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As Republican nominees for the 2016 presidential nomination prepare for the first debate Thursday by rehearsing their issues stances and going over (and over and over) their message points, political junkies in the 305 — where we have not one but two local boys in the running — prepare by purchasing bulk amount of chips […]
Uber, the popular app-driven black car service that has been a controversial addition to the traffic landscape in Miami-Dade, has been booted from Broward County as of last week. And Uber drivers are getting citations in Key West — where at least one driver was arrested for driving without a license. And where do you […]
Former Palmetto Bay Mayor Shelley Stanczyk‘s daughter is critically ill and awaiting a liver transplant in Wisconsin. Sarah Stanczyk, 32, a Coral Reef High grad (class of 2001) and University of Miami grad (B.A.) was going for her PhD at NSU, where she got her master’s in international security, when she fell ill. She is now […]
The second employee to resign from the Town of Miami Lakes in recent weeks because they’d rather be unemployed than work for Mayor Michael Pizzi is his handpicked assistant, the daughter of a longtime Pizzi supporter. Lissette Molina resigned from her position as Pizzi’s assistant just before 10 a.m. Friday. “Due to the unfortunate work […]
Doral Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz will sponsor a resolution next week condemning billionaire businessman, reality TV star and presidential candidate Donald Trump for his “racist, derrogatory” remarks about Mexicans and immigrants in his campaign announcement speech. Even though other electeds have expressed outrage at the incendiary comments and the county commission passed a similar resolution last month, […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Commissioner Esteban Bovo, Bruno Barreiro, Dennis Moss and Jean Monestime, plus at least seven other county officials, including Deputy Mayor Ed Marquez and the newly-appointed Transit Director Alice Bravo (more on her later), are heading to Denver next week for a three-day transportation field trip. They will meet with local political […]
The new August issue of the PBA’s Heat newspaper — published by the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association — takes aim at an old target right out front and center. On the cover is Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez, primping in the mirror as he “readies for the budget.” Looking back at him is his face — with […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez may be leading in polls and exuding an outward confidence that he will be re-elected in 2016, but it seems he is secretly sweating the challenge from Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado. Why? Well, because a whole 13 months from the election, there is a canvassing team going door to […]
Just what are a couple of Miami Beach electeds who are not in contested races this year going to do with the funds they shake out of city contractors and would-be developers for their political action committee? That’s the $1 million question. The two ads produced so far by Relentless for Progress — the PAC […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah “Pottymouth” Wolfson tried hard to quash a motion by Commissioner Deede Weithorn to have the Ethics Commission look into their brazen shakedown of vendors and developers who want to do business, or continue doing business, with the city. And they may have won at the dais, after the motion […]