Newly-elected Coral Gables Commissioner Richard Lara, who won a runoff Tuesday against attorney Tom Wells, isn’t the only one who is celebrating his victory. Mayor Vince Lago, who handpicked Lara and supported him throughout, wins back his majority on the city commission — meaning that he’ll get to move his agenda forward. It also means […]
It’s in their DNA. Jose Regalado, the son of former Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, who is now the Miami-Dade property appraiser, and brother of Miami-Dade Commissioner Raquel Regalado, a former school board member, resigned from his job as the assistant building director with the city of Miami Monday to run for commission in District 4, where there […]
The Downtown Neighbors Association will have a public safety town hall Wednesday with Miami Police Chief Manny Morales to discuss some “recent high profile incidents” in the urban core, talk about the homeless crisis and look at the 2025 downtown public safety action plan. DNA President James Torres has been very vocal recently about what […]
The deadline was noon Monday for those who want to be considered for a potential appointment to the Miami-Dade Commission in District 6, where Kevin Marino Cabrera sat until he resigned last week to be the new U.S. Ambassador to Panama. But everyone says the fix is in. West Miami Vice Mayor Natalie Milian Orbis […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — arrested in 2023 on charges of public corruption and suspended from office — is in a fierce divorce battle with his wife, after a seven months marriage, for the attorneys’ fees and splitting of assets. Now, he wants to depose a former city staffer who was […]
In a span of eight days after the Coral Gables election earlier this month and before the runoff in Commission Group 3 Tuesday, attorney candidate Richard Lara — who hasn’t voted in the city since 1999 — raised more than $102,800. Eight days! That is a huge injection into his campaign account, which totals almost $272,000 as […]
The Coral Gables election is almost over with early voting this weekend for the runoff coming Tuesday. The choice is between two attorneys: Richard Lara, general counsel for Spanish Broadcasting Systems, and the handpicked candidate, groomed by Mayor Vince Lago — who was just solidly re-elected — and Tom Wells, a member of the city’s […]
“¡Cobarde! ¡Mudo!” Coward! Voiceless! These are the names the narrator calls Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a video released Thursday that shames the former Miami-Dade mayor for his silence and complicity on Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including the rollback of protected status for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, many of whom live in his community. “Where […]
Ironically, lawmakers want to repeal Parkland gun law The inevitable barrage of “thoughts and prayers” is coming. A mass shooting Thursday at Florida State University in Tallahassee ended with the death of two people and the injury of five others. Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old political science student, was taken into custody. The son of […]
Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has repeatedly said he is running for Miami mayor and has reportedly been campaigning, hasn’t filed any paperwork yet with the city clerk’s office indicating that he’s going to run. But his political action committee, Proven Leadership for Miami-Dade County, spent almost $108,000 in the past […]