After reporting month after month with no contributions for more than three years, a political action committee for Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle reported raising $182,000 in the last quarter of 2023. Add that to the $239,374 reported in her campaign account and Ms KFR has almost half a million in the bank already. […]
A new political action committee in Coral Gables has formed with the intention of getting three charter amendments on the ballot. According to it’s website, Accountable Coral Gables is promoting a change in the election date to November on even years — which there is already a petition being circulated for — the requirement of […]
3 commissioners say public corruption is the reason UPDATED: The Coral Gables city commission on Tuesday decided to skip the national search for a new city manager and instead hired Amos Rojas, Jr., a former U.S Marshal and special agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement who can “clean up” City Hall — and […]
Sources say the mayor’s allies recruited the candidate Richard Lara, executive vice president and general counsel at Spanish Broadcasting Systems, chose the Coral Gables Commission’s public comments section Tuesday to announce that he was going to run against Commissioner Kirk Menendez in 2025. But first, he gave a traditional 305 stump speech introduction about his […]
The debate ended in September, when the new majority on the Coral Gables Commission — Melissa Castro, Ariel Fernandez and Kirk Menendez — voted to keep the Election Day in the City Beautiful in April on odd years rather than move it to the general election on even years. Commissioners also voted unanimously to create […]
From a Texas border town facing a migrant crisis to the a conference of foreign real estate investors to the Saudi Arabian regime’s investment powwow on South Beach — Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is all over the place. Except doing what he’s supposed to be doing, which is leading the city. Suarez, whose delusional pipe […]
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 […]
But some signs that are already approved may stay Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela was very indecisive at Thursday’s city commission meeting. First he voted to defer the item sponsored by Commissioner Damian Pardo to repeal the ordinance passed last year that allows for massive signs more than double the size of countywide regulations. Then, after […]
Opponents claim the signs going up are illegal Perhaps the third time is the charm for the repeal of the liberal digital billboard ordinance that allowed super huge LED signs on public land — like the one going up at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Miami City commissioners will discuss turning back the clock to […]
The first thing voters need to know about State Rep. Alina Garcia, who will not seek re-election after only two years in the Florida House and will run for the first ever elected Miami-Dade elections supervisor instead — is that she won’t say that the 2020 elections were fair across the U.S. “I can’t speak […]