Gov. Ron DeSantis stood at Bill Baggs State Park in Key Biscayne earlier this month to announce that the state would give $22.7 million to support water quality improvements through the Biscayne Bay Grant program.

Of that, $14.5 million goes to Miami-Dade County to fight pollution and another $8 mil plus goes to municipalities — including Key Biscayne, Coral Gables, Miami Springs and North Miami — for their own water quality projects. Cutler Bay, for example, gets $700,000 for wetland restoration.

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One member called the proposed amendments a ‘power grab’

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One member called the proposed amendments a ‘power grab’

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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.

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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.

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Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado is rubbing her colleagues the wrong way. And they told her so Tuesday — at the very first meeting of the new commission — when they stripped her of the interim vice chair position and gave it permanently to Anthony Rodriguez.

Even Commissoner Rene Garcia voted against her. ¡Eso duele!

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