The city of Doral — which has gone through three city managers in 18 months — will take up to 60 days to find the right replacement for its last administrator, former Miami Mayor Joe Carollo, who was fired Monday in a 3/2 vote. One candidate, however, has already said ‘Thanks but no thanks.’ Mayor […]
He’s baaaaack! Maybe he didn’t like former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina grabbing all the headlines. Former Congressman David “King Nine Lives” Rivera, who lost his seat to U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia in 2012 amid allegations that he helped financed a Democratic candidate in the primary, announced Thursday that he wants his old seat back. Rivera […]
Aaaaaah. City employees in Coral Gables have been breathing easier for almost two weeks now that the paranoid and problematic City Manager Pat Salerno, who resigned abruptly last month, is gone. At least physically, though some fear he is still in the background. For most employees — some of whom joked (read: feared) that the […]
The Hialeah hoodlums who snub their nose at state Sunshine Laws and collect absentee ballots like some folk collect stamps got away with it again Tuesday. A jury returned after less than a day of deliberations on the federal tax evasion trial for former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife, Raiza, and said the […]
As expected, Doral City Manager Joe Carollo was fired Monday in a special meeting called by Vice Mayor Christi Fraga. Public Works Director Jose Olivo will serve as interim manager until Mayor Luigi Boria — who looked like it was Christmas — nominates someone new. The council talked about having someone in place in 30 […]
Among the revenue that federal prosecutors say former Mayor Julio Robaina did not declare on his income taxes is an $800,000 lobbying fee in 2006 for a project in Hialeah Gardens. The Vicenza at Hialeah Gardens multi-unit development proposed by 84A Holdings LLC was never developed as presented. Maybe it was because of the real […]
Closing arguments begin today in the trial against former Hialeah Mayor Julio Robaina and his wife on federal tax evasion and fraud charges. Then the jury will begin deliberations and we could have a verdict as early as Wednesday. But has Robaina already been judged by his peers? Because there has been very little if […]
In an interview with Jim DeFede that airs Sunday on Channel 4, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez calls the Port of Miami simply “a viable site” for a soccer stadium to accommodate the expansion Major League Soccer team that retired British player David Beckham wants to bring to Miami. Not the “best site.” Not even “a […]
All this hand-wringing about the possibility of a Major League Soccer stadium at the Port of Miami may be for nothing. It appears there is not enough support on the Miami-Dade Commission for the giveaway of 20 acres of land at the port to make way for the development of a 25,000-seat stadium. Miami-Dade Mayor […]
Doral City Manager Joe Carollo, who survived an attempt by Mayor Luigi Boria to oust him last October, says he will likely be out of a job Monday. The common perception is that Councilwoman Christy Fraga, who had voted against Carollo’s firing the first round in October, has changed her mind and will become the […]