So, the common thinking is that Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine could be a contender for the Miami-Dade mayoral race in 2016. But maybe he’s got his eyes set on a higher power: The governor’s mansion? Perhaps a race for U.S. Senate if Sen. Bill Nelson retires or Sen. Marco Rubio heads for the White […]
Sure, there was some big football game, I hear. But this week was marked mostly by races — a runoff in Palmetto Bay and the NASCAR races at Homestead-Miami Speedway, a three-day speed fest that ended with the championship Sunday night. Both are very competitive sports. In Palmetto Bay, where the former founding Mayor Eugene […]
Trading Places II: Former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera, who has had an infamous and adversarial relationship with most of the local media, turned the tables Friday on a CBS4 cameraman who was following him and, we assume, filming the former legislator as he went about his daily routine. Rivera called the police in Doral, […]
Really? Really? Ladra’s jaw is still hurting from how hard it hit the floor when it dropped during Wednesday’s county committee consideration of an amendment to our human rights ordinance so that it includes transgendered people. You know, guys who like to look like girls and girls who like to look like guys. Not because […]
The crumbling courthouse crisis has now become a blame game. Echoing lobbyist Jorge Luis Lopez — who said on the radio during the campaign for the bond tax for a new courthouse that Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado was at fault for letting the building deteriorate so much — Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman pointed the finger […]
The $65 million “change order” on Wednesday’s transportation committee agenda is really a consolation prize for Odebrecht USA, who has been working with the Miami-Dade Aviation Department for more than six years on the development of Airport City — which is now never going to happen. That’s right. Airport City isn’t stalled. It’s dead. It’s […]
The bond referendum for the Miami-Dade Courthouse tax failed miserably last week, but Cielito Lindo is still in deplorable conditions and there are still health and safety hazards that need to be addressed. Maybe it just needs to be shut down. That’s what Commissioner Juan “El Zorro” Zapata is going to suggest at Wednesday’s public […]
Voters in Opa-Locka overwhelmingly passed term limits with 73% of the vote last week, restricting commissioners to two four-year terms — and unlike most term limit measures, this one goes retroactive. But Commissioner Timothy Holmes, who has been in office for 20 years, or five terms — and could very well be the poster child for […]
It happened again. Every time there is any kind of legal or recognized holiday, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez and most of the commissioners send out mass produced greetings and well wishes to the employees who have email. And it’s getting on their nerves. “One thing would be if it were authentic. But it’s […]
“Javierrrr Correosoooo, one-time aide to former Congressman David “Nine Lives” Rivera… you just helped beat the medical marijuana constitutional amendment that everybody originally thought was a sure thing! What are you going to do next?” Disney World? Nope. “I’m going to Iowa,” Correoso told Ladra, referring to the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Correoso was riding […]