The Miami City Commission voted unanimously Thursday to begin exploring legal action against Florida’s controversial Live Local Act, the state law that has allowed developers to bypass local zoning restrictions in exchange for providing a percentage of what passes for workforce housing. The resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Damian Pardo, directs the city attorney’s office to […]
Judicial races are supposed to be boring. That’s the deal. The candidates talk about fairness, impartiality, judicial temperament, and the rule of law. Bar associations issue ratings. Lawyers quietly pick sides. Most voters skip the race entirely or vote based on whose last name sounds familiar. But somebody apparently forgot to tell that to the […]
The City of Miami may be about to discover whether residents hate construction fences more than they hate billboards. On Thursday, commissioners will consider a one-year pilot program that would allow commercial advertising on construction site fencing throughout parts of the city’s Urban Core. The pitch is simple enough: Construction fences are ugly. They attract […]
When you’re running in a Republican primary, there are few things more valuable than a photo with President Donald Trump. Unless, of course, voters mistake the photo for an endorsement you don’t actually have. Welcome to the latest chapter in the race for House District 113, where candidate Frank Lago‘s camp recently dropped a campaign […]
New chief says immigration enforcement not a priority Well, look what finally made it onto the Miami Commission agenda: The city’s controversial 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the one Mayor Eileen Higgins spent part of her campaign criticizing — is scheduled for discussion Thursday before the city commission. Not a vote. Not […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Vicki Lopez launched a new campaign video ad Wednesday, and if you watch it, you’ll learn that she’s fighting affordability, improving infrastructure, protecting waterways, supporting small businesses, and expanding opportunity. In other words, she’s running as the solution to all the problems facing the county. What you won’t learn is that she also […]
Miami-Dade has a new port boss, the third director since the fuel farm fiasco first exploded in public. And if you listen to the county’s press release — which reads like it was drafted on a yacht with a corporate logo stitched into the napkins — Jonathan Daniels is basically the maritime equivalent of a […]
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson‘s team teased it as a “shocking announcement.” No, she wasn’t un-retiring. But she wasn’t staying neutral. Instead, Wilson did what veteran politicians often do when they’re leaving office: She picked a successor. Or at least she tried to. In a carefully staged passing-of-the-torch ceremony Monday at a Miami Gardens church, Wilson — […]
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a year after being tapped to succeed the late Mark Trowbridge, Coral Gables Chamber President and CEO Jorge Arrizurieta was reportedly forced out of the role last week following a vote by the Chamber’s board, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Las malas lenguas tell Political […]
And Eliott Rodriguez says it’s good news for him A new internal poll from Eliott Rodriguez‘s congressional campaign contains one number that should make the other Democrat in the District 27 primary, Robin Peguero, nervous. It’s not Rodriguez’s 54%. It’s the 18% that represents the number of undecided voters remaining in Florida’s 27th Congressional District […]