Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak and City Commissioner Vince Lago were the subjects of a secret internal investigation conducted by the former chief last year. An audit of the Coral Gables Police Department’s internal affairs cases in the last several years shows that there was at least one unauthorized, rogue investigation into then-Major Hudak and his […]
Among some of the quick things that will get approved at Tuesday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting is an item pushing for equal pay for women. It’s cleverly disguised as a local equivalent of the United Nations Convention to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and a proposal to simply study the disparities in pay and pain if […]
Coral Gables City Manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark is about to announce a restructuring of the city’s police department in a move that makes her longtime confidant and brand new assistant city manager the top cop. Frank Fernandez, a retired Miami Police officer who Swanson tapped as her chief and public safety director in Hollywood, followed Swanson’s […]
The list of people who are calling that shady Miami Beach Relentless for Progress PAC for what it is — at best, a conflict of interest, at worst an extortion scheme involving Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson — is growing and growing. Commissioner Deede Weithorn sounded the alarm early and Commissioner Ed Tobin […]
Jeb Bush, Jr., son of the former governor and current GOP contender for president, is taking time out from his busy schedule campaigning for good ol’ Dad so he can fundraise for someone else: John Couriel, who is running for House seat 114 to replace the termed-out Eric Fresen in 2016. “I am honored to have […]
As we get closer to the September budget hearings on Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s annual budget, several commissioners are getting ready to make some suggested changes. And the most drastic of these is a call for a tax cut from Commissioner Juan Zapata. Zapata met with Gimenez Wednesday morning to ask for a lower tax […]
Relentless for Progress has $1.4 million to spend on propaganda to push the agenda for Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, who want to elect a slate of pocket commissioners to do their bidding. But they can’t afford a proofreader? A video posted on the web Tuesday by the political action committee […]
DEVELOPING STORY: Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi has sued the his own town twice to recoup $3.2 million in alleged legal fees from both his fight against federal bribery charges and is fight to get back into Town Hall. Pizzi’s team of attorneys filed two lawsuits Wednesday. One seeks $700,000 for the civil case he won […]
Animal advocates who passed the Pets’ Trust Initiative referendum nearly three years ago and have been met with resistance from the county to execute what is basically the people’s will finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. And that light’s name is Commissioner Xavier Suarez. Suarez will present the Metropolitan Services Committee […]
The shady Miami Beach PAC that has collected more than $1.3 million in donations from contractors, vendors and developers with interests in the city has mailed an attack mailer aimed at candidate Mark Weithorn, husband of Commissioner Deede Weithorn, the termed-out eleccted who is the first person that rose questions about obvious conflict of interest when […]