County employees get a 2% bonus and a 6% raise The second and final public hearing on the 2021-22 Miami-Dade budget was another love fest, just like the first hearing earlier this month, with so many congratulations and thank yous that it seemed more like a baby shower than approval of a tiny tax increase […]
It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine […]
The Miami city commission keeps one-upping itself. On Monday, during a special and especially bizarre meeting to discuss (read: get rid of) the controversial new police chief, the commission voted to give itself subpoena powers and investigate, um, themselves, as well as how the chief was hired and actions taken by him since he came […]
A ‘target list’ of commissioners’ enemies is part of questionable acts Guess Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo is not going to go down easily. Three days before a special commission meeting Monday to discuss his very future with the city, the new chief sent the mayor and city manager a detailed 8-page memo accusing the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents. Let’s just say it was not her crowd. She was heckled and booed for her perceived defense of a controversial request for proposals […]
Town hall on the RFP Wednesday at Key Biscayne Community Center The Venetian Causeway is going to be cut out of the request for proposals that already went out on the redevelopment and privatization of both the Miami Beach connector and the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne, which is really what this project was all […]
There will be a status hearing Tuesday morning about the lawsuit against the controversial WaWa gas station and convenience store that is planned on Grand Avenue across from G.W. Carver Elementary School. More than 120 people attended the last status hearing in April via zoom and Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman acknowledge that there […]
Officers are afraid to do their job, union prez says It’s not just Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo who doesn’t like Police Chief Art Acevedo. According to an online Survey Monkey “100-day climate” survey of the department, Acevedo is, indeed, disliked by his buddies in blue and has brought the morale way down. Almost half of […]
It wouldn’t be the 305 if there wasn’t at least one seat switch in the midterm elections, right? Janelle Perez, the cancer survivor, healthcare executive and lesbian activist who had announced last month she would run against Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar next year, has switched races and will challenge Florida Sen. Ileana Garcia instead. Was […]
When Miami Commissioner Jeffrey Watson got appointed to replace Keon Hardemon, who became a county commissioner, Watson told everyone at a public meeting that he would not run for the seat when it came up this year. But that was ten whole months ago. This week, Watson — who came out of nowhere, doesn’t know […]