Finally! Someone has stepped up to the plate to challenge Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Mr. Ego” Levine. Ladra’s hero is attorney David Wieder, chairman of the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board. Former Commissioner and mayoral candidate Michael Gongora, who almost got into a runoff with Levine in 2013, first announced it on his newsletter Tuesday. “He […]
A newbie commission candidate in Miami Beach is taking a cue from the growing public disgust over a shady PAC financed by special interests and championed by Mayor Philip Levine and its chairman, Commissioner Jonah Wolfson. Mark Samuelian, who is running in group VI, made the Relentless for Progress PAC part of his campaign over […]
Two electeds in Miami Beach are scrambling to defend themselves after their shady political action committee — the one taking $100,000 checks from vendors and developers who work in the city — came under fire from the local media. The latest salvo is a full page ad in the Miami Herald — the back page, which […]
After a 15-year hiatus, former Coral Gables Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli is planning a comeback to City Hall — as the handpicked successor to Mayor Jim Cason, who has said he won’t run again (though we’ve heard that before). The rumors have been escalating for weeks as Valdes-Fauli, who was tossed out by voters in 2001 after […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is now officially a trained diplomat. Thanks to Bill Cooke of Random Pixels for pointing out that Levine posted a picture on Facebook of his diploma from the Fletcher School at Tufts University stating that he had completed the Leadership Program in Advanced Diplomacy — which is apparently a six-day […]
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has passed on a request from the Miami Lakes council to open an independent investigation into the May car accident involving Mayor Michael Pizzi and a tree. FDLE Director Scott McInerny told Miami Lakes Town Manager Alex Rey in a letter dated Aug. 3 that they reviewed the investigation by […]
It’s fraud. Or extortion. Or both. Miami-Dade County sold six taxi medallions at auction for about $2.4 million dollars in 2012, an average of $400,000 each. This is on top of the 20 medallions awarded to taxi drivers through a lottery every year from 1999 to 2011– at $20,000 a pop. Folks paid those prices […]
You know how they say good news travels fast. Well, it also travels more. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announced a series of budget town hall meetings, starting next week, where residents will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide input on his proposed 2015-16 county budget. And there are a whole 10 of them […]
Sarah smiled Wednesday. The 32-year-old daughter of former Palmetto Bay mayor Shelley Stanczyk was still in intensive care recovery Wednesday after undergoing six hours of surgery for a liver transplant Monday to save her life. She has been stable since the surgery and awake and alert since Monday evening, her mother said posted on Facebook, adding that […]
The photos and videos are startling. They show clouds forming in Biscayne Bay where the city of Miami Beach pumps water out to keep the streets dry. Activists say that the the thousands of gallons of storm water are accompanied by plastic bags, Styrofoam, construction debris and other pollutants — creating a cloudy and sometimes […]