Many, if not all, government meetings will be postponed or cancelled for the next week or two and there will be a countywide 11 p.m. curfew on bars and restaurants to try to stop community spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Miami-Dade, Miami, Coral Gables and Bay Harbor Islands, as well as other cities, were […]
While everyone was busy buying toilet paper for the coronavirus or trying to get the recall petitions against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo freed from the city’s grasp, Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral 2020 candidate Daniella Levine Cava sent out her first countywide mailer. It’s the first Miami-Dade mayoral race mailer that arrived at Ladra’s house, and […]
Ladra had a blast talking to the folks who braved the coronavirus outbreak to hear me speak at the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations meeting Thursday. I do say that I was honored with the presence of so many longtime friends and fans and people who have read me a long time, and people I […]
City of Miami attorneys working on behalf of Commissioner Joe Carollo and against his recall prevailed in delaying the process some more Friday when the Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge that ruled against them on Tuesday allowed the city to keep the petitions from moving forward to the county’s Supervisor of Elections as they appeal his decision […]
So, the ordinance to limit recalls in the city of Miami passed 4-1 after Commissioner Keon Hardemon joined the Three Amigos after first seeming against the change — it even seemed like he offered the Ladra amendment, to make it after a failed recall election. But Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla wove his jabber magic […]
After a pretty solid legal victory Tuesday — in which a Circuit Court judge ordered City Clerk Todd Hannon to deliver 1,914 petitions turned into the city last week to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections no later than Wednesday — the group trying to recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is headed back to court on […]
As if they haven’t spent enough of the taxpayer’s money trying to block an electoral process already, the Miami City Attorney’s office filed a notice to appeal Tuesday, an hour or so after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge ordered City Clerk Todd Hannon to deliver the recall petitions against Commissioner Joe Carollo to the Miami-Dade Elections Department — just […]
The standard operating procedure at the city of Miami to start legal research for an opinion on something is called a “legal service request,” or LSR for short. Whether it’s a department director or a city commissioner, the paperwork is filed. That way, the office knows what department’s budget account to charge for the billable […]
Miami city attorneys have been working to stop or challenge the recall petition against Commissioner Joe Carollo for more than a month — before the first petition was signed — and even created a “cheat sheet” with their research and findings. Actually, two “cheat sheets.” The original — which agreed with the recall attorneys on the timeline for submission of […]
As expected and predicted on this very space not long ago, Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla has already delivered to at least two of the investors, er, contributors who bankrolled his return to office when he helped seal a settlement deal last month for the Magic City Casino, who had sued the city […]