The Downtown Neighbors Association will have a public safety town hall Wednesday with Miami Police Chief Manny Morales to discuss some “recent high profile incidents” in the urban core, talk about the homeless crisis and look at the 2025 downtown public safety action plan. DNA President James Torres has been very vocal recently about what […]
The deadline was noon Monday for those who want to be considered for a potential appointment to the Miami-Dade Commission in District 6, where Kevin Marino Cabrera sat until he resigned last week to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Panama. But everyone says the fix is in. West Miami Vice Mayor Natalie Milian Orbis […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — arrested in 2023 on charges of public corruption and suspended from office — is in a fierce divorce battle with his wife, after a seven months marriage, for the attorneys’ fees and splitting of assets. Now, he wants to depose a former city staffer who was […]
In a span of eight days after the Coral Gables election earlier this month and before the runoff in Commission Group 3 Tuesday, attorney candidate Richard Lara — who hasn’t voted in the city since 1999 — raised more than $102,800. Eight days! That is a huge injection into his campaign account, which totals almost $272,000 as […]
The Coral Gables election is almost over with early voting this weekend for the runoff coming Tuesday. The choice is between two attorneys: Richard Lara, general counsel for Spanish Broadcasting Systems, and the handpicked candidate, groomed by Mayor Vince Lago — who was just solidly re-elected — and Tom Wells, a member of the city’s […]
“¡Cobarde! ¡Mudo!” Coward! Voiceless! These are the names the narrator calls Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a video released Thursday that shames the former Miami-Dade mayor for his silence and complicity on Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including the rollback of protected status for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, many of whom live in his community. “Where […]
Ironically, lawmakers want to repeal Parkland gun law The inevitable barrage of “thoughts and prayers” is coming. A mass shooting Thursday at Florida State University in Tallahassee ended with the death of two people and the injury of five others. Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old political science student, was taken into custody. The son of […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has repeatedly said he is running for Miami mayor and has reportedly been campaigning, hasn’t filed any paperwork yet with the city clerk’s office indicating that he’s going to run. But his political action committee, Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade County, spent almost $108,000 in the past […]
Former State House Rep. and Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson, a Democrat who lost last year’s tax collector race, filed paperwork on Wednesday to run for Miami-Dade Commission in District 5, where Eileen Higgins sits now. Higgins announced earlier this month that she was going to run for Miami mayor. Richardson, who did not make […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Rene Garcia filed paperwork earlier this month to run for mayor in Hialeah, after Esteban “Steve” Bovo announced that he was leaving for a Washington, D.C., lobbying gig. But is Garcia really running? He didn’t have a press conference to announce his candidacy. There is no announcement post on any of his social media. Garcia […]