Condo reform, critical race theory, abortion and more

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The husband and wife team at Miami Police who were fired by former Police Chief Art Acevedo after they allegedly attempted to cover up her car accident in a city SUV are back on the job.

So is Luis Camacho, a sergeant at arms who was fired after he was accused of helping to leak photos or the address of Mayor Francis Suarez and family on vacation in the Keys, and the former head of internal affairs, as well as three other officers. In total, seven officers were reinstated to their jobs or previous positions by the new police chief.

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She’s worked for different electeds at all levels — federal, state, county and city. So now, veteran GOP operative Alina Garcia — most recently the “senior political advisor” for Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo — wants to be elected herself. To the Florida Senate.

Garcia is waiting for the redistricting to shake out and will run in either District 37 or District 40 — which is vacated by Sen. Annette Taddeo‘s run for governor — wherever incumbent Sen. Ileana Garcia doesn’t run. She is going to wait for the other Garcia’s cue, but she already opened a political action committee called Florida Always First. In November.

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And now the commission may reward the driver with a new job

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But a $2.2 million mortgage on the property could complicate things

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The city of Miami has an employee flight problem. It begun two years ago when Commissioner Joe Carollo forced the resignation of former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez and, like a virus, has had several mutations and variants since.

New acting planning director Jeremy Gauger, who was the deputy and had taken over after Francisco Garcia left a year ago, left last month to become the director of building zoning and planning in the Village of Key Biscayne. Gauger worked in the private sector, at Arquitectonica, before that. FYI.

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