In New Hampshire this week to drum up support for his promised presidential run, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez offered up his personal cellphone number — and everyone ate it up.
“I’m going to do something radical,” Suarez said, speaking at an event at St. Anselm College in Goffstown, NH. “I did this in Iowa and people kind of freaked out. The cameras are on, so it may be broadcast, so it’s even more radical. But I’m going to give you my personal cellphone number.”
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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has already announced her re-election campaign and could legit raise enough money to pay her qualification fee tenfold — and buy everyone else a round of qualifications. But the social worker at heart wants to go grassroots.
La Alcaldesa aims to get on the 2024 ballot via petition — again.
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Miami Commissioners approved a $2.5 billion budget Saturday after almost zero discussion and a weekend public hearing that lasted about two hours.
They call it a $1.5 billion budget, but that’s just for operating expenses. The capital projects budget is almost another $981 mil.
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Anyone who thought the outrageous and over-the-top $500 million Plan Z proposal for the privatization of Rickenbacker Causeway was dead in the water might want to look again.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez wants to resurrect the public land grab.
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After very little public comment, a pep talk about trust and courage from the mayor, a long and fiery homeland-type sales pitch from the developer, hours of haggling by Miami city commissioners and what looked like near fisticuffs between two of the electeds, the owners of the InterMiami soccer team got the green light to build the controversial Miami Freedom Park, a massive real estate complex disguised as a soccer stadium on the largest piece of public land in the city.
City Hall was packed mostly with attorneys and team boosters who seemed summoned to the meeting by the proponents, who called this an “unprecedented” deal. (And didn’t we hear that about the multiple Joe Robbie stadium proposals?) There were a few speakers opposed to the deal, but not in the numbers expected. The room erupted in cheers and applause after the agreement — modified “on the fly” — was approved 4-1, with Commissioner Manolo Reyes voting no.
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Controversial scooter program could be reconsidered
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