Party on, spring breakers! The city of Miami Beach can’t ban alcohol sales from 2 to 5 a.m. like they wanted to this week and next for the peak of the Spring Break season, when thousands of college students from around the country descend. Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Beatrice Butchko blocked the city’s attempt to […]
What ‘free state of Florida’ is he talking about? So much talk about the free state of Florida and parental choice for months, and this week Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proved it was all political fodder for his base. He doesn’t really care about parental choice. That is why DeSastre the bully berated and shamed […]
But community meetings this week aim to seek resident input? Really? One by one, nearly 100 speakers lined up and practically begged Miami city commissioners not to cut Coconut Grove into three pieces in the redistricting process. Of the 96 people who spoke against new maps that adjust district boundaries to accommodate population growth, 91 […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can move back into his fancy, posh Coconut Grove house if the city gives final approval to the redistricting maps as they have been drawn, which divides the Grove into three separate districts. The Morris Lane house Carollo reportedly moved out of just to run for office in 2017 has been […]
After more than four months, we can remove the word “interim” before Police Chief Manny Morales. No big surprise there. City Manager Art Noriega announced Monday that he appointed Morales — who has been at the department since 1994 — to the job permanently. “After further evaluating Chief Morales’ performance during the first 100 days, […]
And city Commissioner Joe Carollo’s house is drawn into his district The latest redistricting map for the city of Miami cuts Coconut Grove into three districts, rather than one, which residents are vehemently against. It also takes great pains to put Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s house — the one he swears he doesn’t live in — […]
Expect more firings, shake-downs, quid pro quo The executive director of the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency — who last year fired the ghost employee hired by Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — is leaving the agency, at the commissioner’s behest. Jason Walker gets one month of his salary, or $15,000, half his banked sick […]
Hialeah, Miami Beach pass local laws to limit huge rent hikes The Miami City Commission may set aside $5 million on Thursday to help reenters in the city who are “unable to absorb dramatic rent increases.” But only some people. Even though the resolution would establish a new “special revenue project” called “Miami for Everyone […]
A selection committee helping to pick the next Hialeah police chief has narrowed the list down to six candidates and will interview each of them Wednesday before providing a shortlist of three to Mayor Esteban Bovo. The finalists from the 33 applicants from as far away as Alaska who qualified for the job are: Biscayne […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins is the invited speaker this week for the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club meeting in Miami Beach. Higgins is going to want to discuss county projects in Miami Beach, including budget and legislative highlights. But Ladra is pretty certain the crowd will want to know about the monorail project proposed for the […]