She also has the backing of most municipal mayors Almost eight months until the November elections and incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has already sealed up the support from basically every labor union. Like that was even in question? On Tuesday, United Teachers of Dade – Florida’s largest teachers union and the fourth-largest nationally, representing […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid has had a Wikipedia page up since November. But a couple of days after Cid, who is running for Miami-Dade Mayor, launched a video this week about incumbent Mayor Daniella Levine Cava‘s $2.5 billion bond initiative, an anonymous editor “nominated this article for deletion.” Notes on the website page say […]
The campaign for the re-election of Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava responded quickly and harshly to the 30-second web video ad launched Sunday by Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid, who is challenging La Alcaldesa this year, attacking her $2.5 billion bond initiative. And the gist is that Cid himself has pushed for tax increases. “It’s […]
Here’s a commercial you didn’t see during the Super Bowl. The first and anticipated video attacking Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava for her $2.5 billion bomb, er, bond initiative, revealed last month at the State of the County address, is out. It’s not on TV. It will probably be on a smart phone near you […]
Miami-Dade County has never been better positioned. That was the message sent by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava at her fourth (and, perhaps, final) State of the County address Wednesday. “The state of the county is strong,” Levine Cava said to a packed house at Zoo Miami after the district Commissioner Kionne McGhee and Commission Chair […]
Happy New Year, voter! Are you ready for 2024? If anybody thought elections in 2023 were interesting — what with corrupt Miami Mayor Francis Suarez being a pretend presidential contender for all of five minutes and incumbent losses in Coral Gables and the city of Miami — next year will likely be as good or […]
Manny Cid, Maribel Balbin among potential candidates Miami-Dade School Board Member Perla Tabares Hantman, who has served in that capacity for almost three decades, will not seek re-election. She made the announcement days after a Miami Lakes man tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis and charter schools filed to run against her. We knew she wasn’t […]
The two top building officials from the town of Miami Lakes resigned abruptly last month and some City Hall employees and town insiders say they were pushed out by political pressure and/or interference. Building official Mike Mesa and Permits Director Lourdes Rodriguez both resigned from their positions in the wake of an ad hoc committee […]
While Democrats across Florida and Miami-Dade in particular are still wringing their hands and pointing their fingers at the disastrous Tuesday that ended in big state and congressional losses for South Florida, local Republicans are still grinning ear to ear and patting themselves on the back. Sure, they lost the presidential race in Miami-Dade, but […]
In the middle of a controversial battle over two unused bridges to nowhere that would connect West Hialeah to the east through Miami Lakes, someone started construction on the roadway of the 170th Street bridge Wednesday. Mayor Manny Cid and Town Manager Ed Piederman had to rush to the scene to stop large trucks from […]