Miami City Commissioner Christine King wants an office in District 5, close to the people who elected her. Real close. King has proposed renting 1,500 square feet of space for $2,500 a month at the Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation — where she had been president and chief executive officer for 10 years before […]
The image could not be more poetically appropriate. Here he was, the fabulous Mayor Francis Suarez of Miami, standing in front of TV cameras and the world, perfectly manicured eyebrows in place, fancy Bitcoin branded sneakers on like a rock star rapper, calling our city the capital of capital and the future of finance — […]
The executive director fired from the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency last month was just the first casualty of Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s wrath — and/or graft. ADLP was made chairman of the Omni CRA in February and immediately started to retaliate against employees who may have cooperated with authorities in the investigation into […]
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who was absent throughout the entire controversial redistricting process in the city, has decided he will not veto the politically self-serving and gerrymandered new map passed by the commission that divides Coconut Grove in three. A statement issued by his spokeswoman, Soledad Cerdo, made it seem as if he didn’t veto […]
About three dozen activists and residents from Coconut Grove milled about the grassy patch in front of Miami City Hall Thursday morning in the heat — for nada. The residents — most of the same people who went to speak against the cutting up of the Grove at every redistricting meeting — want to convince […]
Coconut Grove residents beg no-show mayor to veto redistricting map ¿Donde esta Francis Suarez? Miami just went through a painful redistricting that has Coconut Grove up in arms and Suarez is silent. The new police chief was appointed without a word from the mayor who last year recruited the Beyonce of police chiefs. Community Redevelopment […]
What the hell happened? People are still asking themselves that after last week’s special meeting in Miami to give final approval to the redistricting. It looked like the residents who had begged to keep Coconut Grove together in the new map had won. It seemed, from the meeting before last week’s, that they got their […]
Sources say Art Noriega could join the Inter Miami Freedom Park team Miami Commissioner Manolo Reyes tried last week to prohibit any city executive from taking a job for two years with any entity he negotiates a big deal with as the city’s top executive. Reyes didn’t name names, but the obvious target of his […]
Before the Miami city commission could discuss redistricting at Friday’s special meeting, Commissioner Joe Carollo made a special call to order — and laid into a false narrative attack on Commissioner Ken Russell. It was unwarranted. Carollo thinks Russell was not only behind the recall two years ago — and he is still butt hurt […]
Or ‘How Miami Police tried to extradite a Gables resident’ Documents and interviews with Coral Gables police indicate the city of Miami had much more interest than previously acknowledged in the arrest last month of lobbyist and Gables resident Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, son of the congressman by the same name, for slapping a city of […]