizzying array of voices. Bodies crushed in together. Lights flashed. Cameras buzzed. The so-called post-debate Spin Room — the designated area where politicians go and talk to the media about how their candidate won the debate — was a steaming goulash of pant suits,…
The debate moderator called it an “extremely peculiar situation.” ThinkProgress called it “The Absolute Weirdest Thing Ever to Happen at a Political Debate.” Tonight’s gubernatiorial debate was stalled for seven minutes while Rick Scott initially refused to come onstage because Charlie Crist had an electric fan under the podium. For…
Hi. Hello. How are you? Ready for the debate between two candidates you’re not all that fired up to see become our governor? No? Well, fear not. Because we here at New Times are gonna be blogging the shenanigans live from Broward College. We’ll be bringing you every issue, and…
Update, 7:08 p.m.: Airport spokesperson Greg Meyer said “Frontier is reaching out to their passengers. Nothing to add from our side at this time.” He also provided a copy of airport protocols should a plane land with a passenger potentially infected with Ebola. It is copied at the end of…
The Florida Department of Management Services can’t ban the Satanic Temple’s holiday display from the state Capitol rotunda just because ot thinks it’s offensive, says watchdog group Americans United for Separation of Church and State. On Wednesday, the group sent state officials a letter warning them that they must not…
When Adrian Wyllie is elected the next governor of Florida, he’s going to legalize all marijuana and have it regulated like alcohol. That’s just one of a plethora of libertarian ideas from the Libertarian candidate, who is looking to take down establishment candidates Rick Scott and Charlie Crist. Like any…
As part of the ongoing saga between Broward College administration and its heavily beaten-down adjunct labor force, adjunct groups, along with community support, will be protesting the administrative virus at Bailey Hall today at 5 p.m. The context is the long-term trend in the college administration of redistributing money away…
Tonight’s the night Gov. Rick Scott and former Gov. Charlie Crist bring their 2014 Election-Palooza to Broward and yell at each other indirectly by saying loud things at television cameras. Scott and Crist will face off at the Leadership Florida-Florida Press Association debate going down at Broward College at 7…
Rick Scott is going to have company at his seaside mansion this weekend but the visitors are not likely to be welcome. A coalition of Florida citizens dismayed at the governor’s environmental record are planning to march on his $9.2 million residence at 3150 Gordon Drive in Naples to raise…
On Monday night, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a motion to the Third District Court of Appeal that the consolidated Pareto-Huntsman case, which deals with the topic of same-sex marriage, should be given a pass-through — meaning it would skip the appeals court and go straight to the Florida…
Hey, Fort Lauderdale. Hi. Hello. How are you? You’re beautiful. You know this. We know this. But now it’s actually official, thanks to a new study that names the Venice of America as among the most physically attractive midsized cities in the country. This, in addition to already being named…
On the eve of the second gubernatorial debate, Rick Scott is suddenly mired in several lawsuits that are asking him to simply be transparent about how much money he’s really making and where exactly he’s earning his money. Particularly, if that earned money is coming from corporations that have benefited…
