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‘Civil immunity’ is really corporate license to kill with COVID negligence
Among the more controversial — and frightening — bills that the Florida Legislature is considering this year are some “civil immunity” measures that would give companies, hospitals and nursing homes a legal loophole from lawsuits that stem from employees or customers getting COVID-19.
No, really.
After yearlong COVID moratorium, evictions could resume in Miami-Dade
But did ‘bad actors’ get some of the $60 million in federal funding?
Tallahassee’s vote-by-mail purge plan could affect 100K Miami-Dade voters
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 a resolution, sponsored by Commissioner Raquel Regalado, opposing SB90 and urging the legislature to — at the very least — change the effective date to Jan. 1, 2022.
Miami-Dade could create new website to track and report rabies incidents
Rabies cases in wild animals have reportedly gone down in Miami-Dade, but commissioners on Tuesday will consider creating a new website dedicated to reporting and tracking incidents.
How does Ladra know that cases are down? Because that’s what is reported on the county’s website, where there is already a lot of content. There’s even a video on YouTube.
After losing the county mayoral race, Steve Bovo se tira for mayor en Hialeah
Isis Garcia-Martinez: ‘He just needs a new job‘
Miami city commission hopeful plans to walk every block in District 5 in March
Less you were forgetting that there is an election in Miami this November, District 5 commission candidate Michael Hepburn — who ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2018 — is ramping things up.
On Thursday, he unveiled his Hepburn-On-The-Block campaign, with a plan to walk every block in all 37 precincts starting Monday and ending by the end of March. That’s a lot of blocks in 31 days.
It’s on! Coral Gables candidates qualify with no big surprises; PACs get ready
Now the party’s getting started.
There were no big surprises or sudden jumps from one group to another in Coral Gables as candidates qualified for April 13 election by the noon Friday deadline.
Missing Miami COVID relief gift cards to be audited by city’s inspector general
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo got his way Thursday when the commission voted to throw all the unused COVID19 relief money for grocery gift cards from the CARES federal funding into a new pot and divide it between four of them again.
Commissioner Jeffrey Watson and his $360,388 balance will stay in District 5 because, officially, it’s the neediest zone and because Watson was appointed in November and may have gotten a late start.
Miami could give law firm carte blanche in ‘conflicts of interests’ in redistricting
City commissioners in Miami could officially give the redistricting consulting contract to Miguel de Grandy on Thursday.
That’s expected. The contract was taken from former State Sen. Bill Galvano, a pal of Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, last month and De Grandy was already spoken of as the chosen replacement.
Mark Samuelian announces bid for second term in Miami Beach election
And a slew of electeds supporting him
