Beba Mann is going to have a cow. After more than two years and a prolonged legal battle between the county and city of Miami, illegal plastic barricades placed suddenly and without a public process to restrict traffic in Silver Bluff were finally removed Wednesday morning. The streets were closed in a public press event […]
Banker and longtime community activist Damian Pardo, LGBTQ+ champion and founder of SAVE, announced his candidacy last week for city of Miami commissioner in District 2. As a first time candidate, Pardo said he wants to “shake things up” and return to prioritizing residents. ¡Ya tu sabes! With more than 35 years of campaign and […]
Residents in Miami Springs must be pretty happy with what they got. Nobody challenged Mayor Maria Puente Mitchell and Councilman Walter Fajet, who won automatically weeks ago when nobody filed to run against them. And voters returned two council members to the dais on Tuesday. Both Councilwoman Jacky Bravo and former Councilman Victor Vazquez, who had resigned to […]
Gables Neighbors United, the political arm of the largest group of active and engaged Coral Gables residents, has endorsed political newcomer Melissa Castro for the commission seat in Group 4. Gables United already endorsed activist Ariel Fernandez, publisher of Gables Insider, in the Group 5 race against attorney Alex Bucelo, who has the backing of […]
Two city commissioners will face challenges in May election Without a challenger, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz became mayor of Sweetwater again last week — and secured his third retirement check on the public trough. Qualifying ended Friday and Diaz, mayor there from 1999 to 2003, was the only one who wanted to lead […]
A group of active and engaged — and fed-up — residents of Coral Gables has sent out an email blast endorsing Ariel Fernandez in the city election, calling his opponent the “developer’s insider.” Attorney Alex Bucelo, who lost a bid two years ago to Commissioner Kirk Menendez, has the development and real estate investment money […]
Police are still investigating the burglary at Miami Commissioner Manolo Reyes‘ office at City Hall last week. Monday, someone tried to break into one of the commissioner’s Community Response Team trucks (he has two). Most don’t think the two crimes are related. The commissioner’s office was ransacked, but nothing seems to have been stolen. The […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the highest bench, will be coming home this week to South Miami-Dade, where her parents still live, for a street naming ceremony in her honor. Brown Jackson, who graduated from Palmetto Senior High, class of 1988, will have a portion of Eureka Drive, […]
And why she’ll need to recuse herself from some votes Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Sabina Covo, who will be sworn in on Saturday, won the special election Monday, getting nearly 30% of the vote in a crowded field, eight points over the No. 2 finisher. The journalist-turned-PR-pro has never held any kind of public office before. […]
Tanya Katzoff Bhatt is an activist, past president of Miami Beach United The big ticket in the Miami Beach city election is going to be the mayoral race between former Commissioner Michael Góngora and former commissioner and State Rep. Michael Grieco, whose first run for the seat was interrupted by an investigation into illegal campaign […]