Call to action: Contact info for each commissioner provided so you can tell them to do what’s right The Miami Heat organization’s sweetheart deal with the county to lease Parcel B next to the American Airlines Arena for its overflow parking and event staging — and a suggestion that the team’s owner pay fair market […]
As expected, Miami Commission candidate Teresa “The Missus” Sarnoff — who wants to replace her termed-out hubby Marc Sarnoff — is beating the other candidates in the fundraising department with almost $390,000. To put it in context, that is more than the all the other candidates combined. To put that in context, there are eight […]
With elections in November looming in four of Miami-Dade’s biggest cities, and eyes on the local and state elections in 2016, the political action committees are coming. Folks like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera have shown that you don’t need hefty personal accounts if you raise the heavy-lifting funds for […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez‘s plan to privatize Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, transferring operations to a non-profit board like the one at the county-owned Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, comes just as the public park and tourist attraction considers a $50-million plan to renovate its existing space and expand across the street. […]
As he gets ready for formally announce his presidential campaign, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush‘s wife joined the twitter nation Friday afternoon when she issued her first tweet from @ColumbaBush. “Privileged to meet @ICADV leaders while in IA with Jeb this weekend. Join me in supporting Domestic Violence prevention. Call 1-800-933-0333,” she posted shortly after […]
Who is really in charge in Sweetwater? Some might think it’s the newly elected mayor, Orlando Lopez, who won Tuesday with 55% of the vote after he booted his main opponent, defacto incumbent acting mayor Jose Diaz, off the ballot when a court agreed with his lawsuit that said Diaz should have resigned his commission […]
It was like a Sunshine Law violation waiting to happen: All but one of the city council members showed up to the kick off of Mayor Jeff Porter‘s reelection campaign Thursday night — an intimate affair with about 100 or so people in the Champion’s Club at the Miami-Homestead Speedway. In a rare sign of […]
Commissioner Sally Heyman says that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is dragging his feet intentionally on installing red light cameras on some of the county’s most dangerous intersections. The county’s Municipal Services Committee voted Wednesday to reject all five of the bids received for the implementation of 150 cameras — in phases of 50 at a […]
King Carlos II has already amassed a $1 million war chest to defend his kingdom. With 16 months to go until the election, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez has reported collecting $1 million with his political action committee, Miami-Dade Residents First. Sure, it’s a huge amount. But it’s no surprise. Not really. Gimenez is not […]
Now that they are competing for the same job, Sen. Marco Rubio will not let Sen. Ted Cruz take his place this year at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner, the biggest fundraiser thrown every year by the Miami-Dade Republican Party. But it’s not an endorsement or a slight on former Gov. Jeb Bush. Rubio was […]