Three more Miami-Dade School Board candidates come out to play in 2022

Three more Miami-Dade School Board candidates come out to play in 2022

Will the last incumbent get a challenge by qualifying deadline? Three of the four Miami-Dade School Board races are filling out with about three weeks left before the qualifying deadline. Robert Alonso, who filed against veteran Perla Tabares Hantman then suddenly decided to retire after almost 30 years. Maribel Balbin, former president of the League […]

Committee for Renier Diaz de la Portilla is a B-list minus big brother Miguel

Committee for Renier Diaz de la Portilla is a B-list minus big brother Miguel

A ragtag group of attorneys and former elected officials have formed a committee to elect none other than one-time State Rep. and former Miami-Dade School Board Member Renier Diaz de la Portilla. And it’s just…meh. The committee is chaired by attorney Bill Reily, who just got his client Centner Academy everything they wanted before the […]

Rickenbacker Causeway bike safety was casualty of Plan Z public land grab

Rickenbacker Causeway bike safety was casualty of Plan Z public land grab

Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners consider real solutions The ‘if only’ is backwards. After the terrible accident that killed two cyclists on the bike lane in Key Biscayne earlier this month, there are the inevitable grumblings that the county had a chance to make cycling on the Rickenbacker Causeway safer — “if only” they hadn’t killed the […]

Commissioners go out of their way to defend, promote moving the UDB

Commissioners go out of their way to defend, promote moving the UDB

It was painful to watch. But worth noting. And Ladra may watch last week’s Miami-Dade Comprehensive Development Master Plan meeting again. Several Miami-Dade County Commissioners went out of their way and made excruciatingly strange arguments Thursday to defend and promote a land use change that would replace 800 acres of farmland with an industrial park […]

Surprise Eileen Higgins ‘withdrawal’ in CD27 raises questions, causes confusion

Surprise Eileen Higgins ‘withdrawal’ in CD27 raises questions, causes confusion

What a freaking mess. Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins allegedly announced late Wednesday — in a statement the Miami Herald said was provided by her campaign manager — that she is no longer running for Congress in District 27. The reason? She “heard” that Sen. Annette Taddeo is switching to that race and she’s getting out […]

Miami-Dade: $9 mil no-bid contract for private transit provider hops around

Miami-Dade: $9 mil no-bid contract for private transit provider hops around

Transit workers leader calls for end of private service Nobody wants to touch the $9 million no-bid contract the Miami-Dade county administration wants to give to Transportation America for privatized bus routes. It’s a hot potato that keeps getting passed around. The contract was first up at the Citizens Independent Transportation Trust on April 28, […]

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