Good news, Florida, you’re number one in something that doesn’t have to do with concealed weapons, or people who get arrested for shooting themselves in the penis! The state announced on Monday that Florida has begun the new year with a 7.8 percent unemployment rate, which is the lowest since…
Last week Marco Rubio spoke at the GOPers Paradise To Complain About The Black Fella, Them Freeloadin’ Poor People, And Don’t Touch My AK-47-Palooza (or CPAC, for short) where he basically told everyone that denying gay people simple civil rights doesn’t at all make him a bigot, and that global…
The days of using your welfare card to make it rain on the fine ladies dancing on the pole, and then getting yourself some booze, will soon be a thing of the past. That is, if House Bill 701 becomes a law. You’re just going to have to get a…
Give Marco Rubio a break, you guys. Sure he opposes gays from having the same rights as straights in every possible way imaginable, including the right to marry the person you’re in love with and the right to not get fired over your preference of whom you choose to sleep…
On Monday afternoon, a Senate select committee rejected moving forward with an expansion of the Medicaid program under the federal Affordable Care Act, even after Gov. Rick Scott expressed a desire to see it expanded and even though state hospitals and businesses wanted to see it expanded and even though…
New Times rarely makes calls at an early hour. Especially on a Monday morning. But this morning, after we got hold of an unusual police report starring an even more startling character, we dialed up Bruce Augello, a candidate for Coconut Creek Commission, who’d apparently bit his wife after she…
Today is International Women’s Day! Yes, it’s the one day of the year we allow the dames to come out of the kitchen or put the baby down so we can recognize them for all the lady things they do. We love you, ladies. You’re real swell. But because it’s…
Look, you guys. It’s not so much that Jeb Bush is out of step with everyone else on immigration reform or that he’s a complete flip-flopping dolt. It’s just that he has horrible timing. And, as Jeb! points out himself, people were totally against the whole “path to citizenship” thing…
Voter fraud in Florida? OH DO TELL. Two ex-employees of Strategic Allied Consulting, which the GOPers hired to register voters prior to the November elections, were charged with a third-degree felony after they admitted they forged voter-registration forms, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. And while the GOPers…
The Florida Legislative sessions got kicked off this week, and since this is Florida, there’s no lack of fodder to get super riled up about and make loud angry noises and be an anonymous tough guy in the comments sections of blogs and on Twitter. Lawmakers will look at and…
Former Florida Gov. (and little brother ta Dubya) Jeb Bush has been making the rounds on morning television shows to talk about his new book, which, COINCIDENTALLY, happens to be about probably the most important issue that will preoccupy us all from now until 2016. Imergration, y’all! But, as it…
Following a scathing judgment concerning a defamation lawsuit in Miami court last month barring a prominent Haitian-American journalist, Leo Joseph, from printing the name of the Haitian prime minister, Joseph has vowed to fight the ruling, calling it another manifestation of the politician’s corruption. Last August, Joseph published a series…
Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquadro, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event — a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Chelsea Clinton, and…
Earlier this week, Rick Scott decided a tweet just wasn’t enough. Nor was a Facebook message. Nor an email. Rick instead did something wild. He wrote a letter, slapped a stamp on it, and shipped it across the land to Barack Obama in the White House using something called the…
Tuesday, March 5, is the first day of the legislative session for Florida lawmakers. And rabble-rousers are not letting it go unnoticed. People affiliated with a progressive group called Awake the State, whose emphasis is on protecting middle-class families, intend to rally at 5 p.m. outside the Supervisor of Elections,…
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta unanimously ruled that a lower court’s decision to halt the enforcement of Rick Scott’s law that forced welfare recipients to take drug tests was good. Back in May 2011, Scott signed into law a bill requiring that Florida’s TANF welfare recipients pass a…
Rick Scott, GOPer champion of Defiance Toward All Things Obummercare was not, would not, could not, wouldn’t, under any circumstances, implement Medicaid if he had anything to say about it. He said Medicaid wouldn’t do anyone any good and even went so far as to give out botched math to…
Rico Petrocelli, the broke Broward Republican chairman, has decided to go all Roberto Duran on us and say no mas. See also: – Rico Petrocelli, Broward County Republican Chairman, Broke as a Bad Joke The Broward Republican Executive Committee issued a statement on Petrocelli’s resignation, while the man himself is…
Shining Beacon of Light Marco Rubio called President Obama’s first draft on immigration reform “dead on arrival” yesterday, saying that the president’s bill “repeats the failures of past legislation” and that the bill will die as soon as it enters the hallowed halls of Congress just like every past, present,…
Marco Rubio reeeaalllyyy wants you to to see that he triumphs over embarrassing this shit out of himself on live-national television in front of millions of viewers tragedy with this whole thirsty talking guy fiasco from last week. First he tweeted out a photo of his Poland Spring water bottle…
Being president is tough. You have to fix everything, congress is constantly blocking every decision you make, and people and news networks accuse you of being a dirty socialist tyrant all the live long day. But then you also get to play golf with Tiger Woods, so it all evens…
Following an apparent “change of circumstances,” a New York County judge awarded temporary full custody of Carole Crist’s two teenaged daughters earlier this month to her ex-husband, Todd Rome, who alleges Florida’s former first lady has abandoned and ignored her daughters for more than two years. The judgment, which Rome read…
