The Miami-Dade Commission talked about garbage this week. Not the usual garbage. Real garbage. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has suggested a $36 annual garbage fee increase — or $3 a month — as part of her 2023-2024 $11.6 billion budget. To keep the current $509 annual fee would mean a cut in services, she said. […]
Commissioners likely to discuss mayor’s gas tax gaffe Late Monday, with less than 24 hours for county commissioners to review it, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava released her proposed $11 billion 2023-2024 budget — the largest ever, with a 20% increase in capital improvement spending, due much to federal dollars. She boasts about a 1% […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has already announced her re-election campaign and could legit raise enough money to pay her qualification fee tenfold — and buy everyone else a round of qualifications. But the social worker at heart wants to go grassroots. La Alcaldesa aims to get on the 2024 ballot via petition — again. […]
The list has 52 names, but the host committee is “still in formation.” Some important donors got invitations last week to Tuesday’s kickoff for the reelection campaign of “our Miami-Dade County Mayor” Daniella Levine Cava. La Alcalesa herself asks you to join her along with Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert and Commissioners Keon Hardemon, Danielle Cohen […]
La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava, who announced her re-election campaign only two weeks earlier, has her first challenger already. Miguel “El Skipper” Quintero, a trapeze artist/teacher and creator of the Miami Circus YouTube channel, filed paperwork Tuesday with the county elections department about his new campaign account. It’s not that he’s got a burning desire […]
And floats $1 billion bond referendum for housing projects Jeanette Nuñez for Miami-Dade Mayor? Rebeca Sosa for Elections Supervisor? David Richardson or Carlos Lopez Cantera for tax collector? Frank Artiles for county sheriff? Frank Artiles?!? These are actual scenarios put forth by a digital text poll that went out to some county voters this week. […]
Funeral Thursday is open to the public at Miami-Dade Auditorium Was he the last of the good ones? Longtime Miami-Dade County Clerk Harvey Ruvin, who served in the role for three decades after being a county commissioner for two decades, died Saturday. He was 85. “Tonight, we are heartbroken to learn of Harvey Ruvin’s death […]
Developers of 550 homes on the former golf course must make changes Neighbors opposed to the development of 550 homes on the 160 acres that used to be the Calusa Golf Course got a reprieve last week, when a court ruled that the county had not provided proper notice of the zoning hearing. And the […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava vetoed on Thursday the Nov. 1 vote to move the Urban Development Boundary for a controversial 311-acre industrial park to be developed on flood-prone agricultural land. After four deferrals gave the developers time to iron out details and make it more palatable to the commission, they were finally able to […]
Same 8 commissioners who approved the application could override The vote last week to move the Urban Development Boundary for the South Dade Logistics and Technology District, a speculative industrial park development on land that should be used for Everglades restoration, could be vetoed by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who recommended to deny the application. […]