Lots of local Republican politicians are going to be under public scrutiny in the coming days for their links to a group of conservative activist students at Florida International University whose hateful racist, antisemitic and misogynistic chat from a few weeks last Fall has come to light, thanks to The Miami Herald and someone who […]
Screenshots are forever. And right now, a set of leaked group chats circulating through Miami political circles is giving the Republican Party of Miami‑Dade County a migraine that’s going to last a long time. The messages — reportedly exchanged among young conservative activist students at Florida International University last semester — contain racist slurs, antisemitic […]
Former Miami commissioner’s last appeal dies in D.C. The end finally came without fanfare. No oral arguments. No dramatic reversal. No last-minute rescue. Just a quiet line on a Tuesday order list from the Supreme Court of the United States: Cert denied. And with that, former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo has run out of courtrooms. […]
Hold on to your cafecito. Guess who is suddenly being whispered about in Miami political circles as a possible challenger to Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar? None other than former Trump insider-turned-convicted felon-turned-whistleblower-turned-documentary-subject Lev Parnas. Yes, that Lev Parnas. The same one who once worked alongside Rudy Giuliani, helped stir the Ukraine pot that led to […]
Newly-elected Commissioner Rolando Escalona is on a roll. Fresh off of establishing a business improvement district for Calle Ocho in Little Havana, funding $5 million worth of capital improvements in District 3 — including $550,000 in traffic calming for The Roads, which hasn’t seen a penny since 2017 — and giving a directive to the […]
The election calendar is back on the table Thursday at the Miami City Commission — but this time, the math cuts the other way. Mayor Eileen Higgins has put legislation where her mouth is by presenting a resolution that would ask voters to shorten her own term by a year in order to shift the 2029 […]
Tuesday night’s monologue from Capitol Hill wasn’t a State of the Union address. It was a 108-minute campaign rally with better lighting. Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in American history — nearly one hour and forty-eight minutes — which in political terms is roughly three filibusters and a Netflix special. […]
Street vacation or truth vacation? On Thursday, the City of Miami Commission will decide whether to let the developers of Adela II at MiMo Bay gobble up NE 64th Terrace, a public access road to Legion Park, and stitch together 17 vacant lots into a 141,516-square-foot mega-parcel just south of the 48-acre park. But before […]
Luther Campbell — Miami’s own Uncle Luke of 2 Live Crew — is officially running for Congress in Florida’s 20th District. And if you thought this race was already dramatic, due to the incumbent’s legal troubles, buckle up. “There is no one else in this race who has demonstrated the ability to build, fight, and […]
… with a side of forgotten federal audit Welcome to Miami-Dade’s latest civic education opportunity: a virtual webinar on homelessness featuring the Homeless Trust — sponsored, promoted, and proudly polite. After last year’s brutal budget season, and in the shadow of Tallahassee talks about axing all property taxes, the topic of Wednesday’s Zoom call, hosted […]