We already know that Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chairman Kionne L. McGhee is not happy about the mayor’s proposed $12.9 billion 2025-26 budget of service cuts and fee hikes — especially not when the county’s most vulnerable residents are going to pay the price. Especially when the nonprofits brace for extinction while the county still has […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Roberto J. Gonzalez is throwing a party Thursday in West Kendall — but the guest of honor won’t be there. That’s because former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the man getting a brand-new road named after him, is currently under house arrest in Colombia after getting a 12-year sentence for his alleged role […]
Eenie, meenie, miny, moe. A recent poll suggests Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava could just edge out Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar in 2026. But wait, isn’t she going to run for governor? Levine Cava, who is termed out in 2028, hasn’t said a peep about either, but people keep imagining her into these races because […]
Because of course she is. Kristen Rosen Gonzalez — Miami Beach’s drama queen of dais debates, email blasts and adult novelty props — announced in April that she is running for mayor. Even before she filed paperwork, Commissioner Rosen Gonzalez had told many friends and supporters she planned to unseat Mayor Steven Meiner — most […]
Melissa Castro suggests ballot language for referendum The city of Miami’s court battle to move municipal elections from odd to even years — effectively cancelling this year’s mayoral and commission races and extending electeds’ terms by a year — may have reverberations in Coral Gables, where the commission voted to move the elections from April […]
In what smells an awful lot like another scripted rubber-stamp moment, the City of Miami Commission last week passed the controversial Transit Station Neighborhood Development (TSND) ordinance, which gives developers the green light to drop a 12-story tower next to single family home within a one-mile radius of any Metrorail, Brightline or Tri-Rail, too. Existing […]
Rosie Cordero-Stutz says she inherited rising costs The newly-elected Miami-Dade sheriff is not happy about the dollar amount that Mayor Daniella Levine Cava‘s proposed budget sets aside for her new, constitutional office and has sounded the alarm in recent days, warning that proposed cuts could leave the sheriff’s office disarmed and dangerously under-resourced at a […]
Commission already took the bite out of the watchdog Miami voters did what they were supposed to last year. They turned out at the ballot box in August and voted overwhelmingly — by a margin of 79% to 21% — for a truly independent Inspector General to root out shady shenanigans at City Hall. But […]
Miami’s political telenovela just cast another familiar face: Former Miami Mayor and former District 7 Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez wants his old job back — and maybe a rematch with Commissioner Joe Carollo. Just hours after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on Monday declared the Miami City Commission’s election year change by ordinance unconstitutional, effectively […]
Miami Assistant City Manager Larry Spring, the city’s chief financial officer, has submitted his resignation and will be leaving the city’s employ — for the second time — in about two weeks. “As you know, over the last three years, I have genuinely enjoyed the opportunity to be back with my City of Miami family […]