Stories with 'joe’s stone crab' tag

2016 General Election: Amendment 3

This one is pretty straightforward: Should first responders (police officers, firefighters, and paramedics) who have been permanently disabled while doing their job (i.e. putting out a fire) have to pay property taxes? Here’s what you’ll see on your ballot: NO. 3 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE VII, SECTION 6, ARTICLE XII Tax Exemption for Totally and Permanently Disabled […]

/ October 20, 2016


2016 General Election: Amendment 2

If you feel like you’ve seen this one before, you’re high. Just kidding, it’s because you probably have. A version of this amendment was on the ballot in 2014 and it failed by a pretty slim margin. It needed 60 percent to pass, and it got 58 percent. It’s been reworked and refined and now […]

/ October 20, 2016


2016 General Election, Miami-Dade County School Board: District 1

No District 1 school board candidate managed to clinch a majority in the Aug. 30 county election. The two candidates went on to a runoff. Steve Gallon III Wilbert T. “Tee” Holloway Steve Gallon III Why are you running for the School Board of Miami-Dade County?  I am running for the school board to bring […]

/ October 19, 2016


2016 General Election: Amendment 4

This is what you’ll see on your ballot come Aug. 30, or, for you awesome early voters, sometime before then: NO. 4 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ARTICLE VII, SECTIONS 3 AND 4 ARTICLE XII, SECTION 34 Solar Devices or Renewable Energy Source Devices; Exemption From Certain Taxation and Assessment Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to […]

/ August 12, 2016