Everyone in Miami-Dade County can sigh a breath of relief! Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez has saved the day! There will be no further cuts to services and personnel, no more “sacrifices” asked of our loyal county employees, no more library closings. In fact, 10 of the 20-some libraries closed two days a week will […]
Nothing really happened when Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez swore to tell the whole truth and then testified in court that he was, indeed, a loanshark charging illegal interest rates in a shadow banking industry ruled by Hialeah politicians. He was either past the statute of limitations or granted immunity for his testimony against former […]
State Rep. David Richardson is delaying his bid for the Florida Senate seat in the best indication so far that rumors of Sen. Gwen Margolis‘ retirement are greatly exaggerated. Richardson (D-Miami Beach) may have bee under the impression in January that Margolis was not going to run for re-election when he opened an account for the […]
State Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) wants to know what the Sunshine State spent fighting equal marriage rights for the past several years. Richardson wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday and asked for “a full accounting” of the amount of taxpayer money and resources her office spent on numerous appeal to prohibit gay marriage — until […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado — who in March became the first and, so far, only challenger to incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez — has been calling the mayor out for months on a number of issues. She sued him on the value adjustment board and the $9 million in public funds going to Skyrise Miami. She […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi played the class clown in council chambers for about an hour Wednesday night at a special call meeting where the council later asked for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the mayor’s very own hit-and-run crash last month. “I ask God to protect all the council members and help […]
The Miami Lakes Council — as incredulous to Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi‘s story about his hit and run accident as the rest of us — will have a special meeting this afternoon to discuss getting an independent, third party investigation to look into whether or not there was a police cover up. Pizzi, who was […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez apologized profusely for the “past miscalculations” that caused sudden, big increases in taxes for property owners in 234 special taxing districts that pay for extra street lights, security and other neighborhood amenities. And then he admitted that some of the special taxing district property owners have been paying for […]
By ALEX FERNANDEZ and ROBERT WOLFARTH Two weeks ago we stood on the steps of the Supreme Court for one final picture as single men right before our US Representative, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, united us as married Americans. We were full of jubilee and excited — in part out of relief that the justices had […]
Among the $43.3 million in Miami-Dade projects vetoed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott was $5 million in state funds designated for Florida International University’s ambitious expansion plans. And we should give Scott props for that one. Because ity was premature. Because the expansion plans are contingent upon the Dade County Youth Fair organization, which has a […]