There are three different lawsuits pending and unanswered questions about setting a precedent on using park land for commercial purposes. Environmentalists, concerned about the effect on adjacent protected land, will cry foul. The mayor of Key Biscayne will talk about how this goes against the carefully thought-out plan for Virginia Key. And residents of the […]
We may actually have a Democratic primary in South Florida’s favorite congressional district this year, thanks to the Florida Supreme Court’s new maps that made District 26 a little bluer. But is wannabe candidate Andrew Korge the best we can do? Korge put a trial balloon in the air with a Miami Herald reporter, leaking […]
Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu, who filed last week to run against incumbent mayor Philip Stoddard, has striken first with an email blast that gives voters — and the rest of us — a look see into the main issue of his campaign: Development. Or overdevelopment, as he sees it. “Our quality of life is […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata drew his first challenger this week when a man named Felix Lorenzo filed against him. And he’s running an anti-incorporation campaign. Lorenzo, 75, told Ladra that he decided to run so that he could block the incorporation efforts of two areas in District 11 that want to become their own municipalities. […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi may have gotten his seat back after a protracted court battle. But he’s going to have to campaign hard to keep it. Pizzi, who is widely expected to file for re-election, already has two challengers — former Mayor Wayne Slaton, who was removed from office after Pizzi was acquitted […]
The controversial, mixed-use Paseo de la Riviera project — which would turn the Holiday Inn on U.S. 1 into a massive, highrise condo with a retail complex — is coming up for final approval before the Coral Gables commission Tuesday and it promises to be a long and heated debate. Preliminary approval came after an […]
Coming this week to some mailboxes near you: A holiday greeting from Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado. But you can bet that it won’t be sent to just the voters in her school district as this becomes the first 2016 mayoral mailer in Regalado’s bid to unseat incumbent Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. Sure, there […]
I once worked at the same K-Mart on Coral Way and 87th Avenue as Marco Rubio‘s mother. Mine started as an after school job right before the holidays and lasted through the winter break at the “trim-a-tree” department, which is what they called the small area in a middle isle stacked with Christmas and holiday […]
It’s more of a homecoming than any other South Florida event. Because when Sen. Marco Rubio greets 500 or 600 or so people at the community center in West Miami Saturday morning, he’ll be talking to neighbors and friends and the people who voted for him the very first time he ever ran for office. “It […]
Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu filed for election to his old seat Friday against incumbent Mayor Philip Stoddard. Feliu told Ladra that he had been watching the development in the small city with a wary eye but that he made up his mind about the race after the police shooting last month of a […]