Miami-Dade’s elected officials are kinda freaking out Florida lawmakers this week did something that would have sounded completely insane just a few years ago. They put the beginning of the end of property taxes on the ballot. Not all property taxes. Not yet. But close enough that every mayor, commissioner, city manager, budget director and […]
Jean Monestime, Rudy Moise jump into the bunch Every so often, South Florida politics experiences one of those rare celestial events that only comes around once in a blue moon: an open congressional seat. Not a scandal. Not an indictment. Not a recount. Not a death grip incumbent hanging on until the bitter end. An […]
Family wants to build on 246 acres of wetlands The bulldozers are still in the parking lot. And the Urban Development Boundary is back on the agenda. Again. After months of delays, negotiations, a veto, reconsiderations and enough procedural gymnastics to qualify for the Olympic team, Miami-Dade commissioners are scheduled Tuesday to once again decide […]
When Congresswoman Frederica Wilson announced Friday that she was finally calling it a career at 83, she didn’t just create an open congressional seat. She detonated a political chain reaction stretching from Washington to Tallahassee to County Hall to city halls across North Miami-Dade. It didn’t take long for the dominos to start falling. Actually, […]
Miami’s billionaires have finally met the one thing standing in the way of another luxury condo tower: Diesel. Specifically, 28 million gallons of it sitting in giant aging fuel tanks on Fisher Island — the same ultra-exclusive playground where the average resident probably spends more on wine storage than most Miamians make in a year. […]
Attorney says the money can be taken as payment toward judgement You can take Joe Carollo, out of City Hall, but you can’t get City Hall to forget Joe Carollo. The former Miami commissioner will always have an ongoing saga at the Dinner Key theater, and Thursday was no different. What was supposed to be […]
Former State Sen. Annette Taddeo is running again — almost certainly. The rumors have been circling for months. Would she jump into a congressional race? Run for her old seat on the state senate? Look, at this point in Florida politics, if there’s an open race somewhere between Key West and Tallahassee, there is a […]
It’s also wrong on the environment and immigrants Opinion By John Ise, President of the Northeast Miami-Dade Democratic Club Each day that passes, it becomes painfully clear that Florida has perhaps the most regressive, retrograde state government perhaps in modern history led by Florida Republicans. A state that elevates MAGA-mania over all else; hostile to […]
The clearest sign yet that Congresswoman Frederica Wilson may finally be ready to retire did not come from her. It came from Sen. Shevrin Jones Wednesday, quietly stepping out of a perfectly safe senate race nobody was even contesting. And in Miami political circles, that’s about as subtle as a cafetera exploding. (Yes, Ladra needs […]
Former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s last gift to Little Havana (read: developers) may finally be getting a makeover. Whether you call it a housing initiative or a land giveaway probably depends on whether you’re a taxpayer, a developer or Carollo himself. But one thing is clear: the controversial no-bid sweetheart deal Carollo pushed through in […]