Freshly chosen Miami-Dade Commissioner-Elect Daniella Levine Cava seemingly can’t wait to get started. She’s not only been attending all the commission meetings since she was elected in a heated race against Vice Chair Lynda Bell Aug. 26, she has also been getting to know the district. On Tuesday, she went up into the sky in […]
UPDATED: Miami Lakes former Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi, who has been rebuffed twice now by Gov. Rick Scott‘s refusal to lift last year’s suspension, has basically told Gov. Rick Scott that he needs to read the actual Florida law, not what he wants the Florida law to be and revoke the suspension that followed his […]
It may be just one. But it’s a doozy. Congressional candidate Carlos “Crybaby” Curbelo — the Miami-Dade School Board member and GOP establishment favorite who won the August primary — had to admit finally to the identity of one of his clients. It’s not that he wanted to, mind you. Or even that he felt […]
For weeks, Miami-Dade’s own Annette Taddeo has been crisscrossing the state to campaign as the running mate for former Gov. Charlie Crist, who wants his job back. The former chairwoman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party has been talking up voters in person at rallies and in diners. Finally, almost three months after she was named […]
In what is probably the best evidence that the two Florida gubernatorial candidates leave a lot to be desired (read: stink to high heaven), the Libertarian Party is making some major inroads with their candidate. Nobody really thinks that Adrian Wyllie can win, of course. Ladra doesn’t even believe that his people think that. But […]
Even though there are no police layoffs, Miami-Dade Police are short more than 250 officers. That may be why three dozen lieutenants, sergeants and detectives are being moved from specialized units to street patrol. Most are from the narcotics and economic crimes units. But there is a trickle down cost to the change: There will be […]
Almost a year after they were reported to have tampered with the ballots of a Homestead family, two workers from the 2013 mayoral campaign of hotelier Mark Bell, husband of Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell — have been arrested on absentee ballot fraud charges. The Miami-Dade State Attorney Office and the Miami-Dade Police Department announced Thursday the […]
State Rep. Eddy Gonzalez has scored the Holy Grail of 305 endorsements in his bid for Miami-Dade Property Appraiser — the backing of none other than Sen. Marco Rubio, a one-time VP hopeful. In what may also be the first time a U.S. Senator stumps for a Property Appraiser candidate, several people told Ladra they had gotten […]
We all heard Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez say it repeatedly last month and in August: He had saved the day. There were not going to be any layoffs at the Miami-Dade Police Department. Well, either he lied or he flip flopped, because at least three police department employees received notices Wednesday that their […]
There’s a real debate going on about the $393-million that rich, big wig lawyers want to get from your taxpayer dollars for a brand new, shiny 600,000 square foot courthouse that is bigger than what we need in the heart of downtown. We have Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado to thank for that. In […]