On Tuesday, Miami-Dade commissioners will get a report from Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez on efforts to relocate the Dade County Youth Fair to make room for Florida International University’s expansion. In it, he identifies four potential relocation sites — really two, since two are old sites already rejected — as if progress has been made. But […]
Advocates for body cameras on police officers say they reduce citizen complaints and use of force incidents. They say that it’s natural for police officers to be on their best behavior if big brother is watching. But who is really watching? Not me and not you. The Florida Senate is considering a bill that would […]
Henri Sori, the Miami-Dade county department head that came under fire last year for that “Harlem Shake,” “morale-boosting” video his staff produced in 2013, resigned from his position Friday. The official reason is that the director of the Community Information and Outreach Department found outside employment. But sources tell Ladra that Sori was told to resign […]
In New York City, the mayor banned super-sized soft drinks. In Miami Beach, Mayor Philip Levine wants to ban cocktails — after a certain hour. Levine has proposed a new prohibition — a ban on outdoor alcohol sales after 2 a.m. Forget all the after hours parties on one of the most famous tourist strips […]
Did you miss the Easter Rabbit? Well, you are in luck. Because there will be a belated Easter egg hunt at the annual District 12 Spring Festival put on Saturday by Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz. And a few of his friends. There’s more during the 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. event today at North […]
Don’t call us Hialeah. That’s what the people of Miami Lakes have basically said for about ten years as they have sought a new Zip code that would take Hialeah off their mailing addresses and create a Miami Lakes, FL postal destination. Town leaders say it’s not elitist. It’s not because, well, they don’t want […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Commissioner Rebeca Sosa will have to testify, after all, about the intimate conversation they had during a police union impasse meeting that may be a violation of the cone of silence rules, a judge said this week. But they didn’t want to. When the mayor and Sosa — who was […]
Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason and his dishonest campaign fooled enough people to win re-election comfortably Tuesday. But by a much smaller margin that shows he’s lost a lot of the voters’ faith. Former Commissioner Ralph Cabrera conceded at 8 p.m, an hour after polls closed, when only the absentee ballots had been counted and Cason […]
And here we thought he was going to announce it first con su pueblo at the Freedom Tower, a place that means so much to the earliest Cuban exiles whose U.S. entry was processed there and who got their first cans of Spam in the historic, iconic building. But, nooooo. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio let […]
He said he didn’t want to steal any thunder away from Sen. Marco Rubio, who is expected to announce a run for presidency later today. But Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez all but said he was running for mayor in 2017. “Yes, that’s my plan. Wife permitting of course,” Suarez said Monday morning on the Gray […]