This is Round 2 on who controls development 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 city will meet with the county ..read more

As the primary for the constitutional offices nears its closing, former State Rep. JC Planas, an attorney running for Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, has gotten the endorsement of four mayors from Miami-Dade municipalities. The Planas campaign announced this week endorsements from South Miami Mayor Javier Fernandez, Bay Harbor Mayor Joshua Fuller, North Bay Village Mayor ..read more

After she was elected, Miami Commissioner Christine King resigned from her longtime position as president and chief executive officer of the non-profit Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation, founded to advocate for and assist investments in Liberty City and surrounding areas. But she is still very close to the organization. And giving back. Last year ..read more

And Jose Aragu gets a $300K gift from Ken Griffin A new poll among more than 500 Republican voters shows that former Miami Commissioner Joe Sanchez, a Florida Highway Patrol spokesman, and Rosanna “Rosie” Cordero-Stutz, an assistant director at the Miami-Dade Police Department, are the No. 1 and No. 2 favorites for Miami-Dade sheriff in the Republican primary next month. The survey, done over five days ending Monday, gave Sanchez 16.3% of the vote if the race were today. Cordero-Stutz got 13.7%, which is an increase from the last survey, which had her at No. 3. Retired Major Mario Knapp is at ..read more

There is still time to request an absentee/mail-in ballot Monday was the last day to register to vote for the August 20 primary election, which is also the county election for a lot of races that could be decided by a 50% plus one vote. According to the Miami-Dade Elections Department, there are almost 1.5 million voters registered in the county. Of those, a majority are still Democrats, with 512,800 compared to fewer than 450,000 Republicans and almost 470,000 NPA or independent voters. Of the 1.5 million, more than 886,000 are Hispanic, according to the last report by the elections departme ..read more

Absentee or mail-in ballots started arriving at voters’ homes more than a week ago. That means people are already voting for their county commissioners, mayor, judges, school board members, and state legislators and county constitutional officers in their preferred party primary. Most of the really good races don’t happen until November. And among those on the Aug. 20 ballot, some are not easy to call. Like the the Miami-Dade mayor’s race (more on that later), or the Republican primary for the new county sheriff. Miami-Dade Public Safety Director James Reyes is the only qualified Democrat. But ..read more

Civic activist, healthcare worker to serve through 2025 The Hialeah Council has appointed Melinda de la Vega to the vacancy created when the governor suspended former Councilwoman Angelica Pacheco after her arrest on federal healthcare fraud charges ¿Quien? Melinda de la Vega may not have been the expected choice, but she is not completely new to Hialeah politics. She serves on the Historic Preservation Board, as Bovo’s appointment, since January. This means she is likely another “Seguro Que Yes” vote. Her appointment was approved Tuesday by the rest of the “Seguro Que Yes” council. Read rela ..read more

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 smaller agencies when its vice versa — and to charge municipalities for any long-term assistance that ends up costing the county, well, more than the usual. And they might rush it through, even though the county police department will soon fall unde ..read more

Coming soon to a mailbox near you: Chaos at the Copa. It didn’t take very long for Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid, who is running for Miami-Dade mayor against La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava, to blast the incumbent for the lack of planning for security measures at the Hard Rock Stadium Sunday. “Miami-Dade & Daniella Levine Cava weren’t ready for Copa America,” Cid posted on X, formerly Twitter, just before 9 p.m. — even before the delayed game had started. He included internet photos of attendees who had rushed the gates and some who had been kept behind even with tickets. “How are we suppo ..read more

We should have known. It looks like Frank Artiles is behind the Tampa transplant plantidate that is running in House District 115 against longtime Miami-Dade Fire Captain and union president Omar Blanco. Pero, por supuesto. Artiles, if you all remember, is the disgraced former state senator who was arrested and charged in 2021 for having paid a fake candidate to throw the Senate District 37 race to Ileana Garcia in 2020. His trial is coming up in Septemer. But, somehow, he has found time in between meetings with his defense attorney, to mount another bogus campaign for Alian Collazo, a former ..read more