There are seven incumbent Miami-Dade Commissioners on the ballot this year. But Danielle Cohen Higgins of District 8 is not one of them. That doesn’t mean, however, that she’s not busy bringing home the bacon anyway. Read related: Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners raise $1.7 mil plus in three months Cohen Higgins raised $267,000 for her political […]
What is State Rep. Daniel “Danny” Perez doing getting all involved in the proposed Miami-Dade subsidies for the World Cup? This week, the Miami Herald published a story in which Perez came out against a move to give $46 million away for the privilege of hosting seven World Cup matches in 2026. Perez, a Republican […]
Here we go again with another boneheaded procurement move at Miami-Dade. A group of county employees chosen to select the contractor for the design phase of the $270-million redevelopment of the central terminal at Miami International Airport have made their recommendation without doing the due diligence needed to protect taxpayer dollars. One selection committee member […]
In the first council meeting for a new council member, without any real public notice, the Miami Lakes Council narrowly voted Tuesday to offer former Mayor Michael Pizzi, who was arrested in 2013 on federal bribery charges in an FBI sting, a $1.7 million settlement for legal fees incurred during the criminal trial. Las malas […]
A political action committee collecting signatures to get three referendums on the ballot in Coral Gables submitted the first batch of petitions Friday for two of the measures. Gables City Clerk Billy Urquia said he received 2,078 signed petitions for a charter amendment to require a voter referendum approval before elected officials can raise their […]
Mayor uses advisory council to push personal agenda Coral Gables commissioners recently got two different versions of Mayor Vince Lago‘s 2023-2025 “strategic priorities plan” within weeks of each other, with one glaring difference: The second one did not have changing the date of the city’s elections from April to November, something that has already been […]
It finally happened: Someone confused Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. Is it the eyebrows? It must have made L’Ego’s day. He wants to be just like Baby X. Gables resident Lucia Moran went to the commission meeting on Tuesday to urge the commission to leave the mayor’s advisory council in […]
Alian Collazo, the Tampa transplantidate who registered to vote at a senator’s house to run for State House District 115 in Kendall, is not really that Republican. He once courted Joe Biden to speak at Florida International University and his social media posts are peppered with his travels to Cuba and other countries with repressive […]
A hotel on U.S. 1 in Cutler Bay is still the best option for a homeless housing project that would serve mostly seniors, according to a memo from Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava that has Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins and Cutler Bay Mayor Tim Meerbott a little unhappy. The plan by the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust […]
It’s good to be the king. That’s what Miami Mayor Francis Suarez looks like as he jet sets to Egypt for a star-studded billionaire’s wedding and takes in the Miami Grand Prix F1 races, all just days after he testifies in a Securities Exchange Commission investigation into developer Rishi Kapoor, who paid the mayor more […]