Democrat Congressman Joe Garcia is going to have to do a lot better than photo ops with Charlie Crist and a questionable endorsement from a Cuban dissident who may or may not have been taken advantage of (more on that later) if he wants to be something other than a one-term legislator. As much as […]
The two main county referendums on the Nov. 4 ballot — the FIU expansion and the courthouse bond tax — have cost advocates a combined $2.5 million so far. Campaign consultants and TV and radio stations are raking it in. Friends of Higher Education, which is pushing the yes vote on the question of whether […]
Big Brother really is watching. And he’s counting your votes. A very disturbing mailer appeared Wednesday — which is five days before it’s all over — in the Miami-Dade mailboxes of registered voters who have not yet cast ballots for the Nov. 4 election. “Don’t throw away your vote! Your neighbors will know. It’s public […]
Well, it was predicted that in a midterm gubernatorial year, Republican voters would outnumber Democrats. And it is looking true statewide in the Florida governor’s race and in two key state races in Miami-Dade when it comes to the early voting and absentee ballots cast so far. Of course, we don’t know how all these […]
Longtime Coral Gables Public Relations Manager Maria Rose Higgins-Fallon was unceremoniously transferred to the city’s police department in what seems like a retaliatory move by one or more of the administrators left behind by former City Manager Pat Salerno. Bumped down from the job she’s been doing for 11 years, down from Public Relations Manager […]
In defense of an ethics complaint against him for a TV attack ad in his campaign for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser, State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez — who must know himself that he is losing the race — said, en alta voz y con orgullo in a TV news interview that he can lie because, well, it […]
I’m surprised it’s not in a mailer already, but look for one in which proponents of the new courthouse tax on the ballot Nov. 4 say the building is unsafe because of the asbestos. That’s one of the arguments made by former U.S. Attorney Roberto Martinez, who went on This Week in South Florida earlier […]
Members of the PBA bargaining unit will meet again with Miami-Dade Human Resources Director Arlene Cuellar today to try to reach an agreement on the contract with the Miami-Dade Police employees, both sworn and civilian. But already it looks like things are going better than before — if only because they are talking and this […]
It’s homecoming season in the high school world and it looks like Coral Gables is getting ready to crown Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark their own queen. Swanson — who was the city’s economic development director before leaving to Hollywood, where she is now manager — was at Human Resources Monday to be fingerprinted, the only one of […]
UPDATED: Miami Beach Commissioner Ed Tobin, who is termed out in 2015 and has always wanted to be a police officer when he grows up, is asking his colleagues to waive the two year requirement before he can apply to the city’s police force. Tobin has requested a discussion on the matter at Wednesday’s meeting […]