While Ladra has already made some endorsements and predictions for this month’s election, it might be a good idea to repeat them and add some others today, now that early voting has started. A lot of attention has gone to the Miami-Dade mayoral race, but there are also seven commission races and five of those […]
To be or not to be — at school? That is the question many parents are grappling with in the coming weeks as they decide how they want their children to resume their K-12 education in the time of COVID19 this fall. President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy Devos have said to get the […]
Everyone in Miami Dade must wear a face mask at all times outside in public as of a July 3 executive order from the mayor – unless you are a county commissioner or the president of United States, of course. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Commissoners Esteban “Steve” Bovo and Jose “Pepe” Diaz welcomed President […]
Like a rabid dog with a bone that’s too big for him to chew, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo filed yet another lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the transfer of the 1,900+ recall petitions against him to the Miami-Dade Elections Department post haste, as ordered by not one but two courts already. This is actually Crazy […]
Will the real communist please stand up? No, it’s not 1983, but, right on cue, the campaign for Renier Diaz de la Portilla is calling Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins, who he wants to replace on the dais, a communist. A week or so before absentee ballots arrive, a TV video ad is making its way […]
The COVID-19 response in Miami-Dade has been to take one step forward, two steps back. And Monday’s decision to rollback the reopening of our economy was no exception. At 10:15 a.m., financial experts were on Radio Caracol AM radio explaining the RISE Miami-Dade Fund program’s $25 million in low interest micro loans for local businesses […]
As if anyone needed more proof that someone is pulling his strings, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez last week publicly admitted that he stopped the request for proposals process to replace the Santa’s Enchanted Forest holiday operation after someone — and he won’t say who — asked him to. Say what? So, he does work for someone other […]
Updated: The Republican congressional primary in congressional district 26 is on and first out the gate with an attack piece is Omar Blanco, the firefighter competing with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez for the chance to go up against Democrat U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell in November. “Donald Trump needs to step down,” Gimenez told Jim Defede on […]
Former Miami City Manager Emilio Gonzalez, who resigned after Commissioner Joe Carollo tried to fire him and ordered an investigation into the permit for his backyard deck, has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust. When Carollo failed to get the votes he needed to fire Gonzalez in December […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime announced Thursday that he was suspending his campaign and blamed the coronavirus spread and COVID19 infections that have hit his community particularly hard. Yeah, okaaaay. That must be the new version of “I want to spend more time with my family.” Monestime, who still has two years left on his term […]