The back-to-back resignations Monday of three key city of Miami administrators is part of what several sources call a “purge” of officials to make room for political lackeys who will answer to Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Daniel Rotenberg, Director of the Department of Real Estate and Asset Management — better known as DREAM […]
For more than four decades, the Dade Heritage Trust — with a mission to protect what little historic resources there is in Miami-Dade — has been housed in a cute little cottage by the bay in the Brickell area that was the 1905 clinic and office of Dr. James Jackson, Miami’s first physician, for which […]
UPDATED: Once again, the city of Miami has weaponized its code enforcement office to go after a perceived “enemy.” This time it’s activist attorney David Winker who has won several lawsuits for residents and is currently representing the group trying to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo. How long do you think before Winker sues them on […]
Miami City Commissioners want their county counterparts on Tuesday to reconsider their paltry offering from the $474 million federal CARES cash pie they got — $30 million to be shared between all 34 municipalities in Miami-Dade — to aid in the COVID-19 crisis recovery and resuscitate the economy. Or else they could take the county […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is 0-4 in his fight to stop the recall effort against him — a fight he wants to take all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, if they let him — after an appeals court denied his motion to keep the petitions in place while the legal process continued. He […]
Like a rabid dog with a bone that’s too big for him to chew, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed yet another lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the transfer of the 1,900+ recall petitions against him to the Miami-Dade Elections Department post haste, as ordered by not one but two courts already. This is actually Crazy […]
Miami city attorneys lost their final appeal Wednesday against the effort to recall Commissioner Joe Carollo, and the city could be forced to turn the 1,900 plus petitions to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections as early as Thursday. The Third District Court of Appeals denied the request by the city and Carollo’s attorney, Ben Kuehne, […]
The Third District Court of Appeals has decided that the city of Miami must turn over the 1,900-plus recall signatures against Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo that have been held hostage for almost three months in a massive — and possibly illegal –– effort by the city to stop the electoral process. A three-judge panel issued its […]
Former Miami City Manager Emilio Gonzalez, who resigned after Commissioner Joe Carollo tried to fire him and ordered an investigation into the permit for his backyard deck, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust. When Carollo failed to get the votes he needed to fire Gonzalez in December […]
The arguments have been made by both sides, now its up to the Third District Court of Appeals to decide if the city of Miami has the right to determine that the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo were late or if City Clerk Todd Hannon has to simply deliver them to the Miami-Dade Elections […]