Miami can’t be trusted to run their own show. Just as the city of Miami grapples with the issue of giant LED billboards on public land in the downtown, Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins wants to take away the municipality’s ability to opt out of the county’s sign regulations. Higgins has sponsored an ordinance at Tuesday’s […]
Kase-who? Miami-Dade Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to give the naming rights to the former American Airlines Arena — which, admit it, is what everybody still calls it even after it became the FTX Arena — to a local cybersecurity software company that almost nobody ever heard of before. Let’s see if the Kaseya Center lasts […]
One member called the proposed amendments a ‘power grab’ The Citizens Independent Transportation Trust, which provides oversight of the half penny sales tax spending, unanimously rejected on Wednesday an attempt by Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins to sideline them. Higgins has proposed amending the process so that projects that would normally go to the CITT first […]
A controversial proposal floated only on social media to build a huge state-of-the-art stadium in the middle of Tropical Park is not supported by county officials or anybody at the University of Miami. The whole fancy notion is just attorney John H. Ruiz having a wet dream. Miami-Dade Commissioner Javier Souto had a Sunshine zoom […]
What a freaking mess. Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins allegedly announced late Wednesday — in a statement the Miami Herald said was provided by her campaign manager — that she is no longer running for Congress in District 27. The reason? She “heard” that Sen. Annette Taddeo is switching to that race and she’s getting out […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins is the invited speaker this week for the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club meeting in Miami Beach. Higgins is going to want to discuss county projects in Miami Beach, including budget and legislative highlights. But Ladra is pretty certain the crowd will want to know about the monorail project proposed for the […]
Another Diaz de la Portilla lost to Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins Tuesday night. Not by as much as many thought he’d lose, but by enough to wound the dynasty. Again. Maybe that’s why Renier Diaz de la Portilla showed up drunk to a candidate forum weeks ago: He saw the writing on the wall. No […]
With less than 10 days before the end of the election, Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson announced Sunday that he had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, sending a flurry of other politicians — and maybe a few drag queens — to get their own tests. Richardson, who reported “minor symptoms,” was one of the […]
The four Miami-Dade Commission races provide voters with the first opportunity in decades to redefine the dynamics on the board with at least three newcomers. And, hopefully, not all four. As folks get ready for early voting to start on Monday — filling out absentee ballots over the weekend to take with us — Ladra […]
Even Renier Diaz de la Portilla has realized he’s doomed to lose the race for Miami-Dade Commission in District 5 against incumbent Commissioner Eileen Higgins. That’s why he started drinking already. RDLP burst in late Thursday at the Urban Core Community Coalition virtual forum. He was a little erratic and disheveled with his face puffier […]