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 […]
The Miami-Dade County Commission could hit the rewind button on the Miami Beach monorail project, aka Baylink, because of details that have come out about secretive meetings Mayor Carlos Gimenez had with Genting two years ago during his China trip. Those business meetings — which just happened to be left off the itinerary given to […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and other top county officials used burner cell phones — yes, the kind used by drug dealers and money launderers — during their 2018 China trip so we wouldn’t know they met with representatives from Genting, which later became part of a group with an “unsolicited proposal” to build a monorail to […]
County commissioners really want Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez to put the contract for the synchronization of traffic lights — yeah, we all thought that had been done already — out for a new bid after a locally prominent serial campaign donor filed a bid protest and said his company did not get the same advantage as […]
Just because there’s an existential threat with a viral pandemic going on doesn’t mean there’s no time to fundraise. And Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is really good at that, if nothing else. Remember, he got and spent around $10 million to stay in office in 2016. But he might be a tiny bit distracted, since he […]
As if anyone needed more proof that someone is pulling his strings, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez last week publicly admitted that he stopped the request for proposals process to replace the Santa’s Enchanted Forest holiday operation after someone — and he won’t say who — asked him to. Say what? So, he does work for someone other […]