Category: Miami-Dade Cities
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Miami-Dade Mayor Levine Cava’s PAC got $100K from Li’l Abner developer, she helped him secure $9 million in affordable housing funding
By Dan Christensen and Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
A political action committee that fundraises for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava took $100,000 from companies run by the controversial developer of Sweetwater’s now empty Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. Her PAC accepted the money as she helped the developer obtain $9 million in government funding for his affordable housing project Abner III during her 2024 bid for re-election. -
Huge, $4.6 billion ‘Flagler Center’ to rise on former site of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park
By Cassidy Winegarden
FloridaBulldog.org
Sweetwater is the next Florida city to get a major master-planned development. “Flagler Center” will rise on more than 100 acres previously occupied by the defunct Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park. The $4.6 billion dollar project will be one of the largest redevelopment sites in Miami-Dade County. -
Miami Beach Police sergeant made millions, violated conflict of interest rules providing private security to city’s bars, nightclubs
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
For more than a decade, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Luis Corps quietly built a multimillion-dollar private security empire on the same streets he was sworn to police, flouting conflict of interest laws and misleading his superiors about who his private clients were and how much he was making on the side. -
Terror, indifference and division limit ICE resistance in South Florida, insiders say
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Protesters in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and many other U.S. cities have flooded streets, emptied shops and raised awareness that most immigrants are hard workers and good neighbors. -
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Miami Beach company’s ads promising patients a ‘dream body’ with minimal risk get little scrutiny
By Fred Schulte
KFF Health News
Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just as the web advertising promised. Instead, she died three days later. -
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A Christmas remembrance: Miami’s 2025 loss of Kinard Shirley and 171 others who died in the streets
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Kinard Shirley was one of 172 homeless people who died this year in Miami. He wasn’t somebody’s father or spouse, but he was a brother and a son. Shirley, 37, was a day laborer at a downtown construction site near North Miami Avenue and NW 6th Street. It’s an intersection of history…
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