Miami City Commission

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado on Ultra 2013: "One Weekend Is Enough, People Complain About the Kids"

As usual, the City of Miami commission meeting convened at 9 a.m. today. Amid discussion of telecommunication contracts and waste management, our municipal pols will also decide whether vice chairman Marc Sarnoff was correct when he called Ultra Music Festival fans a "urinating, defecating ... thr ... More >>

Gov. Rick Scott Stops By City of Miami Commission Meeting to Tell Everyone They're Doing a "Great Job"

Around 4 p.m. today, Florida governor and über-tool Rick Scott popped into the City of Miami Commission meeting to say "hello." Why? We assume because it's never too early to start campaigning for re-election.Introduced by Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, Rick Scott spoke for about 30 seconds to tell ev ... More >>

Marc Sarnoff's Spokesperson: Commissioner Doesn't Want to "Shut Down" Ultra

We here at Crossfade have been trying to get Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff's side of the Ultra Music Festival story for approximately 48 hours. Today, we finally got a chance to talk to his spokesperson about the commissioner's attempt to curb Ultra's second weekend. "We are not talking about s ... More >>

The Ten Biggest Miami Losers of 2011

​Two thousand eleven is almost over, and some of us had better years than others. For most, this year seemed like a downer. But, hey, at least you didn't accidentally spend almost $20K at a strip club, get recalled from office, or embarrass yourself on national television. It really could have bee ... More >>

Walmart's Midtown Miami Plan Sparks Anger, Confusion -- and Surprise Support

via IMDB.comEvil empire or jobs creator? Depends whom you ask.​There's nothing quite like the impending invasion of Arkansas's finest low-rent retailer to inspire fiery emotions in an up-and-coming neighborhood. (How many other chains have sparked angry documentaries and legions of dissenting grou ... More >>

Miami Police Bust Luis Boris Estrada For Illegal Gambling Machines

​The Miami Police Department's crackdown on illegal gambling machines continued today with the arrest of Luis Boris Estrada. Cops busted the 42-year-old Cuban for operating six "maquinitas" at the Rapido Discount he manages at 2742 SW Eighth Street, finding $1,000 in one of the machines. Miami Pol ... More >>

Take down slums, not politicians like Michelle Spence-Jones

Rebuild Liberty City and Overtown Instead of Tearing Down City Commissioners

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. Up this week, Luke assesses the latest criminal charges against his pal Michelle Spence-Jones and what he would do to fix Overtown and Liber ... More >>

Commissioner Richard Dunn: Natty Dresser, Colorful Orator, Almost Felon

​Three weeks on the Miami City Commission, and already the Rev. Richard Dunn has figured out Miami politics. Contacted Tuesday to comment on a story about his driving record, the newly appointed replacement for Michelle Spence-Jones went on the offensive, attacking District 2's Marc Sarn ... More >>

In Spence-Jones Soap Opera, a One-Month Commercial Break

​It's now two strikes for pugnacious Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones. A Miami-Dade County judge today dismissed her temporary injunction against Charlie Crist's suspension, setting February 12 as the day when she'll actually decide if the Governor's action is constitutional. A half hour later o ... More >>

ACLU Jumps Into Michelle Spence-Jones vs. Charlie Crist Fight

​The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped into the ongoing Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones saga on behalf of five voters in her district. Just days after being re-elected in November, Spence-Jones turned herself in on charges of grand theft after accusations she stole money from t ... More >>

Spence-Jones to Miami Herald: I Did Not Compare Myself to MLK

Michelle Spence-Jones is not taking her latest suspension from the Miami City Commission quietly.The District 5 commissioner has taken aim at her two biggest adversaries -- Gov. Charlie Crist, who suspended her again yesterday, and the Miami Herald, which has oft criticized her attempts to keep her ... More >>

Charlie Don't Appoint

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado​Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado's insistence that Gov. Charlie Crist appoint a replacement for suspended commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones is getting ugly.Over the weekend, Regalado and Commission Chairman Marc Sarnoff were pressuring Angel Gonzalez -- who resigned yesterday ... More >>

Marlins Deal Kaput?

