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.
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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, who was absent throughout the entire controversial redistricting process in the city, has decided he will not veto the politically self-serving and gerrymandered new map passed by the commission that divides Coconut Grove in three.
A statement issued by his spokeswoman, Soledad Cerdo, made it seem as if he didn’t veto it because he felt it would have been overturned.
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The Florida traffic crash report on the January accident involving a city car with Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in it shows that his sergeant at arms was at fault for the collision.
And we only know that the commissioner was in the car because it was leaked to Ladra and became a story before the report became public. He admitted it, but that was several days after, and when asked. There is no mention of him in the actual crash report.
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City threatens to suspend trolley services
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About three dozen activists and residents from Coconut Grove milled about the grassy patch in front of Miami City Hall Thursday morning in the heat — for nada.
The residents — most of the same people who went to speak against the cutting up of the Grove at every redistricting meeting — want to convince Mayor Francis Suarez to veto the map that cuts the historic neighborhood into three districts and was approved 3-2 last week.
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The city of Miami may get cut off by Miami-Dade when it comes to transportation funds because of bad accounting.
According to the latest audit available from last year, the city has not been able to show how it has allocated almost $20 million in transportation surtax funds from the half-penny People’s Transportation Plan sales tax. Another $20 or $30 million has been spent on items the county auditor says are ineligible for surtax funding.
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