Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez wasn’t getting her phone messages. She wasn’t getting invitations sent to her for events. She missed meetings that she wasn’t told about. She wasn’t getting her message out to the senior citizen centers where she campaigned among the seniors who elected her. And that’s because her aide may have […]
The Miami Beach leg could still be the “backdoor” to a larger, more lucrative county contract Mayor Philip Levine seems to have backpedalled some on his Loopy Loop. Earlier this year, Levine defended his beloved train to nowhere, a stand-alone , two-mile, $245-million streetcar that would loop from 5th Street to the convention center and […]
This week’s speaker at Miami Beach’s first Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club of the new year is Miami-Dade County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, whose district includes the seaside city. Barreiro has been the commissioner for District 5 since 1998, when he won a special election after then Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruce Kaplan was arrested for mortgage fraud and […]
Betsy Perez may have lost the commission election in Miami Beach, but she’s got two nice board appointments, thanks to Godpapi Mayor Phillip Levine. Maybe she can steer more money her hubby’s way on the Cultural Affairs Board (She and Rudy Perez own a production company that put on the mayor’s centennial concert last year). […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine used to call Leonor Hernandez the mother of Miami Beach. Today, we can all call her a clerk in the building department after Hernandez (seen in this photo standing next to Levine with a sign in North Beach) was fired from the mayor’s office last week and Commissioner Jonah Wolfson […]
The Miami Herald got it right for once Wednesday in their endorsement of Kristen Rosen Gonzalez for Miami Beach Commissioner. The Miami-Dade College professor is headed to a runoff Tuesday as the last hope to get an independent voice on the commission after the two other open seats went to cronies of Mayor Philip Levine. […]
Lobbyist David Custin is having a fundraiser for Miami Beach Commission candidate Betsy Perez. Oh, it doesn’t say that on the invitation. The invitation is from Mayor Philip Levine and four of the sitting commissioners: Michael Grieco, Joy Malakoff and newly-elected Ricky Arriola and John Aleman. All five of them had Custin as their campaign […]
In one of the few times in politics where money apparently didn’t make the edge, a grass roots activists on Tuesday won their battle against a ballot measure that would have permitted upzoning on Ocean Terrace for a certain developer to build a high rise tower in a historic district with two- and three-story buildings. […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is going to be downright insoportable now. If you thought the millionaire mayor was a bit of an egomaniac before, expect King Ego to get only cockier and bossier after this veritable mandate from voters who re-elected him with 65% of the vote Tuesday against attorney and preservationist David Wieder. […]
Miami Beach Commission candidate Mark Samuelian is on a roll. After getting the coveted endorsement of longtime city activists Frank and Marian DelVecchio, Samuelian announced Saturday that he also had the support of former Commissioner and preservation hero Nancy Liebman. The campaign sent an email Saturday from Liebman, who served from 1993 to 2001, is a […]