In an effort to shorten increasingly marathon Miami-Dade County commission meetings — and just in time for budget hearings — Chairman Jean Monestime explained rules Tuesday that allow our local government to basically limit the amount of speakers on any given item that is not a public hearing item as well as when and where […]
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez was all smiles as he doled out the good news and budget increases last week: Higher property values give the county $120 million more to play with and the mayor recommends millions in additional funds to libraries, parks and programs — including an additional $2 million to the […]
Tucked into what is going to be a mammoth Miami-Dade County commission meeting Tuesday are two items that seem like they come out of some spy novel: Commissioners will be asked to close their eyes and give a little more than $3 million to “confidential projects” with the code names “Zorin” and “Novel.” Both are […]
Debbie does not do Havana. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is not down with President Barack Obama‘s warming up to the Cuban government and told The Daily Signal last week — again, because she’s said it before — that the U.S. should perhaps wait to normalize relations as some kind […]
The Florida Supreme Court ruling Thursday that mandates the redistricting of eight of the state’s 27 congressional districts — an act that will likely domino-effect its way into a fully new statewide map — is seen as a real boon to Democrats who may be able to take more red seats from Miami to the […]
The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that eight congressional districts in Florida violation Fair District amendment of 2010 and must be redrawn in 100 days — by the very same Republican-led State House and Senate that gerrymandered the districts in the first place. Como? Isn’t that like letting the fox back in the hen house […]
Who believed the Everglades sales pitch story? No, not the one where someone tries to sell you a bridge, but close. It’s the Air Show in the Swamp pitch, where Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez was going to get all these international corporations and celebrities to come out for an fancy aviation convention at […]
It’s very nice that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is putting $5 million more into our public parks and $2 million more into animal services and $1 million aside for a summer jobs program for needy youth. What Gimenez didn’t say at his big reveal of the 2015-16 budget Tuesday is that he also wants to […]
Everyone in Miami-Dade County can sigh a breath of relief! Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez has saved the day! There will be no further cuts to services and personnel, no more “sacrifices” asked of our loyal county employees, no more library closings. In fact, 10 of the 20-some libraries closed two days a week will […]
Nothing really happened when Hialeah Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez swore to tell the whole truth and then testified in court that he was, indeed, a loanshark charging illegal interest rates in a shadow banking industry ruled by Hialeah politicians. He was either past the statute of limitations or granted immunity for his testimony against former […]