Cindy Lerner confronts Rubio, Bush on climate change

Cindy Lerner confronts Rubio, Bush on climate change

Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner went to New Hampshire last week to personally deliver a letter signed by her and 14 other mayors in Miami-Dade regarding climate change and the federal response to both Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. Lerner, a deep blue Democrat who served in the Florida House with Rubio, told each of them at […]

Doctors and nurses say vote yes on medical marijuana

Doctors and nurses say vote yes on medical marijuana

Take two. Or is it toke two? It didn’t take long for Service Employees International Union of Florida, the union that represents doctors, nurses and healthcare workers, to announce support of round two for Amendment 2, the measure on this November’s ballot to allow medical marijuana in Florida. On Jan. 27, medical pot made it […]

Miami SAO blames Carlos Gimenez for unsolved crimes

Miami SAO blames Carlos Gimenez for unsolved crimes

Under pressure from the Mothers of Murdered Kids group that protested at her office, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle sorta passed the buck on unsolved crimes the other day, placing most of the blame squarely where it belongs: in the lap of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. In a statement, KFR basically shed light on the […]

Political Coraditos: From POTUS phone banks to lizards

Political Coraditos: From POTUS phone banks to lizards

Philip Levine heads to New Hampshire for Hillary Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine will head to New Hampshire Saturday to stump for Hillary Clinton. And maybe a job? Where was he when Hill needed him in Iowa Monday night? Many people in the know believe that Levine is angling for an ambassadorship, which makes more […]

Miami GOP draws first blood on Joe Garcia in FL26

Miami GOP draws first blood on Joe Garcia in FL26

Ouch! It didn’t take long for the Miami-Dade Republican Party to lash out at former Congressman Joe Garcia, who announced Wednesday that he was going to run for his old seat again, which he lost in 2014 to a Miami-Dade School Board member named Carlos Curbelo. Within hours, the @MiamiGOP had tweeted a photo collage of headlines […]

Musical seats game on as Joe Garcia jumps in FL26 race

Musical seats game on as Joe Garcia jumps in FL26 race

Looks like Annette Taddeo won’t have to worry about Andrew Korge, son of Democratic fundraising powerhouse Chris Korge, running against her in the congressional primary for District 26. Because he got scared away by Joe Garcia. So, now all Taddeo has to contend with is the former Congressman, a one-time friend and ally, who has apparently […]

Watch as Uber’s intimidating tactics catch fire

Watch as Uber’s intimidating tactics catch fire

The ride sharing companies who have been operating illegally for two years in Miami-Dade got their first step toward legalization last month when county commissioners gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that would regulate these companies, but barely. But something else happened at that Jan. 20 meeting: A new strategy was born for getting your […]

Juan Zapata’s ‘West End’ is criticized — with poetry

Juan Zapata’s ‘West End’ is criticized — with poetry

Weak. That’s what Michael Rosenberg thinks of “West End,” the catchy neighborhood name that Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata came up for his West Kendall/Hammocks district. Rosenberg, president of the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations and the founder and executive director of the Pets’ Trust, didn’t like the way Zapata just changed the name of his […]

Gimenez on Matthews: Campaign optics, not leadership

Gimenez on Matthews: Campaign optics, not leadership

Breaking news: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is Cuban again. Gimenez wrote a letter to TV show host and author Chris Matthews Thursday blasting the political pundit, host of MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, for his comment about a boring GOP debate without Donald Trump. “Whose going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys,” […]

All about the optics: Cops ‘graduating’ class is just for show

All about the optics: Cops ‘graduating’ class is just for show

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is all about the optics. Under fire on an election year for letting the police department get dangerously understaffed, Gimenez will attend a ceremony Thursday for the “largest graduating class” of police officers. But like a lot of other things the mayor does, it’s not entirely true and mostly for show. […]