The city of Miami has sued a mayoral candidate for $3,400 in court costs after she was disqualified from the race on the grounds that she didn’t meet the residency requirements. In case anyone was wondering, Mayra Joli — a one-time Coral Gables commission candidate who campaigned in the Miami mayoral race last month, even […]
Miami-Dade has a new mayor as of last year. There are five new commissioners. There’s a new Chief Operating Officer. There’s a new director at Miami International Airport, a new chief of procurement. But the same ol’ politically-connected family is getting the multi-million dollar deals. County commissioners narrowly approved a $70 million contract — $50 […]
Birds seen scattering and confused by deforesting in second day video Two weeks after the Miami-Dade Commission approved a zoning change from parks and recreation to high density residential — and four days after Mayor Daniella Levine Cava promised protections above and beyond for threatened and endangered species living there — a drone captured video […]
When Congressman Charlie Crist‘s campaign looked for women to back him in next year’s governor’s race against two viable female candidates, they turned to a small group of relatively unknown women — led by his two sisters. Well, at least his siblings support him! “The ‘Women for Crist’ group is going to be a grassroots, […]
The Miami-Dade Commission voted 10-1 Wednesday to approve the annexation of two square miles into the city of Sweetwater, practically doubling the municipal’s geographic footprint and adding millions to its tax rolls with the mostly commercial area just to the west. And the timing couldn’t be better: Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz, who is termed […]
Clueless county commissioners admit they don’t know what they did Over the holiday weekend, there were TV news reports about the airport bouncing back and air travel almost having returned to pre-COVID levels. Now, we see news clips about the anticipated holiday travel crunch. So why are Miami-Dade Commissioners giving rich concessionaires with contracts at […]
Damn the manatees! That’s basically what the Miami-Dade Commission said on Wednesday when it approved the Miami International Boat Show’s application to increase the number of boat slips by about a third to almost 1,000 and have “sea trials” — kind of like test drives for boats — in sensitive manatee nesting and feeding areas […]
Holy moly! Wednesday’s Miami-Dade Commission meeting is going to be a doozy. According to the agenda, the last meeting of the year is heavy-loaded with several big ticket items. According to some County Hall insiders, any one of them could turn into a thing. There’s going to be some discussion (read: complaints) on the county’s […]
Miami city commissioners reversed themselves Monday when they put electric share scooters — which had been banned 10 days earlier — back on certain urban streets, mostly in the downtown and Brickell area. Commissioner and Chief Scooter Critic Manolo Reyes doesn’t want them in Flagami. He also was the only dissenting vote on the 3-1 […]
Don’t worry, Brickell scooter jockeys. The ban on electric scooters in the city of Miami is temporary and about to end soon. And not because Mayor Francis Suarez is your hero or anything like that. Yes, Suarez praised scooters while on some junket in Las Vegas on the same day the commission voted to shut […]