Ladra would like to start a new feature on weekends: cartoons. Check out this first one that I got in an email from Mike Burke. He titled it “Let ’em eat cake.” After getting Burke’s somewhat childlike yet perfectly on-point cartoon in an email, and getting his permission to reprint it, I figured I would […]
You’d think they wouldn’t be so chummy. But apparently Gov. Rick Scott is warming up to Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. And vice versa. Politico reported Friday that Ross will have a fundraiser tonight for Scott at his home in the Hamptons. In New York. Not Florida, where the guv’s increasingly tough re-election, according to […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said in July, when he presented his severe budget cuts at a county commission meeting, that he was no magician. But it turns out he did have a few tricks up his sleeve. It’s really no surprise to anyone that no libraries are closing. We heard the drumroll as we saw […]
Two of the big profile candidates in the upcoming Miami Beach elections say that that other candidates, including their main challengers, are running anti-Hispanic campaigns against them. Mayor Matti Bower, a native Cuban who is running for commission, and Commissioner Michael Gongora, who his her hand-picked half-Cuban successor in the mayoral race, both told Ladra […]
Like Commissioner Francis Suarez — who seemed to be losing steam in his mayoral campaign anyway — needed this. Could the charges filed against his election team Thursday be the straw that broke the campaign’s back? His “The Future is Now” campaign is beginning to sound a little like “The End is Near.” First, Suarez — […]
People are still a little pissed off about Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez rescheduling two planned budget town hall meetings this week to go off to other events, including the recognition at the White House Tuesday of the 1972 Miami Dolphins championship team. But it didn’t seem to cramp his style or damper his diversions in D.C. […]
Former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi — suspended by Gov. Rick Scott earlier this month after he was arrested by the FBI on bribery and extortion charges –misses his office and want’s his seat back already. At least that’s what we have to think after his son picked up a candidate packet for him […]
The Miami Dolphins trump the community again. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has cancelled Tuesday night’s budget town hall in Florida City — which has been advertised for a month — so he could go to Washington, D.C., to help celebrate the 1972 champion football team being recognized by President Barack Obama in what seems like […]
Don’t they say that it’s always the cover-up that gets you? Of the two local mayors that went down a couple of weeks ago in an FBI sting that nabbed them on charges of bribery and extortion, the best case seems to be the one against suspended Sweetwater Mayor Manny “Maraña” Maroño. We have all long […]
The Florida League of Cities annual conference in Orlando this week has got to be an interesting place. Remember, this is the same event at which, last year, then-League President and then-Sweetwater Mayor Manny Maroño was going around introducing his political bigwig buddies to two businessmen that could help them graft thousands of dollars from the […]