President Elect Joe Biden‘s transition might not be going along as quickly as some might like, and Miami-Dade Mayor Elect Daniella Levine Cava doesn’t get sworn in until next week, but she’s already taking charge at County Hall, making key hires and meeting with department heads. She might want to try to pace herself. This […]
If people want to see a stolen election, a real stolen election, they need to stop looking at the presidential race and check out Florida Senate District 37, where an unknown plantidate helped the GOP cheat. What’s more: It looks like it’s not the only race has a fake candidate propped up by unknown sources […]
It’s now officially the fault of you sloppy people. The machine recount in Florida Senate District 37 was completed Wednesday afternoon and Republican Ileana Garcia, a Latinas for Trump founder, still leads incumbent Democrat Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez — by a scant 28 votes. The gap only shrunk by 3 ballots from the 31-vote difference […]
Former Coral Gables Mayor Don Slesnick — a Vietnam veteran, onetime U.S. Army advisor to NATO forces in Germany, and, most recently, Army Reserve Ambassador for Florida — was inducted into the Florida Veterans’ Hall of Fame Wednesday as we celebrated Veterans Day. It’s extra special, he said, because the recognition honors military vets who, […]
Dear Marquito, it’s over. This may come as a shock, but we’re through. And it’s not me. It’s you. Sorry (not sorry) but you are just not the man I thought you were. In four short years, you’ve gone from being fiercely independent and #NeverTrump because you knew he was a fraud to helping him defraud […]
A long and complicated item on the Coral Gables Commission agenda for Tuesday has some residents worried that the city is trying to sneak some zoning changes in only two weeks after a controversial move to increase heights on Miracle Mile was temporarily stalled. But Vice Mayor Vince Lago and Commissioner Pat Keon both assured […]
While Democrats across Florida and Miami-Dade in particular are still wringing their hands and pointing their fingers at the disastrous Tuesday that ended in big state and congressional losses for South Florida, local Republicans are still grinning ear to ear and patting themselves on the back. Sure, they lost the presidential race in Miami-Dade, but […]
There are already seven Coral Gables residents who have expressed an interest and willingness to run for one of the two commission seats that are up for grabs next April. Both Commissioners Pat Keon and Vince Lago have said that they are going to run for the mayor’s seat, being vacated by Raul Valdes-Fauli. They […]
Updated: That fight over development on Miracle Mile at the last Coral Gables Commission meeting between Commissioner Pat Keon and Vice Mayor Vince Lago was just a preview of the mayoral race to unfold over the next few months in the City Beautiful. Keon told Ladra Monday that she was, indeed, going to run for […]
President Donald Trump could learn a thing or two from former State Rep. Cindy Polo about conceding a race with grace and style. The freshman, Colombian-American legislator lost her re-election Tuesday to Broward insurance lawyer and former Miramar Planning and Zoning Board member Tom Fabricio, getting only 37% of the vote to his 63%. But […]