Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross seems to have given up on the grab for public funds for the renovation of his stadium. Now he just wants to stop paying almost $4 million in annual property taxes. Well, of course he does. Why wouldn’t he? If that’s good enough for the Miami Heat owners and the […]
In what looks, so far, like the most heated commission race in the county, both candidates have already collected more than half a million dollars between them — for a $6,000-a-year post. Miami-Dade Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell has raised more than 50 times that much in her own campaign account and her PACs. Her […]
Congresswoman Frederica Wilson flew home to Miami for the weekend but not on a regular commercial or private airplane. Wilson (D-North Dade) accompanied President Barack Obama on Air Force One as the POTUS came to an event this afternoon at Coral Reef High School. She also hopped on the President’s helicopter, Marine One, to get from […]
Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo‘s little stunt to get out of a traffic ticket in 2012 probably cost him about 10 times as much as the original citation would have. Carollo, who apparently called the police chief in August of 2012 after he was stopped in Coconut Grove, pleaded no contest Wednesday to an accusation that […]
The residency rule passed by both the Florida House and Senate Tuesday has been touted as both a way to tighten loopholes that allow legislators to live outside their district and a measure that was not politically motivated. It is neither. State lawmakers may have been all high fives and back slaps after they passed the […]
State Rep. Jose Felix “One More Pepe” Diaz was already quite the connoisseur and promoter of the selfie genre — posting photo pics of himself on instagram and twitter on a regular basis. He almost always lands some image on Political Cortadito’s Pics of the Weeks. But Diaz hit the big time on Tuesday when […]
The highlight of last week’s pols in pics has to be Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio, who were in town Friday to attend a Doral rally in support of protesters in Venezuela and demand sanctions from the U.S. government, which some called a publicity stunt and others said was a much needed public […]
It looks like Miami-Dade Carlos Gimenez is trying to get some feedback on the directions and priorities he announced last week at the State of the County address. Not from the people, really, but from the special interests. That’s why he had one of his favorite lobbyists do it. Jorge Luis Lopez, who went to […]
It looks like this year’s legislative session in Tallahassee, which opens Tuesday, is going to be a little smoother than last year’s. While there seem to be some arguably controversial bills in the pipeline — we have gaming, medicaid, sports stadiums, red lighht cameras, a sales tax for higher education — not many seem to […]
Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Lieutenant Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera joined the bevy of local electeds to blast the Venezuelan government’s crackdown on protesters Friday — more than two weeks after the first two of at least 16 anti-government protesters killed and about a month after the clashes started. They joined Sen. Marco Rubio, who gave […]