The $65 million “change order” on Wednesday’s transportation committee agenda is really a consolation prize for Odebrecht USA, who has been working with the Miami-Dade Aviation Department for more than six years on the development of Airport City — which is now never going to happen. That’s right. Airport City isn’t stalled. It’s dead. It’s […]
The bond referendum for the Miami-Dade Courthouse tax failed miserably last week, but Cielito Lindo is still in deplorable conditions and there are still health and safety hazards that need to be addressed. Maybe it just needs to be shut down. That’s what Commissioner Juan “El Zorro” Zapata is going to suggest at Wednesday’s public […]
Voters in Opa-Locka overwhelmingly passed term limits with 73% of the vote last week, restricting commissioners to two four-year terms — and unlike most term limit measures, this one goes retroactive. But Commissioner Timothy Holmes, who has been in office for 20 years, or five terms — and could very well be the poster child for […]
It happened again. Every time there is any kind of legal or recognized holiday, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez and most of the commissioners send out mass produced greetings and well wishes to the employees who have email. And it’s getting on their nerves. “One thing would be if it were authentic. But it’s […]
“Javierrrr Correosoooo, one-time aide to former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera… you just helped beat the medical marijuana constitutional amendment that everybody originally thought was a sure thing! What are you going to do next?” Disney World? Nope. “I’m going to Iowa,” Correoso told Ladra, referring to the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Correoso was riding […]
In what seems like the natural response to a growing organic momentum, Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado gave a strong indication Monday on Miami’s increasingly influencing Gray Zone radio program that she would run for county mayor against incumbent Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez in 2016. While she officially repeated that she is looking […]
The hire Friday of Cathy Swanson Rivenbark as the new Coral Gables city manager could be the best news the City Beautiful has had in months. The former head of the city’s Economic Development department — and mother of the Coral Gables Farmer’s Market — left the city to be assistant city manager in Hollywood. […]
Our returned weekly feature is heavy today with political photos from the field on the Super Bowl for politicians and political beings alike: Election Day. Blessed with some beautiful weather, thousands of people voted on Tuesday, adding to absentee ballots and early voters that cast a total of 529,867 ballots — which is a whopping […]
Run, Raquel! Run! That’s the sentiment among many political observers, junkies and activists in the 305 — and probably thousands of voters — about Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado, whose profile has risen sharply in the last few weeks but says she is undecided about running for mayor of Miami-Dade. Her recent victory over […]
Our only relief is that he’ll be a one-term congressman. Carlos “Crubaby” Curbelo‘s predictable defeat of Congressman Joe Garcia Tuesday night in one of the ugliest and most expensive campaigns in Florida history is not the huge accomplishment that he’s going to boast it is. After all, the numbers were there for whoever went against […]