The brewing battle between Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and some city mayors over the COVID-19 pandemic response has become a food fight over $474 million in CARES federal funding for governments to help cover coronavirus-related costs — and Grimenez is getting grabby. On Monday, the county decided that all the cities would have to share […]
As expected — or perhaps as threatened — Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Friday vetoed a county ordinance that revived a civilian review panel for questionable local law enforcement action in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minnesota Police officer. He also wants to deprive voters of the chance to make the Independent Review […]
Where were you when Miami immigration activist Thomas Kennedy told Florida Gov. Ron “DeSastre” DeSantis and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez off for bungling the response to the COVID19 health and economic crisis? That’s what future generations will ask each other every summer as they take a week to honor our COVID19 dead. Kennedy did Monday […]
If you could get past the Beetlejuice outfit worn by Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert, the unified message that five mayors sent at a press conference about the Miami-Dade COVID-19 response Thursday morning was increasingly critical of county Mayor Carlos Gimenez. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez — who has been at odds with Gimenez over COVID […]
The COVID-19 response in Miami-Dade has been to take one step forward, two steps back. And Monday’s decision to rollback the reopening of our economy was no exception. At 10:15 a.m., financial experts were on Radio Caracol AM radio explaining the RISE Miami-Dade Fund program’s $25 million in low interest micro loans for local businesses […]
It’s not like there haven’t been a bunch of missteps in the way that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has handled the COVID19 pandemic and the economic and social crisis it has caused. There have been delays in action, an early reluctance to close events and businesses, amendments to executive orders, then amendments to those amendments. […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez lost his first battle in the congressional contest last week when a Tallahassee judge denied his motion to dismiss a lawsuit that aims to take him off the ballot because he paid his qualification fee with a bad check. Seems the lawsuit to disqualify Gimenez, filed by firefighter Omar Blanco in April, […]
Different rules about containing the COVID19 virus in different municipalities across Miami-Dade are confusing residents about the requirement of masks and causing yet more distrust in local governments that say one thing one day and something completely different the next. Does anyone else remember a time when we were told that masks weren’t necessary and […]
An increase in positive COVID19 cases and hospitalizations in Miami-Dade has caused some concern and Mayor Carlos Gimenez — blaming the police abuse protests in the wake of the George Floyd murder because he has to deflect his own responsibility — has issued a warning for businesses: Follow the “new normal” safety rules or police will shut […]
It’s about time. It took the murder of yet another black man at the hands of police, this time it was George Floyd in Minneapolis, to come to this. It took the tear gassing of peaceful protesters exercising their right to denounce the brutal killing. It took the arrest of passionate student demonstrators, sitting on […]