It looks like the COVID-19 crisis is over, huh? Sure, the number of positive cases keep rising and the number of available hospital beds keep shrinking, but since Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that government meetings must now be held in a public place, just like before the pandemic, our county commission is no longer […]
There are two ways the Miami-Dade Commission could go Tuesday with the District 8 vacancy. One would be to stick with their misguided first decision to appoint someone from the tight field of candidates who are already raising money for the 2022 race. The other is to call for a special election. Commissioners Rene Garcia […]
There’s been quite some community pushback on the appointment of Jimmy Morales as the county’s chief operations officer by the newly elected Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. And everything could change after Monday. The Miami-Dade NAACP has not backed down from its position that the former Miami Beach city manager is not a good fit […]
Palmetto Bay commissioners thought they had rid themselves of former Village Manager Edward “Ed” Silva when he was forced to resign just months before the end of his contract by council members who felt he was “in bed with developers” and intentionally undermining the mayor. But nooooooooo. A village resident for the last 25 years, […]
The Miami-Dade Commission had another “last” meeting Monday — this will really have to be the last because the new guys get sworn in Tuesday — to vote on a resolution that would allow some of them to keep meeting virtually during the COVID19 state of emergency. They have to have a quorum. And the […]
If people want to see a stolen election, a real stolen election, they need to stop looking at the presidential race and check out Florida Senate District 37, where an unknown plantidate helped the GOP cheat. What’s more: It looks like it’s not the only race has a fake candidate propped up by unknown sources […]
Dear Marquito, it’s over. This may come as a shock, but we’re through. And it’s not me. It’s you. Sorry (not sorry) but you are just not the man I thought you were. In four short years, you’ve gone from being fiercely independent and #NeverTrump because you knew he was a fraud to helping him defraud […]
A long and complicated item on the Coral Gables Commission agenda for Tuesday has some residents worried that the city is trying to sneak some zoning changes in only two weeks after a controversial move to increase heights on Miracle Mile was temporarily stalled. But Vice Mayor Vince Lago and Commissioner Pat Keon both assured […]
There are already seven Coral Gables residents who have expressed an interest and willingness to run for one of the two commission seats that are up for grabs next April. Both Commissioners Pat Keon and Vince Lago have said that they are going to run for the mayor’s seat, being vacated by Raul Valdes-Fauli. They […]
Voters in South Miami will two charter amendments on their ballots that could be more important to the future of the small city than the presidential or Miami-Dade mayoral elections. That’s because it could change not only future development projects but also the election of all future electeds. If approved, one of the charter changes […]