The breakfasts in South Miami have become a political staple. Gov. Ron DeSantis has been to the CasaCuba events hosted by Community News twice. Former Congressman Charlie Crist swung by last year. Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chairman Anthony Rodriguez was the last speaker. They’ve had former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas, former Miami Herald Publisher David Lawrence, […]
The rate at which pets are being abandoned has grown and Miami-Dade Animal Services ran out of space at their spanking new, $15-million adoption center shelter in Doral. So, they are keeping some dogs and cats at the old shelter in Medley and animal advocates worry about horrible conditions. After all, this is the worn […]
Elected officials, you are now free to lobby again. A U.S. district judge issued an order Wednesday that strikes down the state’s lobbying amendment, passed by voters in 2018, which bans any elected official from any kind of lobbying during their term of office and for six years after because, she said, it was an […]
Miami Beach resident Lynette Long, a former university professor who has authored more than 30 books, recently took a drive through the city and noted all the ceremonially co-designated streets, which are named to honor someone for something. What she found was an astonishing gap. There are at least 18 streets that are co-designated for […]
Former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Góngora has waited. And waited. And waited. Góngora has skipped several elections, waiting to run for mayor when he felt he had a better chance. Not against Philip Levine. Not against Dan Gelber, who is finally termed-out. But certainly now in the open seat. Most observers thought Góngora would coast […]
Former Coral Gables Commissioner Jeannett Slesnick, a class act who was involved in many civic organizations and served as First Lady of the City Beautiful for 10 years, died Thursday evening after a long battle with cancer. She was 75. Slesnick, wife of former Mayor Don Slesnick (2001-2010), was first diagnosed with lymphoma in 2014 […]
With all due respect and thoughts and prayers to former Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez, who shot himself in the head off the side of I-75 last weekend, the 2024 election for county sheriff has just become a real race. Ramirez, who was still recovering at a Tampa Hospital after a self inflicted gunshot […]
Miami City Commissioners deferred making a decision last week on allowing up to 45 giant LED billboards downtown — and some critics worry the can will be kicked down the road until after the November election. You know, so commissioners don’t have to be held accountable. Or maybe so they can collect more contributions from […]
Commissioner Joe Carollo is suddenly living outside his district A U.S. District Court judge on Sunday tossed out the new same-as-the-old redistricting map passed by city of Miami Commissioners in June, saying it did nothing to remediate the racial gerrymandering found in the first version. A substitute map prepared by the ACLU, one of the […]
Did anybody really think that the South Dade Logistics & Technology District was going to be the last attempt to cross the Urban Development Boundary, an invisible line meant to keep urban sprawl from penetrating the Everglades? ¡Claro que no! Instead, the Miami-Dade County Commission’s fervent dedication to and intentional push to up zone farmland […]