State candidates, South Miami pressure Youth Fair & Expo to evict gun shows

State candidates, South Miami pressure Youth Fair & Expo to evict gun shows

While our electeds in Tallahassee mess up a perfectly starter gun control bill with their crazy school militia program and GOP House members repeatedly oppose amendments to close the gun show loophole, Democrat candidates in this year’s state elections are taking it straight to the source — urging the Miami-Dade Youth Fair and Expo to cancel […]

Alberto Carvalho ‘decides’ to stick around — or was it all a sneaky ruse?

Alberto Carvalho ‘decides’ to stick around — or was it all a sneaky ruse?

Miami-Dade Public Schools’ wildly popular Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said on Thursday, in a very dramatic fashion, that he turned down a job leading New York City’s public school system to stay with the district where he began his career as a physics teacher at Jackson High. Wide speculation Wednesday that Carvalho was taking the School […]

Alberto Carvalho to leave Miami-Dade Schools for NYC — at the worst time

Alberto Carvalho to leave Miami-Dade Schools for NYC — at the worst time

Say it ain’t so, Alberto! Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the charismatic populist leader of the 4th largest school district in the U.S., has been tapped to lead the largest school district in New York City, several news sources reported Wednesday afternoon. Perhaps New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, who was expected to make the […]

Florida State Rep. Jose Oliva must go — before he becomes House speaker

Florida State Rep. Jose Oliva must go — before he becomes House speaker

If there is one local state elected we need to replace this coming November, please let it be State Rep. Jose Oliva, the Miami Lakes Republican who sponsored the odious school “safety bill” (pffft) that doesn’t ban assault rifles but arms teachers in schools, instead. This is the man who will direct the House agenda […]

Marco Rubio gets an A for effort, C for substance at CNN live town hall

Marco Rubio gets an A for effort, C for substance at CNN live town hall

  Sen. Marco Rubio almost totally blew it. Okay, yeah, sure, the Republican who has taken $3.3 million from the NRA during his political career was brave for just showing up at the CNN Townhall Wednesday in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High in Broward last week. The crowd at […]

GOP voters in House 114 slam dunk Jose Pazos and pick Andrew Vargas

GOP voters in House 114 slam dunk Jose Pazos and pick Andrew Vargas

  It was a slam dunk with the absentee ballots. As soon as the mail-in votes were counted for the Republican primary in House District 114, Andrew Vargas — an insurance attorney who is the law partner of State Rep. Carlos Trujillo — was celebrating a victory with 76% of them. Jose Pazos, a Marine […]