A contract extension approved by the Miami-Dade Commission last month for one of the firm’s involved in the bridge collapse at Florida International University will get another look at the next commission meeting. Commissioners last month approved an 18-month extension for Munilla Construction Management — which is five months into a bankruptcy filing after the March 2018 […]
Operators of the Medley landfill want to go 75 feet higher and keep piling on the trash for 10 years longer than currently planned at their facility, which stinks for miles. And the state was poised to grant the “application for significant modification” — until the city of Doral stepped in. Now, citizens have until Aug. 8 […]
Television journalist Maria Elvira Salazar announced Thursday on twitter and YouTube that she wants a rematch with Congresswoman Donna Shalala, who beat her last November to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who retired more than three decades in office. Salazar lost to Shalala by 6 points, 52 to 46%, and apparently thinks she can […]
If Vice President Joe Biden won Tuesday’s Day 2 of the second Democratic presidential debate, as some argue, then Sen. Elizabeth Warren won on Wednesday. Biden was on defense all night — blocking left, dodging right. He was hit on healthcare, on race, on immigration. He stammered and stopped several times, failed to seize opportunities […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who is running for mayor and unveiled her first TV campaign commercial during the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami last month, was not the only local candidate to take advantage of the huge audience. Another local candidate also aired the first ad of his campaign during the debate. No, […]
Since State Rep. Ana Maria Rodriguez (R-Doral) switched earlier this month from the House District she won last year to the state senate seat currently occupied by termed-out Anitere Flores (R-Kendall), HD105 has become another coveted open state contest in 2020. So, it already has attracted not one, not two, but three failed state rep wannabes […]
The first day of the second Democratic debate seemed like a bad Thanksgiving dinner at the home of a dysfunctional family who are going to all love each other again come Christmas. And like a dress rehearsal for Day 2. How unfair is it that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Julian Castro get to […]
Just because the second Democratic primary debate isn’t in Miami doesn’t mean that Miami isn’t into the debate. In fact, there are almost as many watch parties to choose from as there are candidates. So get together with friends and like-minded voters to watch Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders finally get into it on Day […]
The fix is in at the largest community college in the nation. They couldn’t change the rules and requirements in the middle of the search for a new president, so the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees — which is rumored to have a former Republican lawmaker-turned-lobbyist in mind for the job — scrapped the […]
Just who paid for those t-shirts and bus rides? Updated with corrected and additional information: Last week, Miami-Dade County commissioners, at the committee level, squashed the long-planned annexation of the Little Gables enclave into the City of Coral Gables, citing the lack of alternative low income housing for 225 residents who live in 90 trailers […]