The Florida Marlins are in desperate need of a great closer. Someone who can seal the deal with the Miami City Commission and the Miami-Dade County Commission over the team's sweetheart $630 million stadium deal. Right now the Marlins dreams of a new domed home on the former Orange Bowl site appear ... More >>

MiMo M.Y.O.B.

At yesterday's Miami City Commission meeting, a small group of neighborhood preservationists came prepared to do in Eric Silverman, owner of the Vagabond Motel on Biscayne Boulevard in the Upper Eastside. Members of the MiMo Biscayne Association and residents railed against Silverman's use of his pr ... More >>

Framing the Fire Fee

Letters from the Issue of August 4, 2005

Response to "Tales of Teele," published July 28, 2005

The Ultimate Nasty Neighbor

A 600-foot-tall monster stomps into your neighborhood. What can you do about it? In the City of Miami, absolutely nothing

The Bitch

Mars Rover

Between Something and Nothing

Cocaine case no-actioned; pigeons are rats with wings

Headbangers Ball

Claims that police didn't aim at FTAA protesters' upper bodies get a black eye

Letters from the Issue of June 13, 2002

People don't go sifting through your luggage in Oregon!

BEST AM RADIO PERSONALITY

Alberto Milian

Parking to the People!

A charming fable in which the little guys win one

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of April 26, 2001

Mullin

If they concern Bicentennial Park, your presence is requested this weekend

Packed, Stacked, and Hijacked

How a citizens advisory board created to investigate illegal billboards became an industry support group

Fem Park

Roxcy O'Neal Bolton Women's History Gallery

The Children's Museum, Inc.

New Times gives a tour of the Miami Children's Museum and its corporate exhibitisements -- for kids of all ages!

Dredge Dirge

Authorities are in a pickle over where to dump the toxic sludge soon to be scraped from the Miami River

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the issue of May 18, 2000

On the Block

In an act of audacious short-sightedness, Miami is offering its finest bayfront property to the highest bidder

Mullin

The Marlins Had a Party and You Weren't Invited

Portrait of an Upset

Johnny Winton used anti-incumbent backlash, new district boundaries, and plenty of cash to knock off J.L. Plummer

Mullin

The Wizard of Odd

Letters

Absentee Ethics

That thoughtful Diaz de la Portilla boy has found a way to help out voters. What a guy!

Letters

A Merciful Court of Public Opinion

If you think being under federal indictment might have hurt Humberto Hernandez, you don't know the fine folks of District 3

Black in Blue

More than 50 years ago, five daring young men put on police uniforms and began patrolling Miami's "Colored Town." A couple of them are still looking for justice.

Sergeant Up in Arms

The hiring of the mysterious Zohar Lahav at $52,000 per year has critics of Miami Mayor Joe Carollo yelling foul

Rough Diamond

A Cuban embezzler built it, anti-Batista guerrillas trained in it, Nicaraguan refugees lived in it, and Frank Robinson played baseball in it. Now somebody has to step to the plate and save Bobby Maduro Miami Stadium.

From Knight Manor to Nightmare

Just when a forlorn section of Liberty City is about to get the help it so desperately needs, along comes Miller Dawkins on his political bulldozer

The Buzz About Riverside Center

City bureaucrats move into FPL's posh Miami River digs with only a milligauss or two of apprehension

Wasted Space

This waterfront plot in Coconut Grove isn't park land,it's a factory. A lawsuit factory.

One Million for You Group, One Million for My Group

Conflict-of-interest allegations force a recount in the divvying-up of federal AIDS funding

Build a Park, Turn a Profit

Miami: Stick It in Your Ear

Just what this city needs -- an official song

Power to the Parish

Father Jose Luis Menendez of Wynwood takes the church to the people and the people to the streets

Weiner Takes All

Want to make a little easy money? Whatever you do, don't go into business hawking hot dogs on the street. It's a jungle out there.