Now it’s getting interesting. Coral Gables Commissioner Kirk Menendez filed paperwork Wednesday to run for mayor against incumbent Vince Lago, the egomaniac that he’s been battling for the last 20 months on the dais, setting the City Beautiful voters up for a gut-wrenching, nasty election. Menendez knows that Lago, who has raised and spent at […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust found probable cause that a civilian employee at the Miami Beach Police Department exploited his position and violated the outside employment sections of the county’s conflict of interest code. Clifford Sparks, the former supervisor of the Crime Analysis Unit, was found to have used his position to […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Tuesday will consider purchasing a warehouse property on Northwest 25th Street for $17 million in order to provide future parking and/or a staging area for future construction at Miami International Airport. The seller has already provided the four tenants at the property — including a luxury car rental business — with […]
With more than 56% of the vote, Miami Lakes Commissoner Josh Dieguez changed his title to mayor last week, beating Vice Mayor Tony Fernandez in a runoff where almost 19% of the registered voters turned out. He will replace Mayor Manny Cid, who was termed out and lost a bid to unseat Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella […]
The hand-wringing process of replacing or rebuilding the Miami-Dade County garbage incinerator that burned down in Doral in February of last year has been long and messy. It was supposed to be decided in September. Then they put it off until after the election. In November, they put it off to this Tuesday. But the […]
Broward prosecutors on Wednesday announced that they had dropped the public corruption charges against former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, arrested in September of last year, basically because they couldn’t make the case. ‘This case fails to meet the legal standards for prosecution,” wrote Broward Assistant State Attorney Kayla Bramnick in her close-out […]
As expected, a plantidate in the Miami Lakes mayoral race has forced a runoff between Commissioner Josh Dieguez and Vice Mayor Tony Fernandez, who came out of Tuesday’s first round with 47% and 42%, respectively. Yuniett Gonzalez, a political newbie who had donated to Dieguez before jumping in the race — not a good sign […]
It was a good day for Republicans in the nation, Florida and in Miami-Dade, where all five constitutional offices were won by GOP candidates. Quite comfortably. And a bad day for political consultant Christian Ulvert, who less than three months ago was celebrating a first round win for Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. Ulvert ran the […]
The Coral Gables commission spent some time at last week’s meeting hablando mierda — literally. Commissioners voted unanimously last month to change the city’s code so that enforcement officers could fine residents who drop their doggie’s doodoo bags in their neighbors’ trash pits. First they get a warning. Then it’s a $100 fine. Then it’s […]
The day has come. Tuesday will be a historic day in Miami-Dade for two reasons. Not only are we electing our first female president. We will also be electing local constitutional officers, some for the very first time ever. It will be the first time we vote for sheriff since the office was eliminated in […]