Chairman Oliver Gilbert doles out committee seats; some win, some lose

Chairman Oliver Gilbert doles out committee seats; some win, some lose

Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert assigned new committees and appointed the commissioner who will serve as chair and vice chair of these new committees, which are often where the details of projects and policies are debated. Every woman on the commission got a chairmanship, which means that five women will be chair of something or […]

Miami-Dade BCC picks Anthony Rodriguez No. 2 over Raquel Regalado

Miami-Dade BCC picks Anthony Rodriguez No. 2 over Raquel Regalado

Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado is rubbing her colleagues the wrong way. And they told her so Tuesday — at the very first meeting of the new commission — when they stripped her of the interim vice chair position and gave it permanently to Anthony Rodriguez. Even Commissoner Rene Garcia voted against her. ¡Eso duele! Maybe […]

Calusa rookery shows active nesting where they want to build 550 homes

Calusa rookery shows active nesting where they want to build 550 homes

Neighbors hope county or state will step in and save the natural preserve There’s indisputable proof now: Photographic evidence of threatened Florida birds nesting at the Calusa rookery in the middle of the abandoned golf course in Kendall that developers want to pave over for 550 homes. Miami-Dade Commissioners in November approved a zoning change […]

Rickenbacker Causeway bike safety was casualty of Plan Z public land grab

Rickenbacker Causeway bike safety was casualty of Plan Z public land grab

Miami-Dade Mayor, Commissioners consider real solutions The ‘if only’ is backwards. After the terrible accident that killed two cyclists on the bike lane in Key Biscayne earlier this month, there are the inevitable grumblings that the county had a chance to make cycling on the Rickenbacker Causeway safer — “if only” they hadn’t killed the […]

Miami-Dade Commission votes to kill Calusa preserve for Kendall developer

Miami-Dade Commission votes to kill Calusa preserve for Kendall developer

It seemed like an easy win for residents against a zoning change for 168 acres of naturally overgrown green space that used to be the Calusa Golf Course by those who would turn it into yet another West Kendall gated community of 550 big, square, identical homes. There was evidence of endangered bonneted bat activity […]