And Miami’s immigrant families are on the menu Leave it to Donald Trump to turn Thanksgiving — a holiday about gratitude, family and not strangling your tío during political discussions — into a xenophobic midnight rant attacking immigrants. While everyone else was eating leftovers, the ex-president was online serving up a reheated plate of hate […]
Something stinks at Miami-Dade County, queridos, and it’s not the trash at the illegal dump sites Commissioner Kionne McGhee keeps complaining about. No — this is an entirely different kind of smell. A political one. A transactional one. A “wait, what did they just do?” kind of stench. Let’s start at the beginning, because this […]
After two months of insisting that their September vote to hand over 2.6 acres of prime downtown real estate next to the Wolfson Campus for Donald J. Trump’s presidential library was perfectly fine, even though nobody knew about it, the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees suddenly decided Tuesday to take a “do-over” and hold […]
As usual, las malas lenguas were right: Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is no longer warming a chair at BDI Construction. Pero why? Pick your poison. Is this more fallout from the FBI’s sniffing around developer Rishi Kapoor’s influence over Miami Mayor Francis Suarez — a.k.a. Lago’s political BFF? Is this a pre-emptive cleanse before […]
The fix was always in for Vicki Lopez Well, District 5 will not get to vote, after all, to replace its outgoing Miami-Dade commissioner. Instead, Miami-Dade commissioners did what they’ve now done twice in five years: they chose for the people. Because nothing says “democracy” like elected officials refusing to let residents elect anyone. In […]
If you were still pretending this Miami mayoral runoff was about potholes, policing, or parks, bless your heart. Porque no, mi amor. The race between Emilio González and Eileen Higgins has officially ripped off the mask, and what’s underneath is the same old Miami power struggle with a twist. Usually, the developers and the Republican […]
Because Miami Mayor Francis Suarez apparently cannot leave office without one more extravagant flourish, Alcalde Lame Duck is asking taxpayers for a tiny little parting gift: $7.5 million in “city services” to support FIFA-sanctioned events next year. Yes, fútbol fans, that’s on top of the $5 million cash payout the city already agreed to hand […]
Commissioner Damian Pardo visits residents at home On a Sunday evening in Morningside —a quiet, tree-lined neighborhood of old Miami where decades-old live oaks and gumbo-limbo trees cast dappled shade and the hum of Biscayne Bay lingers on the breeze — a flyer showed up in mailboxes and on front doors, featuring what one letter […]
Where will the rest of the pack land? The first endorsement from one of the losing Miami mayoral hopefuls is vintage Miami. Former Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier L. Suarez, the original Mayor Suarez, the father of our camera-obsessed current mayor Francis Suarez, has thrown his weight (and his word count) behind Emilio González in the upcoming Dec. […]
The American Business Forum seemed more like an audition for him This past week, while millions of Americans faced lost food aid, shuttered programs and threats to their health coverage, downtown Miami staged a spectacle. You know the kind — velvet ropes, orchestral beats, VIP tickets, and a gilded ceremony that screams celebration even when […]