Jose Oliva is the first Florida House of Representatives speaker from Miami since Marco Rubio. Tomorrow, as he gavels in the state’s legislative session, the 46-year-old Hialeah Republican faces some of the thorniest issues in state history: pot, guns in school, and felon voting rights, to name a…
Green beer, bar crawls, live music, and more of the best ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in South Florida.
“Marijuana legalization is coming,” State Sen. Randolph Bracy says as he talks up his bill that would place the legalization of recreational marijuana in voters’ hands in the November 2020 general election. “There are going to be a couple of bills proposed this year to regulate it,” says the Orange…
The Glades County Detention Center, a prison facility about two hours northwest of downtown Miami, nearly had to close in 2014. It wasn’t getting enough inmates to justify its existence. But the county jail found a new cash cow in Donald Trump, whose deportation crackdown has swelled the…
Rock out to Pink or Queensryche, celebrate Mardi Gras, and learn how to pour a proper pint of Guinness. Here are the best things to do in South Florida this week, February 28 through March 6.
In a stunning congressional hearing, Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified the president lied under oath in a civil case involving the doomed Trump Tower and International Hotel project on Fort Lauderdale Beach. “Isn’t it true that President Trump misled at best or, at worst, lied under oath [in a Fort Lauderdale case deposition]?”…
While the Democratic party’s left flank is pushing lawmakers to extend Medicare to all citizens and/or create a “single-payer” healthcare system similar to what exists in every other developed nation on earth, many Florida Republicans are still coming up with new ways to chip away at health-care access in the Sunshine…
With more medical marijuana patients and doctors than ever, demand is soaring for cannabis products in the state of Florida. With a newly-appointed cannabis director and agricultural commissioner Nikki Fried prioritizing better patient access to medical weed, it’s only a matter of time before marijuana products are freely available to those who need it, whenever they need it.
Ron Book, one of the most powerful lobbyists in Florida, was arrested Sunday for DUI, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office online arrest database. Book is one of the most influential behind-the-scenes political figures in the state. In addition to being the lobbyist for powerful private firms such as the prison giant GEO Group, Book is also the official lobbyist for Miami-Dade County.
Last week, notorious right-wing provocateur and misinformation artist Roger Stone sat in a Washington, D.C. courtroom and stated that a team of Florida-based “volunteers” runs his social-media accounts, handles his cell-phone, and “revolves” in and out of his home. Stone listed three well known members of the Proud Boys extremist…
Throughout Marco Rubio’s push to attack Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the Florida senator’s defenders have claimed it would be nothing like the military disasters of the past. But Rubio yesterday seriously undermined that argument — by comparing this new conflict to the ’80s Cold War and catastrophic 2011 invasion of Libya.
In an absolutely staggering announcement, Jupiter Police today announced that billionaire and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with soliciting prostitution in Palm Beach County. Kraft is one of 25 people who have arrested as part of a huge sex-trafficking sting. The TC Palm yesterday reported that,…
Roger Stone today is sitting in a D.C. federal court begging a judge not to crack down on him for being, well, Roger Stone. The Fort Lauderdale resident was arrested last month as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump administration and Russian hackers.
As Roger Stone heads to court today to defend an apparent threat he aimed at the judge in his case, it’s a good time to look at his disturbing history of making similar threats of violence, domestic terrorism, and even civil war. Stone, the Fort Lauderdale resident arrested in an FBI raid last month on charges related to Robert Mueller’s investigation…
Pride Fort Lauderdale, African Fashion Week, Puddles Pity Party, and more of the best things to do in South Florida this week.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said virtually nothing about Matt Gaetz in public. But, given the life experience and political beliefs of the Democratic U.S. representative from New York, she likely finds her Florida Republican colleague cretinous. She’s a former bartender who skyrocketed to fame by making a moral and pragmatic case…
The 42nd annual Pride Fort Lauderdale festival has been expanded to a four-day event including its first-ever parade on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
When 62-year-old cancer survivor Jer Valentino set out to obtain his medical marijuana card, the Naples, Florida, resident had to wait two weeks before he could even see a doctor. Another three months and several hundred dollars later, he finally had the pot he needed to treat the…
The patchy morning clouds had just begun to dissipate when the Tri-Rail train pulled out of the Pompano Beach station, heading south through the fading twilight of dawn. Thick bushes, tall green grass, and squat tan buildings littered with colorful graffiti lined the tracks. The train thumped by, picking up…
It’s not clear whether former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020. But it is apparent that keeping the public guessing is extremely lucrative — as it turns out, he personally pocketed a $150,000 speaking fee for a December trip to the Broward Center,…
More than 10,000 people of Haitian ancestry live in Miramar, a city with the fifth-highest Haitian population in Florida. Naturally, the local public schools have a large number of Haitian students — after the devastating 2010 earthquake on the island, Miramar High School took in 46 Haitian refugees, more than…
Like most Soundcloud rappers, up-and-coming Treasure Coast hip-hop artist YNW Melly has a bunch of face tattoos. Curiously, the 19-year-old Melly had an artist ink the word “Sakchaser” on his forehead, just above his left eye. The tattoo honored a fallen friend: A member of Melly’s rap crew, YNW Sakchaser,…
