Joe Carollo files late campaign report, with $60K to mayor’s daughter in law

Joe Carollo files late campaign report, with $60K to mayor’s daughter in law

Authorities need to investigate the latest campaign finance report filed Monday by Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, and not because it’s several months late, for which the commissioner should be fined. One expenditure on the campaign termination report — which closes out the account for the 2017 campaign — smells questionable and should raise eyebrows in […]

Lack of early voting on campuses is Miami-Dade mayor’s voter suppression

Lack of early voting on campuses is Miami-Dade mayor’s voter suppression

Make no mistake. The lack of early voting on college campuses in Miami-Dade is voter suppression. In defiance of a federal judge who said the Florida ban on early voting on college campuses had a “pattern of discrimination,” and while other counties scramble to provide campus locations, Miami-Dade is not opening any early voting locations […]

Carlos Gimenez has a new role as rainmaker — soliciting for 10 PACs

Carlos Gimenez has a new role as rainmaker — soliciting for 10 PACs

There may have been no contributions and no activity in the reports for his political action committee until the $5,000 check from Fisher Island developers in late August, but Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez first began soliciting contributions for Miami Dade Residents First in March of last year. Maybe he’s losing his golden touch. According to […]

Coral Gables manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark quits job in battle with chief

Coral Gables manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark quits job in battle with chief

After a series of major missteps, a protracted and seemingly personal battle with the popular police and several threats, both public and private, to quit her job, Coral Gables City Manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark resigned Monday after almost four years at the helm of the City Beautiful. Police Chief Ed Hudak wins. And it seems Commissioner Mike Mena is […]

Old story about Daniella Levine Cava paints ugly picture of harassment

Old story about Daniella Levine Cava paints ugly picture of harassment

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who is expected to win her re-election bid without much trouble, is thought of as the soft-spoken, bespectacled progressive who starts many of her sentences with an apology and stays away from negative politics. But to Ran Gimeno and his family, she is “a monster.” Gimeno and his husband, […]