Miami-Dade

The storm made landfall with 150 mph sustained winds around the Lake Charles, Louisiana area and has caused severe damage to the city of Lake Charles.

The Republican primary race to replace retiring state Rep. Holly Raschein (R) turned out to be one of the closest watched contests in recent history.  Rhonda Rebman Lopez was the hands down favorite to win the race, but James Mooney, Jr. squeeked out the victory by only 148 votes.

Republican Rep. Jamie Grant is calling it quits just three months before the November election.

The latest Mason-Dixon poll in Florida has vice president Joe Biden and President Donald Trump in a virtual tie. The poll shows that Biden holds a 4-point lead over Trump but the margin of error is 4+/- with 4 percent undecided.

In an effort for Miami-Dade County to go solar, the non-profit group Solar United Neighbors formally announced that it was launching the 2020 Miami-Dade Solar Co-op with the goal of helping Miami-Dade County residents go solar as soon as possible.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to take incoming fire from both Republicans and Democrats over his re-opening of the state after the COVID-19 virus outbreak. DeSantis’ loudest critic, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), wants her home county of Broward and the rest of the state to “follow Miami-Dade's lead and reverse our disastrous reopening.”

Miami-Dade County’s non-partisan mayoral race has gotten pretty partisan as Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava has decided to campaign against one of her “Trump ally” campaign opponents and fellow county commissioners.

The COVID-19 virus is still with us, and the spike in cases continues to grow as more and more dumb and self-centered twenty and thirty-year-olds continue to be infected and infect others because they refuse to cover up in public. This is just plain stupidity.

Conservative Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R), who is arguably one of the rising Republican political stars in Florida politics, has just filed a lawsuit on behalf of a  small business owner in Miami-Dade County, against Miami-Dade County for mandating that “residents and workers wear face masks.” Rep. Sabatini says that that the regulatory measure  violates the Florida Constitution, and...

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava is being asked to “immediately” resign her position to avoid a costly special election that would take place after November's presidential general election. Commissioner Levine Cava submitted her “irrevocable resignation” from the county’s 8th district last month, but it won’t go into effect until November 16th, two weeks after […]

House Democrats continue to deny that ANTIFA and other anarchist groups, including Black Lives Matters, are the groups responsible for the looting, assaults, vandalism, and murder that has taken place around the country after the George Floyd murder. Sen. Marco Rubio (R) tweeted an image of a vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus in Miami, Florida, […]

Everyone in our community, from all industries and ages, are waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel. Parents and children have been forced into a new learning environment overnight. Shuttered small business anxiously wanting to reopen. The people of Miami-Dade have demonstrated incredible patience and because of it, our community has overcome this novel virus. The time...

“Packed beaches should work nicely to thin the ranks of Trump/DeSantis/Gimenez supporters."

"How they do that is a mystery to me.”