Absentee or mail-in ballots begin to arrive in Miami-Dade voters’ homes

Look in your mailbox. If you’re one of the people who get absentee or vote-by-mail ballots from the Miami-Dade Elections Department, you could be getting one this week. At least 260,000 went out Monday. That’s less than half of the 530,000 ballots mailed out for the 2020 general in just the first mailing, according to […]

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Miami’s Alex Diaz de la Portilla is living beyond his means in divorce affidavit

In court papers filed last week for his divorce, former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — who was arrested a year ago on 12 felonies including bribery and money laundering — claims he earns only $4,000 a month as a political consultant and has more than $10,000 a month in expenses. Which leads to […]

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To keep a new Miami-Dade garbage incinerator away, get ready to pay

Miami-Dade defers relocation vote til after election The Miami-Dade Commission on last week deferred until November a decision on where to build a new waste-to-energy garbage incinerator after the old one in Doral burned up in flames 18 months ago. Is it just a coincidence that the decision has been delayed until after the elections? […]

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