The 2018 Florida ballot measure to restore voting rights to most felons was literally years in the making. Amendment 4's biggest champion — Desmond Meade, a former Miami resident and executive director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition — started gathering petition signatures across the state in 2012.
The amendment passed with 65 percent voter approval from across the political spectrum. But state... [...]
It's not clear whether former Vice President Joe Biden will run for president in 2020. But something else is apparent: He's making money by keeping the public guessing. He pocketed a $150,000 speaking fee for a January trip to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, according to newly unearthed public records.
Biden visited Fort Lauderdale, arguably home to America's most important concentration of establishment... [...]
Bal Harbour plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer says a lot of outlandish things.
Salzhauer, who was known as "Dr. Schnoz" before his reality TV debut as "Dr. Miami," has fought code enforcement officers in Bay Harbor Islands by declaring "sovereign immunity as a king."He says there's nothing wrong with sending 7-year-olds under the knife for cosmetic procedures.
He's offered free plastic surgery... [...]
Reflecting on her assault 12 years ago, 41-year-old Wanda Gomez said she did not know if she was going to make it out alive. She had been stabbed multiple times by an angry ex-boyfriend, she said.
Her attacker, who was also a co-worker, had been kicked out of her home after he was accused of sexually assaulting Gomez's school-age daughter. With her assailant at large, authorities advised Gomez, a mother of seven who made $13 an hour as a... [...]
Arguably the most important rule for visiting South Beach is this: Watch out for overzealous towing companies. Tow companies for years have preyed on unsuspecting tourists and residents alike — in 2013, New Timeswrote in a longform feature that Miami Beach's towing companies were orchestrating a "decades-long, politically sanctioned operation to hold people's cars for ransom for hundreds of dollars" and were raking in... [...]
