Category: Commission
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Doral Mayor Bermudez gets free TV airtime in city ad as he fights big monied opponent in Miami-Dade Commission race
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Locked in a heated battle for Miami-Dade County commissioner against an opponent who’s loaned her campaign an audacious $1.2 million, Doral Mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez got a free promotional boost during the last three months of the race via a no-bid $15,000 television ad campaign on CBS4 purchased by the city’s public affairs unit. Bermudez gets the starring role in the 30-second spot. -
Transportation moguls fueling Miami-Dade political campaigns in line for $9 million no-bid contract extension
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A private transportation company with politically astute owners and a troublesome track record could score a $9 million no-bid extension on an expired Miami-Dade contract to operate more than two dozen bus routes. -
Florida local politicians win federal suit to block new get-tough lobbying ban
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Local politicians from Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Leon counties on Tuesday got a federal judge’s blessing to continue working as lobbyists. -
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 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. -
With all eyes on COVID-19, Miami-Dade pols, insiders look to steer hotel deal and pass no-bid parks deal
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Amid the global pandemic, a couple of Miami-Dade commissioners are laying the groundwork to extend a no-bid contract to a holiday theme park operator and steer an abandoned Miami International Airport hotel deal to a development team featuring two entrenched County Hall insiders.
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