And La Gringa gets a seat at the national table Just over a month after Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins was elected in a historic and competitive race, La Alcaldesa II is packing her blazer and her housing talking points for Washington D.C. The former Miami-Dade county commissioner — now Miami’s first female mayor — will […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago had another emotional meltdown on the Coral Gables dais this week. But this time, it wasn’t about Commissioner Melissa Castro. It wasn’t about Ariel Fernandez. And it wasn’t about the Coral Gables Gazette or — sadly for me — Political Cortadito. No, this week the target of Lago’s righteous fury […]
When the government kills with impunity, silence is complicity Seventeen days. Seventeen days after Minneapolis and the world watched U.S. citizen, poet and mother Renée Nicole Good be killed in cold blood by a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, a second American, intensive care nurse and dog lover Alex Jeffrey Pretti, lay dead in […]
Mercy Hospital could have also been on the table Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado walked into last week’s Miami City Commission meeting with a bold solution to the city’s crushing housing crisis: Unlock hundreds of acres of underused land owned by churches, schools, nonprofits, and government institutions — and allow affordable housing to be built by […]
Miami-Dade has a line. It’s called the Urban Development Boundary. The idea is simple: inside the line, you build. Outside the line, you don’t — because that land is supposed to protect water, absorb floods, and keep the Everglades from becoming a memory. In theory. In practice, the UDB is more of a polite suggestion. […]
UPDATE: This item has been deferred because there was no proper notice. We can’t make this shit up. There is a rare and fragile bird sanctuary in the middle of Kendall. Not a planned one. Not a county-created one. An organic one — a tree island in a lake on the long-shuttered Calusa Country Club […]
The resolution sounds harmless, even responsible. A little housekeeping. A little “good governance.” Just Miami-Dade County taking inventory of properties that are critical to operations but not actually owned by the county. You know, bridges, buildings, facilities, maybe a few strategically located parcels that keep the whole machine running. Nothing to see here, folks. Except, […]
When Gov. Ron DeSantis decided not to schedule a special election to fill the vacant House seat in District 113 — it’s just going to be the regular primary in August — residents have been effectively left without a voice in Tallahassee for an entire legislative session. No committee assignments. No votes. No advocate. Just […]
Just when you thought Coral Gables politics couldn’t get any more creative, along comes a brand-new political action committee with a very wholesome-sounding name: Good Government for Coral Gables. Awww. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Except Ladra has seen this movie before. And she knows who’s holding the camera. The PAC was formed earlier this month […]
It was only a matter of time before Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago found someone to run against his nemesis, Commissioner Melissa Castro, in her next election, which he is trying to move up by four months. A first-time candidate named Nestor Menendez has popped onto the Coral Gables political scene with an impressively padded […]