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 […]
Town hall focus: Rapid transit zoning density and height increases A group of Pinecrest residents are riled up about a plan that proposes increases in heights and density along the eastern side of U.S. 1, across from where Miami-Dade County plans to build two rapid bus stations. But village officials say they’re worried about nada, […]
The distribution of hateful, anti-Semitic flyers in Miami Beach and Surfside over the weekend, blaming the “COVID agenda” on a list of Jewish doctors and officials, has not just alarmed that community. Everyone is disgusted. Police from several jurisdictions are investigating the source of the crude, false and inflammatory flyers, which were carefully left on […]
Miami-Dade School Board members on Monday chose longtime administrator José Dotres to be the new superintendent after the abrupt departure of Alberto Carvalho to the Los Angeles, California, school district. Yeah, it was quick. Carvalho announced in December that he was leaving, for real this time after he changed his mind when New York City […]
A controversial takeover of the Coral Gables Country Club by a politically-connected businessman and lobbyist could be dead in the water after Rodney Barreto sent the city a letter Saturday saying that he gives up on what he called a “painful process.” Barreto has withdrawn his proposal to lease and operate the historic, taxpayer-owned “crown […]
Neighbors sue to stop mowing, spraying and cutting of trees In an obvious attempt to skewer the results of mandated environmental studies to verify the existence of threatened and endangered wildlife, the owners and developers of the old, abandoned Calusa Golf Course — which has become a natural preserve in the midst of suburbia — […]
The husband and wife team at Miami Police who were fired by former Police Chief Art Acevedo after they allegedly attempted to cover up her car accident in a city SUV are back on the job. So is Luis Camacho, a sergeant at arms who was relieved of duty after he was accused of helping […]
But a $2.2 million mortgage on the property could complicate things A week after a Miami-Dade Circuit judge slammed Coral Gables for a secret settlement deal that paved the way for a WaWa gas station on Grand Avenue, the city — fighting a lawsuit from homeowners and parents at the elementary school across the site […]
Florida Congressman Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburgh), a turncoat who served as a Republican governor from 2007 to 2011, and Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Nikki Fried — the only statewide elected Democrat in the current administration — are leading the race for campaign contributions in the Democratic primary for governor, leaving Sen. Annette […]