Well, that didn’t take long. Former Miami-Dade Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, who resigned in June amid the spectacular PortMiami/Fisher Island fuel-farm fiasco, has found himself a very comfortable soft landing. And where does a longtime government insider go after decades of running governments and learning exactly how the sausage gets made? Why, into government […]
The most interesting and heated judicial race in Miami-Dade just went nuclear. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz, who is fighting to keep her seat against challenger Destiny Alvarez (aka Destiny Goede) in the election that ends Tuesday, has filed a lawsuit accusing Alvarez, her husband and a network of political committees and consultants of orchestrating […]
Miguel Gabela’s handpicked, unqualified director exits There’s a hastily-called emergency meeting of the Bayfront Park Management Trust at noon Thursday with a single item — to name an interim director now that Raúl Miró, the handpicked and totally unqualified executive director under Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela, has resigned. And just when it was getting good, […]
Because apparently nearly $188,000 a year isn’t enough Just when you thought “Tricky Vicky” had left City Hall behind, she’s back. And she’s got her hand out. Former Miami City Attorney Victoria Méndez, who was unceremoniously shown the door by the City Commission in 2024 after commissioners cited a loss of confidence in her leadership, […]
Most voters head into an election focused on the candidates. Who’s running. Who’s attacking whom. Who’s got the slickest mailer. Who’s promising to save Miami from, well, Miami. Then they get to the bottom of the ballot: Referendums. The part where eyes glaze over and people start filling in bubbles based on instinct, optimism or […]
Rafael Villalobos is the home-grown insider After months of searching far and wide for the best person to lead America’s third-largest school district, the Miami-Dade School Board finally reached a stunning conclusion: Maybe we should hire one of our own. In the end, the Board selected Rafael Villalobos, a lifelong Miami-Dade County Public Schools administrator […]
State Rep. Ashley Gantt has a new television ad in her campaign for state senate. And if you didn’t know any better, you’d think she was already running in November. Against Ron DeSantis. Not because the governor is suddenly seeking a seat in the Florida Senate. But because Gantt’s latest campaign commercial spends its time […]
Bring ideas. Just don’t expect to rewrite the budget. It’s that magical time of year again. The time when Miami-Dade County packs up the PowerPoint presentation, loads the pie charts into the county SUV and heads out on its annual neighborhood listening tour to ask residents what they’d like to see in next year’s budget. […]
For Democrats dreaming of finally knocking off Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar next November, the first order of business is getting through what has quietly become one of South Florida’s most interesting Democratic primaries. Forget the national cable chatter. The real drama is happening right here in Congressional District 27, where two very different Democrats […]
Well. After more than 30 years of covering South Florida politics, countless investigations, thousands of stories, angry phone calls, screaming matches, threats, dozens of cease-and-desist letters and promises that “you’ll be hearing from my lawyer,” it finally happened. An elected official sued me. Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela has filed a defamation lawsuit over one Political […]