Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is 0-4 in his fight to stop the recall effort against him — a fight he wants to take all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, if they let him — after an appeals court denied his motion to keep the petitions in place while the legal process continued. He […]
A group of transit-minded activists and volunteers have compiled the track records and positions on transportation issues for six of the seven Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, and former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas — who created the half-penny sales tax fund that was supposed to expand transit but got misused instead — gets the highest points on […]
There are seven candidates in the Miami-Dade mayor’s race, but, really, we only count four. Three of them are not viable and won’t make much of a dent in the first round Aug. 18. Of the four who are left, two have been coming out on the top of most polls and are expected to […]
The use of absentee or mail-in ballots has always been a concern in Miami-Dade, where veteran campaign consultants have manipulated these votes, particularly with elderly voters, for years. But a month from our first election in the time of COVID19, the Aug. 18 absentee vote will likely break records. According to Deputy Supervisor of Elections […]
As expected — or perhaps as threatened — Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Friday vetoed a county ordinance that revived a civilian review panel for questionable local law enforcement action in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minnesota Police officer. He also wants to deprive voters of the chance to make the Independent Review […]
If it wasn’t decided already, former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas pretty much cinched his way into the mayoral race runoff Wednesday night when he totally aced the Spanish-language mayoral debate on Univision 23, providing viewers with some inkling as to why he is consistently on top in the polls, on the eve before absentee or […]
There are four candidates in the race for Miami-Dade Commission District 7, but unless you live there, you might only think there are two. Or, at the most, three. Former State Rep. and Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner has been battling it out on social media with Kendall activist and Pets’ Trust co-founder Michael Rosenberg, who […]
Former State Rep. and Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner has had her battles on the dais. And now that she is a candidate for county commission in District 7, someone wants to remind us of how rude she can be and the many times she has shut down and insulted residents. A 10-minute montage of video […]
It didn’t take long for PTA president and candidate Nancy Lawther to respond to the post earlier this week about being the proxy for Miami-Dade School Board Member Larry Feldman, who decided not to run and wants to anoint her instead. And to follow his lying footsteps. In a longish note to “members of the […]
Karma is, indeed, a bitch. Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez — who has famously blocked Ladra from events and expelled her and others from council meetings — was himself intercepted and prevented from entering a meeting Tuesday with Gov. Ron DeSantis and several local mayors to discuss ongoing efforts to curb the spread of COVID19 in […]