Clueless county commissioners admit they don’t know what they did Over the holiday weekend, there were TV news reports about the airport bouncing back and air travel almost having returned to pre-COVID levels. Now, we see news clips about the anticipated holiday travel crunch. So why are Miami-Dade Commissioners giving rich concessionaires with contracts at […]
Damn the manatees! That’s basically what the Miami-Dade Commission said on Wednesday when it approved the Miami International Boat Show’s application to increase the number of boat slips by about a third to almost 1,000 and have “sea trials” — kind of like test drives for boats — in sensitive manatee nesting and feeding areas […]
Holy moly! Wednesday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting is going to be a doozy. According to the agenda, the last meeting of the year is heavy-loaded with several big ticket items. According to some County Hall insiders, any one of them could turn into a thing. There’s going to be some discussion (read: complaints) on the county’s […]
Miami city commissioners reversed themselves Monday when they put electric share scooters — which had been banned 10 days earlier — back on certain urban streets, mostly in the downtown and Brickell area. Commissioner and Chief Scooter Critic Manolo Reyes doesn’t want them in Flagami. He also was the only dissenting vote on the 3-1 […]
Don’t worry, Brickell scooter jockeys. The ban on electric scooters in the city of Miami is temporary and about to end soon. And not because Mayor Francis Suarez is your hero or anything like that. Yes, Suarez praised scooters while on some junket in Las Vegas on the same day the commission voted to shut […]
The superhero is not coming. Just before Saturday’s deadline for the mayoral veto on the Calusa zoning change that allows developers to build hundreds of homes on 168 Kendall acres that are now an organic, overgrown slice of Florida wildlife, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a statement full of excuses as to why she […]
It happens every year. Elected officials glom onto the efforts of local organizations and food banks to give turkeys and other Thanksgiving trimmings to Miami-Dade residents. This has always seemed like a desperate and, frankly, pathetic publicity stunt to garner favor with voters and even local media. Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz partnered with […]
Here’s some ammunition (read: facts) to avoid an override Dear Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, AKA La Alcaldesa: Add this to the mounds of emails and letters from residents who urge you to veto the commission’s vote last week to change the zoning at the property that used to be the Calusa Golf Course from […]
Some residents in Hialeah were surprised last week to find that they could pay for their water and research a nearby charter school at the same time. That’s because a flyer for the COHEA (City of Hialeah Education Academy) Career and Collegiate Academy was found in the same envelope with the utility bill. Several residents […]
Miami Beach Commissioners Micky Steinberg and Michael Góngora will say their goodbyes to the dais Monday morning as the newly-elected Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Alex Fernandez are sworn in and take their respective places. But we aren’t really rid of them, yet. Góngora, who wanted to run for re-election but was told by a judge […]