After all that hand-wringing and sweating over the Coral Gables commission election, much fewer voters will actually have made the decision when it comes Tuesday. Already there are more than 2,500 fewer voters between vote-by-mail ballots and early voting than there was for the first round April 13. According to the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, […]
Here we go again. After almost a year, an award for construction supervision at Miami International Airport was stalled last week after the mayor’s office said it needed more time to review a bid protest from the company that was not chosen. It had to be the airport, where bids go to be challenged. And […]
Former Miami City Manager Joe Arriola has filed a defamation lawsuit against one of the commission candidates in the Coral Gables election over a mailer that told voters he had been fired from the Magic City for taking bribes. The lawsuit names Javier Baños, candidate in Group 3, and former Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff — […]
The endorsements are multiplying in the Coral Gables election, which ends next Tuesday. And just in time, too — as the vote-by-mail or absentee ballots are mailed to voters. Three Group 2 candidates who didn’t make the runoff in the April 13 vote, Tania Cruz-Gimenez, Alexander Luis Haq and Claudia Miro, each endorsed Rhonda Anderson […]
Voters in South Miami elected Brian Corey to serve out former Commissioner Bob Welsh‘s term after Welsh died in January. Corey beat out two other candidates: Mary Ann Ruiz and Zach Mann. Guess those negative mailers worked. Corey got 43% of the vote while Ruiz came in second with 33%. Mann came in third with […]
Voters can take them to the early voting drop box Coral Gables voters will start getting vote-by-mail or absentee ballots for the runoff election beginning on Tuesday, one week before Election Day. Miami-Dade Elections Deputy Supervisor Suzy Trutie said that 13,082 ballots were mailed to voters on Monday. That provides very little turn around time […]
Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz seizes power, fills void Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz is flexing again and could get his colleagues to strip Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of more power by taking certain offices and departments from the mayor’s purview. The commission already voted 10-3 in March at first reading to give Diaz […]
The four candidates in the two Coral Gables city commission runoff races will be grilled Wednesday at the only debate before the April 27 election. It’s going to be as if they were in virtual court. “Former U.S. Attorney Leon Kellner will use his prosecutorial skills to extract truthful answers,” reads an ominous email from […]
Mr. Coral Gables has a lot of debt on three Crafts Section homes The commission race in Coral Gables Group 3 is strictly a matter of the less bad choice and some voters may want to hold their noses when they cast their ballots. On the one hand, we have a Joe Carollo ally who […]
With all the talk about racism in the recent Coral Gables election — a needed conversation on the heels of that terrible letter the new mayor signed opposing curriculum inclusive of marginalized communities at his daughters’ private school — nothing’s been said about other divisions that exist. If many Gables residents aren’t outright racist — […]