GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was a guest on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night, and was given the opportunity to move on from his “birther” status by the late night host — and he turned it down. Before he became the face of the Republican party, and the…
Entering last week’s second GOP Presidential Debate, West Palm Beach’s own Ben Carson was making serious headway. According to a CNN poll, Dr. Carson had surged ahead of fellow Florida and once-favored candidates Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio, shooting into second place behind current frontrunner Donald Trump. Following the first…
Before he was the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination, Donald Trump was one of the most vocal “birthers” out there. In 2012, Trump went so far as to challenge Barack Obama to prove his U.S. citizenship for charity, and demanded the president hand over his college transcripts to prove…
Marco Rubio addressed the climate change issue during last night’s debate by saying that America is not a planet. Sea levels are on the rise, which os predicted to cause great peril to his home state, but Rubio continued to be flip about the environment, kicking off Wednesday night’s GOP…
Lots of things have transpired between the first two GOP Presidential debates. Things that most folks would never dream seeing. And one of those things is that West Palm Beach neurosurgeon Ben Carson has been surging in the polls. In fact, he’s actually lapping other Florida GOP candidates Jeb Bush…
Donald Trump continues to plow ahead in Florida, while Jeb Bush continues to flounder. This according to a new Gravis Marketing poll. But the poll, released on Monday, revealed more bad news for the former governor. Ben Carson has vaulted ahead of Bush, leaving Jeb in third. Gravis polled 1,584…
Everyone loves an underdog; a phrase not exactly true when it comes to the Presidential race, but definitely true if you’re a devout supporter of Bernie Sanders. You-Tube has entire wings dedicated to parody songs, but the Bernie Sanders corner is extra special — people love them some good-old Bern,…
Donald Trump remains ahead of Jeb Bush in just about every poll — and by wide margins. This has been moistly thanks to Trump’s relentless attacks on Bush and the fact that the media can’t stop showing Trump’s face at every turn (guilty!). At every opportunity, Trump has gone for…
On June 26 of this year, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that state-level bans on same-sex marriage — like the one Florida had in place since 2008 — are unconstitutional because they violate the due-process and equality clauses of the 14th Amendment. The ruling, in the case…
We’re officially living in a world where Donald Trump is very likely going to be the GOP nominee. So it might be time to fighting it, and simply become part of the xenophobic rhetoric and the women-hating, and the insults, and get on the Trump bandwagon by showing your support…
Elijah Manley was daydreaming on the school bus again. The Fort Lauderdale High sophomore wasn’t thinking about homework or quizzes but about the 2016 presidential race. That’s when he decided he was going to run for president. Not school president — but president of the United States of America. Annoyed…
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are taking Florida, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, released Thursday morning. More tellingly, despite all his bombast, controversial rhetoric, and Twitter meltdowns, Trump has overtaken Jeb Bush among likely voters in Florida. Bush was at a pretty healthy 20 percent when the poll…
Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon and Florida’s other presidential hopeful, may have told an audience at a rally Wednesday that he is open to drone strikes on U.S. soil to protect the border. Carson appeared in front of thousands at a rally in Phoenix, where he touched on topics such as…
For months, a unit at the Public Storage on Colonial Boulevard in Fort Myers went unclaimed. Though warehouse staff sent several letters to the renter of the space, Maria Gamez, no responses or payments were made. In an effort to clear out the unit so it could be leased by someone…
Anti-abortion activists are calling for a protest at the Planned Parenthood facility at 263 North University Drive, in Pembroke Pines this weekend. The gathering is being headed up by Broward Right to Life & Respect Life in what is being called a National Day of Protest at Planned Parenthood offices and…
A group of 22 Sikh men are on a hunger strike to protest their custody at the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Krome Service Processing Facility, according to Shalini Agarwal, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Miami. Agarwal said the men began the hunger strike on July 25…
Donald Trump had himself a YUUUGE Twitter meltdown following Thursday night’s GOP presidential race. As we boldly predicted in our Florida GOP Debate Drinking Game, Trump went on to declare himself the winner of the debate, and retweeted his horde of supporters who concurred with this opinion. But, as it…
Four presidential candidates from Florida and a bunch of other guys are all set to have the first GOP debate tonight, and it promises to be a doozy. Mainly because there are so many of them — ten candidates in all on stage — and also because of a weird…
Jeb Bush says that he “misspoke” when, as he offered up his opinion that funding for Planned Parenthood should be cut, that women’s health programs as a whole should be scaled back. “I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars in funding for women’s health programs,” Bush told a…
“At first, when I heard the Sandra Bland story, I wasn’t sure if I believed it,” Pam Keith tells New Times. Palm Beach County’s 46-year-old democratic Senate candidate, who lives in Juno Beach, knows how scary it can be to be pulled over by a police officer. She’s a woman…
It’s Friday — but don’t turn off your brains just yet, friends. The National Urban League is holding its annual conference at the Broward County Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale this week, and its culminating event is happening this morning as five presidential hopefuls, including rivals Hillary Clinton and Jeb…
Today there’s a presidential candidate plenary — that’s a fancy word for “big meeting” — in Fort Lauderdale, and five candidates are going to be here to speak, at the Urban League’s national conference. Surely, you’ve already media-overdosed on Clintons and Bushes by now, so here are some deets you…
