The third time was the charm. Miami-Dade Commissioners gave yet another sweetheart deal to yet another sports team Tuesday– the second in a month — as they voted 7-4 to support a plan concocted by Mayor Carlos Gimenez in which the county will pay the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins millions of tourist tax dollars […]
Today, Miami-Dade Commissioners will again consider giving money away to the Miami Dolphins’ billionaire owner Stephen Ross for events that he would already have because they already make him tons of money. I swear I am not making this up. Instead of paying him to bring a Super Bowl, our esteemed electeds should be talking […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez may still enjoy a majority approval rating — with 53% of respondents saying they thought he was doing an excellent (11%) or good (42%) job at the county, according to a recent pool. That’s not bad. But it’s not really good either, considering that there is a 4% margin of error, […]
This is beginning to feel like a recurring nightmare. In his desperate attempt to find a taxpayer bailout for the team he apparently overpaid for, Stephen Ross — one of the richest men in the U.S, according to Forbes — is going on his third try for subsidies from Miami-Dade County. Mayor Carlos Gimenez — […]
So now that the proposed Miami Dolphins stadium renovation scam, er, deal would take taxes away from his little, scrappy city, Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert — who supported the team’s last plan for using tourist tax dollars — says Sun Life Stadium is not all that. Gilbert told the Miami Herald Wednesday that he wants Miami […]
Who is advising Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez these days? No, really. Because on Friday afternoon, our Not So Golden Boy mayor will join none other than the Miami Dolphins — you know, the team he wanted us taxpayers to buy a new stadium for — to give some holiday turkeys to needy families whose kids […]
Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has not given up on getting public financing for some of his planned $350-million in upgrades to his privately-owned SunLife Stadium, even though efforts to do just that this year were thwarted in the Florida legislature. “Have I given up? The answer is no,” he said earlier this month. “The […]
You’d think they wouldn’t be so chummy. But apparently Gov. Rick Scott is warming up to Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. And vice versa. Politico reported Friday that Ross will have a fundraiser tonight for Scott at his home in the Hamptons. In New York. Not Florida, where the guv’s increasingly tough re-election, according to […]
The Miami Dolphins trump the community again. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has cancelled Tuesday night’s budget town hall in Florida City — which has been advertised for a month — so he could go to Washington, D.C., to help celebrate the 1972 champion football team being recognized by President Barack Obama in what seems like […]
Looks like Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is making good on his threat to punish the Tallahassee bunch who killed his $350-million dream. Well, not the Democrat one. The second wave of mail attacks on state legislators that fought the plan to finance the roof and improvements to Ross’s privately owned Dolphins stadium with public tax […]