Miami-Dade County commissioners will consider another sweetheart deal Tuesday to lease nearly four acres with a 38,000-square-foot building and a surface parking lot included — for $1 a year. This time, the land grab is not for a millionaire sports team owner. It is the City of Miami Police Department, which wants to use the property at 1701 NW 30th Ave. […]
Add another potential name to the already crowded Republican primary ballot in Congressional District 26. A push poll over the weekend put Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro in the mix and, while some people might think that is laughable, Barreiro has set his eyes on Congress before. “Would you vote for Bruno Barreiro if you knew […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro was facing a sorta soft recall movement — but that was before Thursday, when a Daily Business Review story sort of put a flame under that kindling. According to the DBR, Barreiro’s district office in Little Havana — suite 130 at 1454 SW 1st Street — is in a building owned by his parents, […]
Some have wondered if the effort to recall Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro is real. But one of the organizers says that the only reason we haven’t seen petitions yet is that the targetted elected has to be in office for a year first, by state law. Barreiro was sworn in last January and the effort is […]
Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo may have given the elderly residents a domino table to play on during these last city elections, but a lot of us know that these people have a lot more serious issues that need to be addressed. The lack of air conditioners has been an issue for years, but there are […]
Several other electeds came from near and far to pay their respects and roll out the red carpet as the newly-elected mayor and commissioner were sworn in Monday at Miami Beach City Hall. They included Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez, his son, Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez (who let me kneel down next to him so I […]
In addition to the District 11 county commission seat left by Chairman Joe Martinez to run for mayor, there are six other commission seats up for re-election this year. But so far, only two of the incumbents have drawn opposition — and the challenges are weak. Commissioner Bruno Barreiro was the first to draw 0pponents […]