Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has already shaken up the city quite a bit with his power grabs and grandstanding as the new boss in town — has introduced legislation that would limit the citizens ability to recall their elected officials to once per elected per year. This comes at the same […]
If you want to partake in the March presidential primary, you’ve got one day left to register to vote. Tuesday is the last day to register for the first time or change parties for the March 17 primary election in Florida. And because Monday is President’s Day, and the Miami-Dade Elections Department is closed, that […]
Miami-Dade Police last month recovered a stolen excavating tractor from a property on Krome Avenue owned by the new and improved Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. The $117,000 tractor, owned by Earth Movers in Homestead, was stolen from a construction site at Southwest 136th Street and 157th Avenue between about 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, […]
Who is the city manager of Miami? That’s what everybody wants to know. Officially, it is still Emilio Gonzalez, who resigned last month after Commissioner Joe Carollo accused him of fudging the permit for his deck and tried to fire him. Instead, the commission voted for the auditor general to investigate and immediately after that, […]
The grudge match between Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo and Mayor Francis Suarez — a Hatfields and McCoys style family feud that goes back more than two decades — ratcheted up a notch or two at the commission meeting Tuesday. And it may have pushed Suarez to back the recall effort against his (or his dad’s) arch […]
It seems everybody knew who the new papi on the Miami City Commission would be even before the runoff last November. Former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla only got 39% of the vote Nov. 5 — but it was almost 18 points higher than the number two guy. So the writing was on the Allapattah walls. […]
The organizers of the recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood in front of City Hall and cameras and the world at an eagerly-promoted press conference Tuesday morning and pretty much showed they don’t know what they’re doing. They’ve got the passion, but they’ve been running around like chickens with no heads. And no […]
South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but he won anyway when his hand-picked replacement (read: puppet) Sally Philips took 34% of the vote in a five-way race to become the new mayor. Philips is lucky there is no runoff (don’t listen to the Miami Herald because they got it wrong) because the […]
Former Mayor Alex Penelas has collected more than $3 million between his campaign account and his political action committee and his publicists think it’s such a good thing they sent out a press release (that they can bill for, of course). It’s not so great once everyone learns where the money is coming from. “Miami-Dade […]
But some voters seem scared to sign the petitions A mobile billboard with Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s face and a phone number to join the recall effort made its way around Little Havana streets Saturday and passed by the Barrios event on 5th Avenue that Carollo was supposed to attend. But one of the organizers […]