… and everyone pretends it’s business as usual There’s development. And then there’s development that requires a public street to disappear. On Thursday, the Miami City Commission will consider giving a public street to the developers of the Adela II at MiMo Bay project at 6443 Biscayne Boulevard — a project that has already received […]
Opinion By Deborah Stander As the City of Miami Commission considers final approvals for the proposed Adela II/MiMo Bay development adjacent to Legion Park on the Upper Eastside, a broader, citywide question arises: Is Miami consistently securing fair and proportional value when granting zoning exceptions and conveying public assets? This question stems from the upzoning, […]
Stronger Miami just crossed the line City Hall was praying they’d trip over. The citizen-led reform campaign announced Monday that it has collected more than 20,500 petition signatures, officially surpassing the threshold required to put its sweeping charter amendments on the 2026 ballot in Miami. And they didn’t just squeak by — they beat their […]
Sources say city could settle an old pension lawsuit Just when Miami thought it had finally shut off the spigot for millions of dollars that former City Commissioner Joe Carollo cost taxpayers in legal fees, here comes another bill. Last week, during one of those conveniently opaque City Hall “shade sessions” where commissioners get briefed […]
As everyone knows, Raquel Regalado can count Residents of Calusa — fighting the development of the long-abandoned golf course with an organic, urban rookery into a mega gated complex of 500+ homes — got a mulligan Thursday when county leaders, again, put off a decision for another month. Ladra has been writing about Calusa since […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago likes to talk about political theater, but his recent guest appearance in a supporting role at a Miami Commission meeting deserves its own program insert. Lago showed up to the city commission’s December meeting to support a resolution that would help declare several aging hotels along SW 8th Street in […]
And this could be a test case for the UDB expansion Namaste. The veto that promised to launch a showdown quietly dissolved Wednesday into what can aptly be described as parliamentary yoga. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s dramatic Feb. 1 veto of the Kelly Tractor wetlands project didn’t get overridden. It didn’t get sustained either. […]
While most Floridians were enjoying free park entry for George Washington’s Birthday weekend, Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Monroe County pulling a cord off a brand-new bronze tribute to James Monroe — Founding Father, fifth U.S. president, architect of the Monroe Doctrine… and lifelong slaveholder. Welcome to America 250, Florida-style. The statue, placed near Bahia […]
Someone is polling in House District 113. And like every good Miami political ghost story, nobody wants to admit they paid for it. A text message last week led Republican voters in the district — which includes Key Biscayne, Little Havana, other parts of Miami and some Coral Gables — to a poll that asked […]
Water, water everywhere — except not really Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took to video last week with a message that sounded less like routine government housekeeping and more like a gentle but unmistakable warning shot: We have a water problem. A “water shortage warning“ is in effect. Not a watch. Not a suggestion. A […]