Hialeah’s first budget hearing for 2025-26 last week turned into another political telenovela, with interim Mayor Jacqueline Garcia-Roves and Councilman Jesús Tundidor digging into their rival tax-cut proposals like two kids fighting over the last croqueta. And since the council is still missing a seventh member to break ties, nothing got done Thursday. Nada. The […]
It was like a shadow government meet-and-greet Just when you thought that the old Hialeah politics mix of evil alliances and public distrust were behind us, along comes a secret society supper vibe from former mayor Esteban “Steve” Bovo, joined by ex-mayors Julio Robaina and Carlos Hernández. The bad boys of the City of Progress […]
Residents mourn the city’s removal of an old oak tree Morningside neighbors aren’t just angry about Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo’s pet sidewalk project and the 75-year-old oak tree that was cut down without warning — they’re lawyering up. Residents of the historic bayside neighborhood sent a formal legal warning to City Hall Wednesday, telling Mayor […]
Even before Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins officially threw her hat in the ring for the Miami mayoral race, the Miami-Dade Democratic Executive Committee was sending out text messages linking the front-running Republican candidate, former City Manager Emilio González, to Donald Trump. Then Tuesday, a day after Higgins submitted her resign-to-run resignation at the county, the […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago has a new political target in his crosshairs — the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association, the decades-old civic group that safeguards the land where the city’s youth center now stands. But it’s only because former Commissioner “Coach Kirk” Menendez, who had the guts to challenge him in the […]
County commissioner wants to qualify by petition For everyone still whispering that Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins might blink at giving up three safe years on the county dais for a risky run at Miami’s top job — stop. It’s done. There’s no room for doubts now. Higgins submitted her resignation letter as a county elected, […]
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 […]