Miami City Commissioner Miguel Gabela wanted the city to stop payments to attorney Ben Kuehne in cases where he was representing former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in civil court. Kuehne is also Diaz de la Portilla’s attorney in his felony criminal case on money laundering, bribery and other public corruption charges.

But before he could vote on a resolution he brought to the commission last week, he got news that ADLP had already replaced Kuehne with former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi, who was charged with federal bribery and extortion charges himself, caught in an FBI sting plotting to take some bogus grant money in 2013.

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And Vince Lago hasn’t raised any PAC money in a year

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Ed Hudak says city can be a ‘transfer portal’ for cops

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For a second time in a month, a group of Killian residents will go to County Hall Tuesday morning to try to fight the proposed development of a two- and three-story, 216-bed assisted living facility with a 126-space underground parking garage in their mostly residential neighborhood.

Miami-Dade Commissioners will consider changing the Comprehensive Development Master Plan and zoning for the vacant 1.6-acre lot on Southwest 122nd Street, just off the South Dade busway, and near Vineland Elementary School, from residential to commercial.

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Angelica Pacheco starts ‘Dime Hialeah’ YouTube series

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After a somewhat ugly tussle between the Village of Palmetto Bay and the residents who live adjacent to a 2.5-acre parcel that each wanted to buy from Miami-Dade County, there seems to be the possibility of a compromise.

“Have you had a conversation about splitting the baby,” asked Commissioner Raquel Regalado at a committee meeting last week where the Village was sent back to do just that.

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