UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and most of his family will not feel the pain that he wants to inflict on the rest of us in the county if and when he cuts 255 officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department. Gimenez lives on the edge of Coconut Grove, across the street from Coral Gables, at […]
The latest attack piece on Miami-Dade Commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava says she made $50,000 a year to head the social services backbone of South Florida, which has a multi-million budget. This is bad? Okay, okay. Maybe Ladra is minimizing it a bit. The web video clip produced by Good Government Now — Commissioner Lynda […]
Don’t write Nan Rich off just yet. There are mailers and emails being sent and phone calls being made on behalf of the gubernatorial candidate most people have already written off as the also-ran No. 3 — former Sen. Nan Rich, a Broward activist and legislator who is widely considered the underdog longshot in the […]
First, he backed the idea on the dais. Then he sent an email pushing for signatures on a petition to “bring the UM Hurricanes home” by having the Major League Soccer stadium located at the Little Havana site where the Miami Marlins live. Now, Miami-Dade Commissioner “Mayor Sir” Xavier Suarez has gone as far as producing […]
Earlier this month, and in the face of a gaping hole in the county library budget, Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Stevie” Bovo proposed using county parks buildings to house libraries as well as police and fire stations. Bovo says the merging of uses would actually increase public enjoyment of under-used parks. But critics are afraid that this […]
Ladra can’t believe she dragged herself out of her deathbed for this: The first congressional primary debate for the five Republican candidates in District 26, one of the closest watched races in the country, was so boring that even the presence of former Congressman David “King Nine Lives” Rivera couldn’t bring it to life. Rivera, who had not […]
While it is not a partisan race, it is no secret that the Miami Dade Democratic Party is behind Daniella Levine Cava and her bid to unseat Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell, a diehard, right-to-life Republican. Dade Dems even released a web video on Thursday that accuses Bell of wanting to sweep arsenic at a school site under […]
The third time was the charm. Miami-Dade Commissioners gave yet another sweetheart deal to yet another sports team Tuesday– the second in a month — as they voted 7-4 to support a plan concocted by Mayor Carlos Gimenez in which the county will pay the billionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins millions of tourist tax dollars […]
Doral Councilwoman Bettina Rodriguez-Aguilera has decided that she will not run against Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz after all — but another Doral resident named Marjorie Figueira did. Who? Exactly! All we know right now is that Figueira is a former educator who sued the School Board in 2007, alleging harassment by then Superintendent Rudy Crew. Oh, and […]
Today, Miami-Dade Commissioners will again consider giving money away to the Miami Dolphins’ billionaire owner Stephen Ross for events that he would already have because they already make him tons of money. I swear I am not making this up. Instead of paying him to bring a Super Bowl, our esteemed electeds should be talking […]