Or ‘How the demotion of Daniel Junior caused a domino effect’ A major shake-up in the Miami-Dade public safety and corrections leadership was announced Friday by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. The changes involve at least eight people — but one could argue that none of it would have happened if La Alcaldesa didn’t need to […]
Consider this a Political Cortadito Page Six tidbit. Guess who was spotted having lunch Friday at Morton’s Steakhouse in Coral Gables? CJ Gimenez, the son of the Congressman who last week slapped Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the same Ponce de Leon restaurant and got arrested right after. Nobody was arrested this […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners will consider on Tuesday approving an $7.8-million contract that was already awarded, and for which work has already started, to you guessed it, Magnum Construction Management — which is the same post-bridge collapse Munilla Construction company under a different name — to build a new county fire station in Sweetwater. Mayor Daniella Levine […]
Jose Dotres will make almost twice as much as he did in Collier County The new Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent starts his $370,000-a-year job Monday leading the sixth largest school district in the country. He’ll be commuting. Jose Dotres, who was chosen Jan. 25 by the school board over two other finalists to replace Alberto Carvalho […]
Updated: The videos released Friday by Coral Gables Police is not the only footage revolving around the arrest of a U.S. Congressman’s son in Coral Gables Wednesday. The five videos from CCTV cameras on nearby skyscrapers show the events that occurred at Morton’s Steakhouse on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, when CJ Gimenez slapped Miami Commissioner […]
It looks more like a bop. Videos of the incident between CJ Gimenez, the congressman’s lobbyist son, and Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the Coral Gables Morton’s Steakhouse is out. And it doesn’t look so much like a slap as it does a bop on the head. Kinda like the NCIS guy […]
Town hall focus: Rapid transit zoning density and height increases A group of Pinecrest residents are riled up about a plan that proposes increases in heights and density along the eastern side of U.S. 1, across from where Miami-Dade County plans to build two rapid bus stations. But village officials say they’re worried about nada, […]
The distribution of hateful, anti-Semitic flyers in Miami Beach and Surfside over the weekend, blaming the “COVID agenda” on a list of Jewish doctors and officials, has not just alarmed that community. Everyone is disgusted. Police from several jurisdictions are investigating the source of the crude, false and inflammatory flyers, which were carefully left on […]
Miami-Dade School Board members on Monday chose longtime administrator José Dotres to be the new superintendent after the abrupt departure of Alberto Carvalho to the Los Angeles, California, school district. Yeah, it was quick. Carvalho announced in December that he was leaving, for real this time after he changed his mind when New York City […]
A controversial takeover of the Coral Gables Country Club by a politically-connected businessman and lobbyist could be dead in the water after Rodney Barreto sent the city a letter Saturday saying that he gives up on what he called a “painful process.” Barreto has withdrawn his proposal to lease and operate the historic, taxpayer-owned “crown […]