It wasn’t even close.
Laura Dominguez trounced Sabrina Cohen in a run-off Tuesday to replace former Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian, who died suddenly in June. Dominguez was Samuelian’s life partner.
It wasn’t even close.
Laura Dominguez trounced Sabrina Cohen in a run-off Tuesday to replace former Miami Beach Commissioner Mark Samuelian, who died suddenly in June. Dominguez was Samuelian’s life partner.
There are eight referendum questions on the Miami Beach ballot, including two that are carefully camouflaged giveaways to rich millionaire developer friends of Mayor Dan Gelber.
Even former Mayor Philip Levine — who was caught in a secret meeting with Gelber and developers trying to form a political action committee to turn South Beach into another Brickell — could get a piece of the action.
Calling the non-binding referendum vote five months ago a mandate — as if 57% was a landslide — Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber and city leaders have been working since January to ban alcohol sales after 2 a.m.
Fresh off the Spring Break curfew that was more about development than crowd or crime control — more about real estate than racism — the city commission on Wednesday will look at three different options.
Party on, spring breakers!
The city of Miami Beach can’t ban alcohol sales from 2 to 5 a.m. like they wanted to this week and next for the peak of the Spring Break season, when thousands of college students from around the country descend.
Updated: Miami Beach Commissioner David Richardson, who was a state representative in District 113, announced Tuesday that he would be stepping down from his city seat to run for state House in District 106, with its newly-drawn boundaries.
He was only city commissioner by default, anyway, running for that after he lost a bid for Congress.
