Update: In his brief presser Wednesday afternoon, Rubio told reporters that he would do everything in his power to undo President Obama’s plans to thaw relations with Cuba, including opening a U.S. embassy in Havana. “This entire policy shift announced today is based on an illusion, based on a lie,”…
And here we go… After months of speculation and hinting and non answers, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced on Tuesday morning that he’s starting an exploratory run for the Presidency of the United States of America. As all pols do nowadays, Bush took to social media to announce his…
While the current Florida governor is doing everything he can to hide his email exchanges, one former Florida governor just released a bunch of his to the public. And there can really be only one reason anyone would do this: so that he can be transparent as he gets ready…
Evan Rowe is an adjunct professor of history at Broward College. See Update at end of text. There were two arrests. It just so happens that Christmas 2014 is coinciding with social tensions over both police brutality and treatment of the homeless population. That should make for an interesting scene…
The City of Lake Worth has accepted the request of an atheist to give a “Satanic” invocation before an upcoming commission meeting. Atheist and blogger Chaz Stevens sent his request to the city last week, after news broke that Lake Worth’s mayor and a few commissioners had walked out during…
Tallahassee attorney Seven Andrews has been on a crusade to prove that Gov. Rick Scott used his private Gmail account to circumvent around Florida’s public records law. Andrews convinced the courts to have Google subpoenaed to turn over basic information about Scott’s private email accounts. And now, just a couple…
Last year, Deerfield Beach activist, blogger, and self-proclaimed “militant atheist” Chaz Stevens made headlines when he put up a Festivus pole in the Florida Capitol rotunda. Now Florida officials have approved Stevens’ request to put up the pole in the rotunda again this year. Last year’s pole — which was…
Back in May of 2011, Rick Scott signed into law a bill requiring that Florida’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) welfare recipients pass a drug test. That’s right. Scott wanted poor people needing government assistance to first piss into a cup before begin granted said assistance. This, in turn,…
Rick Scott is saying he actually won the Hispanic vote over Charlie Crist in November, contradicting most exit polls that reported Crist had won the Hispanic vote by double digits. According to Scott’s own internal polling, Crist won only 49 to 47 percent among Hispanics, which differs greatly from the…
Donald Trump can’t stop blaming President Obama for every little terrible thing that happens in America. But now the sometimes-Palm Beach resident is saying Obama is to blame for the rioting that’s been going on in Ferguson since a St. Louis grand jury announced it would not indict police officer…
For a while now, Tallahassee attorney Seven R. Andrews has been trying to prove that Gov. Rick Scott has used his private Gmail account to circumvent his way around Florida’s public records law. Andrews even asked the courts to have Google to turn over basic information about Scott’s private email…
With the rest of the nation still reeling over a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown on August 9 and the ensuing Ferguson riots following Monday night’s announcement, South Florida has been relatively quiet. While other cities…
Following the shooting on FSU’s campus Wednesday night, Gov. Rick Scott released a statement saying that prayers were with the families and loved ones of the students and victims. It was a timely release, one that every governor should put out following a tragedy like this. The statement mentioned the…
Democratic rainmaker and columnist James Carville on Tuesday penned a column for the insidery political paper The Hill. The article attacked Florida State University and its ties to libertarian sugar daddies the Koch Brothers. Fair point, though the timing was unfortunate — not the greatest day to attack FSU. On…
Aaron Jackson, a CNN Hero and president of the nonprofit Planting Peace, is starting a crowd-funding campaign to open a food truck outside City Hall — essentially giving a delicious middle finger to Fort Lauderdale’s controversial homeless food-sharing regulations. This isn’t just another food truck to serve tacos or gelato,…
Today, Fort Lauderdale votes to declare this National Homeless and Hunger Awareness Week. That’s an anemic response to weeks of protest from a city that has made headlines for passing laws regulating how its homeless can be fed. Its main shelter features only 230 temporary beds. But the county has…
With the midterm election dust settling and political donors and insiders getting ready to do it all all over again in a couple of years, Marco Rubio has decided to go all-in without actually making any kind of announcement of a 2016 run at the White House by releasing a…
Activists Stopped From Feeding the Homeless in Fort Lauderdale from Voice Media Group on Vimeo.Ninety-year-old Arnold Abbott may have grabbed international attention last week when he defied a new ordinance designed to restrict the feeding of homeless people, but other activist groups are just warming up. Jillian Pim, 30, from…
Election Day’s coast-to-coast drubbing of Democratic candidates may have party leaders reeling elsewhere, but Florida’s blue brigade is at home with adversity, having endured minority status in the state Legislature for almost two decades. See also: – Rick Scott Is Governor Again Because Broward Didn’t Show Up at the Polls…
Rick Scott was able to win his reelection bid by 1 percentage point. Amendment 2 fell short by 3 percentage points. As predicted for months, the midterm election races in Florida ended up razor-thin close in the end. And thanks to lower-than-average turnout in Broward County, those races were ultimately…
OK. This is it. The polls have closed, and it’s time to tally up them votes. After all the handshakes and ads and campaigning and the spending of millions upon millions of dollars, the time has finally come to announce who the winners are in Florida’s midterm election. We could…
