Two creepy PAC mailers try to shame voters into action

Two creepy PAC mailers try to shame voters into action

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 […]

Pollster: GOPs outvote Dems so far in Gov, House races

Pollster: GOPs outvote Dems so far in Gov, House races

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 […]

Gables transfer stinks of political payback via Salernoites

Gables transfer stinks of political payback via Salernoites

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 […]

Courthouse tax debate: Scare tactics vs. common sense

Courthouse tax debate: Scare tactics vs. common sense

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 […]

Round II: PBA meets again with county honchos over contract

Round II: PBA meets again with county honchos over contract

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 […]

Cathy Swanson to get Gables city manager recommendation

Cathy Swanson to get Gables city manager recommendation

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 […]

PBA launches own radio show for ‘equal’ air time

PBA launches own radio show for ‘equal’ air time

On any given day of the week, morning or afternoon, you can turn your radio dial and hear either Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez and county commissioners speaking to the masses. While it’s not equal time, now the county cops want to reach an audience, too. The Dade County Police Benevolent Association launched its […]

Alberto Carvalho drops mayoral hopes for UM dream

Alberto Carvalho drops mayoral hopes for UM dream

Even though he was always kind of one foot in, one foot out, Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is giving up on his idea of running for Miami-Dade mayor in 2016 or 2020. Or turning in another direction, that is. That’s because he now wants to be named president of the University of Miami. Donna […]