During the 2000 presidential election, Ralph Nader won 2,882,995 votes from Americans across the country. It was, and continues to be, the greatest success a Green Party candidate has had at the polls. However, his record may soon be outdone. After Nader’s crushing loss, some Democrats added insult to injury…
Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is on a mission to cancel all federal student loans. “Once you get into student debt you don’t get out,” she told New Times this past Friday in downtown Miami. “This is a sign of a human rights crisis… a generational human rights crisis. This is absolutely unacceptable.”…
As you might have guessed from your Facebook news feed, a plethora of Democrats (who share many views with Greens) are not happy that Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, is running for the Oval Office. They believe that Stein may steal votes from Clinton, and, in this close…
It’s been a busy month for South Florida’s Black Lives Matter activists. Two weeks ago, they rallied for justice in the wake of Greg Frazier’s shooting death in Pompano Beach. On Sunday evening, activists gathered once again, this time to protest the shooting death of Keith Scott Lamont, another black man…
For decades Forrest Street has stretched across Hollywood, from the city’s poor Liberia neighborhood, to its affluent coastline. For more than a year, though, many locals have been urging city leaders to rename the road due to its namesake’s unscrupulous history. Commissioners have been dawdling for months about changing the street’s name, but…
Carmella Gardner has many fond memories of Liberia, the Hollywood neighborhood she grew up. From family get-togethers during the holidays to watching her children play in the same streets she once did. However, this summer the 45-year-old African American grandmother says she has quietly suffered because she lives on…
Sixteen years ago, hanging chads sent the nation into a spiraling constitutional crisis. For a month after the November 7, 2000 election, America panicked. Would Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore become the new commander-in-chief? Election night ended in a virtual tie. Bush had the edge,…
Just like the weather, Donald Trump’s stance on climate change is constantly shifting. In 2009 he and some of his children signed a letter calling on parties attending the Copenhagen Climate Accords to come to a consensus and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the pronouncements on his presidential campaign’s web-page…
Remember when the courts prohibited funky games like such as Ultimate Texas Hold ‘em and Three-Card poker at racetrack casinos in 2015? Well, it looks like they’re going to be here for a while longer. This past August 27, administrative law judge E. Gary Early ruled the state of Florida was wrong to simply eliminate…
Thursday will be the new Friday in Hollywood. To cut costs, commissioners yesterday passed a year-long pilot program that put most city departments on a 10-hour, four-day work schedule. Starting Monday October 3, City Hall, Annex, and old library, Visual Arts Building at Arts Park, and other departments will only…
Back in November, Broward Judge Matthew Destry sentenced 23-year-old Herb Smith to 60 years in prison after he broke his probation. That sentence—more than four times the prosecution’s recommendation—ignited a viral online petition (that garnered more than 45,000 signatures) calling for Destry’s ousting. After the outcry, Destry reversed the sentence…
After hearing about $43 million, 75-foot parking garage proposed for a spot in front of her building, C. Ann Lanese attended the Fort Lauderdale city commission meeting last Tuesday night in opposition. But there were many items on the agenda, and residents commented on each one. The meeting lasted seven hours…
We’ve stepped into a brave new world in which cars drive themselves, Pokemon is real, and you can order everything from a Pub Sub to a helicopter on your phone. As we venture further into the future, human progress – and our kids’ ability to move out of the house…
Florida’s Congressional districts were redrawn last year after the Florida Supreme Court sided with plaintiffs who claimed that districts were gerrymandered to favor Republicans and incumbents. But as early voting starts today for the August 30 primary, one Broward woman wants to expose the struggle to find a District 23…
On Sunday, the battle for Florida’s 23rd congressional district/proxy war between the Democratic Party establishment and Bernie bros hit live TV. Six-term congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and primary challenger Tim Canova faced off in a televised debate on CBS4 Miami. The most memorable, and perhaps most telling moment was a piece…
“TRUMP IS DADDY AS FUCK,” the Indian-looking guy in a Family Guy T-shirt was yelling. Like everyone else at the Fort Lauderdale Trump rally, he had a “Make America Great Again” sign in his lap. But something seemed off. I tapped him on the shoulder. “Are you here like…ironically?” I…
Last night, Hillary Clinton graced an undisclosed Miami Beach location with a $50,000-a-plate dinner hosted by sugar tycoon Alfonso Fanjul. This morning, as the dust from Clinton’s motorcade settles over South Florida, New Times examines a few of the candidate’s biggest local donors. The names come from a recently released list…
Back in 1995, when Hazelle Rogers, a Jamaica native, ran for a spot on the Lauderdale Lakes city commission, she was the first Caribbean-American to seek public office in Broward County. She lost by two votes, in part because she struggled to find donors who would back her campaign. The…
It’s May 13, just after 6:30 p.m., and a grimy Fort Lauderdale Denny’s reeks of cooking grease and industrial disinfectant when Tim Canova busts through the door. He’s trailed by a small team of handlers. An audience of about 20 ACLU members awaits him at a banquet table and surrounding…
Last week, the Palm Beach elections supervisor raised eyebrows when she decided to move a polling station from a mosque to a library, apparently caving to complaints from Islamophobic residents. But it seems like there’s also a prejudice at work against synagogues at the Palm Beach county elections office. In…
Florida’s unconstitutional plan to limit abortion might have killed a Palm Beach County teen program focusing on drop-out prevention. To keep the program running, program officials scrambled to re-do contracts by the July 1 deadline. To comply with the new restrictions, they cut Planned Parenthood out of the budget to…
On January 6, the Coalition for Trump Victory Cruise is scheduled to set sail from Miami to the Bahamas. The organizer is Robert Jeter, an oil rig worker who lives in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The 43-year-old also volunteers as executive director of the Coalition for Trump, a grassroots campaign that’s…
