Important post oversees DMV, auto tag offices

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It popped up overnight along the Palmetto Expressway in the Miami Lakes area near the Northwest 67th Avenue exit, just north of Hialeah: A billboard comparing former president Donald Trump to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

“No to dictators — no to Trump,” it says in Spanish, with The Donald and the dead oppressive Communist criminal regime leader facing each other on opposite ends of the giant, bright red sign.

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If there was ever something that should go to a referendum for voter approval, it is pensions for our electeds. And Miami city commissioners should go to the ballot if they want to reward their behavior and “hard work” with lucrative lifetime retirement benefits.

It’s not too late. The deadline for municipalities to submit a question to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections for the November ballot is July 26.

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Property appraiser, commission wannabes will also speak at KFHA event

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It should have been a no-brainer.

Coral Gables Commissioners on Tuesday approved giving $42,000 to the Actor’s Playhouse, which leases the historic Miracle Theater from the city, for a new wheelchair ramp that will accommodate newer, bigger wheelchairs for patrons who need to get to the second floor.

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In what could seem like a hasty and behind-closed-doors decision, the Miami Lakes Council agreed to pay former Mayor Michael Pizzi — who was arrested in 2013 on federal bribery charges but acquitted a year later — for $1.7 million for the legal fees he incurred in his defense.

Wasn’t this supposed to come back for a hearing with public input?

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