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. […]
A Florida Senate bill “moving at the speed of light” would purge the permanent vote-by-mail request lists in every county by July — and could disenfranchise close to 100,000 Miami-Dade voters with elections this year in Virginia Gardens, Homestead, Miami, Miami Beach and Hialeah. Not so fast, said the Miami-Dade Commission, which on Tuesday passed […]
None of the new Miami-Dade County commissioners elected Tuesday are really new to public office — or to us. With all the votes save some absentee ballots counted, the Miami-Dade Elections Department reported that former Miami City Commissioner Keon Hardemon, former Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado and former State Rep. Kionne McGhee won their […]
Not only hasn’t Miami-Dade Commission candidate Cindy Lerner — who, we already established, will say anything to get elected — apologized for verbally abusing a number of Pinecrest residents when she was mayor, she has doubled down and claimed it was an isolated incident with the wife of a nemesis councilman that has been taken […]
Cindy Lerner will say anything to get elected Miami-Dade Commissioner. The former Pinecrest mayor has gone so far as to have two completely opposite campaign messages, depending on who she’s talking to — and in what language. In English, former School Board Member Raquel Regalado is the super Republican with an agenda as extreme as […]
The four Miami-Dade Commission races provide voters with the first opportunity in decades to redefine the dynamics on the board with at least three newcomers. And, hopefully, not all four. As folks get ready for early voting to start on Monday — filling out absentee ballots over the weekend to take with us — Ladra […]
The most notable thing that happened at Thursday’s final Miami-Dade County budget public hearing — aside from a staffer dropping the f-bomb on a hot mic (more on that later) — is what didn’t happen: Several residents didn’t get to make public comments on the last stop for the $9 billion 2020-2021 spending plan. They […]
The only unexpected thing about the results from Tuesday’s Miami-Dade commission races is, perhaps, that Keon Hardemon didn’t win outright, meaning we will have four runoffs in November, not three, while three other races have been decided. As of 11 p.m., and with only two precincts still out in District 3, Hardemon — a Miami […]
While Ladra has already made some endorsements and predictions for this month’s election, it might be a good idea to repeat them and add some others today, now that early voting has started. A lot of attention has gone to the Miami-Dade mayoral race, but there are also seven commission races and five of those […]
There are four candidates in the race for Miami-Dade Commission District 7, but unless you live there, you might only think there are two. Or, at the most, three. Former State Rep. and Pinecrest Mayor Cindy Lerner has been battling it out on social media with Kendall activist and Pets’ Trust co-founder Michael Rosenberg, who […]