Redistricting and the upcoming legislative sessions are the topics listed for discussion when the Women’s Republican Club of Miami Federated has Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen speak at Monday’s meeting. But how much you wanna bet the Iran deal, which both are against, will be the main focus of the night? The meeting […]
Qualifying ended Friday for the Nov. 3 Miami Beach elections and there were no surprise last minute hopefuls jumping into the ring. But we do have four full races with 12 candidates. There was high speculation that Mayor Philip Levine, who has become vulnerable in the last months of his first term, might draw a […]
Coral Gables has a police chief and it is Ed Hudak. All is well with the world. Or at least the micro world that is the City Beautiful. Hudak, who has been serving as interim chief since last Sept. 11 was made the permanent chief exactly a year later on Friday after City Manager Cathy […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust issued another couple of slaps on the wrists Wednesday, further convincing critics and watchdogs who wish it had more teeth that it is woefully incapable of handling the 305’s level of unethical behavior. Other than the occasional negligible fines that are worked into the “cost of doing […]
Looking ever more like a would-be mayoral candidate, Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez released the second TV video ad this week in which he attacks Mayor Carlos Gimenez on a number of issues. Last week, it was transportation and the fact that Gimenez uses funds from the People’s Transportation Trust bond to subsidize transit operating expenses. […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine officially launched his re-election campaign last week with an email to his supporters, bragging about all he has done, boasting that he’s cleaned up City Hall, and saying that he will again fund his own campaign. I guess he forgot that the now defunct and still shady Relentless for Progress […]
The heat has turned up in recent days as GOP presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Donald Trump hone in on each other with recent jabs and attacks. But Trump is getting a lot more traction on his hits, thanks to his copious use of social media. Meanwhile, if Team Jeb wants to know why they […]
Maybe he just doesn’t care anymore, now that he is slipping in the polls. Maybe he practiced. But Jeb Bush sure seemed more comfortable Tuesday night on the much anticipated return of the Late Show with new host Stephen Colbert than he was weeks ago on the Jimmy Fallon show. Heck, he even gave a shout […]
He’s a Marine. A state legislator. A husband and father and a public adjuster. And now, State Rep. Frank Artiles (R-Country Walk) wants to be a bear killer. Among the nearly 2,000 permits pulled for the two-day Florida bear hunt being allowed for the first time in more than 20 years this October, is one […]
Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson announced Thursday that he was going to close down the shady Relentless for Progress political action committee he chairs and has been championing and defending for months. He says he will return whatever is left of the $1.4 million they had collected as of the end of July on a […]