Old names resurface as possible fill-ins for the late Mark Samuelian Publicly, Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber says it’s too soon to talk about a replacement process for the seat vacated by the sudden death of Commissioner Mark Samuelian last week. Privately, he and some Beach leaders have already started recruiting possible sit-ins. Las malas […]
Anyone who thought the outrageous and over-the-top $500 million Plan Z proposal for the privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway was dead in the water might want to look again. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez wants to resurrect the public land grab. Suarez is asking the commission on Thursday to urge the county to revisit Plan Z — […]
The sudden and unexpected plan to put the city of Miami’s administration building and City Hall at the publicly-owned Melreese — adjacent to the future Miami Freedom Park — grew like a hungry monster last week when Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla suggested moving the police and fire departments and, heck, solid waste to […]
A second member of the Miami Police Department’s Internal Affairs unit has filed a complaint against Chief Manuel Morales, saying that he is corrupt and unethical and has used his position to retaliate against some officers and reward lackeys. The accusations from Wanda Jean-Baptiste, a 16-year veteran, mirror those made by former IA Commander Brandon […]
How in the world can Miami-Dade’s first female mayor, a self-proclaimed progressive who fights for equality and champions immigrants, women and the LGBT community visit a country like Qatar for no good reason? This is a country with an abysmal human rights record, according to Amnesty International. Women and gays are routinely discriminated against and […]
Speculators who want to change the zoning on 800 acres of environmentally sensitive land outside the Urban Development Boundary will get another bite of the apple on Wednesday. To call them developers would be wrong. They are real estate flippers who have no real plan to develop the land, no announced tenants, and no control […]
Whooooops. The president of the Hialeah Republican Club — the largest Republican club in Miami-Dade and, perhaps, the state of Florida — endorsed Martha Bueno, an NPA candidate and advocate for legalized marijuana, over GOP State Rep. Anthony Rodriguez in the Miami-Dade Commission District 10 race. But it was very short-lived. Of course. Former Hialeah […]
Commissioner ADLP then travels with school attorney While all eyes were on the Melreese Golf Course and the insider Miami Freedom Park deal last month, the city of Miami basically gave another city-owned property away to the private school that got national headlines last year for its backwards COVID policies. City commissioners approved a license […]
Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners consider real solutions The ‘if only’ is backwards. After the terrible accident that killed two cyclists on the bike lane in Key Biscayne earlier this month, there are the inevitable grumblings that the county had a chance to make cycling on the Rickenbacker Causeway safer — “if only” they hadn’t killed the […]
A group of current and former prosecutors will host the next and third judicial forum for Miami-Dade County and Circuit Court candidates on Thursday — but not everybody is going. Teressa Maria Cervera, who has always gone professionally by the name Tessa Tylman until this election, has been the only one of 14 judicial wannabes […]