Covering Joe Carollo could include witness tampering Tricky Vicky Mendez gives municipal lawyers a bad name. Time and time again, the Miami city attorney shows that she really is only there to protect and represent corrupt city commissioners — particularly her favorite, Commissioner Joe Carollo — and not the residents whose tax dollars pay her […]
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, […]
The bromance is over. Miami Commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla — the power duo that’s been wreaking havoc on the city — are just not getting along like they used to. Carollo is acting like a jilted lover. And while we don’t know what happens behind closed doors, Diaz de la […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s Tallahassee BFF is planning the redrawing of city districts and is reportedly making $10,000 a month. And you just know that District 1 is going to turn out just like he wants. Sen. Bill Galvano‘s law firm was paid $10,265 last week, representing his first monthly fee plus […]
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 […]
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 […]
Frank Artiles? Really? The former and disgraced state senator, forced to resign after a public racist rant at a Tallahassee bar, is among the folks being considered Monday by the Miami-Dade commission to fill the vacancy in District 8 caused by the resignation of Daniella Levine Cava, who has become the mayor. Artiles likely won’t […]
Now more than ever — after the Miami-Dade commissioners held off the District 8 appointment to open it up to more wannabes — voters countywide must demand a special election as the only way to maintain our trust. The process of replacing Daniella Levine Cava, who was elected to mayor and left her commission seat […]
For the second time this year, Ed Silva has been rejected in Palmetto Bay. The former city manager, forced to resign earlier this year, lost the election for vice mayor to Leanne Tellam, attorney and PTA mom extraordinaire, two to one. She got two for every one of his. Final score, according to Miami-Dade Elections […]
The NAACP is backing down, after all, from its demand that Jimmy Morales not be appointed as the Chief Operations Officer of Miami-Dade County. But only to wait and see for 100 days. After that, the former Miami Beach city manager and Mayor Daniella Levine Cava will get a report card on their promised actions […]