Hialeah may be in a money mess in the wake of former mayor and county mayoral candidate Julio Robaina‘s mad dash to County Hall. There are some rumors of fiscal mismanagement that have left the city with a budget shortfall. Robaina certainly seemed to be less focused on his job and more on the campaign […]
Former State Rep. Marcelo Llorente, who came in third last month in the special election to replace the recalled county mayor, will announce that he will endorse the number 2 horse, Carlos Gimenez, in the June 28 runoff against Julio Robaina, who came in first. Llorente could not be reached for comment this morning and […]
There’s a little controversy brewing in Hialeah over county mayoral candidate Julio Robaina, the City of Progress’s former mayor, and it has nothing do to with loans or real estate or maquinitas. It’s all about a photo of some pre-school kids holding up pro-Julio signs that has made rounds on email and facebook, distributed by […]
Early voters in South Miami, Pinecrest and Coral Gables who cast ballots already for a new Miami-Dade commissioner in District 7, may have wasted their time. A circuit court judge could cancel that race on Monday. Attorney Ricardo Corona, better known for a late-night TV show that dispenses legal advice to call-in viewers, filed a […]
After seven (seems like 17) different forums and debates in the last couple of weeks, Ladra feels likes she gets the gist of the 11 mayoral candidates because, well, they sound like broken records. Granted, most voters only go to one or two forums and hear the carefully prepared “messages” with soundbites and buzz words […]
Looks like Gabrielle Redfern is giving up on the race for the Miami-Dade mayor’s seat and is going after a county job instead. In transit, what else? The Miami Beach single mom doesn’t want to be mayor anymore. She wants to fix the public transit system she says works badly for too few at too […]
There’s this great saying in Cuban — “como los pajaros tirandole a la escopeta,” which translates, really pitifully, into “that’s like the birds shooting at the rifles” but more literally into “the kettle calling the teapot black” (us Cubans have no teapots and the birds quote is more colorful). That’s how Ladra characterizes most of […]
She may be small in size, but Gabrielle Redfern — the only woman on the 11-member county mayoral wannabe contest — has big you-know-whats. Repeatedly uninvited to candidate forums and debates, Redfern is likely the one responsible for getting all the B-list candidates into The Miami Foundation’s debate on the UM campus Tuesday. The next […]
Unconfirmed results of an unseen mayoral candidate poll — and this time Ladra only got the same information from two people, not the three we like to have — are not surprising in the sense that Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina may have dropped from two-months-ago numbers. Robaina still leads, but he lost a whopping 10 […]
Ouch! Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina — now running for the county mayor’s post — might have felt a little burn Friday when the city was ordered to rehire 16 veteran firefighters he summarily dismissed right before a union vote expected to reject $4.4 million in concessions. And right before Christmas. I bet there’s smoke coming […]