For several hours this past Saturday, protestors closed down Wilton Drive and Oakland Park Boulevard with an anti-Trump demonstration. It drew many members of the local LGBTQ community. Unsurprisingly, given that the protest took place in the heart of Wilton Manors’ gay community, there was little pushback — although some…
Emboldened by the President-elect’s crusade to make America great again (for white people), Donald Trump’s followers seem to be celebrating the election by harassing minorities. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that the number of hateful incidents toward immigrants, Muslims, women, blacks, and LGBTQ folks (including swastika vandalism) has spiked since…
The town of Palm Beach has long been the kind of place where you go to get away from traffic jams and sign-waving socialists. Tall hedges, guarded gates, and a rigid social code make it easy for the town’s residents (average per capita income: $109,219 per year) to avoid engaging with concepts like…
Like many Americans, last Tuesday I found myself first in shock and then in fear for our country and the civil liberties we cherish. This was because of how the campaign of President-elect Donald Trump stoked racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic fears, promising polices that, if enacted, would be…
Thousands took to the downtown Fort Lauderdale streets Sunday night to protest the hatred and bigotry that President-Elect Donald Trump represents. Though it was a mostly peaceful demonstration, there was some conflict with a few pro-Trump counterprotesters. They were allegedly carrying a banner and chanting “Build a wall!” and “Hillary…
With Rick Scott finally reaching his term limit in 2018, we’re already hearing talk of who might potentially succeed him. One name, however, is notably absent: Armando Christian Perez, AKA Pitbull. It’s hard to make the argument that anyone could hold Pitbull’s song lyrics against him when half the country (and…
As the shock of Hillary Clinton’s defeat settles in, it’s easy to feel powerless and hopeless. Though her supporters weren’t able to keep Trump’s backers from showing up to the polls in record numbers, it’s crucial…
Let’s get this out of the way first: November 9 was a terrible day for Florida. We decided that a man who once starred in a stuffed-crust pizza commercial was more presidential than the former secretary of state and voted to give Marco Rubio his job back despite the…
Broward is Florida’s largest Democratic county. The day after election night will surely be a somber one as residents pluck their “Clinton-Kaine” and “I’m With Her” signs from their yards. But at least one person in the county is celebrating. After Donald Trump fired him on The Apprentice 12 years…
Over the weekend, Donald Trump supporters showed up at early voting sites in West Palm Beach. Videos show them at the West Palm Beach Supervisor of Elections office shouting with bullhorns at voters and breaching the 100-foot electioneering line mandated by Florida law. It got so bad that the Palm…
As election day (and the possibility of ending up with an orange-faced, pussy-grabbing baboon as president) nears, a new Tinder-like app is bringing Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein supporters together. It’s called #NeverTrump, and it pairs Hillary Clinton supporters in blue states with Jill Stein supporters in swing states so they can swap votes to…
Delray Beach Mayor Cary Glickstein made an entrance at Tuesday night’s commission. He was wearing a shaggy blond wig and a red cap that read “Make America Great Again” — except “America” had been crossed out and “Delray” had been scribbled above it. The audience chuckled and snapped photos. Glickstein didn’t break…
At 4 p.m. yesterday, three white men cheered for Donald Trump outside the Hillary Clinton rally at Delevoe Memorial Park, near Sistrunk. They held signs calling Hillary a liar and stating that she belongs in prison. It was a demonstration organized by Shalom International, a Jewish group led by controversial activist Bob Kunst.
Whether you are a nasty woman or a bad hombre, this election cycle has been some kind of joke. And soon the electorate will deliver its punch line. “GOP, you’re fired!” Though the boundless bizarre badinage of the presidential race is getting more attention than your 13-year-old cousin on Instagram,…
If you missed last night’s Senate debate between Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy because you were watching the World Series, carving Donald Trump’s face onto a pumpkin, or walking your dog, congratulations, you made the right decision. Murphy attacked Rubio for supporting Donald Trump, Rubio attacked Murphy for being a…
After spending months beefing about where and when they’ll debate, and in what language, Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy will face each other at Broward College tonight for the second — and likely last — time. As New Times reported last week, things aren’t looking good for Rubio right now. Thanks in part to…
In 1985, Marco Rubio spent his early summer living in a small house facing a tepid canal just north of Bird Road in West Kendall. Cages full of squawking macaws filled the acre yard. And a major drug ring stored kilos of cocaine in a spare bedroom, sliced it into…
Since the effects of climate change could drastically blur Florida’s current coastline, many locals say that having a president in the Oval Office who is ready to address the issue and curb its impact on Americans’ lives is not just preferred but necessary.
With the election just two weeks away, things got weird this week — with one survey showing Green Party candidate Jill Stein surging in South Florida and Donald Trump targeting Fort Lauderdale for what some say will be intimidation at the polls. Trump pushed hard this week on claims that…
Donald Trump repeatedly declares that this election has been “rigged” against him and, at Wednesday’s debate, announced that he’d leave the country “in suspense” on whether he would accept its outcome on November 8. Yesterday he said he would only accept the results “if I win.” Now the Guardian reports…
Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential nominee, may poll only 2.5 percent nationally, but locally she has become increasingly appealing for many voters frustrated between their pick of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. When Stein recently toured the Sunshine State, her supporters packed venues to see her speak, and…
In late June, some 2,500 Boca Raton residents received a notice in the mail telling them that they’d be heading to the Islamic Center of Boca Raton to vote in the August primary and November general election. It shouldn’t have been all that noteworthy: churches and synagogues have been used…
