If we learned only one thing from the final Miami-Dade Commission budget hearing Thursday night it is that every county resident should run out right now — do not walk — and buy a life jacket. Dozens of speakers begged the commission and Mayor Carlos Gimenez to allocate more than $300,000 on studying and mitigating […]
Speaker after speaker at the final Miami-Dade County budget hearing Thursday night begged Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the commission to allocate more funds to address the climate change and sea level rise that threatens to put much of Miami under water. Some discussed other items — grants for community based organizations, the Underline parkway initiative, […]
Last year, it was libraries and police officers. The year before that, the pets’ trust and firefighters. This year, we’ll likely still see the pet people trying to get the mandate from the people respected by our elected commission, but the new rallying call against the Miami-Dade County budget is climate change. Or rather the […]
That was actually fun! Ladra loved the interaction at the GOP’s debate Wednesday night on CNN, but it’s too late to give a full analysis. We can get to that in the morning. Right now, it’s time for the instant, knee-jerk observations, relevant or not. It felt like they talked about immigration for far too […]
Three months ago, a run for public office was the furthest thing from attorney David Wieder‘s mind. But last month, after several people pressed him to run, Wieder announced he would challenge Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine. “I was approached by members of the community who were essentially outraged at what’s going on at City […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is scheduled to meet Thursday with representatives from Florida International University and the Miami-Dade County Youth Fair over their standoff on the school’s expansion plans into the fairgrounds. The Fair people don’t want to move — and they don’t have to. They have a locked-in lease through 2085. That’s 70 years […]
The Women’s Republican Club of Miami Federated is looking for a new home. The organization has been meeting monthly at Crave Restaurant in Coral Gables for about two years, with speakers like Attorney General Pam Bondi and Sen. Anitere Flores. But no more. Call it an ideological difference. After being asked to take their meetings […]
Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco finally got involved in the city’s upcoming elections Tuesday — when he publicly chastised and denounced one of candidates for using Grieco’s Miami Beach Kids First non-profit in a paid campaign email blast. In it, Grieco basically calls Mark Samuelian an outsider who would “do anything to try and win […]
UPDATED: The finance director and assistant finance director at the city of Miami Beach both resigned abruptly Thursday just as the city finalizes its budget process and starts a financial audit. The city’s Chief Financial Officer Patricia Walker and the Assistant Finance Director Georgie Echert both resigned on Thursday — in such a rush that […]
Just because the Relentless for Progress PAC is quitting doesn’t mean we have to stop talking about how shady it was. The PAC’s chairman, Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, said last week that he was going to dissolve the shady political action committee, which raked in close to $1.5 million in contributions from lobbyists, contractors, […]