The conversation is said to have started over a year ago, after Rep. David Richardson (D-Miami Beach) won his first election and became Florida’s first openly-gay state legislator. Several sources close to both he and Senator Gwen Margolis (D-North Miami Beach) — who has been in public office for four decades and is rumored on […]
Everyone knows that Gov. Rick Scott‘s HCA-owned hospitals are increasing turning to the trauma center business and Aventura Hospital could take one step further toward becoming the third trauma center in Miami-Dade on Tuesday, if the city council approves a helipad on the medical center’s campus. One might immediately jump to the conclusion that this […]
Sweetwater Mayor Jose Diaz just won’t have it. He says that a Brothers to the Rescue Memorial Plaza on 109th Avenue just across from FIU will not have to share its name with the Nicaraguan poet hero Ruben Dario. He vetoed last month the commission’s actions to do just that and the veto is expected […]
There is a problem when year after year after year, the same stories of horrid conditions come out of public housing complex for senior citizens that is set upon by elected officials every campaign season. But that is exactly what is happening with the residents of the Robert King High and Haley Sofge buildings on […]
Here we go again. Doral went three for three last month when City Clerk Barbara Herrera became the third charter official to be fired in less than a year – the third termination for what seems like political rather than professional reasons. Councilman Pete Cabrera said he wanted to fire Herrera because of inefficiency and […]
A new year, and a new job for Miami-Dade Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Cuba, who quit the job he’s had for two years to join big labor as a political strategist for the Service Employees International Union. Cuba, who takes too much credit for the victories of Homestead Mayor Jeff Porter and Miami-Dade Commissioner […]
It was a busy week, photographically, for our Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. Monday, he launched the Employ Miami-Dade initiative and then he hosted his annual toy drive at the Biltmore Hotel Tuesday. Wednesday he became embroiled in the U.S. policy Cuba blunder and was busy responding to multiple media requests on that. But by Friday, […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez was spotted meeting with former Miami-Dade Aviation Director Jose Abreu and chauffuer-turned-lobbyist Rafael Garcia Toledo at Greenstreet in Coconut Grove Friday morning. At least that is how several people in the know, including the new aviation director, identified the folks in the photo. What was that coffee chat about? Inquiring minds […]
It’s almost like he was the last to know. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced breathlessly on Facebook Tuesday that he had “decided to actively explore” a run for the White House in 2016. As opposed to what? “Inactively exploring” or just “exploring” all by its lonesome, as he has been for at least the […]
After weeks of speculation and guessing about a switcheroo scenario in which he could run for commissioner, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason — who originally said he was only interested in one term, then two when he said he thought one term was four years — has called a press conference this morning to announce, […]