Miami voters didn’t give anyone the keys to City Hall Tuesday night, but they did serve up a spicy little runoff, as expected, between Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins and former City Manager Emilio González — two candidates who couldn’t be more different, except for the fact that they both promise to end chaos in a […]
The ink on Miami’s new lifetime term limits isn’t even dry — and already, some voters are asking a judge to make sure the city doesn’t pretend not to see it. Three Miami residents — Victor Milanes, Alex Almirola and Oscar Elio Alejandro, who case in fourth— filed an emergency injunction Tuesday night to block […]
The youngest mayor — and maybe the hungriest — pulls upset Well, well, well. Turns out you can still beat the machine in Hialeah. Bryan Calvo, the 27-year-old former councilman who once sued the city’s own leadership and knocked on thousands of doors himself, pulled off what nobody — and I mean nobody — expected […]
While everyone was busy watching which mayoral hopeful made it into the runoff — and whether Commissioner Joe Carollo would lose his temper before or after the polls closed — Miami voters quietly showed some serious smarts on the four city charter amendments that could reshape City Hall for years to come. The results? Yes, […]
Candidate Denise Galvez Turros loses residency challenge Just in time before the election that ends Tuesday, a court said “nope” last week to the last-ditch attempt to boot Rolando Escalona off the ballot for Miami’s Commission District 3 race — so he can still win this. Or, more likely, get into the runoff with former […]
So much for unity. After weeks of kumbaya talk, meticulous planning, and carefully-worded press releases, Coral Gables finally held its long-delayed “Interfaith Ceremony for Unity and Peace” Monday night. The city had spent nearly two months trying to find a way to honor the victims of October 7 without turning it into a geopolitical food […]
Look who’s picking up the slack — because our so-called leaders won’t. The Keep Them Honest campaign — yes, the same one that plastered billboards all over Miami calling out local politicians for looking the other way while the Donald Trump administration rips families apart in his drive to deport immigrants — is back at […]
The race for Hialeah mayor — which was already shaping up to be a good old-fashioned street fight with chancletas flying — has turned into a full-blown telenovela. And the one smiling quietly in the corner right now is Council President Jesús Tundidor, who’s watching both of his rivals trip over their own scandals just […]
Old CRA director gets nearly $200K in exit package It must be nice to have friends in high places. Or maybe just the right commissioner on your side. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s chief of staff, Carlos I. Suarez — no relation, but definitely part of the mayor’s extended orbit — is about to float gently […]
Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro has had enough of the quiet quid pro quo culture that seems to linger like cologne after a ribbon cutting. So she’s bringing a little disinfectant to the dais. Castro plans to introduce an ordinance that would make it crystal clear that no elected official in the City Beautiful can […]