State investigators say millions went missing from two narcotics funds controlled by former Hialeah Police Chief Sergio Velazquez, including seized cash from drug investigations.
Reason confirmed reports of dysfunction and violence at one of those detention centers earlier this week.
John Moore and Tanner Mansell were convicted of theft after they freed sharks they erroneously thought had been caught illegally.
Half the elevators at Federal Detention Center Miami are broken. Immigrant detainees are kept on lockdown, and lawyers can barely reach their clients.
In Operation Fool Around and Find Out, 244 "human trafficking" arrests, but no human trafficking.
During one week in February, arrests of homeless people accounted for 66 percent of all arrests in Miami Beach.
“Between the cost of labor and the inputs that goes in, it’s more cost-effective for farmers” to plow over ripe tomatoes, said one expert.
Microschools are giving educators the freedom to innovate. Regulators need to get out of the way.
Protections apply even when the animal is on your property and getting closer.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker says Upside Foods has plausibly alleged that the law's protectionism violates the "dormant" Commerce Clause.
These bills would require exactly that—and a lot more.
“I am here to break the law,” Marcy Rheintgen said after being given a trespass warning.
The Sunshine State is considering a bill that would expand protections for law enforcement officers who use deadly force or cause great bodily harm.
Bureaucrats in Dunedin, Florida, originally hit Jim Ficken with a fine close to $30,000. When he couldn't pay that, things turned dire.
Plus: Untenable in Tampa, Cinderella didn't show up for March Madness, TGL, and more.
The attempt to retaliate against a cinema for screening a documentary on the Israel-Palestine conflict drew national condemnation from civil rights groups and filmmakers.
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner says "disseminating antisemitism" in a taxpayer-owned building is "unjust to the values of our city and residents and should not be tolerated."
The St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum claims to house more than 800 authentic pirate artifacts.
The president said a Florida school "secretly socially transitioned" a 13-year-old. Emails suggest otherwise.
The authors of a picture book about two male penguins raising a chick together argue excluding their book from school libraries violates their free speech rights.
Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s assault on "Big Tech censorship" aims to override editorial decisions protected by the First Amendment.
Is Florida forgetting that the First Amendment applies there too?
When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis banned cultivated meat, Reason's Zach Weissmueller visited California labs to try cultivated chicken and salmon and explore the future of this industry.
When regulations limit what kind of housing can be built, the result is endless arguments about what people really want.
Pam Bondi cracked down on "pill mills" in Florida. The result was increased consumption of black-market alternatives.
The Department of Homeland Security is watching men who are mad they can’t get girlfriends.
Milton Friedman once observed that you can't have open immigration and a welfare state. He was mostly right.
The president’s ban on offshore oil and gas drilling perfectly encapsulates his top-down legacy on energy.
Federal prosecutors argued that John Moore and Tanner Mansell stole property when they hauled in a fishing line they mistakenly believed had been set by poachers.
Capping state and local tax deductions sparked a tax migration that rewarded pro-growth states. Raising the cap now would stall reform where it’s needed most.
American history is often a story of people leaving to try to build their voluntary utopias.
The attorney general nominee's record as a drug warrior epitomizes the predictably perverse consequences of prohibition.
If funding were approved, St. Petersburg residents would have been on the hook for a new stadium for one of baseball’s least attended teams.
The nominee for attorney general passes the Trump loyalty test, but he lacks relevant experience and has repeatedly demonstrated poor judgment.
Despite a few bright spots, the disappointing returns suggest that the road to pharmacological freedom will be rockier than activists hoped.
Most of these weren't close calls at all.
A majority of the state's voters said yes to Amendment Three, but that wasn't enough to clear the 60 percent threshold required to pass a Florida ballot initiative.
The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics in Massachusetts.
The groups are challenging a Florida law that bans some teens from social media.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
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