Pro cityhood mailers paid by developers have already arrived The process to see if Westchester homeowners want to incorporate has just started — and it’s been very bumpy and very fast at the same time. Some residents are upset that the Miami-Dade Commission in November, at the request of District 10 Commissioner Javier Souto, waived […]
And Crazy Joe Carollo goes off the reservation on a rabid rant Buried in the Miami city commission meeting last week, dropped during one of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s disturbed diatribes — which is maybe why nobody caught on to it — was news that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the Miami […]
Updated: Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson, who was a state representative in District 113, announced Tuesday that he would be stepping down from his city seat to run for state House in District 106, with its newly-drawn boundaries. He was only city commissioner by default, anyway, running for that after he lost a bid for […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners will consider on Tuesday approving an $7.8-million contract that was already awarded, and for which work has already started, to you guessed it, Magnum Construction Management — which is the same post-bridge collapse Munilla Construction company under a different name — to build a new county fire station in Sweetwater. Mayor Daniella Levine […]
Jose Dotres will make almost twice as much as he did in Collier County The new Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent starts his $370,000-a-year job Monday leading the sixth largest school district in the country. He’ll be commuting. Jose Dotres, who was chosen Jan. 25 by the school board over two other finalists to replace Alberto Carvalho […]
Former city commissioner goes from convict to confidante This could be one of the greatest comeback political stories of the 305. Former Miami Commissioner Humberto “Bert” Hernandez was removed from office twice amid accusations of federal bank fraud and mortgage fraud and absentee ballot fraud. He spent four years in jail, was disbarred by the […]
Updated: The videos released Friday by Coral Gables Police is not the only footage revolving around the arrest of a U.S. Congressman’s son in Coral Gables Wednesday. The five videos from CCTV cameras on nearby skyscrapers show the events that occurred at Morton’s Steakhouse on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, when CJ Gimenez slapped Miami Commissioner […]
It looks more like a bop. Videos of the incident between CJ Gimenez, the congressman’s lobbyist son, and Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the Coral Gables Morton’s Steakhouse is out. And it doesn’t look so much like a slap as it does a bop on the head. Kinda like the NCIS guy […]
Updated: The son of Congressman Carlos Gimenez was released from jail late Thursday morning, posting $1,500 bond for a battery charge after slapping a Miami city commissioner at a Coral Gables restaurant almost 24 hours earlier. But there are a lot of questions about the atypical arrest of CJ Gimenez in an incident that the […]
But arrest by Miami sergeant-at-arms seems like a conflict of interests Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, the son of the Congressman by the same name who used to be our county mayor, ran into Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla outside of Morton’s Steakhouse Wednesday — and slapped him. There is animosity between the two and […]