Audrey Edmonson

Give Money, Get Contracts

Give Money, Get Contracts, Part II

Give Money, Get Contracts, Part III

Dennis Moss Picks Committee Chairs

Dennis Moss is done putting together the new make-up of the county commission's committees and I'm impressed with most of his selections. In case you don't know, the commissioners use the committee system to hammer out decisions that ultimately impact our tax dollars, from formulating new ways to ta ... More >>

Odebrecht Is Portuguese for "Big Money Donor"

For the past two days, I've noted all the work Miami-Dade County awards Brazilian engineering and construction firm Odebrecht. Despite a history of completing jobs behind schedule and over budget, the company continues to get the nod to build county-funded projects worth hundreds of millions of dol ... More >>

Val Screen Vies for Commissioner Audrey Edmonson's Seat

For the past two days, I've noted all the work Miami-Dade County awards Brazilian engineering and construction firm Odebrecht. Despite a history of completing jobs behind schedule and over budget, the company continues to get the nod to build county-funded projects worth hundreds of millions of dol ... More >>

Elected Officials Reward Their Campaign Contributors

Give money, get contracts.

The Plucky Mr. Clucky

"Every kid on Lincoln Road wants to hold Mr. Clucky. It fucking weirds me out!"

Mo' Ammo

"Basketball-size holes? Certainly."

The Ghetto Governor

Dorrin Rolle’s dedication to his district is in question

Days of El Portal's Lives

This tiny village is one of the county's most diverse, and boy do they fight about it

Arts Budget Meetings Tonight

WikicommonsIf you come, they will save it​The battle to save the liveability of Miami-Dade County continues tonight.If you haven't heard, the Mayor's office has proposed $11 million in cuts to the county's arts programming budget, which would put roughly 400 arts organizations out of business.Miam ... More >>

Liberity City Business Owners and Activists Oppose a Plan to Redevelop NW Seventh Avenue

In 1962, Willie James Greene opened up his own shoe repair shop on the corner of NW 62nd Street and 6th Avenue in Liberty City. He maintained it despite the bleak economic conditions surrounding him, and when riots engulfed the neighborhood in the 80s, Greene Dreams Shoe Repair was left unscathed. W ... More >>

Overtown's historic Lyric Theater hangs in limbo

In 1962, Willie James Greene opened up his own shoe repair shop on the corner of NW 62nd Street and 6th Avenue in Liberty City. He maintained it despite the bleak economic conditions surrounding him, and when riots engulfed the neighborhood in the 80s, Greene Dreams Shoe Repair was left unscathed. W ... More >>

Effort to Recall Five County Commissioners Launched

Comm. Natacha Seijas is one of five being targeted​Billionaire Norman Braman's quest to have Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez recalled was officially approved by the Clerk of Courts yesterday. Today, and effort to recall five county commissioners was launched by a political action commi ... More >>

Greene Dreams Owner Says County Is Harassing Him For Blocking Development

Greene Dreams has been a Liberty City mainstay for 40 years, but now developers want the space.​Tyrone Greene leans on the glass counter in his family's shoe-repair shop, Greene Dreams, a one-room space crammed with Barack Obama T-shirts, Miami Heat jerseys, and dashikis. A mural just around the c ... More >>

Liberty City stalwart stalls big developers

Greene Dreams has been a Liberty City mainstay for 40 years, but now developers want the space.​Tyrone Greene leans on the glass counter in his family's shoe-repair shop, Greene Dreams, a one-room space crammed with Barack Obama T-shirts, Miami Heat jerseys, and dashikis. A mural just around the c ... More >>

Here's Your Yearly Reminder Not To Shoot Off a Gun on New Year's Eve

via CBS4​Every year, local officials have to remind citizens not to shoot of their guns into the air on New Year's Eve in Miami at the stroke of midnight. Every year someone does.Last year, someone shot up a bullet and it hit a six-year-old Italian boy in the chest as he was eating dinner with hi ... More >>

Apocalypse Brownsville: A Business Owner Fends Off Dying Crackheads and Prostitute Amputees

This photo was taken in Brownsville on Wednesday.​For 24 years, Marion Schano and her husband Edward have owned an aviation business called Amtec Aviation Aerospace in Brownsville, a 'hood west of Liberty City with a population of 14,000 and shrinking. It's one of Miami's poorest neighborhoods, an ... More >>

Brownsville is Miami's most blighted neighborhood

This photo was taken in Brownsville on Wednesday.​For 24 years, Marion Schano and her husband Edward have owned an aviation business called Amtec Aviation Aerospace in Brownsville, a 'hood west of Liberty City with a population of 14,000 and shrinking. It's one of Miami's poorest neighborhoods, an ... More >>

Miami-Dade's Black Commissioners Have Failed the People

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on May 2 ... More >>

Miami's black commissioners must go

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on May 2 ... More >>

Miami-Dade commissioners are rich!

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke -- who is a candidate to replace more-boring-than-bread-pudding ex-Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez on May 2 ... More >>

The Music Making Industry Is Harder Than County Politics

Alex IzaguirreUncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. In this special edition, Luke -- who is a candidate for Miami-Dade mayor -- explains how running a music record business is to ... More >>

Black-Owned Businesses Getting Screwed in County Contracting

​Though 15 percent of businesses in Miami-Dade County are owned by African Americans, only $260 million -- 2 percent -- of the county's $13 billion contracts were awarded to black-owned businesses between 2006 and 2010, according to a press release from County Commissioner Barbara Jordan."There is ... More >>

Michelle Spence-Jones nails Fred Grimm, Michael Putney

​Though 15 percent of businesses in Miami-Dade County are owned by African Americans, only $260 million -- 2 percent -- of the county's $13 billion contracts were awarded to black-owned businesses between 2006 and 2010, according to a press release from County Commissioner Barbara Jordan."There is ... More >>

Miami-Dade County Commission Unanimously Asks Florida Legislature to Chill Out on Crazy Immigration Laws

​It's hard to get the Miami-Dade County Commission to agree on anything, but every single member voted today for a resolution that asks the state legislature to cool it on all those crazy conservative immigration bills they've been trying to pass. The Florida Legislature will, more than likely, to ... More >>

Miami-Dade Nixes $3 Million Grant To Tax Evader After New Times Report

Miami-Dade CountyCommissioner Dennis MossA recent New Times article helped convince Miami-Dade commissioners Tuesday to rescind a $3 million grant they had awarded to the family of shopping center developer Yoram Izhak.At the commission's regular meeting, Commissioner Dennis Moss requested his colle ... More >>