Miami Beach commissioner: ‘Let’s fight back in court’ So this is how zoning works now. When developers can’t get approval from local boards, residents or even the area’s own elected officials, they simply go shopping for a different government — one 400 miles away. Under a bill passed Friday in Tallahassee, the legendary Fontainebleau Miami […]
And a golf cart got arrested on Election Day The two incumbents in the Miami Beach commission elections Tuesday, Laura Dominguez and Alex Fernandez, held on to their seats with a firm grip — but not without some of that special Beach-brand political drama we’ve come to expect. Dominguez survived a nasty, personal campaign from […]
Voters in Miami Beach will have to wait until November to vote for a person in the special election to fill the vacancy left by the sudden death of late Commissioner Mark Samuelian. And the really good questions, like what to do with the historic Deauville Hotel (more on that later) will be taken to […]
Two ‘new’ commissioners the community already knows, and well Miami Beach voters chose two longtime City Hall regulars and resident advocates as commissioners in Tuesday’s runoff election — despite the deep pockets running against them. Former Miami Beach Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who left in 2018 to run for Congress, is back in office with […]