Controversial Rickenbacker RFP scheduled for 3 p.m. time certain The polemic push to privatize and redevelop the Rickenbacker Causeway will be discussed again Tuesday at the Miami-Dade Commission meeting. The board will probably drop the Venetian Causeway from the request for proposals, as Commissioner Sally Heyman requested, because it’s really all about the Rickenbacker anyway. […]
Almost 100,000 absentee ballots will be mailed Tuesday to voters in three of the bigger cities of Miami-Dade: Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. Election Day is Nov. 2 but local races have seen a growing number of vote-by-mail ballots every year and these have become crucial to all campaigns. Increasingly, the race is over by […]
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo will have to present the city manager with a game plan for not only combatting crime but for interacting with the media and for moving forward with commissioners that he has accused of misconduct and is locked in battle with. City Manager Art Noriega also wants Acevedo — who is […]
There was another shitshow at the city of Miami Friday, as part two of the inquisition against Police Chief Art Acevedo began, conducted in tandem by the Three Amigos, who are still bristling about the chief’s memo that accuses them of misconduct and interfering with police investigations. At one point, Chief Judge Commissioner Joe Carollo […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s war on the new police chief is having all kinds of fallout effects, including two new lawsuits against the city that are a direct result of Monday’s oh-so-special meeting. And it could cost the city $28 million. Those are the damages sought in a lawsuit filed Thursday by the owners of […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s fight with the city’s relatively new police chief could become a factor in the upcoming election on Nov. 2, especially after the top cop said he contacted the FBI about the elected’s “misconduct.” Six weeks before the election and a week or so before absentee ballots are mailed to voters, the […]
Congratulations are in order for Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian. The city election is not until Nov. 2, but Samuelian won re-election to his seat last week when a judge ruled that his challenger be removed from the ballot because he was not qualified to run. Fabian Basabe, a New York City transplant socialite and […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Keon “Pay-to-Play” Hardemon showed his true petty colors on Tuesday when he tried to take $550,000 allocated in the county budget from the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in North Miami — which just so happens to be operated by Gepsie Metellus, who ran against him last year for the seat vacated by […]
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 […]