Miami City Commissioners want their county counterparts on Tuesday to reconsider their paltry offering from the $474 million federal CARES cash pie they got — $30 million to be shared between all 34 municipalities in Miami-Dade — to aid in the COVID-19 crisis recovery and resuscitate the economy. Or else they could take the county […]
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 […]
On the week after the vote-by-mail absentee ballots started to arrive in mailboxes, a couple of Miami-Dade mayoral forums got heated last week. It also became apparent in those debates and on TV appearances that collaboration with cities — as opposed to what the current incumbent Mayor Carlos Gimenez has done with the CARES COVID-19 […]
¿Quién es mas malo? As early voting gets ready to begin on Monday, two Miami-Dade mayoral candidates are taking pots at each other in a pissing match about who’s the most corrupt of the pair. Hint: They’re both losers. Former Mayor Alex Penelas and current termed-out Commissioner Esteban Bovo have ramped it up at the […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Joe Martinez is facing two challengers, but only one is a real threat. Former State Rep. Robert Asencio is a sleeper candidate who beat none other than David “Nine Lives” Rivera in 2016 for a House seat in 118 — by a scant 53 votes. Despite a canyon-sized gap in their campaign financing, […]
Two of the Miami-Dade County Commission races will be decided in August without a runoff because they are head-to-head contests, meaning someone is going to get 50% plus one of the vote. This means that in less than a month, we will have two brand new commissioners at both ends of the numbered districts. They […]
The brewing battle between Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and some city mayors over the COVID-19 pandemic response has become a food fight over $474 million in CARES federal funding for governments to help cover coronavirus-related costs — and Grimenez is getting grabby. On Monday, the county decided that all the cities would have to share […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is 0-4 in his fight to stop the recall effort against him — a fight he wants to take all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, if they let him — after an appeals court denied his motion to keep the petitions in place while the legal process continued. He […]
A group of transit-minded activists and volunteers have compiled the track records and positions on transportation issues for six of the seven Miami-Dade mayoral candidates, and former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas — who created the half-penny sales tax fund that was supposed to expand transit but got misused instead — gets the highest points on […]
There are seven candidates in the Miami-Dade mayor’s race, but, really, we only count four. Three of them are not viable and won’t make much of a dent in the first round Aug. 18. Of the four who are left, two have been coming out on the top of most polls and are expected to […]