There are four public budget town halls this week It’s budget season, and you know what that means: the spin cycle is on high. Facing a gaping $402 million hole in the county coffers, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is out here trying to sell her $12.9 billion budget for 2025-26 as “fair and balanced.” […]
Opinion By Michael Rosenberg, co-founder of the Pets’ Trust I went to the Miami-Dade animal shelter in Medley Sunday, to observe the protest, not to participate. I wanted to see what the message was, what it is the protesters wanted. The animal shelter at Medley holds a special place for me. As a human, I […]
It shouldn’t take a dead dog to get someone to pay attention to the horrible conditions at the Miami-Dade animal shelter. But that’s what happened. A growing pack of protestors gathered again for the second Sunday in a row outside Miami-Dade Animal Services’ overflow facility to demand answers — and justice — for the animals […]
Photos were posted on social media over the weekend of several ambulances taking people to the hospital from Alligator Alcatraz, that makeshift prison built in eight days with no oversight and even less compassion on an abandoned air strip in a flood prone area in the middle of the Everglades just last month. One was […]
Because of course she is. Kristen Rosen Gonzalez — Miami Beach’s drama queen of dais debates, email blasts and adult novelty props — announced in April that she is running for mayor. Even before she filed paperwork, Commissioner Rosen Gonzalez had told many friends and supporters she planned to unseat Mayor Steven Meiner — most […]
The city of Miami has its first inspector general in former Miami Police Maj. Antonio “Tony” Diaz, who retired from the department after 33 years in June. This is who the commissioners have chosen to be their independent watchdog. ¡Pero por supuesto! Did you think they were really going to tie their own hands? Diaz […]
When elected officials want to make it easier to sell off public land, it’s usually not about efficiency. It’s about opportunity — for someone. And it’s usually not the public. The Miami City Commission last month voted to put a referendum on the November ballot so that the sale or lease of city-owned land can […]
While there is a new chairman at the Miami Downtown Development Authority in freshly minted City Commissioner Ralph Rosado, it looks like the 58-year-old agency, which is tasked with assisting and incentivizing business in the urban core — hasn’t exactly shaken off the stink of recent scrutiny, with legit questions still swirling around its bloated […]
It’s good to have friends at City Hall. Just ask Chelsea Granell. The longtime Coral Gables staffer — who was Mayor Vince Lago‘s chief of staff with no staff — quietly got another sweet little promotion in June. She’s now the director of Governmental Affairs — basically the city’s chief lobbyist — leading legislative the […]
On the heels of the court ruling last week that the Miami election year change was unconstitutional because, well they skipped the pesky part about asking voters, Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro has doubled down on her push to revisit the city commission decision in May to move their municipal election date the same way. […]