More changes, chat coming on flawed, rushed Rickenbacker Causeway RFP

More changes, chat coming on  flawed, rushed Rickenbacker Causeway RFP

It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine […]

Key Biscayne crowd heckles Raquel Regalado on shady Rickenbacker RFP

Key Biscayne crowd heckles Raquel Regalado on shady Rickenbacker RFP

Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents. Let’s just say it was not her crowd. She was heckled and booed for her perceived defense of a controversial request for proposals […]

Miami Beach dodges causeway Plan Z for privatization, but not Key Biscayne

Miami Beach dodges causeway Plan Z for privatization, but not Key Biscayne

Town hall on the RFP Wednesday at Key Biscayne Community Center The Venetian Causeway is going to be cut out of the request for proposals that already went out on the redevelopment and privatization of both the Miami Beach connector and the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne, which is really what this project was all […]

More questions than answers on makeovers for Rickenbacker, Venetian

More questions than answers on makeovers for Rickenbacker, Venetian

The Miami-Dade mayor’s desired request for proposals on the overhaul of both the Rickenbacker and Venetian causeways — a necessary step after getting an unsolicited proposal — could hit a snag Thursday. A number of commissioners and other stakeholders — including city officials in both Key Biscayne and Miami Beach — have questions and concerns. […]

Tallahassee’s vote-by-mail purge plan could affect 100K Miami-Dade voters

Tallahassee’s vote-by-mail purge plan could affect 100K Miami-Dade voters

A Florida Senate bill “moving at the speed of light” would purge the permanent vote-by-mail request lists in every county by July — and could disenfranchise close to 100,000 Miami-Dade voters with elections this year in Virginia Gardens, Homestead, Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. Not so fast, said the Miami-Dade Commission, which on Tuesday passed […]

Miami-Dade’s 3 new Commissioners: Hardemon, Regalado and McGhee

Miami-Dade’s 3 new Commissioners: Hardemon, Regalado and McGhee

None of the new Miami-Dade County commissioners elected Tuesday are really new to public office — or to us. With all the votes save some absentee ballots counted, the Miami-Dade Elections Department reported that former Miami City Commissioner Keon Hardemon, former Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado and former State Rep. Kionne McGhee won their […]

Miami-Dade candidate Cindy Lerner lies with competing campaign messages

Miami-Dade candidate Cindy Lerner lies with competing campaign messages

Cindy Lerner will say anything to get elected Miami-Dade Commissioner. The former Pinecrest mayor has gone so far as to have two completely opposite campaign messages, depending on who she’s talking to — and in what language. In English, former School Board Member Raquel Regalado is the super Republican with an agenda as extreme as […]