Could two of Miami’s biggest developers be bluffing for a quick profit? Ladra has a question. Maybe a dumb question. Maybe a smart question. Maybe the kind of question that explains why two top county officials suddenly resigned as patsies of the fuel depot debacle that led Miami-Dade to lose an opportunity to secure a […]
The political fallout from Miami-Dade’s spectacular failure to secure the last major fuel depot serving PortMiami claimed two high-profile casualties late Wednesday when Port Director Hydi Webb and Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales abruptly resigned. That’s right. That Jimmy Morales. And just like that, the fuel depot fiasco has gone from embarrassing to career-ending. Read […]
Miami’s billionaires have finally met the one thing standing in the way of another luxury condo tower: Diesel. Specifically, 28 million gallons of it sitting in giant aging fuel tanks on Fisher Island — the same ultra-exclusive playground where the average resident probably spends more on wine storage than most Miamians make in a year. […]
And this could be a test case for the UDB expansion Namaste. The veto that promised to launch a showdown quietly dissolved Wednesday into what can aptly be described as parliamentary yoga. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s dramatic Feb. 1 veto of the Kelly Tractor wetlands project didn’t get overridden. It didn’t get sustained either. […]
Water, water everywhere — except not really Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took to video last week with a message that sounded less like routine government housekeeping and more like a gentle but unmistakable warning shot: We have a water problem. A “water shortage warning“ is in effect. Not a watch. Not a suggestion. A […]
Protected wetlands are too important, she says Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava dropped a veto this week on the Kelly Tractor project — the same wetlands-eating, UDB-jumping development our esteemed county commissioners approved 9-2 just weeks ago, despite complaints from staff and advocates. Bold? Sure. Effective? Almost certainly not. Political? Now that’s the question. The […]
A feel-good pep rally with not much substance Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took the stage Wednesday night at Florida Memorial University with a clear message: unity, belonging, strength in diversity. It was the annual State of the County address, mandated by charter and staged this year before a standing-room-only crowd in Miami Gardens, the […]
After false starts, county approves petition form Back in December, the crew who wanted to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava face-planted on a paperwork technicality. The Clerk of Courts sent them home to rewrite their homework. Many assumed the whole thing would quietly die on a laptop somewhere between a fundraising pitch and a […]
In Miami-Dade government, nothing really changes — it just gets reassigned And so it was this week, as Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced yet another strategic personnel realignment just in time for what she herself describes as a “critical and challenging” budget year. Translation: brace yourselves. Out goes longtime budget chief David Clodfelter, the […]
But voters feel chilling effect of cancel culture Well, here’s something you don’t see every day in Florida: a Democrat woman leading both Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump in a popularity contest — and not just in the 305 liberal bubble, either. According to the new Bendixen & Amandi poll of 600 voters between Sept. […]