This meeting has been cancelled due to weather. The agenda moves to a special meeting Tuesday. At first blush, it may seem like Thursday’s Miami City Commission meeting is a sleeper, especially compared to recent meetings. Nothing on LED billboards. Nothing on redistricting. But a closer look at the agenda reveals a bunch of items […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo may as well just resign now. He can’t get anything done in his last year. All he can do is talk and talk and talk and he seems even bored with that option. He’s been effectively neutered. And he looks defeated. Carollo had a really bad day on the Miami Commission […]
He also has a conflict on redistricting map When the Miami City Commission meets this week to consider, once again, the repeal of the ordinance that allows giant LED billboards on public land, Commissioner Joe Carollo should sit it out. Carollo must recuse himself because he is too close to former Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, who […]
If Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo really wants to see his bank statements, Commissioner Damian Pardo is ready to prove that he used part of his lifelong savings to self-fund his campaign for the District 2 seat last year. All Carollo has to do is resign. “I’m not giving them to him for nothing,” Pardo told […]
Miami City Manager Art Noriega got a pass Thursday after he explained, to use the word loosely, his wife’s business dealings with the city, while City Attorney Victoria Mendez was removed of her position at the commission meeting on the spot. After commissioners voted 4-1 for Mendez to step down — she will still stay […]
Jose Suarez has a 1998 arrest for soliciting a prostitute In a pocket item for the Miami Commission meeting Tuesday — that means it is not on the agenda — Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo will propose making his former chief of staff, Jose Suarez, executive director of the Bayfront Park Trust, where he is chairman, […]
Commission will consider a review of pending litigation Lawsuits and outside attorneys have cost city of Miami taxpayers millions in public dollars. Miami City Commissioner Miguel Gabela wants to stop the spigot. Gabela has several items on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting about the City Attorney’s office. One would hire an auditing expert to review […]
His Coconut Grove house is safe for now. A judge ruled on Friday that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo can keep his Morris Lane casa off the auction block until it is determined that it is not a legally homesteaded property. U.S. Marshals posted a notice of levy on the multi-million house last month in an […]
Plaintiffs seek to remove Loco Pollo Carollo from office You can run, but you can’t hide from the courts. The lawsuit to remove Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo from office was filed in January, but the elected has been dodging the serving of papers every which way since. Coward. So he was served with the summons […]
He isn’t up for election this year, but Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s political action committee had a really good fundraising quarter at the end of the year, getting $202,066 in contributions in the three months through Dec. 31. What for? Maybe to pay the legal fees for his multiple appeals, since the days of him […]