By Nick Sortal Those days of buying a Powerball or Florida Lotto ticket, then waiting for Wednesday or Saturday night for the results, are dying. For low-stakes gamblers who crave daily action, there has always been Cash 3 and Play 4. Both games cost $1, provide results daily and pay…
Workers protested at the McDonald’s at 3306 S. University Drive in Miramar for almost half an hour this morning, demanding better working conditions and a $15 minimum wage. “I have seven children to take care of, and I can’t do that on $8.05 an hour,” Marianne Raney, who has been…
Medical Marijuana is legal in 19 states—not including Florida. But that hasn’t stopped one Fort Lauderdale tech company from reaping the benefits of the booming cannabis industry. BioTrackTHC, a 6-year-old software firm, devised a comprehensive “seed-to-sale” marijuana inventory program that uses an identification number on barcodes to track marijuana from…
Demetrius Ivory is a 43-year-old single dad. He’s proud that his son wants to go to college to study engineering, but he’s afraid that he won’t be able to finance it. Ivory works as the maintenance supervisor at Koinonia Worship Center in Hallandale Beach and takes on odd jobs catering…
In 2011, the Malaysian company Genting paid $236 million to buy 14 waterfront acres in Miami that included The Miami Herald building. When a newspaper building is sold, that’s news. When the building is sold to a company looking to change state laws and move in on long-standing pari-mutuel businesses,…
The Florida legislative session concluded last week– and again gambling regulation failed. So now casino executives’ focus turns to a Florida Supreme Court case in July that could shape the state’s landscape. If plaintiff Gretna Racing, based way up in northwestern Florida, wins its argument that it has the right to…
Hey, you, happy couple from Melbourne, you now have so much money you could fill a room with $100 bills and frolic in it. How do you feel? “Stressed,” said Maureen Smith, age 70, at a Tallahassee press conference, where the Florida winners of the historic $1.58 billion Powerball drawing were…
As a destination for luxury real estate, Broward county is often overshadowed by Miami. But over the last five years, new real estate developments have sprouted up throughout the county. With the Fort Lauderdale area no longer a tacky spring break destination, rich people have flocked to Broward county to…
The universe is a vast, bullying, uncaring place. If you need any further evidence of this fact, here you go: the Tropic Cay is no more. Today, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler and likely Who’s Who for city officials and business types are going to be collecting at the beach…
Daniel Agnew wants to redirect thousands of dollars from Walmart to small businesses run by black people. He has a plan: this Black Friday he hopes to organize a pop-up marketplace of 100 vendors at Betty T. Fergusson Park in Miami Gardens. It’s less half a mile away from the…
Judges in Broward County are starving on paltry wages between $138,000 and $162,000. Somehow, they’re not commuting to the courtroom from the homeless shelter. Nonetheless, Florida Chief Justice Jorge Labarga wants to stop the madness and get these poor jurists a decent wage. In a story published by the Sun-Sentintel…
They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. Those words about Mexicans from Donald Trump’s presidential announcement speech have been on a near-continuous loop since the comb-covered one uttered them on June 16. Within nine days, Univision, the largest Spanish-language TV network in the country, declared it would cancel its…
One of the truth’s about life in South Florida is that condo boards are pretty much hell-holes of infighting and disfunction. Put a dozen or so people in the room and ask them agree on anything — just see what happens. That’s what makes the continuing story of the Edgewater…
It’s not easy flying these days. What with airline consolidation, the boom of discount carriers, and the complete disappearance of the in-flight meal (what the hell???), flying the skies aren’t all that friendly anymore. if you want some hard data on this, the US government has been keeping track on…
Florida is still living in the dark ages when it comes to marijuana – and the possibility of a medical marijuana bill seems to have been killed because lawmakers just can’t figure out how to write one, despite nearly half the country already implementing some sort of medical marijuana legislation…
A scathing new report says the private prison industry is getting fat off profits from detaining undocumented immigrants in sub-par conditions – and Boca Raton-based GEO Group is one of the main culprits behind the scheme. In the report, titled Payoff: How Congress Ensures Private Prison Profit with an Immigration…
April: forget about poetry or pleasant showers or even the opening day of baseball season. What the month really means to your average American: taxes. Times to find those mustard covered receipts under the couch and pray you actually left that W-2 where you think you did. Luckily for Floridians,…
The biggest companies in Florida — including Fort Lauderdale-based AutoNation — pay less in state taxes than the 5.5 percent rate they should. So says a new study released by the nonpartisan government watchdog group Integrity Florida. The study says that 13 of Florida’s Fortune 500 corporations paid an average…
On the heels of one study saying that Florida ranks at the bottom when it comes to taxation equality comes another study that shows the Sunshine State ranks number one when it comes to financial gaps between the races. The study, conducted by personal financial website Wallet Hub, measured the…
Craig Attebury launched his retail shop, GayMart, in 1994 in Laguna Beach, California, and opened another outlet in Wilton Manors in 1997, just as now-legendary gay bar Georgie’s Alibi started getting popular. “The plaza was quite empty back then,” he remembers. In the intervening years, Wilton Manors and the surrounding…
On September 19, the Federal Trade Commission announced the takedown of a sham school operating out of Fort Lauderdale. Jefferson High School LLC shared its name with a brick-and-mortar institution in Tampa. Although the similarity made it sound legitimate, the State Attorney’s Office says Jefferson was anything but: Getting a…
In case you haven’t heard or if you have been trapped under something heavy, the latest internet craze has been the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. But this is actually a very cool and noble thing, as internet crazes go. It’s all about raising awareness and money for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s…
