Miami-Dade has a new port boss, the third director since the fuel farm fiasco first exploded in public. And if you listen to the county’s press release — which reads like it was drafted on a yacht with a corporate logo stitched into the napkins — Jonathan Daniels is basically the maritime equivalent of a […]
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson‘s team teased it as a “shocking announcement.” No, she wasn’t un-retiring. But she wasn’t staying neutral. Instead, Wilson did what veteran politicians often do when they’re leaving office: She picked a successor. Or at least she tried to. In a carefully staged passing-of-the-torch ceremony Monday at a Miami Gardens church, Wilson — […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a year after being tapped to succeed the late Mark Trowbridge, Coral Gables Chamber President and CEO Jorge Arrizurieta was reportedly forced out of the role last week following a vote by the Chamber’s board, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Las malas lenguas tell Political […]
And Eliott Rodriguez says it’s good news for him A new internal poll from Eliott Rodriguez‘s congressional campaign contains one number that should make the other Democrat in the District 27 primary, Robin Peguero, nervous. It’s not Rodriguez’s 54%. It’s the 18% that represents the number of undecided voters remaining in Florida’s 27th Congressional District […]
After twenty years, countless meetings, multiple commissions, endless studies, emotional testimony, and enough bureaucratic delays to qualify for historic preservation status, Miami-Dade’s Center for Mental Health and Recovery is finally moving forward. Unanimously. After hours of discussion and lots of personal sharing and patting each other on the back Tuesday, the Miami-Dade Commission voted 12-0 […]
Remember when Miguel Gabela was going to clean up City Hall? He was the reformer. The outsider. The guy who was going to expose the spending excesses, drain the Bayfront swamp, audit everything that moved and drag the ghosts of the Joe Carollo era into the sunlight. Good times. Now comes an awkward little press […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert isn’t the only one who got to say “I told you so,” on Tuesday. And after Tuesday’s nearly unanimous vote to move forward with eminent domain proceedings against the owners of the Fisher Island fuel depot, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore what looked suspiciously like a long con from […]
The Miami-Dade School Board is about to take another step in what has become one of the most ambitious — and controversial — real estate deals involving public land in downtown Miami. Yes, another one. At Wednesday’s meeting, board members are expected to consider a series of agreements involving the Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency, […]
Ladra is raising her hand with a question. When you’re about to hand out a healthcare contract that could be worth roughly $3 billion over seven years, why exactly would you not spend $88,000 to make sure the math is right? That’s the dilemma facing the Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday as members consider awarding […]
For the people constantly saying public education is the most important issue facing America, there sure weren’t a lot of people lining up to run the nation’s third-largest school district. Candidate qualifying ended Friday for the Miami-Dade School Board elections and the result was less democratic showdown and more administrative paperwork. Three incumbents didn’t even […]