Commissioner may appeal $63.5 million award to Little Havana partners Miami City Commissioner Joe Carollo has been found by a jury of his peers in a federal civil trial of violating the first amendment rights of two businessmen who apparently supported Crazy Joe’s opponent in the 2017 election. The six-member jury ordered Thursday that Carollo […]
Remember the Pets’ Trust? A whopping 64% of us approved this initiative on a non-binding ballot question in 2012. It aimed to direct budget dollars for animal services to a massive spay and neuter program to take care of the stray and abandoned dogs and cats that are overpopulating, particularly in the southwestern part of […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is building a war chest to seek a second term in November 2024, raising more than a $1.4 million in just the last two months. La Alcaldesa collected just a little less than $400,000 in her candidate campaign account — $282,885 in March, when she officially launched her re-election campaign, […]
When Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado goes Thursday evening to a town hall meeting hosted by the Kendall Federation of Homeowner Associations, it will be an act of courage. This is where the Calusa people live. Ladra fully expects some of them to come and pressure her to change her mind on the development of 550 […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, whose term ends in November, has raised $640,000 for his political action committee, Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade. But we still don’t know if he’s going to use those funds for a re-election campaign — he has not yet filed any paperwork for that — or a mayoral run, […]
Magistrate says city gerrymandered new boundaries A U.S. federal magistrate recommended earlier this month that the city of Miami toss out its new districts — finalized last year after weeks of heated meetings, multiple changes, and the objections of many residents — because they were gerrymandered by racial lines to keep the current candidates in […]
Newly-elected Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro was so excited about her first commission meeting on Tuesday, nothing would faze her. Her car wouldn’t start, her heel got stuck in the elevator door, the Uber driver turned the wrong way and made her a few minutes late. But none of it mattered. She was so psyched […]
Coral Gables City Manager Peter Iglesias will live to see another day at City Hall. Iglesias survived an attempt to fire him driven by newly-elected Commissioner Ariel Fernandez, who said at Tuesday’s commission meeting that Iglesias was too secretive and rude to residents and was leading the city in the wrong direction. “The residents have […]
Mayor Jose “Pepe” Diaz gets his slate to run the city Sweetwater on Tuesday was the opposite of Coral Gables because the mayor got all his candidates elected in the city elections. Commissioners Isidro Ruiz and Reinaldo Rey won their races overwhelmingly with 68% and 65% of the vote, respectively. Mayor Jose “Pepe” Diaz — […]
Planned “mobility hub” garage gets a big thumbs down There was a packed house with standing room only at the highly anticipated first town hall Monday hosted by newly-elected Commissioners Melissa Castro and Ariel Fernandez. Even Mayor Vince Lago, was there. Lago, who had campaigned hard against the two new electeds — calling Fernandez “unhinged” […]