Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s war on the new police chief is having all kinds of fallout effects, including two new lawsuits against the city that are a direct result of Monday’s oh-so-special meeting. And it could cost the city $28 million. Those are the damages sought in a lawsuit filed Thursday by the owners of […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s fight with the city’s relatively new police chief could become a factor in the upcoming election on Nov. 2, especially after the top cop said he contacted the FBI about the elected’s “misconduct.” Six weeks before the election and a week or so before absentee ballots are mailed to voters, the […]
Congratulations are in order for Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian. The city election is not until Nov. 2, but Samuelian won re-election to his seat last week when a judge ruled that his challenger be removed from the ballot because he was not qualified to run. Fabian Basabe, a New York City transplant socialite and […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Keon “Pay-to-Play” Hardemon showed his true petty colors on Tuesday when he tried to take $550,000 allocated in the county budget from the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in North Miami — which just so happens to be operated by Gepsie Metellus, who ran against him last year for the seat vacated by […]
County employees get a 2% bonus and a 6% raise The second and final public hearing on the 2021-22 Miami-Dade budget was another love fest, just like the first hearing earlier this month, with so many congratulations and thank yous that it seemed more like a baby shower than approval of a tiny tax increase […]
It looks like the mobilization of Key Biscayne residents against the redevelopment and privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway has found some success: Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, who had defended the RFP as a way to fund long-needed bridge improvements, sent a memo to the mayor asking for some changes and more time. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine […]
The Miami city commission keeps one-upping itself. On Monday, during a special and especially bizarre meeting to discuss (read: get rid of) the controversial new police chief, the commission voted to give itself subpoena powers and investigate, um, themselves, as well as how the chief was hired and actions taken by him since he came […]
A ‘target list’ of commissioners’ enemies is part of questionable acts Guess Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo is not going to go down easily. Three days before a special commission meeting Monday to discuss his very future with the city, the new chief sent the mayor and city manager a detailed 8-page memo accusing the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado took a slew of county officials, including Chief Operating Officer Jimmy Morales, to Key Biscayne Wednesday to explain the controversial Rickenbacker Causeway project proposal to concerned Village residents. Let’s just say it was not her crowd. She was heckled and booed for her perceived defense of a controversial request for proposals […]
Town hall on the RFP Wednesday at Key Biscayne Community Center The Venetian Causeway is going to be cut out of the request for proposals that already went out on the redevelopment and privatization of both the Miami Beach connector and the Rickenbacker Causeway to Key Biscayne, which is really what this project was all […]