The City of Miami will ask voters in November whether or not to make the city mayor the most powerful individual in the city government’s power structure. If passed, the strong mayor proposal would grant full executive power to the mayor to execute policy and become the lead decision maker of the city’s $1 billion budget -- responsibilities now held by the elected city manager. According to the Miami Herald, if voters approve the proposal, the City of Miami mayor’s salary would get bumped from

Sundial continued the "strong mayor" initiative conversation. Voters in the City of Miami will have the opportunity to vote for a “strong mayor” initiative on the November general election. The “strong mayor” proposal would give extended executive power to the City of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. The proposal has faced fierce opposition from a number of people including Merrett Stierheim, who has served the roles of city manager of Miami, county manager of Miami-Dade and the superintendent of

Marlins' former third base coach Rich Donnelly thanks his daughter, Amy, for baseball's iconic phrase “The chicken runs at midnight.” In Major League Baseball the phrase means victory. Donnelly began to use the saying when he worked with the Pittsburgh Pirates' player development department in 1992. In Miami, the phrase made its debut in 1997 when the Marlins won their first World Series against the Cleveland Indians. Since then, the story behind the phrase inspired a book, an ESPN special and a

South Florida voters will need to do some homework before heading to the ballot box in the upcoming November general election. Some voters may have more than one page of items and races to vote on. That includes 12 amendment items to be considered for inclusion in the state constitution. Some of those amendments are actually more than one item that had to be bundled together as to not have too many items on the ballot. A couple of those are being challenged in court. Sundial recently spoke with

Sundial celebrated their one-year anniversary on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The producers of the show invited the first ever Sundial guest, WLRN’s Americas Correspondent Tim Padgett, for the one-year special. The U.S. government continues to increase its detention and deportation programs for undocumented immigrants. This has not stopped Central Americans -- especially Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans -- from continuing to flee their home countries and asking for asylum in the U.S. A new study

South Florida voters will need to do some homework before heading to the ballot box in the upcoming November general election. Some voters may have more than one page of items and races to vote on. That includes 12 amendment items to be considered for inclusion in the state constitution. Some of those amendments are actually more than one item that had to be bundled together as to not have too many items on the ballot. A couple of those are being challenged in court. Sundial recently spoke with

There are a dozen possible constitutional amendendments on the November ballot in Florida. A number of the measures are considered controversial and there's been public criticism over the bundling together of amendments. (For instance, Amendment 9 bundles together the smoking of e-cigarettes indoors and ending the practice of offshore drilling.) Tim Cerio was a member of the Constitutional Revision Commission that crafted some of these amendments. He explained the reason behind bundling of

A dance festival is trying to break through misconceptions about disabled dance performers. The Forward Motion Dance Festival , being held Sept. 26 to Sept. 29, will showcase groundbreaking physically integrated dance companies and choreography. A conference will focus on the representation of individuals with disabilities in the arts and media. The festival features disabled and non-disabled artists from around the globe. It was funded by grants from the Knight Foundation and the National

Miami’s Lemon City Trio (LCT) is bringing a fresh new meaning to the word funk. Brian Robertson, 35, on organ; Nick Tannura, 28, on guitars and Aaron Glueckauf, 27, on drums are the musicians behind the funky jazz-soul sound that makes up Lemon City Trio. They met in Miami, decided to join forces to create a band and began rehearsing at a warehouse located in the Lemon City, a neighborhood in Miami that dates back to the mid-19th Century and overlaps now with Little Haiti. The Lemon City is said

More than a year after Hurricane Irma, blue tarps still lay on roofs across South Florida. According to the Miami Herald , tens of thousands of homeowners across the state are still waiting for assistance to pay for damages to their houses and many have sued insurance companies. “Rebuild Florida” is a new program by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity that is providing more than $600 million to those who qualify to help fix or replace their homes. Anyone who suffered damages from