Miami Freedom Park is still not ready for prime time. The special city of Miami meeting Friday on plans to turn the Melreese Golf Course into a mega real estate complex with hotel, retail, restaurants, offices and, oh yeah, a soccer stadium, has been pushed back to April 28. And it was so appropriately scheduled […]
What the hell happened? People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting. It looked like the residents who had begged to keep Coconut Grove together in the new map had won. It seemed, from the meeting before last week’s, that they got their […]
Voters in the Town of Cutler Bay approved on Tuesday a General Obligation bond of up to $37 million to build a municipal complex with a community center and a park on 16 acres along Old Cutler Road purchased in by taxpayers in 2020. The idea, according to town leaders who call it their version […]
Practice run against Frederica Wilson could set her up as heir Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Audrey Edmonson is expected to make a big announcement Tuesday. And while she could run for county mayor in 2024 or for commission again, the widespread rumor is that she will run in the Democratic against U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson next […]
She’ll be in the hot seat at Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club Alina Hudak is almost one year into her new job as the city manager in Miami Beach. The former deputy Miami-Dade mayor under Carlos Gimenez was named to replace former manager Jimmy Morales, who went to work for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. It […]
It’s been almost three years since Steven Miro sued the city of Miami for wrongful termination after Commissioner Joe Carollo fired him. The former aide says it was retaliation when he reported that the commissioner used his office and public dollars to campaign for Alex Diaz de la Portilla when the latter was running for […]
Now, she lists her home as a $2.8 million house in District 12’s Doral Former Sweetwater Councilwoman Sophia Lacayo — who was booted from office and charged with perjury for living outside the city — is running for office again. This time, it’s a seat on the Miami-Dade Commission she wants. She just has to […]
Sources say Art Noriega could join the Inter Miami Freedom Park team Miami Commissioner Manolo Reyes tried last week to prohibit any city executive from taking a job for two years with any entity he negotiates a big deal with as the city’s top executive. Reyes didn’t name names, but the obvious target of his […]
District 2 could be kept whole under new Miami redistricting map Miami Commissioner Manolo Reyes did the right thing Friday when he told the city’s consultant on redistricting to put the part of Coconut Grove moved to District 4 back into District 2, where it belongs. Maybe it was for the wrong reasons, but it […]
Before the Miami city commission could discuss redistricting at Friday’s special meeting, Commissioner Joe Carollo made a special call to order — and laid into a false narrative attack on Commissioner Ken Russell. It was unwarranted. Carollo thinks Russell was not only behind the recall two years ago — and he is still butt hurt […]