Francis Suarez didn’t just leave City Hall. He left the city. He closed. Just days after officially exiting public office, Miami’s former mayor — newly free of pesky disclosure requirements and public information requests — quietly upgraded his lifestyle with a $7.4 million home purchase in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, just north of Sunset Drive. No […]
Miami District 5 Commissioner Christine King, who cruised to re-election with a North-Korea-level 84% of the vote, was sworn in last week at City Hall surrounded by supporters, staff, church folks, youth groups, neighborhood leaders, and of course, the ever-present political padrino Keon Hardemon, whose fingerprints are still all over D5 like pastelito crumbs on […]
Because Miami Mayor Francis Suarez apparently cannot leave office without one more extravagant flourish, Alcalde Lame Duck is asking taxpayers for a tiny little parting gift: $7.5 million in “city services” to support FIFA-sanctioned events next year. Yes, fútbol fans, that’s on top of the $5 million cash payout the city already agreed to hand […]
The American Business Forum seemed more like an audition for him This past week, while millions of Americans faced lost food aid, shuttered programs and threats to their health coverage, downtown Miami staged a spectacle. You know the kind — velvet ropes, orchestral beats, VIP tickets, and a gilded ceremony that screams celebration even when […]
Old CRA director gets nearly $200K in exit package It must be nice to have friends in high places. Or maybe just the right commissioner on your side. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s chief of staff, Carlos I. Suarez — no relation, but definitely part of the mayor’s extended orbit — is about to float gently […]
Ladra could have told you this was coming. Donald Trump has been salivating for years at the idea of hosting the world’s power players at his Doral playground, the golf resort he scooped up in bankruptcy and turned into his Miami-Dade monument to himself. He tried to stick the G7 there back in 2020 until […]
Miami commissioners are dusting off the Marine Stadium dream again. Yes, the same stadium that’s been rotting since 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. The same Brutalist concrete beauty on Biscayne Bay’s Virginia Key, whose neglect preservationists have been crying about for decades and has been listed as a historic since 2018 . The same architectural treasure that […]
After months of legal wrangling, appeals, and behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the City of Miami is finally giving up its harebrained scheme to cancel this year’s election. It only took the governor, the state’s attorney general, a district court judge, three appellate judges, twice, and a general distaste in the public for them to get the point. […]
Como un novio feo, the City of Miami just won’t take no for an answer. After losing in circuit court and then getting their appeal slammed by the Third District Court of Appeals July 31, city officials went right back on Monday and filed yet another motion for rehearing — still trying to justify their […]
Newly elected Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado has a whole new staff at his District 4 office that are not new to politics. Heck, some of them are not new to Miami. Rosado’s director of constituent services is Lazaro Quintero, the former director of constituent affairs for Mayor Francis Suarez and the guy who was the […]