When Congresswoman Frederica Wilson announced Friday that she was finally calling it a career at 83, she didn’t just create an open congressional seat. She detonated a political chain reaction stretching from Washington to Tallahassee to County Hall to city halls across North Miami-Dade. It didn’t take long for the dominos to start falling. Actually, […]
Miami-Dade Public Schools’ wildly popular Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said on Thursday, in a very dramatic fashion, that he turned down a job leading New York City’s public school system to stay with the district where he began his career as a physics teacher at Jackson High. Wide speculation Wednesday that Carvalho was taking the School […]
Most of us have been preoccupied — perhaps obsessed is a better word — with the presidential or the Miami-Dade mayoral election. But there were a lot of other races that culminated with Tuesday’s vote. Here are some highlights: Sen. Marco Rubio beat Congressman Patrick Murphy back to gain another six years in office. He […]