The political fallout from Miami-Dade’s spectacular failure to secure the last major fuel depot serving PortMiami claimed two high-profile casualties late Wednesday when Port Director Hydi Webb and Chief Operations Officer Jimmy Morales abruptly resigned. That’s right. That Jimmy Morales. And just like that, the fuel depot fiasco has gone from embarrassing to career-ending. Read […]
Jean Monestime, Rudy Moise jump into the bunch Every so often, South Florida politics experiences one of those rare celestial events that only comes around once in a blue moon: an open congressional seat. Not a scandal. Not an indictment. Not a recount. Not a death grip incumbent hanging on until the bitter end. An […]
Family wants to build on 246 acres of wetlands The bulldozers are still in the parking lot. And the Urban Development Boundary is back on the agenda. Again. After months of delays, negotiations, a veto, reconsiderations and enough procedural gymnastics to qualify for the Olympic team, Miami-Dade commissioners are scheduled Tuesday to once again decide […]
When Congresswoman Frederica Wilson announced Friday that she was finally calling it a career at 83, she didn’t just create an open congressional seat. She detonated a political chain reaction stretching from Washington to Tallahassee to County Hall to city halls across North Miami-Dade. It didn’t take long for the dominos to start falling. Actually, […]
Former State Sen. Annette Taddeo is running again — almost certainly. The rumors have been circling for months. Would she jump into a congressional race? Run for her old seat on the state senate? Look, at this point in Florida politics, if there’s an open race somewhere between Key West and Tallahassee, there is a […]
Vicki Lopez vs Joe Sanchez might be only real contest Four of the seven Miami-Dade commissioners up for re-election this year might just coast back into office if they don’t get a challenge by the qualifying deadline in about two weeks. As of Memorial Day, incumbent Commissioners Micky Steinberg, Natalie Milian Orbis, Anthony Rodriguez and […]
A political action committee tied to Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo has apparently decided it is no longer enough to quietly freeze out downtown activist James Torres. Now, they want to publicly nuke him from orbit. A text blast sent Thursday paid by a PAC connected to Alex Miranda — one of the more quiet but […]
So it turns out the whispers were not whispers after all, queridos. They were spoilers. Just days after Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez announced his move to become the top cop in Miami, las malas lenguas told Ladra that Miami Springs Police Chief Matthew Castillo — who already looked less like a small-town chief settling […]
The gloves are off in Coral Gables. Actually, the gloves came off months ago. Now they’re using brass knuckles wrapped in public records requests and legal threats. The latest chapter in the increasingly ugly war between Mayor Vince Lago and the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association came this week in the form of […]
Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it had taken a hatchet to the Voting Rights Act last week, Florida Republicans were already lining up the next domino. And by the afternoon, they knocked it down. Tallahassee didn’t waste a minute to try to gain a GOP advantage in a threatened blue wave. […]