If you ask Palmetto Bayers — including Mayor Karyn Cunningham — the controversial 87th Avenue bridge that Miami-Dade wants to build across the C-100 canal at 164th Street is not a done deal. Not by a mile. There are still a lot of questions and concerns, Cunningham said. Not to mention a looming lawsuit. But […]
A group of Palmetto Bay residents scored an incremental victory Monday in their fight to keep a vehicular bridge from being built over the C100 canal on 87th Avenue, connecting 164th Street to 163rd Terrace — a decades old battle that has divided the South Dade community. The Village crowd was not split for the […]
Man, did newly appointed commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins step in it last week. Deep in it. It’s not so much that she renewed a proposal to build a super controversial bridge over a canal on 87th Avenue connecting 164th Street with 163rd Terrace — and Cutler Bay with Palmetto Bay — just a few weeks […]
Palmetto Bay commissioners thought they had rid themselves of former Village Manager Edward “Ed” Silva when he was forced to resign just months before the end of his contract by council members who felt he was “in bed with developers” and intentionally undermining the mayor. But nooooooooo. A village resident for the last 25 years, […]
The fat lady has not sung. Not in Cutler Bay, Doral, Palmetto Bay or North Miami Beach. On Friday, Miami-Dade Elections tweeted a photo of staffers proofreading the ballots for four Miami-Dade municipalities that will have runoffs beginning Nov. 17 after candidates in those elections failed to get a 50% plus 1 majority vote in […]
We have another Miami-Dade County commission meeting this week. Between the committees, the Comprehensive Development Master Plan meetings, the MPO (which is now the TPO) and the full Miami-Dade commission meetings, it seems like there is something going on at County Hall every day. We mean out in public view. But we have more than 30 other […]
Sarah smiled Wednesday. The 32-year-old daughter of former Palmetto Bay mayor Shelley Stanczyk was still in intensive care recovery Wednesday after undergoing six hours of surgery for a liver transplant Monday to save her life. She has been stable since the surgery and awake and alert since Monday evening, her mother said posted on Facebook, adding that […]