Commission already took the bite out of the watchdog Miami voters did what they were supposed to last year. They turned out at the ballot box in August and voted overwhelmingly — by a margin of 79% to 21% — for a truly independent Inspector General to root out shady shenanigans at City Hall. But […]
“TSND” may as well mean “This Sh*t’s Not Democratic” Miami’s controversial Transit Station Neighborhood Development (TSND) ordinance is barreling toward a final vote this week, and city commissioners are treating it like a routine zoning tweak instead of what it really is: a citywide land-use loophole wrapped in bureaucratic buzzwords and tied with a big […]
Miami’s political telenovela just cast another familiar face: Former Miami Mayor and former District 7 Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez wants his old job back — and maybe a rematch with Commissioner Joe Carollo. Just hours after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on Monday declared the Miami City Commission’s election year change by ordinance unconstitutional, effectively […]
First step victory for mayoral candidate is appealed The wannabe dictators at Miami City Hall just got a hard slap of reality from the bench. And Ladra is here for it. In a fiery ruling, hot enough to singe the mayor’s eyebrows, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Valerie Manno Schurr on Monday declared what most Miamians already […]
Miami taxpayers may end up on the hook to pay more than $1.3 million in legal defense fees for former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who was suspended from office by the governor after his arrest almost two years ago on bribery and money laundering charges that were later dismissed. Diaz de la Portilla […]
Well, that didn’t take long. It took Joe Carollo less than a month to go from proud political padrino to spiteful ex in the case of newly-elected Commissioner Ralph Rosado, who Carollo helped usher into office with more than half a million from his political action committee and hours upon hours of his unique political […]
Only in Miami can you snatch someone’s phone out of their hands in front of the city commission, city manager, the sergeant-at-arms, and a room full of witnesses — and still get your two minutes at the podium for public comment. Maybe it’s only because the phone-snatcher was Maria “Beba” Sardiña Mann, who is protected as […]
Meanwhile FIFA still gets $46M from taxpayers Say goodbye to addiction outreach teams, and hello to more overdoses and addicts, if Miami-Dade commissioners approve the 2025-2026 budget proposed this week by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. It proposes a number of cuts to fill the $402 million budget shortfall that the county is facing now that […]
Looks like Little Havana’s favorite strongman in a suit, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, just took another legal chancletazo — this time from the U.S. Court of Appeals, which politely (but firmly) told him, “Nananina.” In a ruling Thursday, the appellate court affirmed the district court’s decision to deny Carollo’s desperate motion for a mistrial on […]
Questions raised about intimidating senior voters Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Ralph “Pinky” Rosado was elected with a lot of help from his friends, mostly two veteran politicians who poured around $1.6 million into his campaign for a special election last month that drew 5,346 people — or 11% of the District 4 registered voters. According to […]