Residents can’t call board members, but lobbyist can Miami-Dade Commissioners deadlocked last week on a vote to deny a requested land use and zoning change for an assisted living facility to be built on a vacant lot in Killian where there are 12 duplexes currently approved. With two commissioners absent and Commissioner JC Bermudez recusing […]
Elected officials, you are now free to lobby again. A U.S. district judge issued an order Wednesday that strikes down the state’s lobbying amendment, passed by voters in 2018, which bans any elected official from any kind of lobbying during their term of office and for six years after because, she said, it was an […]
Miami’s big GOP fundraiser goes to ultra blue Miami Beach This year’s Lincoln Day Dinner, the Miami-Dade Republican Party’s largest fundraiser, will feature a double header: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio are both scheduled to speak. And it’s going to be in the middle of one of the bluest zones of the […]
Jose Dotres will make almost twice as much as he did in Collier County The new Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent starts his $370,000-a-year job Monday leading the sixth largest school district in the country. He’ll be commuting. Jose Dotres, who was chosen Jan. 25 by the school board over two other finalists to replace Alberto Carvalho […]
Our state governor was in Little Havana last week on hand to distribute vaccines to the Bay of Pigs veterans at a press conference at the Brigade 2506 house. “We are inspired by folks who are willing to stand up and fight for freedom,” Gov. Ron DeSantis said, just a little over a month after […]
Two of the Miami-Dade County Commission races will be decided in August without a runoff because they are head-to-head contests, meaning someone is going to get 50% plus one of the vote. This means that in less than a month, we will have two brand new commissioners at both ends of the numbered districts. They […]
There are a whopping 25 candidates running for one of seven Miami-Dade County commission seats. That’s more people than you can have at a summer camp this year. With five termed-out posts, this election is a potential sea change that could alter the whole culture at County Hall. Maybe. Because most of the presumed frontrunners […]
A new drive-through COVID19 testing center at Amelia Earhart Park in Hialeah will become the fifth location Thursday for people 65 and older who have any symptoms of the coronavirus — on top of on-demand home service for those who are homebound. And on Friday, all adult day care centers or clinics and medical centers that […]
Republicans have shot themselves in the foot. In just a few days, GOP legislators in Tallahassee. by forcing a program that puts guns in public schools, have done more for the Florida Democratic Party than anyone since Al Gore. When the Florida Senate voted Monday 20-18 to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez is termed out and cannot run for another term. So says a lawsuit filed Monday by a former mayor that seeks to keep him off the ballot this November. Hernandez was council president and automatically became the mayor when former Mayor Julio Robaina resigned in May 2011 to run for Miami-Dade […]