Former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey quickly has made up any fundraising deficit with his Democratic opponent in the race for the U.S. House seat in District 27 but trails incumbent Maria Elvira Salazar by a large margin. Davey amassed $314,000 since announcing his candidacy in February, compared to $241,000 for former Miami-Dade School Board […]
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DeSantis tweaks Florida book challenge law, falsely blames liberal activists
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has acknowledged that a law he enacted two years ago making it easier for people to challenge books in schools and libraries has caused problems for school districts. He signed a bill Tuesday adjusting the measure. Coincidentally, PEN America released a report Tuesday saying that Florida was responsible for 72% of books pulled during the first half of this school year. While DeSantis blamed the need to change the law on liberal activists making frivolous challenges, Pen America said the vast majority of banned books were the result of conservatives targeting books based on topics such as race, sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Florida voting technology company settles lawsuit against far-right news outlet over 2020 election claims
A voting technology company targeted by bogus fraud claims related to the 2020 presidential election settled a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against a conservative news outlet. The settlement between Florida-based Smartmatic and One America News Network is the latest development in a larger legal pushback by voting equipment companies that became ensnared in wild conspiracy theories falsely claiming […]
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Bob Graham, ex-US senator and Florida governor, dies at 87
Former U.S. Sen. and two-term Florida Gov. Bob Graham, who gained national prominence as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks and as an early critic of the Iraq war, has died. He was 87. Graham’s family announced the death Tuesday in a statement posted on X by […]
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Ignored again: Key Biscayne raised alarms about pending traffic disaster to no avail
After resident Jennifer Stearns Buttrick asked the Key Biscayne Council if a planned repair of the flyovers from the Rickenbacker Causeway could be postponed, Police Chief Frank Sousa followed her out of the chamber at the April 9 meeting. “Chief Sousa knew it was going to be a mess and he told me they tried […]
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Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump assails police shooting of Liberty City man with mental health issues
The police-involved shooting last month of a Black Miami man — whose mother said she called 911 because her son was having a mental health crisis — represents yet another disturbing example of how police officers fail to handle such emergency calls for help and routinely impose criminal charges to justify using lethal force, said Ben Crump, an attorney representing the victim and who has worked on some of the nation’s most racially charged cases.
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Changing course, Florida prosecutor suspended by DeSantis to seek reelection
Changing course, a Democratic Florida prosecutor suspended from office by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will seek reelection while a court battle continues over his 2022 removal from the post. Andrew Warren had said in January he would not run this year. But that was before a federal appeals court ruled that a lower court should consider […]
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Cars abandoned, Winn-Dixie overrun, road refugees seeking shelter. Welcome to Key Biscayne’s traffic apocalypse.
State Rep. Vicki Lopez knew catastrophe was in the making when it took her an hour Sunday afternoon to get from the Rusty Pelican to her Brickell apartment because the flyover ramps from Rickenbacker Causeway were closed for repair. “I understood what a disaster this was going to be once people started coming off the […]
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Rep. Lopez intervened with governor’s office to get lanes open after traffic disaster
After a weekend traffic disaster where thousands of motorists were stranded for several hours, the Florida Department of Transportation on Monday opened up a northbound lane to I-95 from the Rickenbacker Causeway after state Rep. Vicki Lopez intervened with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Office. The southbound lane to U.S. 1 was scheduled to reopen Tuesday once […]
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Traffic meltdown: I-95 flyover closure causes massive Key Biscayne bottlenecks
“It’s bad. We expected it to be bad,” said Police Chief Frank Sousa. “I expect it will be just as bad during the workweek,” he said,