Doral exploded alright. And the sparks seem like they will continue to fly for at least a few days. But it wasn’t, as expected, because of the kinetic energy between the two alpha males — Mayor Luigi Boria and City Manager Joe Carollo. I thought they would get into a mess all by themselves. Nah. They never stood a […]
The elections in Miami are interesting all over. Not just in the mayor’s race. We have three commission seats in play. One crowded field to replace Commissioner Francis Suarez, who is challenging the mayor. Two incumbents are fighting to stay in place. And one of those, Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones — who was suspended for 19 months while […]
Former Hialeah Police Det. Ricky Garcia, a longtime critic of Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez and the Seguro Que Yes Council, has decided who he is going to challenge for a seat on the city dais: Councilman Paul “Pablitiquito” Hernandez, who was first appointed to the seat by the mayor. Garcia had expressed his intent to […]
Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez seems to have struck campaign gold. All he had to do was announce in January that the long whispered rumors were true and he was, indeed, going to ignore the advice of those who said “wait” and run for mayor now, not later, and the coin started to rain down on […]
Miami-Dade Commission Chairwoman Rebeca Sosa‘s longtime campaign manager, Roly Marante — standing to her right in this photo — has been hired to do the Hispanic part of the Dolphin stadium referendum campaign. So the owners of the football team and the and the proponents of the public financing of that upgrade to their privately-owned […]
We keep hearing about how the tourist tax dip and state sales tax rebate negotiated between the Miami Dolphins and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez doesn’t stand a chance in Tallahassee, where it has to pass the legislature in order for the referendum votes — that start next week when absentee ballots hit the street Tuesday — […]
Mayor Tomas Regalado looked downright proud Thursday morning as he stood between 48 illegal slot machine maquinitas and about a dozen TV news cameras minutes before a couple of bulldozers crushed them — the illegal gambling machines, not the jouurnalists — into a pile of wood and wires and widgets and whatnot in about 15 minutes. But let’s […]
There’s a new dance in town. It is called the maquinita shift. And it’s made up mostly of backflips. It would seem, from the quick reaction and removal of maquinitas from cafeterias and arcades in Miami and Hialeah after the state ban passed earlier this month, that Mayors Tomas Regalado and Carlos “Castro” Hernandez of […]
Surprise, surprise. Vanessa Brito lied again. A very ill-planned recall of newly-elected Doral Vice Mayor Bettina Rodriguez-Aguilera has died a quiet and unceremonious death. Especially when compared to its high-faluttin’, heavily-promoted and fraudulent birth. Miami Voice Chairwoman and political gypsy conartist Vanessa Brito — who claims credit for recalling former Miami-Dade Commissioner Natacha Millan, although she was […]
De acuerdo con el Departamento de Elecciones de Miami-Dade, hubo 152 nuevos votantes registrados durante el fin de semana que cumplieron con la meta para que puedan emitir su voto en la elección especial para renovar el estadio de los Miami Dolphins con fondos públicos. Esos son los que pudieron lograr llegar su aplicacion antes […]