Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is one her way home, arriving Thursday evening — after a brief layover at JFK Airport in Queens — from a weeklong jaunt to Italy. It is her first international trade mission as mayor.
La Alcaldesa left last Thursday with Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz to promote bilateral trade, economic development, culture and tourism. Also on the trip: PortMiami Director Juan Kuryla, Maria Dreyfus-Ulvert, interim president of the International Trade Consortium, and Veronica Pizzorni Rossi, the mayor’s operations manager (and maybe translator?).
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Business owners, politicians, community leaders, hospitality workers, waitresses, bartenders, drag queens, seniors and the families of hundreds of service workers have come out against a Miami Beach ballot question that could rollback the last call for alcohol sales from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Opponents say there is no indication crime is worse in those three wee hours. In fact, crime rose during the pandemic when the city imposed a midnight curfew because customers moved from the venues at Ocean Drive and Lincoln Road to private parties at AirBnB rentals in residential neighborhoods. And that tragic murder of a young father at a South Beach sidewalk caf´é happened in broad daylight at 6:30 p.m.
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When Miami Mayor Francis Suarez finally spoke Tuesday about the firing of Police Chief Art Acevedo — who he personally brought from Houston in April — he wasn’t using his own words.
Suarez was reading from talking points provided to him by Miami spokeswoman Soledad Cedro. Suarez’s little speech, in its entirety, was emailed by Cedro just before 10 p.m. Monday to his Chief of Staff Nikolas Pascual, Deputy Chief of Staff, Otto Boudet, as well as Rosy Kuper, his “special” assistant.
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After a long and conspicuous absence throughout the battle between city commissioners and Police Chief Art Acevedo, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez finally spoke Tuesday about his hand-picked top cop — and he supported the city manager’s decision to fire him.
“While it is clear that Chief Acevedo has the qualifications and the experience to be an effective chief of police, it is also obvious that his personality and leadership style are incompatible with the structure of our city’s government,” Suarez read from prepared talking points (more on that later) during a press conference Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.
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He’s out!
Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo was booted Monday from the job he’s had for only six months, in the wake of serious accusations he made against three commissioners and resistance to reform measures he tried to initiate within the police department.
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Miami Beach voters have a familiar straw ballot question to answer before Nov. 2: Do they want to ban alcohol sales in South Beach after 2 AM?
It’s the same question voters solidly rejected in 2017, by a very comfortable 65% of the vote. Sort of a mandate. So why’s it coming back? That’s a much better question.
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