The superhero is not coming. Just before Saturday’s deadline for the mayoral veto on the Calusa zoning change that allows developers to build hundreds of homes on 168 Kendall acres that are now an organic, overgrown slice of Florida wildlife, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava issued a statement full of excuses as to why she […]
Here’s some ammunition (read: facts) to avoid an override Dear Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, AKA La Alcaldesa: Add this to the mounds of emails and letters from residents who urge you to veto the commission’s vote last week to change the zoning at the property that used to be the Calusa Golf Course from […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is one her way home, arriving Thursday evening — after a brief layover at JFK Airport in Queens — from a weeklong jaunt to Italy. It is her first international trade mission as mayor. La Alcaldesa left last Thursday with Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz to promote bilateral trade, economic development, […]
County employees get a 2% bonus and a 6% raise The second and final public hearing on the 2021-22 Miami-Dade budget was another love fest, just like the first hearing earlier this month, with so many congratulations and thank yous that it seemed more like a baby shower than approval of a tiny tax increase […]
COVID-19 relief funds plugged the hole in the budget but what about 2022? Don’t let them fool you when they say there is no tax increase in Miami-Dade this year. The tax rate remained flat, but it didn’t roll back, which means property owners will pay a bit more because property values continue to increase […]
Despite a “listening” session for stakeholders to raise concerns, the request for proposals on the Rickenbacker Causeway overhaul (and privatization) went out exactly as it was first expected to: As a near total replica of the unsolicited Plan Z proposal that looks like a done deal. Guess nobody listened. This is just theater, pretend transparency […]
Add another chief of something to the growing cabinet of Democrat castaways that Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava is building around her administration. Former Florida Emergency Management Director and State Rep. Jared Moscowitz is now our Chief COVID Officer. Well, that’s not his official title but it’s what he is. He is officially just a […]
The Miami-Dade mayor’s desired request for proposals on the overhaul of both the Rickenbacker and Venetian causeways — a necessary step after getting an unsolicited proposal — could hit a snag Thursday. A number of commissioners and other stakeholders — including city officials in both Key Biscayne and Miami Beach — have questions and concerns. […]
Is this a push to privatize our public beaches? A secret and unsolicited pitch for a redo of Rickenbacker Causeway has driven Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to ask the commission this week to issue a request for proposals for the redevelopment of both the Rickenbacker and the Venetian causeways. This means she probably likes […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava backpedalled and ditched her old recommendation to reject all the bids for a $50 million airport contract — where a selection committee of staff had already ranked the top two firms — and start the process over. After Political Cortadito exposed what looks like illegal lobbying by former Transportation Director […]