Miami Beach voters have a familiar straw ballot question to answer before Nov. 2: Do they want to ban alcohol sales in South Beach after 2 AM? It’s the same question voters solidly rejected in 2017, by a very comfortable 65% of the vote. Sort of a mandate. So why’s it coming back? That’s a […]
Former Miami Police Commander Nerly Papier, fired recently for the cover-up of an accident April 2 in her city-issued SUV, didn’t only hit the curb and blow both right side tires, causing some other damage. She also almost hit two pedestrians while speeding. Where’s a cop when you need one? A video of the incident, […]
It may have been a day late, but Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo responded to the city manager’s request for an action plan that included steps to kiss and make up with city commissioners he has accused of misconduct. Like that’s going to happen. It was less than two weeks ago that Acevedo — plucked […]
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who boasted about bringing the city the “Michael Jordan” of police chiefs when he recruited Art Acevedo for the job, has been conspicuously missing in action as the commission attacks his prized pick. Brilla por su ausencia. Acevedo’s clash with the commission is a problem Baby X created. Not only because […]
Former Homestead Mayor Jeff Porter lost the mayoral three-way primary in Homestead Tuesday, proving, finally, that an honest guy can’t get elected in Miami-Dade. Incumbent Mayor Steve Losner, who got almost 47% of the vote, heads comfortably into a runoff with former Councilman Elvis Maldonado, who left office to run for an open county seat […]
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 […]