By DARA KAM of THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, July 2, 2014 — Winners of Florida’s five, highly sought-after medical marijuana licenses could be selected through lotteries, according to a draft rule released late Wednesday by the Department of Health.The 16-page document comes in advance of an agency workshop Monday in Tallahassee that is drawing heavy attention.The draft rule, […]
State Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) has nothing to worry about. The Republican candidate that had filed to run against him a week before the deadline June 20, apparently did not have enough funds in her campaign account to cover the $1,781.82 qualifying fee, according to the Florida Division of Elections. Que pena! “CELEBRATION TIME,” […]
While alarms are sounding about reduced services and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez threatens to lay off up to 700 employees — including 250 police officers — to balance the $4.4 billion county operating budget, our commissioners will consider spending close to $100 million just today on everything from engineering to janitorial services to concerts to personal trainers. Can […]
Miami-Dade County commissioners will consider another sweetheart deal Tuesday to lease nearly four acres with a 38,000-square-foot building and a surface parking lot included — for $1 a year. This time, the land grab is not for a millionaire sports team owner. It is the City of Miami Police Department, which wants to use the property at 1701 NW 30th Ave. […]
The Miami-Dade Police sergeant who got caught racking up questionable overtime has not been fired and is not on the list of officers to get canned by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s plan to balance the budget by firing 255 cops. He’s not even getting bumped down a notch. In fact, he was recently transferred to […]
Ladra told you it would backfire. The ridiculous attack on Miami-Dade Commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava for her $50,000-a-year job running a multi-million non-profit social service agency has really gotten more nays and shakings of the heads than concern or applause. Ladra thinks it shows a certain desperation by Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell, who […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and most of his family will not feel the pain that he wants to inflict on the rest of us in the county if and when he cuts 255 officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department. Gimenez lives on the edge of Coconut Grove, across the street from Coral Gables, at […]
The latest attack piece on Miami-Dade Commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava says she made $50,000 a year to head the social services backbone of South Florida, which has a multi-million budget. This is bad? Okay, okay. Maybe Ladra is minimizing it a bit. The web video clip produced by Good Government Now — Commissioner Lynda […]
Don’t write Nan Rich off just yet. There are mailers and emails being sent and phone calls being made on behalf of the gubernatorial candidate most people have already written off as the also-ran No. 3 — former Sen. Nan Rich, a Broward activist and legislator who is widely considered the underdog longshot in the […]
First, he backed the idea on the dais. Then he sent an email pushing for signatures on a petition to “bring the UM Hurricanes home” by having the Major League Soccer stadium located at the Little Havana site where the Miami Marlins live. Now, Miami-Dade Commissioner “Mayor Sir” Xavier Suarez has gone as far as producing […]