Philip Cardella

What a bat guano crazy Trustee meeting at a community college can tell us about the state of democracy in the United States is debatable, but not for lack of trying. On Tuesday I attended the Miami-Dade (community) College Trustee meeting discussing the proposed land transfer of a valuable property

By Philip Cardella December 5, 2025 Hialeah, Florida Chairman Bileca: Okay. I'm– we're gonna take up item one A. I'm gonna read it and then ask for a motion. Item one A is authorization to convey approximately 2.63 acres surface parking lot at

by Philip Cardella Introduction After the conclusion of the 17th weekly Sunday prayer vigil held across from the entrance to the South Florida Detention Center, commonly known by its racist nickname, Alligator Alcatraz, a tourist pulled me aside. She was driving the popular tourist road on which the immigration holding

Another week in South Florida and another set of stories that somehow show the importance of community and how our communities can harm us or let us harm ourselves. The weather here has been either delightful or frightful, depending on your perspective– it's been unseasonably hot this week

Prayer vigils calling for humane treatment of immigrants popped up in multiple places this week, the shutdown ended so, among other things, the National Park Rangers (many of whom live in the park) got to go back to work, and I found an interesting story about how good nature is

By Philip Cardella November 14, 2025 Florida US 41 near Mile Marker 48 While preparing this week's post for This Week in Florida's weekly blog two things became apparent: 1) I had forgotten to process the photos I took on Sunday 2) those photos told important