Hialeah mayor bluffs about budget

There were more questions than answers after Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez ended his press conference “to discuss the city’s finances” Friday, where he presented misleading numbers. Especially since the information seemed to be pulled from the air, offered nothing to back it up and refused to answer relevant and legitimate questions about his puffed up […]

Hats off to Al Crespo, el maestro

I have to daily thank any dieties that are responsible for Al Crespo, the blogger who brings us The Crespo-Gram Report, which keeps scooping all the mainstream media and bringing us breaking big stories like Tony Crapp’s resignation and the bribe, er, I mean early retirement offer by Mayor Tomas Regalado to Police Chief Miguel […]

Climax in ‘As Hialeah Turns’

Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez has announced that he will discuss the city’s much-questioned financial situation at a press conference at 3 p.m. Friday. Ladra was off by an hour. “Government should be transparent. For this reason, I will be discussing the city’s finances,” Hernandez said in a media release sent a few minutes ago. But […]

Outsiders outraise incumbents

While the mayor’s race in Hialeah seems to be attracting the big bucks — former mayor Raul Martinez and former State Sen. Rudy Garcia (REP, District 40) have more than $240,000 between them — the money is not trickling in as much for council candidates. Not all the campaign finance reports for the upcoming Hialeah […]

Fight! Raul, Carlos spar at meeting

Hialeah voters got a look at how nasty the city’s mayoral election may get Tuesday when former Mayor Raul Martinez –– still called Mr. Mayor by almost everybody, even Interim Mayor Carlos Hernandez — challenged the acting boss and fellow candidate to tell him what the city’s financial standing was. The question remains unanswered. Not […]

Gimenez hires "deputy mayor"

This breaking news just in: An hour or two after Jose Mallea called Ladra to tell her he was only going to be the interim chief of staff for new Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, Ladra gets the word that Key Biscayne Village Manager Genaro “Chip” Iglesias — the mayor’s former chief of staff when he […]

Gimenez starts to solidify his staff

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio‘s former campaign manager, local GOP wunderboy Jose Mallea, may have joined the Carlos Gimenez For Mayor team late in the game, but his plays were apparently pivotal in the win. Mallea, 34, was introduced Monday to department directors at the 3 p.m. meeting as the new mayor’s new chief of staff. […]

Is Hialeah broke? Nobody’s talking

Voters in Hialeah already see signs of the upcoming city election and will soon get barraged with junk mail and/or phone calls — both robotic and humanly monotonous — from between 10 or so and possibly up to 15 candidates. One issue is already becoming a hot topic: money, of course. The city’s financial state […]

Hialeah cuts are a campaign con

Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez has announced, very dramatically, that he wants to cut the mayor’s pay by 30 percent, from $272,000 to $190,000. But what he forgot to say was that he will never feel it in his pocket. No, siree. Hernandez will still enjoy six or seven more paychecks with an almost 400 percent […]

Campaign man turns lobbyist

The heated campaign for county mayor seems to beaten down JC Flores. He’s done with political promotion, he says. Now he wants to promote to politicos. After what some might call his greatest achievement ever — taking an underdog candidate with somewhat lackluster public speaking skills to the second highest post in the state — […]