So, Ladra was right. Again. The City of Miami Police Department didn’t exactly conduct a nationwide talent hunt complete with consultants, community forums, glossy binders and kumbaya listening sessions before naming its next chief. Nope. Instead, Mayor Eileen Higgins and City Manager James Reyes went with the same ol’ Miami way: pick the guy they […]
There are ribbon cuttings. There are golden shovels. There are keys to the city. There are politicians handing each other plaques for breathing. And then there are the teachers. The ones buying classroom supplies with their own money while Tallahassee argues over culture wars. The ones answering parent emails at 11 p.m. The ones trying […]
The escalating battle between Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and activist Maria Cruz — who went from close kitchen cabinet ally to recall organizer — heated up another notch Tuesday when the 80-year-old grandmother dared call the mayor a wannabe king. Cruz, a frequent flyer at City Hall and full-time thorn-in-the-mayor’s-side, took the podium — […]
Featuring former State Rep. J.C. Planas Just when we thought Alex Diaz de la Portilla’s divorce couldn’t get any messier, the former Miami commissioner has gone ahead and done what every embattled 305 politician eventually does when things aren’t going his way: He’s blaming the judge. In a freshly filed, very detailed motion, Diaz de […]
If you thought the fiercest battle in Coral Gables these days was over development, traffic, or pensions… think again. It’s golf. And at Tuesday’s commission meeting, the manicured battlefield will once again be Granada Golf Course — where a surprisingly high-stakes showdown is brewing over who gets to play, how often, and just how subsidized […]
In a plot twist that feels almost too on-the-nose for Miami politics, former congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera — once a loud and proud anti-Castro, anti-Maduro warrior — has just been convicted of secretly working a multimillion-dollar deal tied to Venezuela’s socialist regime. Yes. That Venezuela. No hace sentido, but a federal jury in Miami didn’t […]
Just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it had taken a hatchet to the Voting Rights Act last week, Florida Republicans were already lining up the next domino. And by the afternoon, they knocked it down. Tallahassee didn’t waste a minute to try to gain a GOP advantage in a threatened blue wave. […]
Everyone’s very brave when the outrage is easy: A photo. A caption. A culture-war flare-up that fits neatly into a tweet and a press release. But when things get messy — when the allegations are ugly, internal, and impossible to spin — that’s when the silence gets loud. Welcome to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, where diversity […]
Coral Gables voters, who turned out by 29% for last week’s mail-in-only election on eight city charter changes, will have another ballot to look at in November, with a mayor’s race and two commission seats already shaping up to be anything but sleepy. After years of April elections in odd-numbered years, voters approved moving municipal […]
In a move that surprised absolutely no one who’s been paying attention, the Miami City Commission voted unanimously last week to co-designate five blocks of Northwest 14th Terrace as “Angel Gonzalez Way,” honoring former Commissioner Angel Gonzalez — a man who once pleaded guilty to exploiting his public office. Because, of course they did. Back […]