Miami-Dade’s nonprofit industrial complex took another bow this week, and — ay, Dios mío — County Hall is starting to look less like a government building and more like the green room for a very special episode of The Price Is Right. Because once again, commissioners were asked to sign off on a brand-new pot […]
Only in Miami do we have a full-blown political race underway for a Florida House special election that the governor hasn’t even bothered to call yet. But that hasn’t stopped the early birds — or the opportunists — from flocking to District 113, which State Rep. Vicki López just abandoned mid-term to keep Eileen Higgins’ […]
Turns out City Hall didn’t have the votes tied up with a bow Thursday for that $29 million Watson Island liquidation sale after all. So instead of losing outright, the Miami Commission did what Miami politicians do best: They punted. They punted so hard the can may have landed in Biscayne Bay. The highly-hyped vote to […]
Just when you thought Miami’s mayoral race couldn’t get more absurdly partisan — like, more partisan than it already was with President Donald Trump diving in from his gold-plated Truth Social bunker to endorse former city manager Emilio González — here comes the Democratic National Committee, belly-flopping into the runoff like it’s the Iowa caucus. […]
Builders get a BOGO special and Miami gets… flooded Miami commissioners are set to vote Thursday on yet another Damian Pardo special. The Miami commissioners has proposed a shiny new ordinance that would let developers double the allowable density in some of the most flood-prone, overdeveloped corners of the city — as long as they […]
Rolando Escalona, who got into the runoff for the Miami District 3 seat with former Commissioner Frank Carollo, didn’t just get two new endorsements this week. He got two full-throated “por favor, anyone but a Carollo” testimonials wrapped in veteran creds and political déjà vu. Both Rob Piper and Oscar Elio Alejandro — the two […]
Miami City Hall is at it again, mismanaging public land like it’s a clearance rack at Ross. The city commission on Thursday will consider what looks like a fire sale on the south side of Watson Island, and the only ones getting a bargain are — surprise! — the developers. On the agenda for the […]
Well that didn’t take long. Not even an hour after State Rep. Vicki Lopez was appointed to the Miami-Dade County Commission to replace Eileen Higgins — who is in the runoff for Miami mayor — Anthony “Tony” Tony J. Diaz, one of the five who applied for the position, rushed to file for her now-vacant […]
The fix was always in for Vicki Lopez Well, District 5 will not get to vote, after all, to replace its outgoing Miami-Dade commissioner. Instead, Miami-Dade commissioners did what they’ve now done twice in five years: they chose for the people. Because nothing says “democracy” like elected officials refusing to let residents elect anyone. In […]
Even Joe Sanchez now says “Let the people vote” Well, well, well… look who suddenly found religion in democracy. On the eve of Tuesday’s big Miami-Dade Commission showdown over how to fill the District 5 seat vacated by Commissioner Eileen Higgins, who is in the runoff for Miami mayor, the winds have shifted so hard […]