P0litical strategist and organizer Juan Cuba, former executive director of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, has a great idea: Let’s recall Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo. And he is not alone. After a meltdown at the city commission meeting last week in which Carollo picked a fight with Chairman Keon Hardemon and then he and his partner in crime, […]
When it was first reported in September that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez was eyeing a run for Congress in District 26, Ladra thought it was a bad dream. No such luck. Gimenez, who is termed out this year, is expected to announce this week — perhaps as early as Wednesday — that he will run for the […]
Ladra got the most interesting phone call Monday, on the eve of the first debate for the Miami-Dade mayoral candidates in 2020. It was a push poll, likely for former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. Why? Penelas was the only candidate that my interviewer spoke positively about during a nearly 20 minute Q&A (okay it took […]
Who would guess that proposed bike lanes would cause so much trouble? A plan to connect the University of Miami with downtown and North Coral Gables via 4.6 miles of bicycle lanes — some of it with accompanying sidewalks — has met resistance from some of the residents on the chosen streets who say they’ve been left out […]
The voting public split the baby in Hialeah Tuesday — if the runoff election was a referendum on Mayor Carlos Hernandez, as they usually seem to be. One of Little Castro’s endorsed candidates won, beating an activist the mayor had arrested early on in the campaign. Jackie Garcia-Roves, who beat Milly Herrera, 54 to 46%, […]
Talk about persistence: It took a fourth try, but former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla is an elected official again. It also took about a million dollars. But more about that later. In what Ladra is pretty sure is yet another sign of the apocalypse, Dean DLP won the runoff for the Miami District […]
Its quite possible that yet another sweet, no-bid real estate project gets approval in a fast track process for what seems like the worst transit plan ever by the end of the day Friday — before anyone can notice. Virgin Trains may get, in a series of back-to-back emergency meetings, $76 million in half penny […]
Milly Herrera, a candidate for the Hialeah City Commission, thought she was just campaigning like every other candidate in the U.S.A. Thursday when she stopped by Villa Aida, a senior living facility near City Hall, to hand out campaign flyers. She found herself under arrest by Hialeah Police — likely under orders by Mayor Carlos […]
Add Homestead Councilman Elvis Maldonado to the list of men that want to replace termed out Miami-Dade Commissioner Dennis Moss next year. Maldonado filed paperwork Thursday indicting he had opened a bank account for a county commission race in District 9. That means he has to move six months before the qualifying deadline in June […]
It’s Julio’s turn. Again. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez only has about a year left in his term. That means he’s got to step up the parceling out of projects and contracts for those on his friends and family plan. On Thursday, his administration is asking the county commission to give a $5 million economic incentive […]