And the voters’ decision could mark the city’s future The fate of Miami over the next decade is in the hands of a tiny number of people. There are 46,730 registered voters in city commission District 4. Of those, only 3,632 have voted via absentee or vote-by-mail ballot (2,298) and the three days of early […]
Politics makes for strange bedfellows. And never has that saying been so spot on about local politics than it is now, with the sides lining up behind Jose Regalado or behind Ralph Rosado in the nasty, negative District 4 Miami Commission race to replace Manolo Reyes. The saying is really an abstract of a literary […]
In his recently-accelerated revenge tour, Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is going after his perceived enemies. Like this was Cuba or Venezuela and he can just trample on everyone’s rights. His baseless defamation lawsuit against Actualidad Radio — for a February, 2023, broadcast about a complaint to the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood Ladra up Wednesday. Or, rather, set me up. It was awfully suspicious that Carollo would agree to grant Political Cortadito an interview after the hostilities he’s expressed, the names he’s called me, even saying from the dais that Ladra was paid to attack him. For the record, I do it […]
There’s a pilot program ready to go in Coral Gables that would significantly shorten the time that both homeowners and business owners take pulling a permit from the city to do any interior renovations, no matter how small. It would mean the city partners with a contractor to review these plans, at no cost to […]
Just one day after taking the oath of office and saying that he was ready to extend his hand to his colleagues and work together “not as factions divided by yesterday’s campaign, but as neighbors united in tomorrow’s purpose,” re-elected Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago lashed out at Commissioner Melissa Castro at the Carnaval de […]
The election in Coral Gables is over, but a new race has begun: Who can bring changes first? In light of Tuesday’s runoff results, Commissioner Ariel Fernandez, sent an email Thursday that surprised everyone. He said he had asked the city clerk to put items on the agenda for the next scheduled meeting May 20 […]
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 […]
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 […]