Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber won re-election easily Tuesday. Like Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Gelber had basically no opposition. But instead of getting 80% of the vote, like Baby X did across the causeway, Gelber won with 62%, which is still a comfortable victory if not an overwhelming mandate. He also won on his pet […]
Pobre Hialeah. They were Esteban Bovo‘s second choice. But one year after he lost the race for Miami-Dade mayor, the former county commissioner — whose political career began on the Hialeah council — voters chose him over four others to be the next mayor en la ciudad que progresa. The city might have to come […]
What an anticlimactic finish. There were no big surprises and there will be no runoffs in the city of Miami after both Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo won re-election by huge margins and newcomer Christine King totally stomped on appointed Commissioner Jeffrey “Who” Watson‘s dreams to serve a real term. Suarez, who had […]
A group of Palmetto Bay residents scored an incremental victory Monday in their fight to keep a vehicular bridge from being built over the C100 canal on 87th Avenue, connecting 164th Street to 163rd Terrace — a decades old battle that has divided the South Dade community. The Village crowd was not split for the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners get blue in the face talking about green space. Blah, blah, blah. Now they have a real opportunity to put our money where their mouth is. A unique and organic 168-acre little piece of nature, smack dab in the middle of Kendall, is home to some of the state’s signature and threatened wading […]
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo will have to present the city manager with a game plan for not only combatting crime but for interacting with the media and for moving forward with commissioners that he has accused of misconduct and is locked in battle with. City Manager Art Noriega also wants Acevedo — who is […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s war on the new police chief is having all kinds of fallout effects, including two new lawsuits against the city that are a direct result of Monday’s oh-so-special meeting. And it could cost the city $28 million. Those are the damages sought in a lawsuit filed Thursday by the owners of […]
What Urban Development Boundary? Despite many concerns and more questions than answers about the eventual project, Miami-Dade Commissioners voted 9-3 Thursday to move along an application to expand the UDB and convert 800 acres of farmland into the South Dade Logistics and Technology District. Developers used an inflated number of jobs as bait to basically […]
Despite a “listening” session for stakeholders to raise concerns, the request for proposals on the Rickenbacker Causeway overhaul (and privatization) went out exactly as it was first expected to: As a near total replica of the unsolicited Plan Z proposal that looks like a done deal. Guess nobody listened. This is just theater, pretend transparency […]
Jeff Porter and Elvis Maldonado have challenged incumbent Steve Losner The Homestead mayoral race is shaping up to be a brutal battle and could be a repeat of the “bloodbath” two years ago. So far it’s a three way that practically guarantees a runoff: Either there will be a rematch between two old rivals or […]