In what is yet another disingenuous move in what has become one of the most dishonest campaigns Ladra has ever seen, Coral Gables incumbent Mayor Jim Cason seems to have used a city photograph out of context for his re-election campaign. The photo is in one of three full-page campaign ads in the Miami Herald’s […]
As they go door to door, asking voters to re-elect Mayor Jim Cason, the incumbent’s volunteers are also promising voters that they’ll fix the sidewalks and potholes reported to them. Isn’t that a blatant and unethical abuse of his power? “As part of our voluntary work for the re-election of Jim Cason, we have to […]
Extra, extra! Stop the presses! Annette Taddeo is running for Congress! Really? Is this news? Taddeo made the official announcement Monday morning but already over the weekend, bloggers were abuzz about it. Why? What else is she going to do? She had to run for something. It’s like a bad habit already. A perennial candidate, […]
It looks like a city-produced poster to celebrate the 90-year anniversary of Coral Gables. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is exactly the intent. But make no mistake: The enormous, twice-folded mailer that arrived at voters’ homes Friday and Saturday with the 27 official-looking photographs of the city’s best landmarks and the list of initiatives and […]
It’s not the gay people or the straight people who stand out at the SAVE’s Champions of Equality awards gala. It’s the Republicans. Only three Republicans are listed among the two dozen electeds on the honorary host committee for this May event, which recognizes community leaders for their efforts to make LGBT equality a reality. […]
Not one, but two Democrat candidates have filed to run against State Rep. Frank Artiles for the seat in District 118 in what is expected to be a heavy blue 2016 electoral cycle. Omar Rivero (far right in photo), who challenged Artiles (far left) last year but fell short 58-42, filed paperwork for a rematch […]
The bad news out of the Coral Gables Commission meeting when the expansive Mediterranean Village development was approved Tuesday, albeit with some downsizing: The height variance allowing developers to go two stories higher than the code permits could very well set a precedent that will give the city a hard time denying other developers the […]
With about six weeks to go before the election, Sweetwater Commissioner Orlando Lopez, who is running for the mayor’s seat, has filed a lawsuit to remove Mayor Jose Diaz from the ballot. The lawsuit claims that Diaz, who has served as interim mayor since shortly after the August 2013 arrest of Sweetwater Mayor Manny “Maraña” […]
Coral Gables Commissioners could approve today the largest single development project in the city’s 90-year history — a mixed use complex over almost 7 acres just east of Ponce Circle Park with 214 condos, 15 townhouses, 320,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, a 184-room hotel, a movie theater, a gym and offices to be […]
Remember Amendment One? It was only about five months ago that we the people of the great state of Florida passed a constitutional amendment, no less, that provides for the funding of long-promised Everglades restoration through the purchase of land with a percentage of document fees. Well, leave it to the Florida legislature to ignore […]