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 […]
Miami Beach commissioner: ‘Let’s fight back in court’ So this is how zoning works now. When developers can’t get approval from local boards, residents or even the area’s own elected officials, they simply go shopping for a different government — one 400 miles away. Under a bill passed Friday in Tallahassee, the legendary Fontainebleau Miami […]
For a man touring Florida accusing local governments of wasteful spending, Blaise Ingoglia — the head of the Florida DOGE, who reported last year that Miami-Dade had misspent more than $300 million (lacking any details, of course) — has picked a very awkward place to collect campaign checks: The Biltmore Hotel. Yes, the same grand, […]
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 […]
Just days after officially jumping into the race against Maria Elvira Salazar, former TV anchor Eliott Rodriguez has unveiled evidence that his campaign is off to a blazing start. Proof provided, conveniently, by his own campaign. A newly released survey shows Rodriguez holding a commanding 27-point lead in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 27th Congressional […]
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 […]
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has officially told former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo “nananina” to his final appeal, the city he used to represent has decided it would like its money back. Or at least some of it. Good luck with that. On Thursday, the Miami City Commission unanimously approved a proposal by Commissioner […]
Nearly forty judicial seats are up for re-election this year in Miami-Dade. And less than six weeks to qualifying, every single one of the incumbents is unopposed. Not lightly contested. Not weakly challenged. Unopposed. Forty seats. Zero competition. Judicial qualifying runs from noon April 20 through noon April 24. If no one files during that […]
UPDATED: For months, the question floating around Miami political circles was simple: Would Eliott Rodriguez actually do it? Now we know. The longtime South Florida news anchor — a familiar face to generations of Miami viewers — announced Tuesday that he is, indeed, running for Congress in Florida’s 27th District, setting up a challenge to […]
In Coral Gables, fighting human trafficking is a priority. As long as it involves motels. But when the conversation shifts to training the people most likely to encounter victims — firefighters and paramedics — things suddenly need to slow down. At a recent city commission meeting, Commissioner Melissa Castro proposed something that sounded fairly straightforward: […]