Was it me? Or did the six candidates for Coral Gables City Commission, who spoke at the first forum or debate for the upcoming April election, all sound pretty much alike? They all believe something has to be done about the pension, though they aren’t sure exactly what. They all think Interim Police Chief Ed […]
If there is any one single sign that shows that Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado is running for county mayor, it’s the rebuttal she issued Thursday to Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s State of the County address. Nobody — not even Regalado — can tell me now that she’s still undecided. Somebody had to do it. […]
That was it? Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez finished his State of the County address just a couple hours ago, reading 46 pages worth of words in large font size and all caps without saying much — a feat in and of itself — leaving folks sorta looking left and right for something, well, something more. […]
When Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez gives his State of the County address Thursday morning, expect him to be promoting himself as much as anything else. That’s if the speech is anything like the mayor’s 2015 State of the County message, posted online Wednesday, which is the first page state of the county report that the […]
It’s been more than two years since almost half a million Miami-Dade voters approved a referendum that would fund a no-kill animal services climate and program at the county. Now the advocates who took that initiative to the ballot are pushing for statewide legislation that would force the county to respect that November 2012 vote […]
Former Congressman Joe Garcia is out of politics — at least for now. Garcia has seemed to kick his habit — running for office — and gone for the private sector. He is now senior vice president of QueensFort Capital, a Miami Beach-based merchant and investment bank where he apparently will use his experience and […]
As we learn more and more about billionaire Donald Trump‘s proposal to run the Crandon Golf Course on Key Biscayne for the next 99 years, it becomes increasingly difficult to believe either The Donald or his biggest county champion, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez. Let’s start with Trump, not because it’s any easier to […]
Qualification ended at noon Friday for the April Coral Gables elections that nobody really knows about and all three seats on the ballot became contests with a last minute entry against Commissioner Frank Quesada and a free-for-all of six candidates in the open seat vacated by termed-out Commissioner William “Billy” Kerdyk. Activist Enrique Lopez, who […]
There was a little, bloodless political battle at the MPO meeting Thursday when the body of electeds that plan regional infrastructure and transit improvements elected its new chair and vice chair. It wasn’t over the chair. The new Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jean Monestime was unanimously and quickly elected to replace former chair of both, Commissioner […]
Lubby Navarro, the bureaucrat-turned-lobbyist who was appointed this week to the Miami-Dade School Board by Gov. Rick Scott will be sworn in this afternoon. But already, she’s got a challenge if for the 2016 election from teacher Carolina Blanco, who has spent the last eight years in a classroom teaching special needs students. Blanco had […]