Ladra is beside herself. Part of the reason this watchdog needed that short sabbatical I took the past few weeks was because of the guilt I feel over having let down the people of Miami Lakes. Sure, I was licking my wounds. Some of “November is coming” came and rolled over me. I was also […]
Either Miami-Dade Commissioner Rebeca Sosa is really as close as she represents herself to be with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio — who served on the West Miami City Commission when Sosa was mayor there — or she is the one with the good dirt on this high-flying cubanito with the hefty political clout. I mean, this onetime VP […]
Doral may another surprise on its roster, after having hired former Miami Mayor Crazy Joe Carollo as its city manager. Former Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito, another strong personality to add to the mix of Carollo and Mayor Luigi Boria, could be named Doral Police Chief. Talk about a political trifecta. Exposito, as some of you may […]
The payback is plain as day: Miami-Dade County Commissioners who voted against the installment of Chairwoman Rebecca Sosa were not given important seats — neither on committees nor on the dais. I’m talking figurative seats on committees and actual seats, for their butts, people. Not only does Sosa decide who serves on what committee — leaving […]
When former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo was taking newly elected Doral Mayor Luigi Boria, then a candidate, around during the campaign and helping him, he told Ladra he wasn’t being paid one cent. Looks like Joe Carollo knew he had something to be happy about way back at the swearing in of the county mayor […]
The future governor of this state came to town Wednesday, and none of usual suspects came to see him. In fact, the only elected at the meet-and-greet opening of the new Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs office in Doral with Ag Commissioner Adam Putnam was new Doral Councilwoman Christi Fraga. Well,for the whole […]
Richard W. Martin II, a self-described real estate entrepreneur who ran for Coral Gables City Commission and lost twice, was arrested Monday on an outstanding warrant from New Jersey. Martin turned himself in Monday morning and is sitting in the Miami-Dade jail right now awaiting extradition, according to Miami-Dade County Corrections. But it gets way […]
You would think that in somewhere like Hialeah, where Cubans have flocked after fleeing the repressive regime on their island, the elected officials would be careful not to step on someone’s freedom of speech. But Mayor Carlos “Castro” Hernandez has proved yet again that he deserves his nickname by acting like the dictator despot that […]
Two weeks after Nov. 6 and the Republican bloodletting, legislators in the 305 chose new leaders for the Miami-Dade Delegation this week — and the cards continue to fall from the divisive election. State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez (R-Hialeah) and State Rep. Jose Felix “One More Pepe” Diaz (R-Kendall) defeated State Sen. Oscar Braynon II (D-Miami Gardens) and […]
Got the shakes yet? The sweaty palms? Yes, Ladra knows what election withdrawal is all about. I’ve got it bad. Now that we have been weaned off with the lingering Palmetto Bay and Doral run-offs, what is there left for campaign junkies like me? Well, while we may have to wait two years for county […]