The Women’s Republican Club of Miami Federated is looking for a new home. The organization has been meeting monthly at Crave Restaurant in Coral Gables for about two years, with speakers like Attorney General Pam Bondi and Sen. Anitere Flores. But no more. Call it an ideological difference. After being asked to take their meetings […]
Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco finally got involved in the city’s upcoming elections Tuesday — when he publicly chastised and denounced one of candidates for using Grieco’s Miami Beach Kids First non-profit in a paid campaign email blast. In it, Grieco basically calls Mark Samuelian an outsider who would “do anything to try and win […]
UPDATED: The finance director and assistant finance director at the city of Miami Beach both resigned abruptly Thursday just as the city finalizes its budget process and starts a financial audit. The city’s Chief Financial Officer Patricia Walker and the Assistant Finance Director Georgie Echert both resigned on Thursday — in such a rush that […]
Just because the Relentless for Progress PAC is quitting doesn’t mean we have to stop talking about how shady it was. The PAC’s chairman, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, said last week that he was going to dissolve the shady political action committee, which raked in close to $1.5 million in contributions from lobbyists, contractors, […]
Redistricting and the upcoming legislative sessions are the topics listed for discussion when the Women’s Republican Club of Miami Federated has Lt. Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera and Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen speak at Monday’s meeting. But how much you wanna bet the Iran deal, which both are against, will be the main focus of the night? The meeting […]
Qualifying ended Friday for the Nov. 3 Miami Beach elections and there were no surprise last minute hopefuls jumping into the ring. But we do have four full races with 12 candidates. There was high speculation that Mayor Philip Levine, who has become vulnerable in the last months of his first term, might draw a […]
Coral Gables has a police chief and it is Ed Hudak. All is well with the world. Or at least the micro world that is the City Beautiful. Hudak, who has been serving as interim chief since last Sept. 11 was made the permanent chief exactly a year later on Friday after City Manager Cathy […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust issued another couple of slaps on the wrists Wednesday, further convincing critics and watchdogs who wish it had more teeth that it is woefully incapable of handling the 305’s level of unethical behavior. Other than the occasional negligible fines that are worked into the “cost of doing […]
Looking ever more like a would-be mayoral candidate, Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez released the second TV video ad this week in which he attacks Mayor Carlos Gimenez on a number of issues. Last week, it was transportation and the fact that Gimenez uses funds from the People’s Transportation Trust bond to subsidize transit operating expenses. […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine officially launched his re-election campaign last week with an email to his supporters, bragging about all he has done, boasting that he’s cleaned up City Hall, and saying that he will again fund his own campaign. I guess he forgot that the now defunct and still shady Relentless for Progress […]