Miami Beach voters might think their Aug. 23 ballot is fat, with six city referendums put to them. Just wait until November. There will be eight ballot questions about the changes in the city charger and proposed developments on the November ballot. Eight! Miami Beach has the most questions on the ballot, followed by Key […]
By GRANT STERN, Special Guest Columnist Miami Commissioner Ken Russell is running for Congress for the third time in just five years since he got elected to his present office just six and a half years ago. But the District 2 Commissioner promised the public and specifically members of his own political party at his first 2019 re-election […]
Get those calendars out. There will be at least one virtual forum for each of the five Miami-Dade County Commission races on the August ballot thanks to The Miami Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to bring the philanthropic, leadership and civic communities of Miami together. The forums won’t start until after absentee or mail-in […]
If there was any doubt that Monica Colucci was a Republican Party plant in the Miami-Dade School Board race against Marta Perez, there isn’t any now that she’s filed several campaign finance reports. Colucci reported raising $104,362 through July 1– not a bad figure for a newbie. But a closer look at the funding finds […]
Sure, there are four candidates in the Miami-Dade Commission race to replace longtime Commissioner Rebeca Sosa in District 6. But it’s really a head-to-head between Coral Gables Commissioner Jorge Fors and political operative Kevin Marino Cabrera. And it looks like it’s headed to be the most heated of the county commission contests. Last week saw […]
Former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera just sucked all the air out of the Florida state primary this August. Rivera surprised everybody when he filed late Friday to run for state rep in the open 119 District against a bunch of other Republicans who are suddenly in an interesting, nationally-watched race. That’s because David Rivera […]
At noon Tuesday, former Miami Beach Commissioner Micky Steinberg became a Miami-Dade county commissioner after nobody qualified to run against her in District 4, where Sally Heyman is termed out. It is the only county commission race that is uncontested — maybe the $400K she raised scared would-bes away — as 19 other candidates qualified […]
In every election, judicial races get short shrift. They are the least studied, the least written about, the least talked about. Voters often don’t even know who they are putting on the bench, making decisions based on whether the names reflect their own ethnicity, or along gender lines. It certainly doesn’t help that judges, in […]
The campaigning for state seats in this year’s election has begun in earnest. Looks like the first meet and greet of the season is in Coral Gables Tuesday. It could be the first in-person meet and greet for many since COVID-19. Four Democrat candidates for state office will be there for a Q&A at the […]
The Miami-Dade Commission election is sneaking up on us — it’s in August, not November, like the state and congressional races — and it’s going to be a pretty important one, with five of the six seats open, thanks to term limits. Say goodbye to commissioners Jean Monestime, Sally Heyman, Rebeca Sosa, Javier Souto, and […]