Updated: The son of Congressman Carlos Gimenez was released from jail late Thursday morning, posting $1,500 bond for a battery charge after slapping a Miami city commissioner at a Coral Gables restaurant almost 24 hours earlier. But there are a lot of questions about the atypical arrest of CJ Gimenez in an incident that the […]
But arrest by Miami sergeant-at-arms seems like a conflict of interests Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, the son of the Congressman by the same name who used to be our county mayor, ran into Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla outside of Morton’s Steakhouse Wednesday — and slapped him. There is animosity between the two and […]
If you blinked, you missed it. The Miami City Commission had what is probably its shortest meeting ever Thursday when Chairwoman Christine King adjourned about 10 minutes after it started and deferred all agenda items to the Feb. 10 meeting except redistricting, which will likely come up separately at a special meeting. Both Commissioners Alex […]
We may get some answers at Thursday’s city commission meeting What is it with the city of Miami Police and car crashes? First, it was Commander Nerly Papier who crashed into a curb, nearly killing two pedestrians, busting her tires and driving her unmarked vehicle through a red light on its rims. She and her […]
Who is the brother? That’s the question everyone was asking on Tuesday after it was revealed that Miami-Dade State Attorney Kathy Fernandez-Rundle recused herself in the case of accusations against Miami’s Three Amigos by former Police Chief Art Acevedo before he was fired. In a scathing 10-page memo, Acevedo accused Miami Commissioners Joe Carollo, Manolo […]
The husband and wife team at Miami Police who were fired by former Police Chief Art Acevedo after they allegedly attempted to cover up her car accident in a city SUV are back on the job. So is Luis Camacho, a sergeant at arms who was relieved of duty after he was accused of helping […]
And now the commission may reward the driver with a new job Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was involved in a car accident last week in a city vehicle driven by a Miami police officer and now there’s apparently an internal affairs investigation. Someone also sent a complaint to the Miami-Dade State […]
Miami city commissioners reversed themselves Monday when they put electric share scooters — which had been banned 10 days earlier — back on certain urban streets, mostly in the downtown and Brickell area. Commissioner and Chief Scooter Critic Manolo Reyes doesn’t want them in Flagami. He also was the only dissenting vote on the 3-1 […]
Don’t worry, Brickell scooter jockeys. The ban on electric scooters in the city of Miami is temporary and about to end soon. And not because Mayor Francis Suarez is your hero or anything like that. Yes, Suarez praised scooters while on some junket in Las Vegas on the same day the commission voted to shut […]
It happens every year. Elected officials glom onto the efforts of local organizations and food banks to give turkeys and other Thanksgiving trimmings to Miami-Dade residents. This has always seemed like a desperate and, frankly, pathetic publicity stunt to garner favor with voters and even local media. Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz partnered with […]