Voters in South Miami will two charter amendments on their ballots that could be more important to the future of the small city than the presidential or Miami-Dade mayoral elections. That’s because it could change not only future development projects but also the election of all future electeds. If approved, one of the charter changes […]
Newly-elected South Miami Mayor Sally Philips held court in her first meeting Tuesday — albeit with a lot of help from City Manager Stephen Alexander and the city clerk — and proceeded to nail the coffin in the city’s CRA, which gets more than half its $3.5 annual budget from Miami-Dade County to provide programs and […]
South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but he won anyway when his hand-picked replacement (read: puppet) Sally Philips took 34% of the vote in a five-way race to become the new mayor. Philips is lucky there is no runoff (don’t listen to the Miami Herald because they got it wrong) because the […]