The city of Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency is responsible for 35% of the debt service paid for the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center. It is so delineated in the 2007 interlocal agreement and has always been paid. Every year. Until now. The city owes the county more than $10.7 million, according to a memo […]
2020 campaign funding could be under scrutiny by the Miami-Dade SAO She wasn’t just drinking and driving on the job. She wasn’t just running personal errands for Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla instead of working as a community liaison for the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency. She wasn’t just stealing taxpayer dollars for an […]
Speculators who want to change the zoning on 800 acres of environmentally sensitive land outside the Urban Development Boundary will get another bite of the apple on Wednesday. To call them developers would be wrong. They are real estate flippers who have no real plan to develop the land, no announced tenants, and no control […]
Neighbors hope county or state will step in and save the natural preserve There’s indisputable proof now: Photographic evidence of threatened Florida birds nesting at the Calusa rookery in the middle of the abandoned golf course in Kendall that developers want to pave over for 550 homes. Miami-Dade Commissioners in November approved a zoning change […]
Whooooops. The president of the Hialeah Republican Club — the largest Republican club in Miami-Dade and, perhaps, the state of Florida — endorsed Martha Bueno, an NPA candidate and advocate for legalized marijuana, over GOP State Rep. Anthony Rodriguez in the Miami-Dade Commission District 10 race. But it was very short-lived. Of course. Former Hialeah […]
A top official in the Miami Police Department has written a scathing four-page memo accusing Chief Manuel Morales of corruption, retaliation and a slew of unethical and “illegal” activities. This is not a déja vu. This is a different memo (in its entirety below). Commander Brandon Lanier would not comment on the missive, which was […]
Insiders fear the gov has already hand-picked a successor A Doral activist has started a petition to get Miami-Dade School Board Member Christi Fraga to resign from her seat now, rather than effective in November, as she runs for mayor of the western-edge municipality. Florida law requires Fraga to resign to run, but the resignation […]
Will the last incumbent get a challenge by qualifying deadline? Three of the four Miami-Dade School Board races are filling out with about three weeks left before the qualifying deadline. Robert Alonso, who filed against veteran Perla Tabares Hantman then suddenly decided to retire after almost 30 years. Maribel Balbin, former president of the League […]
A ragtag group of attorneys and former elected officials have formed a committee to elect none other than one-time State Rep. and former Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla. And it’s just…meh. The committee is chaired by attorney Bill Reily, who just got his client Centner Academy everything they wanted before the […]
Commissioner ADLP then travels with school attorney While all eyes were on the Melreese Golf Course and the insider Miami Freedom Park deal last month, the city of Miami basically gave another city-owned property away to the private school that got national headlines last year for its backwards COVID policies. City commissioners approved a license […]