FIU biology professor South Miami’s new mayor


Congratulations to FIU professor Philip Stoddard, who was voted in as South Miami’s new mayor Feb. 9.

Stoddard defeated incumbent Mayor Horace Feliu with 58 percent of the vote. The biology professor and anti-nuclear activist entered the election just hours before filing closed. Feliu, who endorsed two new nuclear power plants 20 miles away from South Miami, has been accused of accepting campaign funding from FPL executives.

Stoddard told The Miami Herald that he did not have political ambitions, but he threw his hat in the ring “for all of us.”