In a discussion thick with irony, Miami-Dade commissioners on Monday advanced legislation that would reshape the hiring rules for their own watchdog — while investigations touching the dais continue in the background. Commissioner Oliver Gilbert’s proposal to rewrite the hiring rules for the county’s inspector general — the very office tasked with probing corruption and […]
It’s a shady move for suspicious reasons There are few things Miami-Dade electeds love more than declaring their undying commitment to “transparency” — except, perhaps, quietly tinkering with the rules governing the people paid to investigate them. Case in point: County Commissioner Oliver Gilbert, who on Monday is bringing to the Policy Council a resolution […]
County commission could intercede this week It would seem they are talking about oil instead of water. A long-running battle between the cities of Miami Gardens and North Mami Beach over who controls the flow of agua to a lot of Northwest and Northeast Miami-Dade residents — and the surcharges that come with that control […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, facing the harshest budget year of her administration and almost certain cuts to services, asked all department heads earlier this month to identify where they could cut 10% of their expenses. Then, this week, she has recommended the county hand another $10.5 million subsidy to FIFA for the seven 2026 […]
This is Round 2 on who controls development UPDATE: This meeting has been cancelled. The city of Miami is fighting the county’s rapid transit zone expansion, calling it harmful to the city residents, and has is ready to file a lawsuit seeking to keep control of zoning regulations within Miami city limits. Next week, the […]
Spring Break lockdown cost the county $1 million In what has been described as a slap in the face by many municipal police departments, Miami-Dade County Commissioners on Tuesday could significantly revise their mutual aid agreements with municipal police departments to hold the county free of any responsibility when providing aid — though not the […]
Miami-Dade Commission chair says it ain’t Along with the Miami-Dade County commission, mayoral and judicial races on the August 20 ballot, after the state legislative and party committee candidates and the new constitutional officers, there will be a ballot question about county mass transit. It’s a non-binding, straw ballot, which means that, really, nothing will […]
Commissioners for both Miami-Dade County and the city of Miami are going to sit down Wednesday to talk about the county’s push to increase density along the transit corridors, a priority that the city does not share. Miami has threatened to sue the county to keep control of zoning in city limits. The city of […]
Chairman says D11 is not commissioner’s ‘fiefdom’ A relatively benign ordinance to help encourage development and, ideally, workforce housing near Miami International Airport and other county airfields turned into a public scolding Tuesday when Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Oliver Gilbert took issue with the way Commissioner Roberto Gonzalez took possession of the Miami Executive Airport. “You […]
Negotiations between the county and the operators at Homestead Speedway to put on a rodeo will have to wait. A proposal at the Miami-Dade Commission to establish a countywide rodeo, farmer’s market and farm show was deferred Wednesday after Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins expressed several concerns. There was no discussion with the Homestead Rodeo […]