With about six weeks to go before the election, Sweetwater Commissioner Orlando Lopez, who is running for the mayor’s seat, has filed a lawsuit to remove Mayor Jose Diaz from the ballot. The lawsuit claims that Diaz, who has served as interim mayor since shortly after the August 2013 arrest of Sweetwater Mayor Manny “Maraña” […]
Coral Gables Commissioners could approve today the largest single development project in the city’s 90-year history — a mixed use complex over almost 7 acres just east of Ponce Circle Park with 214 condos, 15 townhouses, 320,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, a 184-room hotel, a movie theater, a gym and offices to be […]
Remember Amendment One? It was only about five months ago that we the people of the great state of Florida passed a constitutional amendment, no less, that provides for the funding of long-promised Everglades restoration through the purchase of land with a percentage of document fees. Well, leave it to the Florida legislature to ignore […]
Former, arrested, suspended and acquitted Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi is one step closer to sitting back in his office at Town Hall after a judge ruled Tuesday that his acquittal on bribery charges — and the subsequent, if forced, revocation of the governor’s suspension — means that he should get his old elected […]
It’s a real shame that the last debate — if one can even call it that — of the commission and mayoral candidates in Coral Gables was so lame. With two weeks to go before the April 14 election, the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce event Tuesday night was a missed opportunity for the candidates […]
If you want to know who U.S. Rep. Carlos “Cry Baby” Curbelo is really representing in Washington, D.C., show up tonight at Shula’s 347 Grill in Sunset Place for the kick-off of the one-term congressman’s re-election campaign. While Curbelo has been raising money from the get-go, this event Monday night in South Miami is the […]
Will he? Or won’t he? That is the $100 million campaign question. Odds are that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio will, indeed, announce his long-desired presidential run next month at a press event at the celebrated Freedom Tower — a great possible backdrop for his important announcement, since it was the beacon that received and processed […]
Andrew “Kid” Korge will kick off his campaign for State Sen. Gwen Margolis‘ seat with a party next week hosted by everybody and their mother. Or father, actually. No fewer than 88 people are hosting the event, and the list is definitely a throwback to the days of former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. A one-time […]
J. Ricky Arriola has become the latest in a group of seven people — so far — who hope that three open commission seats in Miami Beach can spark their political careers. Arriola filed for the November city elections on Tuesday. But it’s not the first we hear of his political aspirations. His name was […]
Coral Gables residents won’t see a televised mayoral debate this week — in English or in Spanish. But only because the current incumbent, Mayor Jim Cason, won’t face his challenger, former city commissioner Ralph Cabrera. WPLG Channel 10’s Michael Putney invited both men to a mayoral debate on his Sunday news show, This Week in […]