Man, did newly appointed commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins step in it last week. Deep in it. It’s not so much that she renewed a proposal to build a super controversial bridge over a canal on 87th Avenue connecting 164th Street with 163rd Terrace — and Cutler Bay with Palmetto Bay — just a few weeks […]
Coral Gables Commissioners are poised to take the second and final vote Tuesday on the controversial zoning clean-up (read: rewrite), which includes remote parking, height increases downtown, and increased density in the neighborhood known as the Crafts Section. If they do, they will have completely ignored hundreds of residents who have concerns about the process, […]
Oooops! The Florida Legislature is already knee deep in committee meetings and the budget was presented by the governor on Thursday. Many if not most municipal governments have already sent their legislative priorities and designated lobbyists to Tallahassee to fight for their pet projects and piece of pork pie. But not Miami, where city commissioners […]
As expected, Florida’s House Bill 1, the governor’s priority anti-protest law disguised as an “anti-rioting” measure, passed its first committee meeting Wednesday — along partisan lines. The 11-6 vote at the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Subcommittee followed a hearing of more than two hours with about 70 public commenters, most against the bill, and […]
Not everybody is going to be as excited as Ladra is about this, but there are more elections where that last one just came from. A bunch more. And they start right away. In fact, candidates for the Golden Beach general election in February have to qualify between Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 for a […]
They were supposed to get their lump sum payments this week, hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of dollars in back pay owed to them since 2017. And just in time for the holidays, too. But Miami-Dade transit workers found out Wednesday that most of them will have to wait until early next year. And […]
So, that’s why we suddenly see the former Miami-Dade mayor’s son and his wife on these Community Newspaper Facebook chats doing their best to look like James Carville and Mary Matalin. Tania Cruz Gimenez is running for Coral Gables commission. Ladra was wrong when she thought, after running into her and lobbyist Carlos J. “CJ” […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners on Tuesday could approve a proposed freestanding Jackson Health System emergency room and medical offices on a property at the northeastern corner of SW 8th Street and Galiano Avenue in Coral Gables. This would be part of the Jackson Health Systems network and aims to fill a growing demand, according to Jackson’s own studies. […]
It happened so fast. So quietly. So sneakily. There’s going to be a Wawa gas station and convenience store with six pumps built in front of GW Carver Elementary School in a historic district of Coral Gables instead of the restaurant promised 10 years ago or the affordable housing promised 10 years before that. Parents, […]
A controversial rezoning of Miracle Mile and the Crafts Section of Coral Gables could be put on hold, even after it passed 4-1 on first reading, to get more input from residents and business owners who aren’t happy about amendments that would allow for height increases and remote parking. Vice Mayor Vince Lago has put […]