If you ask Palmetto Bayers — including Mayor Karyn Cunningham — the controversial 87th Avenue bridge that Miami-Dade wants to build across the C-100 canal at 164th Street is not a done deal. Not by a mile. There are still a lot of questions and concerns, Cunningham said. Not to mention a looming lawsuit. But […]
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 […]
Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Christine King had her first city commission meeting Thursday and was praised and complimented by her colleagues on her solid victory Nov. 2. “You didn’t win, you got a mandate,” said Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who had lobbied hard to appoint her last year to fill the seat vacated when […]
Mayor Esteban Bovo, county commissioner Rene Garcia win one, lose one The two new councilmen voted to the Hialeah dais on Tuesday won their seats with pretty large margins. But it’s hard to call it a mandate when less than 9 percent of the registered voters in Miami-Dade’s second biggest city turned out. FIU student […]
Two ‘new’ commissioners the community already knows, and well Miami Beach voters chose two longtime City Hall regulars and resident advocates as commissioners in Tuesday’s runoff election — despite the deep pockets running against them. Former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who left in 2018 to run for Congress, is back in office with […]
Hialeah Councilman Carl Zogby, the former police department spokesman, won re-election outright in a three-way Group 5 race Tuesday, with 57% of the vote. Mayra Jimenez got 27% and Salvador Blanco got 16%. But the other two council races, the open seats which had five and six candidates vying, are headed into a runoff after […]
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber won re-election easily Tuesday. Like Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Gelber had basically no opposition. But instead of getting 80% of the vote, like Baby X did across the causeway, Gelber won with 62%, which is still a comfortable victory if not an overwhelming mandate. He also won on his pet […]
Pobre Hialeah. They were Esteban Bovo‘s second choice. But one year after he lost the race for Miami-Dade mayor, the former county commissioner — whose political career began on the Hialeah council — voters chose him over four others to be the next mayor en la ciudad que progresa. The city might have to come […]
What an anticlimactic finish. There were no big surprises and there will be no runoffs in the city of Miami after both Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo won re-election by huge margins and newcomer Christine King totally stomped on appointed Commissioner Jeffrey “Who” Watson‘s dreams to serve a real term. Suarez, who had […]
A group of Palmetto Bay residents scored an incremental victory Monday in their fight to keep a vehicular bridge from being built over the C100 canal on 87th Avenue, connecting 164th Street to 163rd Terrace — a decades old battle that has divided the South Dade community. The Village crowd was not split for the […]