Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner went to New Hampshire last week to personally deliver a letter signed by her and 14 other mayors in Miami-Dade regarding climate change and the federal response to both Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. Lerner, a deep blue Democrat who served in the Florida House with Rubio, told each of them at […]
If we learned only one thing from the final Miami-Dade Commission budget hearing Thursday night it is that every county resident should run out right now — do not walk — and buy a life jacket. Dozens of speakers begged the commission and Mayor Carlos Gimenez to allocate more than $300,000 on studying and mitigating […]
Speaker after speaker at the final Miami-Dade County budget hearing Thursday night begged Mayor Carlos Gimenez and the commission to allocate more funds to address the climate change and sea level rise that threatens to put much of Miami under water. Some discussed other items — grants for community based organizations, the Underline parkway initiative, […]
Last year, it was libraries and police officers. The year before that, the pets’ trust and firefighters. This year, we’ll likely still see the pet people trying to get the mandate from the people respected by our elected commission, but the new rallying call against the Miami-Dade County budget is climate change. Or rather the […]
President Barack Obama was in Everglades National Park Wednesday to talk about climate change on Earth Day. Ladra does not think that it is a coincidence that this is the first time he visits the Everglades as POTUS — the year that two South Florida Republicans, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, are […]