The city of Coral Gables is about to honor it’s founder, George Merrick, by naming June 3 Founder’s Day. This item on Tuesday’s commission agenda is for a new yearly designation for a day that will likely be marked in the future by events and exhibits or essay contests. But, as in other celebrations of […]
Calling the non-binding referendum vote five months ago a mandate — as if 57% was a landslide — Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and city leaders have been working since January to ban alcohol sales after 2 a.m. Fresh off the Spring Break curfew that was more about development than crowd or crime control — […]
The Florida traffic crash report on the January accident involving a city car with Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in it shows that his sergeant at arms was at fault for the collision. And we only know that the commissioner was in the car because it was leaked to Ladra and became a […]
The city of Miami may get cut off by Miami-Dade when it comes to transportation funds because of bad accounting. According to the latest audit available from last year, the city has not been able to show how it has allocated almost $20 million in transportation surtax funds from the half-penny People’s Transportation Plan sales […]
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is under pressure from both Coconut Grove residents and black activists to veto last week’s vote on the redistricting map, which they say gerrymanders the Grove into three districts. Suarez, who has been glaringly absent throughout the entire redistricting process, has 10 days from the 3-2 March 24 vote to issue […]
Miami Freedom Park is still not ready for prime time. The special city of Miami meeting Friday on plans to turn the Melreese Golf Course into a mega real estate complex with hotel, retail, restaurants, offices and, oh yeah, a soccer stadium, has been pushed back to April 28. And it was so appropriately scheduled […]
Time-out. More than three years after a voter referendum gave the Miami commission the green light to negotiate a lease for a real estate complex disguised as a soccer stadium on the city’s Melreese golf course, the Miami Freedom Park team is still not ready to play. The Inter Miami soccer team owned by former […]
He read the room. Miami-Dade Commissioner Javier Souto asked the county attorney to repeal the ordinance that created the Westchester Municipal Advisory Committee he later secretly formed to consider (read: jam through) the incorporation of Westchester. Souto had already appointed the 7-member MAC, according to a memo he sent on Feb. 9, the day before […]
Hialeah, Miami Beach pass local laws to limit huge rent hikes The Miami City Commission may set aside $5 million on Thursday to help reenters in the city who are “unable to absorb dramatic rent increases.” But only some people. Even though the resolution would establish a new “special revenue project” called “Miami for Everyone […]
Updated: The son of Congressman Carlos Gimenez was released from jail late Thursday morning, posting $1,500 bond for a battery charge after slapping a Miami city commissioner at a Coral Gables restaurant almost 24 hours earlier. But there are a lot of questions about the atypical arrest of CJ Gimenez in an incident that the […]