Nearly forty judicial seats are up for re-election this year in Miami-Dade. And less than six weeks to qualifying, every single one of the incumbents is unopposed. Not lightly contested. Not weakly challenged. Unopposed. Forty seats. Zero competition. Judicial qualifying runs from noon April 20 through noon April 24. If no one files during that […]
UPDATED: For months, the question floating around Miami political circles was simple: Would Eliott Rodriguez actually do it? Now we know. The longtime South Florida news anchor — a familiar face to generations of Miami viewers — announced Tuesday that he is, indeed, running for Congress in Florida’s 27th District, setting up a challenge to […]
In Coral Gables, fighting human trafficking is a priority. As long as it involves motels. But when the conversation shifts to training the people most likely to encounter victims — firefighters and paramedics — things suddenly need to slow down. At a recent city commission meeting, Commissioner Melissa Castro proposed something that sounded fairly straightforward: […]
For years now, the fight over the old Calusa golf course has played out in packed county hearings, late-night commission debates and hundreds of angry public comments. On Tuesday night, it moves back to the neighborhood. The Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations is hosting what it calls a public forum for residents of Calusa, Kendall […]
Every now and then, the Florida House of Representatives produces a moment of bipartisan harmony so overwhelming that it leaves only one logical conclusion: Apparently no one wanted to go on the record helping abusers. Last week, lawmakers voted 112-0 to approve sweeping domestic-violence reforms sponsored by freshman Democrat — and domestic abuse survivor — […]
Arrest rattles old questions for Francis Suarez, Vince Lago For two years, every time someone mentioned Rishi Kapoor in Miami political circles, the same phrase came up again and again: This isn’t over. On Friday, federal agents finally turned that whisper into a set of handcuffs. Kapoor — the once-flashy developer behind Location Ventures and […]
Downtown residents say they’re shut out of city talks Just weeks before the bass drops at Ultra Music Festival, a different kind of noise is building in downtown Miami. Residents say they’re being shut out of the conversation. At a Zoom community meeting Thursday night with members of the Downtown Neighbors Alliance, a representative for […]
Lots of local Republican politicians are going to be under public scrutiny in the coming days for their links to a group of conservative activist students at Florida International University whose hateful racist, antisemitic and misogynistic chat from a few weeks last Fall has come to light, thanks to The Miami Herald and someone who […]
Screenshots are forever. And right now, a set of leaked group chats circulating through Miami political circles is giving the Republican Party of Miami‑Dade County a migraine that’s going to last a long time. The messages — reportedly exchanged among young conservative activist students at Florida International University last semester — contain racist slurs, antisemitic […]
Former Miami commissioner’s last appeal dies in D.C. The end finally came without fanfare. No oral arguments. No dramatic reversal. No last-minute rescue. Just a quiet line on a Tuesday order list from the Supreme Court of the United States: Cert denied. And with that, former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has run out of courtrooms. […]