People are talking and Democrats are dreaming For years now, Democrats have searched — sometimes desperately — for someone who could seriously threaten U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar in a district that stubbornly refuses to behave the way they want. They may have just found him. Newly retired CBS Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez, one of […]
Mayor Eileen Higgins has been in office just long enough to learn where the bathrooms are at City Hall — and already she’s making one thing clear: This administration would very much like to be taken seriously. Last week, Higgins rolled out her senior leadership team, a ritual that in most cities barely registers as […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins — one of the county’s most polished, disciplined and politically savvy Democrats — may finally have something she hasn’t faced in a while: A real race. Enter Martha Hero. Yes, Ladra hears you asking already: Who? Hero filed Monday to challenge Cohen Higgins in District 8, and while she’s not […]
Ever wondered why some Miami city commissioners seem unusually polished — press releases at the ready, social media humming, messaging tighter than a campaign ad? Well, the taxpayers are paying for it. Public records show that Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela has spent nearly $249,000 in taxpayer funds over the past several months on an outside […]
If there is one group absolutely thrilled with newly-appointed Miami-Dade County Commissioner Vicki Lopez these days, it’s the people who sell the product. The Miami Association of Realtors has named Lopez, a state rep for District 113 until November, its 2025 Housing Advocate of the Year, praising her for championing condominium reform, pushing accessory dwelling […]
At what point does a political disagreement stop being governance and start looking like, well, fixation? Because Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago just dragged his long-running feud with Commissioner Melissa Castro all the way to Tallahassee — and in doing so, may have revealed far more about his own political instincts and ethics than hers. […]
At this point, it’s no longer fair to say Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is “unbothered” by Miami New Times. He’s just lying — again. The man is fully, publicly, enthusiastically bothered. Ladra might even say obsessed. Lago is so bothered, in fact, that after spending half an hour at a commission meeting ranting about […]
Florida ranks 47th in the country for affordable healthcare. And the group behind the long-simmering effort to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot is relaunching statewide signature collection this month — this time aiming for the 2028 ballot, after the Legislature moved the goalposts mid-game with a little thing called HB 1205. You remember HB […]
In a discussion thick with irony, Miami-Dade commissioners on Monday advanced legislation that would reshape the hiring rules for their own watchdog — while investigations touching the dais continue in the background. Commissioner Oliver Gilbert’s proposal to rewrite the hiring rules for the county’s inspector general — the very office tasked with probing corruption and […]
Haitians in the United States under Temporary Protected Status — including 90,000 to 100,000 right here in South Florida, the largest population of Haitians in the country — got an 11th hour reprieve late Monday when a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from canceling their TPS with just over 24 hours to spare. It’s […]