Category: Miami-Dade Cities
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Biscayne Gardens residents prepare for an unwelcome neighbor
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Biscayne Gardens, a bedroom neighborhood in unincorporated Miami-Dade between North Miami and North Miami Beach, is about to experience an apartment development boom thanks to a county mandate aimed at transforming vacant land into workforce and affordable housing projects. Area residents aren’t happy about it. -
Miami-Dade rock miners continue to blast away with help from Legislature
By Ann Henson Feltgen
FloridaBulldog.org
Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam has lambasted as virtually worthless a new state program to monitor rock blasting in northwestern Miami-Dade in response to residents’ complaints that it reverberates powerfully through nearby homes. -
As Hardemon runs for Miami-Dade commission, city constituent in need says he got the brush off
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami City Commissioner Keon Hardemon helped secure more than $2 million in no-bid grants for nonprofits run by his aunt and uncle, but did little to assist a constituent who asked for help after his home was damaged by fire. -
‘Your ass is the devil’ – Miami Beach locked in racy sex harassment suit
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
What started out as a close workplace friendship between two Miami Beach female finance department employees has devolved into a lurid sexual harassment lawsuit against the city. -
Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert won’t be prosecuted despite ‘troubling’ Infiniti QX80 lease using mom’s credit card
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
As Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert III enters the homestretch of his Miami-Dade County Commission race, public corruption prosecutors recently revealed unsavory conduct on his part during his previous campaign for elected office. -
Opa-locka Police need professional overhaul, report finds
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Patrolling the streets of Opa-locka has never been meaner. The small, predominantly African-American city’s police department is plagued with widespread low morale, poor managerial leadership, officers who abuse sick leave, inadequate policies and procedures, a deteriorating evidence room and broken-down squad cars discarded by other law enforcement agencies, a new report found.
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