Different rules about containing the COVID19 virus in different municipalities across Miami-Dade are confusing residents about the requirement of masks and causing yet more distrust in local governments that say one thing one day and something completely different the next. Does anyone else remember a time when we were told that masks weren’t necessary and […]
Miami city attorneys lost their final appeal Wednesday against the effort to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo, and the city could be forced to turn the 1,900 plus petitions to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections as early as Thursday. The Third District Court of Appeals denied the request by the city and Carollo’s attorney, Ben Kuehne, […]
The negative political ads and “anonymous” attack mailers have come out in the 2020 mayoral race, so far against two of the candidates — Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava and former mayor Alex Penelas. Over the last week, some voters have received one or all of three mailers — count ’em, three in less than a week — attacking Levine […]
City officials in Coral Gables may be violating their own zoning code to accelerate the green light for demolition of an old home on Asturia Avenue that the city itself tried to designate historic earlier this year. Even Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli has lobbied on behalf of the politically-connected family that bought the property two years ago. Valdes-Fauli […]
Make no mistake about it. Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava could have resigned in time for her replacement to run at the same time as the other seven commission races. Instead, her decision to defer the effective date may end up costing the county taxpayers nearly $1 million for a special election. Levine Cava has said […]
An increase in positive COVID19 cases and hospitalizations in Miami-Dade has caused some concern and Mayor Carlos Gimenez — blaming the police abuse protests in the wake of the George Floyd murder because he has to deflect his own responsibility — has issued a warning for businesses: Follow the “new normal” safety rules or police will shut […]
The third or fourth mailer from Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava landed in an otherwise lonely East Kendall mailbox last week. Because none of the other county mayoral candidates had sent a mailer to the three voters at this address until Wednesday, when we got our first piece from Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo. So, a little […]
It’s about time. It took the murder of yet another black man at the hands of police, this time it was George Floyd in Minneapolis, to come to this. It took the tear gassing of peaceful protesters exercising their right to denounce the brutal killing. It took the arrest of passionate student demonstrators, sitting on […]
It’s not enough to drop charges. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office should investigate abuses and violations of civil and human rights by police officers during the protests that have come in the wake of abuse and human rights violations exposed by the death of a black man in Minneapolis at the hands of police last […]
Miami-Dade Property Appraiser Pedro García almost got re-elected without any opposition this year — until a surprise candidate came out of nowhere and qualified on Monday. Her name is Marisol Zenteno and she works for the county property appraiser’s office. In other words, García is her boss. Awwwkwaaaard. Zenteno, who makes $77,000 a year as […]