In defense of an ethics complaint against him for a TV attack ad in his campaign for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser, State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez — who must know himself that he is losing the race — said, en alta voz y con orgullo in a TV news interview that he can lie because, well, it […]
I’m surprised it’s not in a mailer already, but look for one in which proponents of the new courthouse tax on the ballot Nov. 4 say the building is unsafe because of the asbestos. That’s one of the arguments made by former U.S. Attorney Roberto Martinez, who went on This Week in South Florida earlier […]
Members of the PBA bargaining unit will meet again with Miami-Dade Human Resources Director Arlene Cuellar today to try to reach an agreement on the contract with the Miami-Dade Police employees, both sworn and civilian. But already it looks like things are going better than before — if only because they are talking and this […]
It’s homecoming season in the high school world and it looks like Coral Gables is getting ready to crown Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark their own queen. Swanson — who was the city’s economic development director before leaving to Hollywood, where she is now manager — was at Human Resources Monday to be fingerprinted, the only one of […]
UPDATED: Miami Beach Commissioner Ed Tobin, who is termed out in 2015 and has always wanted to be a police officer when he grows up, is asking his colleagues to waive the two year requirement before he can apply to the city’s police force. Tobin has requested a discussion on the matter at Wednesday’s meeting […]
On any given day of the week, morning or afternoon, you can turn your radio dial and hear either Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez and county commissioners speaking to the masses. While it’s not equal time, now the county cops want to reach an audience, too. The Dade County Police Benevolent Association launched its […]
Even though he was always kind of one foot in, one foot out, Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is giving up on his idea of running for Miami-Dade mayor in 2016 or 2020. Or turning in another direction, that is. That’s because he now wants to be named president of the University of Miami. Donna […]
FIU president Mark Rosenberg will speak to a group of builders and developers at the Latin Builders Association’s monthly luncheon today, at which the LBA will give the school’s expansion project and the referendum before voters that would be needed to allow them to use the space currently used by the Dade County Youth Fair […]
Round two in the search for a new Coral Gables City Manager has produced a few interesting names that seem head and shoulders above the candidates on the last shortlist — which ended in a fiasco when the commission picked a guy who later did not pass a general background check. Among them: Former Miami-Dade […]
He must be desperate. And it’s not like State Rep. Eddy “Here Comes Hialeah” Gonzalez can actually run on his own track record in his bold (read: WTF?) attempt to become the most unqualified ever Miami-Dade Property Appraiser. So Gonzalez — who came in 10 points behind former Property Appraiser Pedro Garcia in the August primary — […]