When she was on the County Commission, Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins helped lead the fight against jumbo digital billboards downtown. Now she’s leading City Hall and has a high-profile opponent in the ongoing fight over the signs: Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
The two Democrats are longtime allies on politics and policy, sharing a campaign manager in Christian Ulvert and positions on organized labor, environmental conservation, transit funding and the Trump administration.
But on the micro-local issue of whether a performance hall should make millions from a pair of supersized electronic signs, the leaders of Miami and Miami-Dade now find themselves at odds, nearly a year after Higgins won the city mayor’s election with Levine Cava’s endorsement and campaign help…