Wow. Thank you good people of the Gables Good Government Committee. They sent questions to all six Coral Gables commission candidates and got specific answers from all — well almost specific, and almost all.

Rip is gonna be Rip. And Ivette Arango O’Doski found ways to answer questions without really answering questions. Which means she’s already a politician.

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Dozens of Miami activists lay on the floor in front of downtown Miami’s Freedom Tower, staging a die-in to protest further abortion restrictions being considered in the Florida legislative session.

The message: Banning abortion will lead to deaths.

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Miami Police moved quickly to find the man who tried to break into a city truck last week that belongs to Commissoner Manolo Reyes‘ office.

A member of the commissioner’s staff noticed damage to the driver’s side window and reported the burglary attempt at Coral Gate Park, 1425 SW 32nd Ave., about 9:30 a.m. Monday, in front of the District 4 office, and called police.

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Did anybody see Martin Zilber‘s letter to the editor in Tuesday’s Miami Herald? It proves he is delusional.

Zilber, the disgraced former Miami-Dade Circuit judge who resigned after an ethics investigation found he mistreated staff and stole $30,000 from taxpayers playing hooky, lost the special election to fill the seat in Miami’s District 2, where Ken Russell resigned to run for Congress (and lost the primary). He came in fourth in a race where the buzz was ABZ, or Anyone But Zilber.

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City of Miami Commissioners on Thursday voted to add a plaque behind them that says “In God We Trust.”

Like that’s gonna help the cesspool of corruption and abuse of power that is City Hall.

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Miami’s newly-elected commissioner is getting her baptism by fire.

Sabina Covo, who beat a dozen candidates to come out on top in District 2[s special election, has already had her first battle with another commissioner — and it wasn’t on the dais.

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