In their drive to get the Miami-Dade Commission to pass a tax hike that was approved by voters in 2012 to fund the no-kill Pet’s Trust intiative, the organization that got the measure on the ballot — the measure since ignored by Mayor “By Poll” Carlos Gimenez and eight commissioners — is going around asking cities […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez (R-Hialeah) is formally in the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser’s race. Gonzalez, who is termed out at the end of this year, filed Tuesday, making true Ladra’s prediction from last month. Wednesday, he withdrew from the Hialeah Council race that he had originally intended to run in. The representative did not return repeated […]
The palm trees that cost former Coral Gables City Manager Pat Salerno his job — after he was caught in a lie about them — must go, too. An independent consulting firm has found that 14 Bismarckia Palms along Ponce de Leon Boulevard in downtown Coral Gables do present a visibility issue to drivers, after […]
Investigation? What investigation? Ana who? Former congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera walked through the Cuba Nostalgia exhibit in West Miami-Dade Sunday kind of like the Pope would walk through the plaza or a rock star through his adoring audience. Or maybe like Jesus would walk on water. Since he jumped into the primary for the […]
Sweetwater Mayor Jose Diaz has fired pretty much everyone except the Police Chief. Or everyone that is left, anyway. Diaz will have a press conference Tuesday to announce the dismissal of several department directors and employees as part of the “cleaning house” he has tried to initiate since he took over for the suspended former Mayor Manny “Maraña” Maroño, who […]
Miami-Dade County electeds, the governor and several business and civic leaders are right now celebrating the opening today of the $1 billion Port of Miami tunnel that took 30 years to build and that most of us will never actually use. Built for the cargo and cruise industry that drive one of the county’s biggest […]
Voters in Homestead passed two bond referendums that will raise $25 million to build a much needed police station — the bank the cops currently use is riddled with mold and radon — and finally renovate the Seminole Theater, which many city leaders hope can be a beacon to downtown revitalization. It wasn’t a great […]
Let the political Hunger Games begin. When the prize is a $1.6 billion sewer contract at Miami-Dade, the lobbyists and representatives of the companies vying for that chunk of ka-ching are like “tributes” fighting to the death. They are not just going to lay down and die if they don’t get it on the first […]
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who wants to take his old job away from Gov. Rick Scott, is going to open not one but two local campaign offices, now that Miami-Dade is his new home. And he is bringing his smoking hot wife, businesswoman Carole Crist Rome, who is not usually trotted out to campaign events […]
Some 305 political observers may have expected Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to recommend CH2M Hill for the fat, juicy $1.6 billion water and sewer contract, because their lobbyists include his buddies — former State Rep. turned lobbyist Marcelo Llorente and Vicky Garcia-Toledo, wife of chaffeur turned big wig pretender Ralph Garcia Toledo. But what people […]