Will he? Or won’t he? That is the $100 million campaign question. Odds are that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio will, indeed, announce his long-desired presidential run next month at a press event at the celebrated Freedom Tower — a great possible backdrop for his important announcement, since it was the beacon that received and processed […]
Andrew “Kid” Korge will kick off his campaign for State Sen. Gwen Margolis‘ seat with a party next week hosted by everybody and their mother. Or father, actually. No fewer than 88 people are hosting the event, and the list is definitely a throwback to the days of former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. A one-time […]
J. Ricky Arriola has become the latest in a group of seven people — so far — who hope that three open commission seats in Miami Beach can spark their political careers. Arriola filed for the November city elections on Tuesday. But it’s not the first we hear of his political aspirations. His name was […]
Coral Gables residents won’t see a televised mayoral debate this week — in English or in Spanish. But only because the current incumbent, Mayor Jim Cason, won’t face his challenger, former city commissioner Ralph Cabrera. WPLG Channel 10’s Michael Putney invited both men to a mayoral debate on his Sunday news show, This Week in […]
Ladra is ashamed of herself. She just barks about voter apathy. Maggie Fernandez is actually trying to do something about it. Fernandez was, for six years, an assistant to former County ManagerGeorge Burgess. Then she became Miami-Dade’s Sustainability Program Manager until Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez laid her off two years ago. Today, she works as a facilitator […]
The mega mall proposed for the Northwest corner of Miami-Dade, known as the American Dream Miami complex, is gaining speed now that the School Board has released its lease hold on part of the property and the county commission approved to be a purchase pass-through for 82 acres of state land. But is it really […]
The Miami-Dade School Board approved the release of a lease hold on about half of a state property that is now in a convoluted land deal between the the county and the developers of a proposed mega mall and tourist attraction where I-75 meets the Florida Turnpike. But not before Superintendent Alberto Carvalho revealed the county […]
In yet another race against the clock, under the gun of yet another looming deadline that could have been completely intentional, Miami-Dade commissioners on Tuesday got into the real estate business and approved a land assemblage deal that is the first necessary step in development of a megamall/tourist attraction in the northwest corner of the […]
Red light cameras will be coming to four intersections along South Dixie Highway in Pinecrest, now that a Miami-Dade Commissioner has dropped his objection. “I ask that we be given the same consideration as other cities that have put cameras on U.S. 1, such as Aventura, North Miami Beach, North Miami, Coral Gables, Cutler Bay, Florida City […]
Controversial plans for a super mega retail mall with tourist attractions in a northwest corner of the county may have come out of nowhere earlier this month, but it’s looking like the project is going somewhere fast. American Dream Miami — the 200-acre complex that includes a skating rink, water park, performing sea lions and an […]