Did you feel the shockwave? The Carollo era is officially over. Kaput. Finito. Ciao pescao. Rolando Escalona — the 34-year-old restaurant manager whose political résumé could fit on the back of a Sexy Fish cocktail napkin — just beat former Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo in Miami’s District 3 commission runoff, ending four decades of one […]
They also believe it has wider electoral ramifications Ay, Miami. After years of corruption fatigue, half-baked strongman cosplay, and enough FBI whispers to fill a telenovela season, voters finally did something different Tuesday: They elected Eileen Higgins, the first Democrat mayor in the city in almost 30 years and the first female mayor ever. Yes, […]
Some will say that Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins won the hyper partisan Miami mayoral race that ended Tuesday. But others might say that former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez lost it. The official tally was 59% to 41% — an 18-point lead that Democrats statewide and nationwide celebrated as a bellwether to Miami’s officially partisan 2026 […]
The high-drama Miami mayoral election is over and, as expected, frontrunner Eileen Higgins was elected mayor, making history as the first woman to hold that seat. She is also the first Democrat and first non-Hispanic to hold the seat in decades. And she did it with 59% of the vote — an 18-point lead over […]
The runoff for Miami Beach Commission Group 1 ended Tuesday almost before it began. With more than 71% of the vote going to Monica Matteo-Salinas in the first show of results, the race was basically a coronation. And Monica didn’t wait for the last crumbs of precincts to roll in before declaring victory — which, […]
Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins and Department of Elderly Affairs Secretary Michelle Branham are rolling into Miami Wednesday with his shiny new “Operation Senior Shield” program — and guess where they’re planting the flag? Vista Alegre Condominiums, the tucked-away senior housing complex off Calle Ocho that suddenly finds itself as ground zero for Tallahassee’s latest […]
Florida’s governor, the man who can’t pass a mirror without seeing a president staring back, has decided he can do what the U.S. government won’t: designate one of the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights organizations as a “foreign terrorist organization.” Sí, en serio. On Monday, Ron DeSantis dropped an executive order on X — because […]
Somebody check on Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, porque la muchacha might be having what the kids call a moment. In recent days, it appears that the congresswoman from Miami’s District 27 has seen the light — or the polling — and broke ranks with Dear Leader Donald Trump over his Thanksgiving social media screed against […]
Proposed law would force him to call special election While everybody and their tio knew that former State Rep. Vicki Lopez was getting appointed to the Miami-Dade Commission seat vacated by Eileen Higgins and her Miami mayoral run, the governor still sat on his hands instead of calling the special election the minute her resignation […]
Don’t laugh, but this week will be “Artificial Intelligence Week” in Tallahassee. Because if there’s anything our elected officials need more of it’s that, right? And just next week? Nah. Of course not. It’s always artificial intelligence day in Tally. This week is just when it’s official Florida House Speaker Daniel “Danny” Perez has declared Dec. […]