The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that eight congressional districts in Florida violation Fair District amendment of 2010 and must be redrawn in 100 days — by the very same Republican-led State House and Senate that gerrymandered the districts in the first place. Como? Isn’t that like letting the fox back in the hen house […]
Who believed the Everglades sales pitch story? No, not the one where someone tries to sell you a bridge, but close. It’s the Air Show in the Swamp pitch, where Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez was going to get all these international corporations and celebrities to come out for an fancy aviation convention at […]
It’s very nice that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is putting $5 million more into our public parks and $2 million more into animal services and $1 million aside for a summer jobs program for needy youth. What Gimenez didn’t say at his big reveal of the 2015-16 budget Tuesday is that he also wants to […]
Everyone in Miami-Dade County can sigh a breath of relief! Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez has saved the day! There will be no further cuts to services and personnel, no more “sacrifices” asked of our loyal county employees, no more library closings. In fact, 10 of the 20-some libraries closed two days a week will […]
Nothing really happened when Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez swore to tell the whole truth and then testified in court that he was, indeed, a loanshark charging illegal interest rates in a shadow banking industry ruled by Hialeah politicians. He was either past the statute of limitations or granted immunity for his testimony against former […]
State Rep. David Richardson is delaying his bid for the Florida Senate seat in the best indication so far that rumors of Sen. Gwen Margolis‘ retirement are greatly exaggerated. Richardson (D-Miami Beach) may have bee under the impression in January that Margolis was not going to run for re-election when he opened an account for the […]
State Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) wants to know what the Sunshine State spent fighting equal marriage rights for the past several years. Richardson wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday and asked for “a full accounting” of the amount of taxpayer money and resources her office spent on numerous appeal to prohibit gay marriage — until […]
Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado — who in March became the first and, so far, only challenger to incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez — has been calling the mayor out for months on a number of issues. She sued him on the value adjustment board and the $9 million in public funds going to Skyrise Miami. She […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi played the class clown in council chambers for about an hour Wednesday night at a special call meeting where the council later asked for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the mayor’s very own hit-and-run crash last month. “I ask God to protect all the council members and help […]
The Miami Lakes Council — as incredulous to Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi‘s story about his hit and run accident as the rest of us — will have a special meeting this afternoon to discuss getting an independent, third party investigation to look into whether or not there was a police cover up. Pizzi, who was […]