A group of Palmetto Bay residents scored an incremental victory Monday in their fight to keep a vehicular bridge from being built over the C100 canal on 87th Avenue, connecting 164th Street to 163rd Terrace — a decades old battle that has divided the South Dade community.
The Village crowd was not split for the meeting Monday night. Every single speaker begged and/or demanded the village council reject Miami-Dade County’s interlocal agreement they characterized as lopsided and aprovechado. Even a resident south of the canal was against the agreement.
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Sure, all politics are local, and we have several municipal races in the 305 Tuesday that we could regret for four years. Yes, I’m talking to you, Miami.
But there are elections all over the country and among the high-profile races there are several Hispanic candidates who stand out because they could break the political glass ceilings in their lanes, either by becoming the first Latino or Latina in a particular elected office or transforming, finally, the face of the New York City Council.
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There are fewer excuses not to vote on Tuesday in Miami’s election.
Lime, the global leader in micromobility (read: electric ride-share bikes and scooters), will provide free scooter rides to and from the polls so it’s harder to blame car trouble.
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Fight nearly breaks out at early voting, caught on video
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Less than three weeks after they filed a federal lawsuit seeking $28 million in damages for being shut down by Miami code enforcement at the behest of City Commissioner Joe Carollo, Little Havana’s iconic Ball & Chain bar and lounge announced on Tuesday it would reopen soon.
Anyone really think that’s a coincidence?
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Miami-Dade Commissioners get blue in the face talking about green space. Blah, blah, blah. Now they have a real opportunity to put our money where their mouth is.
A unique and organic 168-acre little piece of nature, smack dab in the middle of Kendall, is home to some of the state’s signature and threatened wading birds as well as the federally endangered Florida bonneted bat. It is an amazing, magical, special, natural realm, where nearby residents have also spotted a mama fox and her babies, a Gopher tortoise and a bald eagle.
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