Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, king of the pay-to-play game, got two free tickets to Super Bowl LIV this Sunday as a gift from Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Stephen Ross, a longtime ally and campaign donor who (1) got a sweet deal in 2014 where the county pays him up to $5 million […]
About 100 people — give or take a few dozen political operatives and candidate relatives — showed up Thursday for the fifth and possibly final candidate forum for the South Miami Feb. 11 election. And Ladra wants to thank South Miami Neighbors and the South Miami Elks not only for hosting the event, but also […]
The One Miami-Dade political action committee chaired by Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon‘s lobbyist aunt collected another $88,700 in December — and more than half of that came from Jorge Mas who wants to build a $1 billion mega mall and hotel complex disguised as a soccer stadium on the Melreese Golf Course. At least $52,200 […]
UPDATED: It’s really happening. The recall effort against Miami Commissioner Loco Joe Carollo is gaining steam with the first canvassing for signatures on Saturday. And organizers are forming a formal political action committee this week. Volunteers have been told to meet by 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Domino Park, from which they will fan out into District […]
South Miami is the City of Pleasant Living. Until election time. This week, voters got an attack mailer that targets three of the five candidates: Horace Feliu, Mark Lago and Lina Sierra. Is it just a coincidence that all three are Hispanic? They don’t think so. Was it a veiled message to keep Hispanics out […]
And a city staffer may have fudged grant documents Gables residents, 2 – City staff, 0 The Coral Gables Commission on Tuesday voted with a group of residents who don’t want bike lanes in front of their Alhambra Circle homes, nixing the second such project in less than two years. Last year, homeowners on Riviera Drive […]
Absentee ballots are already out for the Feb. 11 South Miami elections, where five candidates hope to replace South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard, a Florida International University professor and environmentalist, who is termed out. One of them is former Mayor Horace Feliu, who keeps trying to come back to office. Maybe the third time is […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayoral Son CJ Gimenez, the lobbyist, was at a meeting Saturday of Coral Gables residents who live on Alhambra Circle and on the side streets along the planned bicycle lanes from Coral Way to San Amaro Drive. That’s nowhere near his house. So why was he there? CJ Gimenez lives much further away than […]
For the second time, it looks like bike lanes are going to be nixed in Coral Gables. Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli has a resolution on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting “directing the City Manager and City Staff to cease further consideration of bicycle lanes on Alhambra Circle as part of the Alhambra Circle Complete Streets Project.” […]
No sooner had the ink dried on the tweet by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez announcing his run for mayor, did President Donald Trump jump to endorse him. The POTUS himself. It must have caught his attention when Gimenez announced the entry into the Republican primary in a welcome message to Trump, here for the Republican […]