Coral Gables mayor’s PAC pays for slick, misleading piece

Coral Gables mayor’s PAC pays for slick, misleading piece

It looks like a city-produced poster to celebrate the 90-year anniversary of Coral Gables. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the intent. But make no mistake: The enormous, twice-folded mailer that arrived at voters’ homes Friday and Saturday with the 27 official-looking photographs of the city’s best landmarks and the list of initiatives and […]

Rare Republicans on long host list for SAVE awards gala

Rare Republicans on long host list for SAVE awards gala

It’s not the gay people or the straight people who stand out at the SAVE’s Champions of Equality awards gala. It’s the Republicans. Only three Republicans are listed among the two dozen electeds on the honorary host committee for this May event, which recognizes community leaders for their efforts to make LGBT equality a reality. […]

In State House 118, a Dem primary to face Frank Artiles

In State House 118, a Dem primary to face Frank Artiles

Not one, but two Democrat candidates have filed to run against State Rep. Frank Artiles for the seat in District 118 in what is expected to be a heavy blue 2016 electoral cycle. Omar Rivero (far right in photo), who challenged Artiles (far left) last year but fell short 58-42, filed paperwork for a rematch […]

Coral Gables precedent height can be undone Election Day

Coral Gables precedent height can be undone Election Day

The bad news out of the Coral Gables Commission meeting when the expansive Mediterranean Village development was approved Tuesday, albeit with some downsizing: The height variance allowing developers to go two stories higher than the code permits could very well set a precedent that will give the city a hard time denying other developers the […]

Sweetwater commissioner sues to get mayor off the ballot

Sweetwater commissioner sues to get mayor off the ballot

With about six weeks to go before the election, Sweetwater Commissioner Orlando Lopez, who is running for the mayor’s seat, has filed a lawsuit to remove Mayor Jose Diaz from the ballot. The lawsuit claims that Diaz, who has served as interim mayor since shortly after the August 2013 arrest of Sweetwater Mayor Manny “Maraña” […]

Huge Coral Gables development pushed before election

Huge Coral Gables development pushed before election

Coral Gables Commissioners could approve today the largest single development project in the city’s 90-year history — a mixed use complex over almost 7 acres just east of Ponce Circle Park with 214 condos, 15 townhouses, 320,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, a 184-room hotel, a movie theater, a gym and offices to be […]

Legislators let clock run on Everglades — and ignore our vote

Legislators let clock run on Everglades — and ignore our vote

Remember Amendment One? It was only about five months ago that we the people of the great state of Florida passed a constitutional amendment, no less, that provides for the funding of long-promised Everglades restoration through the purchase of land with a percentage of document fees. Well, leave it to the Florida legislature to ignore […]

Miami Lakes: Michael Pizzi thisclose to being mayor again

Miami Lakes: Michael Pizzi thisclose to being mayor again

Former, arrested, suspended and acquitted Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi is one step closer to sitting back in his office at Town Hall after a judge ruled Tuesday that his acquittal on bribery charges — and the subsequent, if forced, revocation of the governor’s suspension — means that he should get his old elected […]

Coral Gables Chamber debate hardly worth the effort

Coral Gables Chamber debate hardly worth the effort

It’s a real shame that the last debate — if one can even call it that — of the commission and mayoral candidates in Coral Gables was so lame. With two weeks to go before the April 14 election, the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce event Tuesday night was a missed opportunity for the candidates […]

Carlos Curbelo kicks off campaign with friends… and clients?

Carlos Curbelo kicks off campaign with friends… and clients?

If you want to know who U.S. Rep. Carlos “Cry Baby” Curbelo is really representing in Washington, D.C., show up tonight at Shula’s 347 Grill in Sunset Place for the kick-off of the one-term congressman’s re-election campaign. While Curbelo has been raising money from the get-go, this event Monday night in South Miami is the […]