Downtown residents may want to invest in earplugs now — the industrial kind — because the Ultra Music Festival just got something most Miami residents never get: long-term certainty. The Miami City Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a 20-year agreement keeping Ultra at Bayfront Park through 2046. That’s longer than some of the condo […]
Just days before tens of thousands of bass-loving ravers descend on downtown for the annual sonic invasion known as the Ultra Music Festival, the one meeting meant to give residents answers about road closures, noise, traffic, and general survival strategies imploded Wednesday — because the City of Miami pulled out at the last minute. And […]
Additional concessions are on the table — are they enough? Just when you thought the Calusa saga was heading for yet another showdown at County Hall, plot twist: the fight over the former golf course — and its politically famous bird island — is being punted again. But this time, not because Miami-Dade forgot to […]
Eight charter changes, zero polling places Coral Gables voters are about to reshape their city government — without ever setting foot in a polling place. The Miami-Dade Elections Department on Thursday will mail 37,332 absentee or vote-by-mail ballots to voters in the City Beautiful to decide the fate of eight charter amendments touching everything from […]
Every few years, someone in Tallahassee looks at Miami-Dade’s Urban Development Boundary — the thin, invisible line separating suburbia from swamp — and decides it would look better moved west. Or south. Or “adjusted.” Or “modernized.” Or whatever euphemism is trending in the Legislature that week. This year’s version of that effort — which was […]
Vince Lago delivers 20-minute lecture on Instagram etiquette At last week’s Coral Gables commission meeting, Mayor Vince Lago devoted nearly 20 minutes of dais time to what may be the gravest threat facing the City Beautiful: An Instagram story. Specifically, a repost by Commissioner Melissa Castro of a video by Florida House 113 candidate Tony […]
If there is one group absolutely thrilled with newly-appointed Miami-Dade County Commissioner Vicki Lopez these days, it’s the people who sell the product. The Miami Association of Realtors has named Lopez, a state rep for District 113 until November, its 2025 Housing Advocate of the Year, praising her for championing condominium reform, pushing accessory dwelling […]
At what point does a political disagreement stop being governance and start looking like, well, fixation? Because Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago just dragged his long-running feud with Commissioner Melissa Castro all the way to Tallahassee — and in doing so, may have revealed far more about his own political instincts and ethics than hers. […]
Florida ranks 47th in the country for affordable healthcare. And the group behind the long-simmering effort to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot is relaunching statewide signature collection this month — this time aiming for the 2028 ballot, after the Legislature moved the goalposts mid-game with a little thing called HB 1205. You remember HB […]
In a discussion thick with irony, Miami-Dade commissioners on Monday advanced legislation that would reshape the hiring rules for their own watchdog — while investigations touching the dais continue in the background. Commissioner Oliver Gilbert’s proposal to rewrite the hiring rules for the county’s inspector general — the very office tasked with probing corruption and […]