Former Coral Gables Commissioner Wayne “Chip” Withers lost his bid to come back to office by unseating an incumbent Tuesday. But did he really try? That’s questionable (read: not so much). Commissioner Pat Keon, who had five times as much more money as he did, won handily, 57 to 43 percent in one of the two […]
Former Coral Gables Mayor Raul Valdes Fauli will have that word “former” removed from his identification after he is sworn in as the new mayor again. Valdes-Fauli beat Commissioner Jeannett Slesnick in the mayoral race Tuesday, 51 to 49, after Mayor Jim Cason said he would not run for a fourth term. As expected, it […]
By the time the Coral Gables mayoral race is over on Tuesday evening, the two candidates will have spent at least a half a million dollars, maybe more. Ladra is not sure but is willing to bet that’s a record. The six candidates in the two commission seat races raised almost exactly the same amount […]
In the Coral Gables election today, voters are choosing between hitting the gas or putting the brakes on what many have called a recent drive to redevelop much of Coral Gables — going higher and wider and bigger. And not just in the mayoral contest between Commissioner Jeannett Slesnick, the sole dissenting voice in every […]
The Coral Gables election Tuesday is the most important event this week. But it’s not the only thing happening. The Cortadito Calendar for the second week of April has a protest, a council meeting, horses and trees. And, of course, something or two about transportation. Don’t we always have something on transportation? It would have […]
With little more than a week to go before the Coral Gables election, voters are getting a mailbboxful of promises and endorsements and attacks. The mailers in Coral Gables are almost always something to talk about — and this year is no exception. From the endorsement of a former governor to the image of a university […]
Proposal sounds like development bait and switch Before members of the city of Miami’s Historical Preservation Committee meet Tuesday afternoon to consider an application to “restore” the Coconut Grove Playhouse, they ought to look up the word restore in the dictionary. Then they ought to categorically deny this proposal because it is more about redeveloping […]
April showers bring May flowers, but what do elections, transportation meetings and town halls bring? The Cortadito Calendar starts April off with a long day on transit and transportation talk as the new Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization, the old Metropolian Planning Organization with a new name, meets for two meetings Monday like its in a […]
A number of Florida House seats in the 305 will be vacated by term-limited legislators next year — and already there are a bunch of wannabes getting in line to replace ’em. David Rivera jumped into the race for District 105 last week, which would pit him against Doral Councilwoman Ana Maria Rodriguez, who filed […]
Setting up a GOP primary with Doral councilwoman No this is not an April Fool’s joke. Former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera is nothing if not persistent. And you never know where he’s going to turn up next. Rivera — who lost his congressional seat in 2012 to Joe Garcia and then lost a Republican […]