Like a rabid dog with a bone that’s too big for him to chew, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed yet another lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the transfer of the 1,900+ recall petitions against him to the Miami-Dade Elections Department post haste, as ordered by not one but two courts already. This is actually Crazy […]
Will the real communist please stand up? No, it’s not 1983, but, right on cue, the campaign for Renier Diaz de la Portilla is calling Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, who he wants to replace on the dais, a communist. A week or so before absentee ballots arrive, a TV video ad is making its way […]
The COVID-19 response in Miami-Dade has been to take one step forward, two steps back. And Monday’s decision to rollback the reopening of our economy was no exception. At 10:15 a.m., financial experts were on Radio Caracol AM radio explaining the RISE Miami-Dade Fund program’s $25 million in low interest micro loans for local businesses […]
It’s not like there haven’t been a bunch of missteps in the way that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has handled the COVID19 pandemic and the economic and social crisis it has caused. There have been delays in action, an early reluctance to close events and businesses, amendments to executive orders, then amendments to those amendments. […]
“They’re baaaack,” the mailer says on one side, because everyone knows that if you elect former State Rep. and Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla, you get both of his brothers, too. “The Diaz de la Portillas,” (yes, plural!) says the Halloween-like mailer that landed in mailboxes last week, with Renier looking […]
The radio ad has been playing on Spanish-language and Cuban radio for more than a week. It warns voters to be on the lookout for absentee voter fraud and targets two Miami-Dade mayoral candidates who have had a history with it: Commissioner Xavier Suarez, who was removed from office in 1997 after the Miami Herald […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime dropped out of the county mayoral race two months ago — and now he backs one of three colleagues running for the seat, which is vacated by Mayor Carlos Gimenez due to term limitations. “I have served with Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava for years and she has earned my trust and respect,” Monestime […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez lost his first battle in the congressional contest last week when a Tallahassee judge denied his motion to dismiss a lawsuit that aims to take him off the ballot because he paid his qualification fee with a bad check. Seems the lawsuit to disqualify Gimenez, filed by firefighter Omar Blanco in April, […]
UPDATED: Guess who wrote that “anonymous” complaint nearly three years ago that landed Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak in hot water for a photo he took with 14 female police officers at a pool party outside the city. No, really, try. It shocked many city insiders and employees at City Hall Thursday that the “anonymous” complaint to then City […]
The charges against four Florida International University students who were protesting the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis Police — and the inequitable treatment of blacks by law enforcement and criminal courts everywhere — have been dropped by state prosecutors who did not find enough evidence to move forward. “The totality of […]