All five new county commissioners were sworn in at separate ceremonies Tuesday after winning their elections Nov. 8 or in the August primary. Miami-Dade Commissioner Anthony Rodriguez didn’t have to go to a runoff after getting 56% against three other candidates in the District 10 race to replace termed-out Javier Souto. The former state rep […]
While a Miami-Dade Commission seat has sat vacant for two months, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wasted no time in naming former Miami Springs Councilman Daniel “Danny” Espino to the county school board Monday to replace Christi Fraga, who resigned to run for mayor of Doral and has a runoff in December. Espino was youngest council […]
Developers of 550 homes on the former golf course must make changes Neighbors opposed to the development of 550 homes on the 160 acres that used to be the Calusa Golf Course got a reprieve last week, when a court ruled that the county had not provided proper notice of the zoning hearing. And the […]
In an ugly, backstabbing move, Miami Commissioners Alex Diaz de la Portilla and Joe Carollo, at the very last minute last week, snatched the last commission meeting from outgoing Commissioner Ken Russell by postponing the Dec. 8 agenda to January. This would be after Russell’s resignation is effective on Jan. 3. Russell, who resigned to […]
Doral Councilwoman Digna Cabral was reelected last week with 59% of the vote, but two other council contests and the heated mayoral race head into runoffs after nobody got 50% plus one. For mayor, Christi Fraga, who has served as a Doral councilwoman and a Miami-Dade School Board member, came out on top of a […]
A confidential offering memorandum distributed to potential investors last year, shows that the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District — the complex of warehouses they want to build across the Urban Development Boundary — were counting on the “relationships” they had to make it happen. This is important because the developers had […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava vetoed on Thursday the Nov. 1 vote to move the Urban Development Boundary for a controversial 311-acre industrial park to be developed on flood-prone agricultural land. After four deferrals gave the developers time to iron out details and make it more palatable to the commission, they were finally able to […]
After a surprisingly hard loss Tuesday to Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, an upbeat Sen. Annette Taddeo blasted the Florida Democratic Party and vowed to keep fighting for South Florida’s needs. “I don’t need a title to get shit done,” she told her supporters after conceding defeat. And she read a text message that her daughter […]
The council in South Miami changed significantly Tuesday when a new mayor and two new council members were elected. Mayor Javier Fernandez, a former state rep, and Council members Steve Calle and Lisa Bonich were sworn in on Wednesday. Former Mayor Horace Feliu was rejected by voters once again — for the fourth or fifth […]
Miami-Dade voters painted the town red Tuesday when ballots counted showed that Republican candidates had won all but one local partisan race. The only exception: Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who handily beat her opponent, Jesus Navarro, with 71% of the vote. But led by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio, who each won with comfortable […]