Author: Francisco Alvarado
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Trust at issue as Miami-Dade ethics commission takes big step away from transparency
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
In a blow to transparency, the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust is no longer posting its investigative reports online. And soon, the ethics commission will remove other public documents that have been available on its website for years. -
A developer’s ‘monster’ comes to Miami’s tree-lined Silver Bluff Estates
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Maureen McCarthy’s days of quietly relaxing in her lush backyard’s pool and Jacuzzi are numbered. Thanks to Miami 21, the 12-year-old rewrite of the city’s zoning code, the Miami Dade College professor now has to live with a four-story apartment building full of tenants hovering over her two-bedroom house… -
Pinecrest to use COVID relief millions to connect hundreds of properties to Miami-Dade water system
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Village of Pinecrest officials are ramming through an $11.4-million proposal that would connect roughly 700 properties that currently use water wells to the Miami-Dade water system. To pay for most of the project, the village council recently authorized using $7.5 million in COVID-19 relief funds from the federal government. Affected homeowners would pay the balance… -
Massive development swallows Coral Gables home as city runs roughshod over longtime resident’s property rights
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
The path to Orlando Capote’s front door in Coral Gables is an impassable construction zone that no one can enter, not even his neighborhood mail carrier. -
Siblings wage brutal court war for control of Babun clan’s $100 million Miami shipping empire
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
As president and CEO of Antillean Marine Shipping Corp., Sara Babun lords over a Miami River business empire worth at least an estimated $100 million. But a toxic sibling rivalry with her brother, Jose Jesus Babun, threatens to upend the shipping and logistics enterprise that their late father, Jose Babun Selman, co-founded nearly 60 years ago. -
Lake Worth Beach gentrification purge now targeting low-income seniors in mobile home park
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Two years after Lake Worth Beach code enforcers targeted poor migrant workers in a mobile home community, the city is now coming after another trailer park filled with low-income senior citizens.
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