The shit is getting real. The threat of coronavirus and community spread of COVID19 is getting more dire every day as 58 more people in Miami-Dade tested positive by Sunday night for a total of 227 — and 50 of those cases were reported between the Florida Health Department’s morning and its evening briefing. At least 37 […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez had to walk back his fourth executive order to curb the coronavirus community spread on Saturday, reversing gears from Thursday, when he closed pawn shops as one of the non-essential businesses. Pawn shops was in the middle of a long list of businesses that were ordered closed in a press release and in […]
Updated: And from the better late than never category: The Seminole Tribe of Florida finally closed its casinos to help curb the community spread of COVID-19, Miami Beach hotels are shutting down and Miami-Dade transit finally cut bus and Metrorail service on Friday — Day 5 of the all voluntary #StayHome movement — but only after […]
Updated: Another day of the coronavirus outbreak, another day of more closings. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez ordered the closures of all non-essential retail stores, malls and casinos Wednesday, adding them to the list of businesses that are not allowed to open their doors to more than eight people at a time. And it was announced late […]
Updated: Less than 24 hours after the city of Miami shut down all restaurants, clubs, bars, gyms and other locations where people congregate and could, possibly, transmit the coronavirus COVID-19 disease, Miami-Dade County followed with the same kind of emergency order, closing all those establishments and allowing kitchens to stay open for curbside or drive-through take-out […]
Many, if not all, government meetings will be postponed or cancelled for the next week or two and there will be a countywide 11 p.m. curfew on bars and restaurants to try to stop community spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Miami-Dade, Miami, Coral Gables and Bay Harbor Islands, as well as other cities, were […]
Not only did Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez take a free ticket to the Super Bowl from a political benefactor, he scored a sweet deal on a clubhouse ticket for his wife and then he got to bully Miami Gardens residents protesting future plans for Formula 1 races at Hard Rock Stadium with his personal police force. […]
Before he got the freebie Super Bowl LIV tickets from Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Stephen Ross, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez may have used his influence or his position to score more tix to an exclusive host committee reception Thursday night. According to the daily schedule that his office sends out to the […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, king of the pay-to-play game, got two free tickets to Super Bowl LIV this Sunday as a gift from Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Stephen Ross, a longtime ally and campaign donor who (1) got a sweet deal in 2014 where the county pays him up to $5 million […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayoral Son CJ Gimenez, the lobbyist, was at a meeting Saturday of Coral Gables residents who live on Alhambra Circle and on the side streets along the planned bicycle lanes from Coral Way to San Amaro Drive. That’s nowhere near his house. So why was he there? CJ Gimenez lives much further away than […]