Another lawsuit is filed by a candidate in District 1 The highest court in the land has ruled that the city of Miami’s carefully crafted redistricting map will stand for the Nov. 7 election, in which three commissioners are on the ballot. A lawsuit brought by residents, with the NAACP and the ACLU, to nix […]
There will be no primary as three candidates — a Republican, a Democrat and an independent — qualified to run in the special election for House seat 118, vacated when Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Juan Fernandez-Barquin as Miami-Dade clerk and comptroller. First time candidate Mike Redondo, a Republican personal injury attorney, and perennial candidate Johnny […]
After several cancellations, the foreclosed Little Havana house owned by Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — you know, the one he supposedly doesn’t live in because it’s outside his district — has been set for auction in November. Unless he gets another last minute reprieve. Again. ADLP’s house has been in foreclosure for […]
August 10th came and went and there were no campaign finance reports filed in Florida for state candidates. Or for county candidates. Or for city candidates. Did anybody else notice this had happened? A new quarterly schedule for reporting campaign finance collections and expenditures has replaced Florida’s long-standing monthly reporting for state and local candidates. […]
The public will have six opportunities this week to hear details about the proposed $11 billion, 2023-24 Miami-Dade budget — which includes a proposed $36 annual garbage fee increase — beginning Wednesday in North Dade. But will they have a chance to make any meaningful input? That is the real question. Are these just futile […]
The breakfasts in South Miami have become a political staple. Gov. Ron DeSantis has been to the CasaCuba events hosted by Community News twice. Former Congressman Charlie Crist swung by last year. Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chairman Anthony Rodriguez was the last speaker. They’ve had former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas, former Miami Herald Publisher David Lawrence, […]
The rate at which pets are being abandoned has grown and Miami-Dade Animal Services ran out of space at their spanking new, $15-million adoption center shelter in Doral. So, they are keeping some dogs and cats at the old shelter in Medley and animal advocates worry about horrible conditions. After all, this is the worn […]
Elected officials, you are now free to lobby again. A U.S. district judge issued an order Wednesday that strikes down the state’s lobbying amendment, passed by voters in 2018, which bans any elected official from any kind of lobbying during their term of office and for six years after because, she said, it was an […]
Miami Beach resident Lynette Long, a former university professor who has authored more than 30 books, recently took a drive through the city and noted all the ceremonially co-designated streets, which are named to honor someone for something. What she found was an astonishing gap. There are at least 18 streets that are co-designated for […]
Former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Góngora has waited. And waited. And waited. Góngora has skipped several elections, waiting to run for mayor when he felt he had a better chance. Not against Philip Levine. Not against Dan Gelber, who is finally termed-out. But certainly now in the open seat. Most observers thought Góngora would coast […]