Critics worry that special interest influence will grow UPDATED: The Coral Gables commission this Wednesday may change the date of city elections from April to November, forever altering the way electeds are elected in the City Beautiful. It’s not just about a date. This change will make it harder for grass roots candidates with little […]
Board votes 5-3 against resolution along partisan lines The Miami-Dade School Board meeting Wednesday was painful. It was ugly. And so sad. Traumatizing might be an apt description for many people there. It was eight hours or so worth of a debate over a proclamation of October as LGBTQ History Month, a debate that never […]
The whole ugly episode last week with the public removal of Claudia Miro from the Coral Gables planning and zoning advisory board because of some bogus attendance issue could really be about stacking the citizen committee with yes men or developer-friendly members. That could be why Mayor Vince Lago sent Miro a series of angry […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla has a new challenger as of Thursday when Marvin Tapia, brand ambassador and shareholder of the Salty Donut and chairman of the Miami-Dade Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board, filed to run in the city’s November election. And it’s too late for the city commission to cut his house out […]
C’mon, now. It wasn’t a real campaign. Not even Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is delusional enough to believe he could have won the Republican primary and run for president of the United States. Nope. No way. Nah. Suarez was the joke of the GOP primary — with his AI bot and his tickets to the […]
What a sore loser! Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago, who is still butt hurt about his two pocket candidates losing in April, is all of a sudden pushing for a change to a November election. In an oped piece today in The Miami Herald — which last week the mayor said was propaganda — Lago […]
A new potential challenger to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava could be the guy who used to sit in that seat: Congressman Carlos Gimenez. This potential news was broken Friday by radio journalist Roberto Rodriguez Tejera on Actualidad Radio. He said that while regular Republicans are not terribly unhappy with La Alcaldesa, the Trump republicans […]
The sunshine meeting Tuesday evening in Coral Gables was supposed to be a workshop for the city’s budget. Everyone expected to hear Mayor Vince Lago‘s ideas to bring the “millage” or tax rate down. That didn’t happen. Instead, we pretty much got a horse and pony show about where the taxes are coming from and […]
Coral Gables Commissioner Rhonda Anderson has booted Claudia Miro, a onetime commission candidate, from the planning and zoning board, saying her attendance, or lack thereof, is the reason. But the timing and circumstances point to another motive: Miro, who was recently reappointed by Anderson, voted last month against naming former Commissioner Wayne “Chip” Withers the […]
Change could give Mayor Vince Lago an additional 20 months in office To increase participation and reduce costs, the Coral Gables Commission may move the city’s biannual elections from April to November. But the question is, will they start in 2024 or 2026? The earlier option, moving the April 2025 election to November 2024, means […]