About three dozen activists and residents from Coconut Grove milled about the grassy patch in front of Miami City Hall Thursday morning in the heat — for nada. The residents — most of the same people who went to speak against the cutting up of the Grove at every redistricting meeting — want to convince […]
Coconut Grove residents beg no-show mayor to veto redistricting map ¿Donde esta Francis Suarez? Miami just went through a painful redistricting that has Coconut Grove up in arms and Suarez is silent. The new police chief was appointed without a word from the mayor who last year recruited the Beyonce of police chiefs. Community Redevelopment […]
What the hell happened? People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting. It looked like the residents who had begged to keep Coconut Grove together in the new map had won. It seemed, from the meeting before last week’s, that they got their […]
Sources say Art Noriega could join the Inter Miami Freedom Park team Miami Commissioner Manolo Reyes tried last week to prohibit any city executive from taking a job for two years with any entity he negotiates a big deal with as the city’s top executive. Reyes didn’t name names, but the obvious target of his […]
Before the Miami city commission could discuss redistricting at Friday’s special meeting, Commissioner Joe Carollo made a special call to order — and laid into a false narrative attack on Commissioner Ken Russell. It was unwarranted. Carollo thinks Russell was not only behind the recall two years ago — and he is still butt hurt […]
Or ‘How Miami Police tried to extradite a Gables resident’ Documents and interviews with Coral Gables police indicate the city of Miami had much more interest than previously acknowledged in the arrest last month of lobbyist and Gables resident Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, son of the congressman by the same name, for slapping a city of […]
Pro cityhood mailers paid by developers have already arrived The process to see if Westchester homeowners want to incorporate has just started — and it’s been very bumpy and very fast at the same time. Some residents are upset that the Miami-Dade Commission in November, at the request of District 10 Commissioner Javier Souto, waived […]
And Crazy Joe Carollo goes off the reservation on a rabid rant Buried in the Miami city commission meeting last week, dropped during one of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s disturbed diatribes — which is maybe why nobody caught on to it — was news that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the Miami […]
Updated: Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson, who was a state representative in District 113, announced Tuesday that he would be stepping down from his city seat to run for state House in District 106, with its newly-drawn boundaries. He was only city commissioner by default, anyway, running for that after he lost a bid for […]
Former city commissioner goes from convict to confidante This could be one of the greatest comeback political stories of the 305. Former Miami Commissioner Humberto “Bert” Hernandez was removed from office twice amid accusations of federal bank fraud and mortgage fraud and absentee ballot fraud. He spent four years in jail, was disbarred by the […]