This sticker on the window could save lives Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado remembers the day she decided to run for office. As the parent of two neurodivergent children, she became frustrated with the options, or lack thereof, provided to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other disabilities. So, she ran for the Miami-Dade School […]
Commissioners for both Miami-Dade County and the city of Miami are going to sit down Wednesday to talk about the county’s push to increase density along the transit corridors, a priority that the city does not share. Miami has threatened to sue the county to keep control of zoning in city limits. The city of […]
Negotiations between the county and the operators at Homestead Speedway to put on a rodeo will have to wait. A proposal at the Miami-Dade Commission to establish a countywide rodeo, farmer’s market and farm show was deferred Wednesday after Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins expressed several concerns. There was no discussion with the Homestead Rodeo […]
Video ties Regalado to recently tainted politicos For months there have been rumors that former Pinecrest Mayor and State Rep. Cindy Lerner would run for Miami-Dade commission in District 7 again. But Thursday, the rematch with Commissioner Raquel Regalado became official when Lerner filed bank account paperwork for the 2024 county election. Lerner and/or her […]
Remember the Pets’ Trust? A whopping 64% of us approved this initiative on a non-binding ballot question in 2012. It aimed to direct budget dollars for animal services to a massive spay and neuter program to take care of the stray and abandoned dogs and cats that are overpopulating, particularly in the southwestern part of […]
When Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado goes Thursday evening to a town hall meeting hosted by the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations, it will be an act of courage. This is where the Calusa people live. Ladra fully expects some of them to come and pressure her to change her mind on the development of 550 […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert assigned new committees and appointed the commissioner who will serve as chair and vice chair of these new committees, which are often where the details of projects and policies are debated. Every woman on the commission got a chairmanship, which means that five women will be chair of something or […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado is rubbing her colleagues the wrong way. And they told her so Tuesday — at the very first meeting of the new commission — when they stripped her of the interim vice chair position and gave it permanently to Anthony Rodriguez. Even Commissoner Rene Garcia voted against her. ¡Eso duele! Maybe […]
The fourth time was the charm for the developers of the South Dade Logistics and Technology District, a 380-acre industrial and office park proposed on what used to be farmland — just over the Miami-Dade Urban Development Boundary. They got the necessary 8-4 supermajority, instead of the 9 votes they would have needed if the […]
The owners of the closed Presidential Estates Golf Course in North Miami Beach got the green light Thursday to build 119 homes on the property after Miami-Dade Commission voted to approve the rezoning despite concerns from staff, residents and the district commissioner, Sally Heyman. But it was expected. The commission is so developer friendly that […]