Attorney says the money can be taken as payment toward judgement You can take Joe Carollo, out of City Hall, but you can’t get City Hall to forget Joe Carollo. The former Miami commissioner will always have an ongoing saga at the Dinner Key theater, and Thursday was no different. What was supposed to be […]
Former State Sen. Annette Taddeo is running again — almost certainly. The rumors have been circling for months. Would she jump into a congressional race? Run for her old seat on the state senate? Look, at this point in Florida politics, if there’s an open race somewhere between Key West and Tallahassee, there is a […]
It’s also wrong on the environment and immigrants Opinion By John Ise, President of the Northeast Miami-Dade Democratic Club Each day that passes, it becomes painfully clear that Florida has perhaps the most regressive, retrograde state government perhaps in modern history led by Florida Republicans. A state that elevates MAGA-mania over all else; hostile to […]
The clearest sign yet that Congresswoman Frederica Wilson may finally be ready to retire did not come from her. It came from Sen. Shevrin Jones Wednesday, quietly stepping out of a perfectly safe senate race nobody was even contesting. And in Miami political circles, that’s about as subtle as a cafetera exploding. (Yes, Ladra needs […]
Former Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s last gift to Little Havana (read: developers) may finally be getting a makeover. Whether you call it a housing initiative or a land giveaway probably depends on whether you’re a taxpayer, a developer or Carollo himself. But one thing is clear: the controversial no-bid sweetheart deal Carollo pushed through in […]
For more than a year, Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and his allies treated the so-called “phishing scandal” involving Commissioner Ariel Fernandez like Watergate with Mailchimp. Commission meetings. Public accusations. Police referrals. Threats about criminal conduct. Anonymous blog posts written with all the subtlety of a campaign consultant wearing fake glasses. The whole thing was […]
Joe Carollo may be out of office, politically radioactive and staring down a $63.5 million judgment he still hasn’t paid, but somehow — because this is Miami — he could soon walk away with a $770,000 taxpayer-funded goodbye kiss. The only good news is that it’s not the rumored $1 million payout las malas lenguas […]
Qualifying deadline is two weeks away With barely two weeks left before qualifying closes, not a single sitting Miami-Dade County Public Schools board member up for re-election has drawn a challenger. Which is either a stunning vote of confidence in the current board — or a giant blinking sign that nobody wants this job anymore. […]
Public service or personal branding? There are few things more Miami than a politician using public money to create a scholarship fund bearing his own family name and then acting shocked when people start asking questions. Welcome to this week’s Miami commission meeting. Buried deep inside Thursday’s agenda — hidden beneath enough legal boilerplate to […]
Everybody loves David Rivera. Even now. Even after the guilty verdicts for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and money laundering in the Venezuela lobbying scandal. Even after prosecutors painted the once-fiery anti-communist congressman as a secret $50 million paid advocate for the Maduro regime. Even with a sentencing date looming and a tax case […]