It wouldn’t be summer if the mayor wasn’t in Paris. This year’s annual vacation to Paris on the taxpayer dime also got Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez an England stamp on his very cramped passport as he, Commissioner Barbara Jordan and a delegation of six other county employees and three Beacon Council lackeys take an eight-day jaunt […]
Looks like Miami Mayor Francis Suarez talks out of both sides of his mouth. Last summer, after he made a backroom deal with David Beckham and Jorge Mas to turn Melreese Golf Course into a $1 billion real estate/retail/office complex with a hotel and, oh yeah, a 25,000-seat soccer stadium, Suarez and his new business […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández may be termed out, but his political action committee raised almost a quarter million since he was re-elected, including more than $200K was last month alone — most of it on a single day. What’s it for, if he’s termed out in 2021? Sources say Hernández, who rules Hialeah with an iron fist and […]
Maria Cruz is a Coral Gables activist who is not afraid to speak. She does so quite often at commission meetings, letting the mayor, commissioners and city administrators know exactly what she thinks. She has no hair on her tongue. She asks for more public records than Ladra and keeps her neighbors and friends informed […]
UPDATED: Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales got a three to four year extension on his contract at a secret meeting Tuesday in his own conference room. Commissioners also voted 6-1 to have the finance chair Commissioner Ricky Arriola negotiate a raise to bring back to them. The only dissenting vote was Commissioner Michael Góngora, who […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez got a few more stamps on his passport this month during a nine-day European jaunt that took him to Spain and Switzerland. Like always, his wife Lourdes went along. So did the mayor’s Chief of Staff Alex Ferro, Port Director Juan Kuryla, Aviation Director Lester Sola, Manny Gonzalez, who runs the county […]
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? On the eve of the inauguration last week, Florida State Rep. Mike Hill (R-Pensacola) filed a bill Monday that would roll back the gun restrictions passed by last year’s state legislature in the wake of the student shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland. “The law that was […]
When fire department officials and police brass in Coral Gables first raised concerns about the new public safety building the city had designed without their input, they were told it was too late to make any significant changes. But there have been some minor interior adjustments made just recently after the forced resignation of embattled […]
To show how far he’s fallen from a bright future to a powerless present, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez turned into a sniveling baby begging Commissioner Joe Carollo for respect at a public meeting last week. This was right before the commission approved the first chunk of the $400 Miami Forever bond approved by voters in […]
Of the three candidates (so far) running for the open seat in April’s Coral Gables election, the newby handpicked by the incumbent is winning the money race. In two months time, attorney Jorge L. Fors, who is backed by Commissioner Frank Quesada, who is not seeking reelection has raised almost $65,000. That’s incumbent money, $5K less […]