Arrest rattles old questions for Francis Suarez, Vince Lago For two years, every time someone mentioned Rishi Kapoor in Miami political circles, the same phrase came up again and again: This isn’t over. On Friday, federal agents finally turned that whisper into a set of handcuffs. Kapoor — the once-flashy developer behind Location Ventures and […]
Downtown residents say they’re shut out of city talks Just weeks before the bass drops at Ultra Music Festival, a different kind of noise is building in downtown Miami. Residents say they’re being shut out of the conversation. At a Zoom community meeting Thursday night with members of the Downtown Neighbors Alliance, a representative for […]
Lots of local Republican politicians are going to be under public scrutiny in the coming days for their links to a group of conservative activist students at Florida International University whose hateful racist, antisemitic and misogynistic chat from a few weeks last Fall has come to light, thanks to The Miami Herald and someone who […]
Screenshots are forever. And right now, a set of leaked group chats circulating through Miami political circles is giving the Republican Party of Miami‑Dade County a migraine that’s going to last a long time. The messages — reportedly exchanged among young conservative activist students at Florida International University last semester — contain racist slurs, antisemitic […]
Former Miami commissioner’s last appeal dies in D.C. The end finally came without fanfare. No oral arguments. No dramatic reversal. No last-minute rescue. Just a quiet line on a Tuesday order list from the Supreme Court of the United States: Cert denied. And with that, former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has run out of courtrooms. […]
Hold on to your cafecito. Guess who is suddenly being whispered about in Miami political circles as a possible challenger to Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar? None other than former Trump insider-turned-convicted felon-turned-whistleblower-turned-documentary-subject Lev Parnas. Yes, that Lev Parnas. The same one who once worked alongside Rudy Giuliani, helped stir the Ukraine pot that led to […]
Newly-elected Commissioner Rolando Escalona is on a roll. Fresh off of establishing a business improvement district for Calle Ocho in Little Havana, funding $5 million worth of capital improvements in District 3 — including $550,000 in traffic calming for The Roads, which hasn’t seen a penny since 2017 — and giving a directive to the […]
The election calendar is back on the table Thursday at the Miami City Commission — but this time, the math cuts the other way. Mayor Eileen Higgins has put legislation where her mouth is by presenting a resolution that would ask voters to shorten her own term by a year in order to shift the 2029 […]
Tuesday night’s monologue from Capitol Hill wasn’t a State of the Union address. It was a 108-minute campaign rally with better lighting. Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in American history — nearly one hour and forty-eight minutes — which in political terms is roughly three filibusters and a Netflix special. […]
Street vacation or truth vacation? On Thursday, the City of Miami Commission will decide whether to let the developers of Adela II at MiMo Bay gobble up NE 64th Terrace, a public access road to Legion Park, and stitch together 17 vacant lots into a 141,516-square-foot mega-parcel just south of the 48-acre park. But before […]