Under pressure from the Mothers of Murdered Kids group that protested at her office, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle sorta passed the buck on unsolved crimes the other day, placing most of the blame squarely where it belongs: in the lap of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. In a statement, KFR basically shed light on the […]
Philip Levine heads to New Hampshire for Hillary Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine will head to New Hampshire Saturday to stump for Hillary Clinton. And maybe a job? Where was he when Hill needed him in Iowa Monday night? Many people in the know believe that Levine is angling for an ambassadorship, which makes more […]
Ouch! It didn’t take long for the Miami-Dade Republican Party to lash out at former Congressman Joe Garcia, who announced Wednesday that he was going to run for his old seat again, which he lost in 2014 to a Miami-Dade School Board member named Carlos Curbelo. Within hours, the @MiamiGOP had tweeted a photo collage of headlines […]
Looks like Annette Taddeo won’t have to worry about Andrew Korge, son of Democratic fundraising powerhouse Chris Korge, running against her in the congressional primary for District 26. Because he got scared away by Joe Garcia. So, now all Taddeo has to contend with is the former Congressman, a one-time friend and ally, who has apparently […]
The ride sharing companies who have been operating illegally for two years in Miami-Dade got their first step toward legalization last month when county commissioners gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that would regulate these companies, but barely. But something else happened at that Jan. 20 meeting: A new strategy was born for getting your […]
Weak. That’s what Michael Rosenberg thinks of “West End,” the catchy neighborhood name that Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata came up for his West Kendall/Hammocks district. Rosenberg, president of the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations and the founder and executive director of the Pets’ Trust, didn’t like the way Zapata just changed the name of his […]
Breaking news: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is Cuban again. Gimenez wrote a letter to TV show host and author Chris Matthews Thursday blasting the political pundit, host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, for his comment about a boring GOP debate without Donald Trump. “Whose going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys,” […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is all about the optics. Under fire on an election year for letting the police department get dangerously understaffed, Gimenez will attend a ceremony Thursday for the “largest graduating class” of police officers. But like a lot of other things the mayor does, it’s not entirely true and mostly for show. […]
If you take away the employees who had to be there — the deputy mayors, the directors and assistant directors, the police command staff — and the mayor’s family, the press and the family members of the three employees he decided to highlight in his State of the County address, the lobbyists and the students […]
Wednesday morning, some of us heard another State of the County address that sounded a lot like the last State of the County address a year ago. Maybe that’s why there were almost more people outside protesting the mayor (more on that later) than inside listening to him talk and talk and talk. It’s almost […]