The very same developers whose plans for an oceanfront highrise on North Beach were quashed by voters in 2015 have gone another route: They got the city to vacate public streets and sidewalks so they can unify a development site and use the FAR to build the condo tower anyway — and a hotel, street-level shops, […]
With the big four Miami-Dade cities having elections this November and six of the 13 county commissioners termed out in 2020 leaving open seats, a new crop of political action committees are getting in line to take special interest money and turn it into attack ads. There are at least 21 new PACs registered with […]
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 […]
The fight over the Coconut Grove Playhouse is more than just a political battle between two mayors who may very well be facing each other on a ballot near you soon. It is proof positive that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who wants to sell off every part of the county he can before he is out of […]
It doesn’t seem that the news about absentee ballot fraud in last year’s county commission campaign has hurt Alex Diaz de la Portilla‘s fundraising for this year’s city of Miami District 1 race. Dean DLP hit and slightly surpassed the $200,000 mark in May, according to the latest campaign finance report, showing he raised $38,250 […]
Former State Rep. David Richardson first wanted to be a state senator, toying with inheriting the seat once held by Sen. Gwen Margolis before it was redistricted in 2016. Then he wanted to be a congressman, but lost the primary last year to former UM president Donna Shalala. who went on to win the seat […]
Sweetwater Mayor Orlando Lopez must be feeling the heat as the days get closer and closer to the runoff for his seat against former mayor and longtime nemesis Jose M. Diaz — and, perhaps, his ouster from City Hall. Because on Monday and Tuesday, a week before the runoff, a mailer landed in some voters’ […]
In her first month of campaign fundraising after announcing her run for 2020 Miami-Dade mayor, Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava shows she will be a force to be reckoned with — if not the outright front runner from Day 1. Levine Cava raised almost $230,000, according to her first report from April 2 to April 30. […]
Attack campaign jingles, scantily clad women at polls and the alleged attempted murder of a campaign worker whose car was reportedly shot at Monday morning as he drove around with a loudspeaker urging voters to support one of the mayoral runoff candidates. It may be one of Miami-Dade’s tiniest cities, but elections in Sweetwater always promise […]
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 […]