It happens every year. Elected officials glom onto the efforts of local organizations and food banks to give turkeys and other Thanksgiving trimmings to Miami-Dade residents. This has always seemed like a desperate and, frankly, pathetic publicity stunt to garner favor with voters and even local media. Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz partnered with […]
Here’s some ammunition (read: facts) to avoid an override Dear Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, AKA La Alcaldesa: Add this to the mounds of emails and letters from residents who urge you to veto the commission’s vote last week to change the zoning at the property that used to be the Calusa Golf Course from […]
Some residents in Hialeah were surprised last week to find that they could pay for their water and research a nearby charter school at the same time. That’s because a flyer for the COHEA (City of Hialeah Education Academy) Career and Collegiate Academy was found in the same envelope with the utility bill. Several residents […]
Miami Beach Commissioners Micky Steinberg and Michael Góngora will say their goodbyes to the dais Monday morning as the newly-elected Kristen Rosen Gonzalez and Alex Fernandez are sworn in and take their respective places. But we aren’t really rid of them, yet. Góngora, who wanted to run for re-election but was told by a judge […]
It seemed like an easy win for residents against a zoning change for 168 acres of naturally overgrown green space that used to be the Calusa Golf Course by those who would turn it into yet another West Kendall gated community of 550 big, square, identical homes. There was evidence of endangered bonneted bat activity […]
Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Christine King had her first city commission meeting Thursday and was praised and complimented by her colleagues on her solid victory Nov. 2. “You didn’t win, you got a mandate,” said Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who had lobbied hard to appoint her last year to fill the seat vacated when […]
This is the second time in less than a month that Political Cortadito writes about an upcoming zoning request before the Miami-Dade Commission to build 550 homes on the abandoned Calusa Golf Course, which has turned into an organic natural preserve that his home to endangered wildlife. Because the commission deferred the request last month. […]
Mayor Esteban Bovo, county commissioner Rene Garcia win one, lose one The two new councilmen voted to the Hialeah dais on Tuesday won their seats with pretty large margins. But it’s hard to call it a mandate when less than 9 percent of the registered voters in Miami-Dade’s second biggest city turned out. FIU student […]
Two ‘new’ commissioners the community already knows, and well Miami Beach voters chose two longtime City Hall regulars and resident advocates as commissioners in Tuesday’s runoff election — despite the deep pockets running against them. Former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who left in 2018 to run for Congress, is back in office with […]
Hialeah council candidate Angelica Pacheco is trying to make herself the victim, but records show that she has victimized others. Pacheco went on Spanish-language TV and a sad Facebook interview in recent days calling the articles in Political Cortadito about her false and paid political attacks. Well, Pacheco lies. A lot. Documents don’t. And Ladra […]