With about two weeks to go before absentee or mail-in ballots are sent to voters, residents in West Kendall got back-to-back mailers Friday and Saturday pushing for the re-election of Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Not from her campaign. Not from her political action committee, Our Democracy. The mailers came from the Florida Democratic Party […]
Survey is out — just as the mayor faces re-election Affordable housing? Traffic? Well-paying jobs? Finding reliable child care or elderly programs? How about all of the above? Miami-Dade County wants to know what residents need and/or lack most and are working with the Florida International University Jorge M. Perez Metropolitan Center to conduct the […]
The first mailer for Miami-Dade School Board District 7 went out last week, for Mary Blanco, an incumbent who has never gotten a vote in her life because she was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The ad touts endorsements from Lt. Gov. Jeannett Nuñez and Sen. Marco Rubio, because she is a political appointment, after […]
Ruling says it was part of his job Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz on Thursday dismissed the civil lawsuit against former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — who faces 14 political corruption charges on an unrelated case — in the alleged shakedown of the Rickenbacker Marina owner in 2020. She said in her […]
Updated: The Miami-Dade Elections Department has rejected close to 13,000 petitions — or an overwhelming majority of signatures — collected by the Accountable Coral Gables group to put three questions on the November ballot. And something smells fishy. The political action committee, chaired by Mayor Vince Lago‘s ally and former candidate Alex Bucelo, turned in […]
A trapeze artist in a war with the county who is running a symbolic mayoral campaign against Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava was told last week that he can’t have his nickname on the ballot because it “is being used to mislead voters.” Miguel “El Skipper” Quintero has gone by that name for years, he […]
Suspended elected is charged with healthcare fraud The Hialeah Council is poised to appoint someone to replace Councilwoman Angelica Pacheco, who was arrested last week on healthcare fraud charges and on Tuesday became the latest Miami-Dade elected to be suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis. And wannabes are already jockeying for pole position. Mayor Esteban Bovo […]
Former Miami-Dade School Board Member Martin Karp, who is running again (who knew?), crashed a candidate forum Wednesday that was hosted by Hayley Ross, who is running in the same district vacated by Lucia Baez-Geller, who is running for Congress, and has been campaigning since the beginning of the year. Karp, who filed two weeks […]
Long-delayed developments on Watson Island are back on the drawing board and two new projects could go before voters on the November ballot. Miami city commissioners will consider on Thursday two new plans for the small isle on the MacArthur Causeway, which connects Miami to Miami Beach. One of them would change the proposal for […]
Round 2 mayoral group has incumbent Daniella Levine Cava confirmed Absent from the first mayoral forum presented by the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations last week, incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has confirmed that she will speak at a follow-up event next week. So will Alex Otaola, the actor and podcaster who is running […]