From the Feel Good News file down at the Stephen P. Clark Center: Music mogul Emilio Estefan will be sworn in tomorrow as the first Special Ambassador representing Miami-Dade County. County commissioners approved an ordinance in December establishing a Special Ambassador program and nominating Estefan as the first to serve in this mostly ceremonial position. […]
Even under the threat of another inevitable veto, Miami-Dade Commissioners voted 8-5 Thursday to restore a 5% contribution for a group health care “trust fund” that county employees have been giving back to the county since 2009 and led to an impasse between the administration and 11 of the county’s labor unions. They passed Commissioner […]
Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s alleged solution to the impasse with employee unions who want a the promised return of a 5% group healthcare contribution they’ve been giving since 2009 is to only give it back if he can whack their salaries — which is what the county obviously wanted in the first place. He calls that […]
Smile as you go under that yellow traffic light: There are many more red light cameras coming soon to 150 intersections near you. Yes, it appears that red light cameras — which have been limited to municipal streets — are headed to intersections in unincorporated Miami-Dade, after all. Or finally. This has been a long […]
The Miami Herald appropriate calls it the year of the bust. That’s because 2013 was particularly packed with political corruption — or at least the kind we found out about, anyway. But it was also the year of disgust as electeds promoted corporate welfare for the millionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins, another millionaire bought […]
Norweigan Cruise Line is not the only private company to get millions of taxpayer dollars in “marketing incentives” from a Miami-Dade government that is allegedly “tightening its belt.” In addition to the $3 million commissioners approved (in consent agenda, no less) for the cruise company earlier this month, dozens of airlines have received at least $4.3 […]
A new weekend segment on Political Cortadito will recap photos from the week that show our elected representatives in action. You know, kinda like a visual week in review. Ladra’s new walking on Instagram, but several politicos already use it — as well as twitter and Facebook — to let people know what they are […]
Three months ago, when the Miami-Dade Commission restored a 5% concession to the county airport and sanitation employees, Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa repeatedly said that she could not give to one group and not the others when their time came. She even used the analogy of her children, saying she couldn’t give one milk and deny […]
Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo may have given the elderly residents a domino table to play on during these last city elections, but a lot of us know that these people have a lot more serious issues that need to be addressed. The lack of air conditioners has been an issue for years, but there are […]
Who is advising Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez these days? No, really. Because on Friday afternoon, our Not So Golden Boy mayor will join none other than the Miami Dolphins — you know, the team he wanted us taxpayers to buy a new stadium for — to give some holiday turkeys to needy families whose kids […]