After a surprisingly hard loss Tuesday to Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, an upbeat Sen. Annette Taddeo blasted the Florida Democratic Party and vowed to keep fighting for South Florida’s needs. “I don’t need a title to get shit done,” she told her supporters after conceding defeat. And she read a text message that her daughter […]
The council in South Miami changed significantly Tuesday when a new mayor and two new council members were elected. Mayor Javier Fernandez, a former state rep, and Council members Steve Calle and Lisa Bonich were sworn in on Wednesday. Former Mayor Horace Feliu was rejected by voters once again — for the fourth or fifth […]
Miami-Dade voters painted the town red Tuesday when ballots counted showed that Republican candidates had won all but one local partisan race. The only exception: Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, who handily beat her opponent, Jesus Navarro, with 71% of the vote. But led by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio, who each won with comfortable […]
Marleine Bastien and Kevin Marino Cabrera won their respective races The last two new Miami-Dade Commissioners to be elected Tuesday couldn’t be farther apart on the political spectrum. Activist and social worker Marleine Bastien, who beat North Miami Mayor Philipe Bien-Aime, 59% to 41%, will replace Commissioner Jean Monestime in District 2. She is a […]
Parade of who’s who in the Florida GOP poured praise on ex POTUS What a difference six years makes. In 2016, when both Sen. Marco Rubio and a businessman named Donald Trump were competing for the Republican nomination for president, they called each other names and hurled insults at one another. “Little Marco,” as Trump […]
Same 8 commissioners who approved the application could override The vote last week to move the Urban Development Boundary for the South Dade Logistics and Technology District, a speculative industrial park development on land that should be used for Everglades restoration, could be vetoed by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who recommended to deny the application. […]
Less than two weeks before Election Day, South Miami City Attorney Thomas Pepe issued an opinion last week that the city’s $250 limit on campaign contributions was null and void. It has been since July, 2021. That’s when the state legislature passed a bill that not only pre-empted municipalities from restricting contributions to less than […]
Miami Lakes has a $20 million general obligation bond referendum on the ballot to renovate and improve Optimist Park, which has a port-a-pottie and enough chronic flooding to cancel multiple baseball games. Vice Mayor Jeffrey Rodriguez, who has been out at early voting every day to push a yes vote, gets the prize for the […]
The fourth time was the charm for the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District, a 380-acre industrial and office park proposed on what used to be farmland — just over the Miami-Dade Urban Development Boundary. They got the necessary 8-4 supermajority, instead of the 9 votes they would have needed if the […]
The heated race for an open Florida State senate seat in District 38 has gone from warm to nuclear as both candidates take turns stinging each other and pointing fingers at each other like mosquitas muertas. For weeks, they campaigned on their own merits. Republican Alexis Calatayud, campaign manager and onetime legislative aide to former […]