Former Republican nominee for president Mitt Romney will be in town Monday to stump for Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo in the latter’s bid for congressional office. First, Romney and Curbelo will go to a Cuban bakery in West Kendall Monday afternoon to campaign with Curbelo. But there will also be a fundraiser that […]
There is a cost associated with the layoff of police officers — even though we are now hearing that may not happen at all — and according to union representatives, that cost is almost $3 million. A typical recruit class of 45 rookies goes through a 36-week period of academy training during which they are paid. […]
Miami-Dade Police Director JD Patterson cancelled on Friday two mandatory meetings scheduled for next week for sworn and non sworn personnel on the list to be laid off because of budget constraints. His boss, Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez told him to in a memo that was pretty much like a typed spanking. “After discussions […]
Perhaps we should have expected it, but the virtual town hall meeting with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Good to Go” Gimenez on Facebook today was a real publicity coup and lovefest — with himself. It will be fun to watch him do that tap dance in the in-person meetings throughout the month. While Ladra was kind […]
Who would have thunk it? Three Cuban American women on Wednesday held a fundraiser for the only non-Cuban candidate in the congressional Republican primary for District 26. Because to them, and to a number of other Latino voters, Cutler Bay Mayor Ed “Big Mac Daddy” MacDougall is just the best man for the job. The […]
After a decade of delays and hand-wringing over the where and how, Miami-Dade county officials are finally going to have a ground breaking for the new animal shelter they approved in 2004 — four days before the election. This sudden scheduling of an event in the district represented by Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz — who has come under fire […]
Just like last year, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez plans to come out into the community to defend the cuts in his $6.2 billion budget, which calls for the firing of around 250 police officers and the slashing of other services while gifting millions to private developers and companies, especially those in the friends […]
Up until recently, it seemed that Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo was campaigning just against Congressman Joe Garcia, who he hopes to face in November. But he needs to win the Aug. 26 election first and, up until recently, Curbelo wasn’t paying much mind to any of four other candidates sharing space with him on […]
Mayor Luigi “Look at Me” Boria has gotten into the publishing business — with a monthly newsletter he is now sending online. And he’s not even up for re-election this year. Volume One of “The Mayoral Monthly” was sent last week, chock full of pictures and propaganda about the wonderful things that Luigi has done […]
On the first day of early voting, Miami-Dade School Board Member Carlos Curbelo — who already has soft, squishy endorsements from former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, his political mentor, and Congress members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart — announced he was also backed by former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. I […]