November is a month away, but there was an election already on Tuesday. Bet nobody noticed outside of Homestead, where they work the runoff backwards, having a primary in October whenever there is more than one candidate in any race. And guess what? All three races are headed to runoffs. Former Mayor Jeff Porter — […]
On the second try, Opa-Locka Commissioner Luis Santiago was successful Tuesday in firing City Manager Steve Shiver, who was hired less than three months ago to deal with the city’s financial mess. Santiago had tried to fire Shiver in October — for another reason, an alleged bribe he made to a vendor — but was […]
The city of Opa-Locka apparently is not big enough for two political crooks. Last month, former Homestead Mayor and Miami-Dade County Manager Steve Shiver — who has been accused of squandering millions in CRA funds for Homestead redevelopment after Hurricane Andrew, some of it going to clients he represented after he left the city — […]
Steve Shiver’s sweetheart deal to build a 32-lane bowling alley on city property in Homestead seemed like a sure thing. Homestead council members, sitting as a committee of the whole — which is just another name for the Homestead Council — had agreed last week to sell the bowling alley to a group of developers […]