Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
The Miami City Commission adopted a record $3.7 billion budget after a last-minute amendment reversed proposed cuts to festival funding, but the new structure leaves Coconut Grove's Goombay Festival allocation largely in the hands of one commissioner.
Local Government
FEMA awarded Miami-Dade County more than $761,000 to reinforce six fire stations against hurricane winds, part of a $116 million Florida disaster-recovery package announced Sept. 29.
Local Government
Miami-Dade County filed a $750 million lawsuit against Reworld, formerly Covanta, alleging the contractor ignored years of fire-safety warnings before a February 2023 blaze destroyed the county's Doral waste-to-energy plant, leaving taxpayers to cover $65 million a year in trash-hauling costs.
Local Government
Miami-Dade County begins mailing more than 200,000 vote-by-mail ballots Thursday, Sept. 24, for the Nov. 3 general election, which includes a Key Biscayne Village Council race and a stormwater spending referendum.
Local Government
About 100 people rallied at Gramps Getaway on Virginia Key on Sept. 21 to oppose City of Miami Referendum 3, which would lease roughly 27.6 acres of Rickenbacker Causeway waterfront to a private developer for up to 75 years, with the restaurant's owner and marina operators challenging the deal in court.
Local Government
Five candidates are running for three Key Biscayne Village Council seats on Nov. 3, with a Miami Herald voter guide surfacing the first on-record positions from Luis de la Cruz on the Bear Cut Bridge and Silvia Tarafa on flood control and utility undergrounding.
Local Government
The City of Miami plans to demolish the community center at Armbrister Park in West Coconut Grove at the end of September, making way for a new $10 million, two-story facility with Caribbean-Bahamian architecture and a hurricane outreach center.
Local Government
The Miami City Commission voted 4-1 on Sept. 10 to keep holding meetings at the historic Pan Am seaplane terminal in Coconut Grove, rejecting a move to a new building near Miami Freedom Park, and heard a preliminary pitch from the Museum of Miami for a "civic campus" at the site.
Local Government
Miami code enforcement is citing decades-old hedges and trees in Coconut Grove under sight-visibility traffic rules, prompting homeowners to appeal and raising fears the neighborhood's lush canopy is under systematic threat.
Local Government
Biscayne Bay Brewing is donating 2 percent of Tropical Bay IPA sales statewide to Zoo Miami Foundation for flamingo research and habitat preservation, part of a broader campaign that includes a push to make the American flamingo Florida's state bird.
Local Government
Florida zeroed out $28.5 million in funding for its coral reef restoration program, leaving nonprofits scrambling and threatening recovery efforts along the reef tract that runs through Biscayne Bay.
Local Government
Florida's Board of Governors voted unanimously to ban undocumented students from the state's 12 public universities starting in the 2027-28 school year, a rule that includes Florida International University and could affect South Florida families with students approaching college age.
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