Another Thanksgiving means another bunch of turkeys giving away turkeys

Another Thanksgiving means another bunch of turkeys giving away turkeys

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 […]

Open letter to Mayor Daniella Levine Cava: Veto Calusa zoning change

Open letter to Mayor Daniella Levine Cava: Veto  Calusa zoning change

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 […]

Hialeah city water bill comes with charter school flyer in the mail

Hialeah city water bill comes with charter school flyer in the mail

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 […]

Goodbye to Miami Beach’s Michael Góngora and Micky Steinberg – for now

Goodbye to Miami Beach’s Michael Góngora and Micky Steinberg – for now

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 […]

Miami-Dade Commission votes to kill Calusa preserve for Kendall developer

Miami-Dade Commission votes to kill Calusa preserve for Kendall developer

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 […]

Fighters Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, Alex Fernandez win runoffs in Miami Beach

Fighters Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, Alex Fernandez win runoffs in Miami Beach

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 […]

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