Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago likes to talk about political theater, but his recent guest appearance in a supporting role at a Miami Commission meeting deserves its own program insert. Lago showed up to the city commission’s December meeting to support a resolution that would help declare several aging hotels along SW 8th Street in […]
And this could be a test case for the UDB expansion Namaste. The veto that promised to launch a showdown quietly dissolved Wednesday into what can aptly be described as parliamentary yoga. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava’s dramatic Feb. 1 veto of the Kelly Tractor wetlands project didn’t get overridden. It didn’t get sustained either. […]
While most Floridians were enjoying free park entry for George Washington’s Birthday weekend, Gov. Ron DeSantis was in Monroe County pulling a cord off a brand-new bronze tribute to James Monroe — Founding Father, fifth U.S. president, architect of the Monroe Doctrine… and lifelong slaveholder. Welcome to America 250, Florida-style. The statue, placed near Bahia […]
Someone is polling in House District 113. And like every good Miami political ghost story, nobody wants to admit they paid for it. A text message last week led Republican voters in the district — which includes Key Biscayne, Little Havana, other parts of Miami and some Coral Gables — to a poll that asked […]
Water, water everywhere — except not really Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took to video last week with a message that sounded less like routine government housekeeping and more like a gentle but unmistakable warning shot: We have a water problem. A “water shortage warning“ is in effect. Not a watch. Not a suggestion. A […]
And he has a ‘protective detail’ paid by taxpayers Remember when Miami Beach officials insisted that the police visit to a resident’s home over a Facebook comment was simply routine? A harmless “knock and talk”? Nothing to see here? Well, now we know exactly who saw something. And exactly who said something. According to newly […]
Is this the work of the ghost of Joe Carollo? What was supposed to be a sleepy, bureaucratic conversation about succession planning at City of Miami on Thursday detonated faster than a cafetera left unattended. Commissioner Miguel Angel Gabela thought he was teeing up a routine discussion about the process for replacing retiring Police Chief […]
If congressional hearings were scored like Olympic events, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted a perfect 10 last week in the category of combative deflection. Unfortunately for the country, the event was oversight. Also unfortunately, it’s been mocked all over the world and will go down as the biggest public temper tantrum by a cabinet member […]
People are talking and Democrats are dreaming For years now, Democrats have searched — sometimes desperately — for someone who could seriously threaten U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar in a district that stubbornly refuses to behave the way they want. They may have just found him. Newly retired CBS Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez, one of […]
Mayor Eileen Higgins has been in office just long enough to learn where the bathrooms are at City Hall — and already she’s making one thing clear: This administration would very much like to be taken seriously. Last week, Higgins rolled out her senior leadership team, a ritual that in most cities barely registers as […]