We’ve seen some local political comebacks, lately. Founding Miami Lakes Mayor Wayne Slaton returned to office last year after the former mayor was arrested on bribery charges. Former Homestead Councilman Jeff Porter was elected mayor in that southern city last year after that mayor was arrested on other public corruption charges. In 2011, former Miami […]
County commission candidate Daniella Levine Cava submitted just over 1,200 signed petitions Thursday to qualify for the race in District 10 against Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell — more than the 1,100 she needed to get her name on the ballot. She also announced Thursday that she had raised an additional $54,000 in March, bringing its total raised […]
The morale at Coral Gables City Hall and among municipal employees made a 180 degree turn Tuesday after City Manager Pat Salerno — who was basically, and finally, caught in a lie — resigned abruptly during a commission meeting. “A lot of people are very happy,” said one woman who works at City Hall. But […]
Daniella Levine Cava is on fire. The social services leader challenging Miami-Dade Commissioner Lynda Bell has been endorsed by the county cops, the firefighters, SAVE Dade, Equality Florida, Emily’s List and Ruth’s List, which Levine Cava announced Monday. Last week, she released her first web video and on Saturday she opened her campaign office in […]
In yet another sign that the federal authorities ought to be looking into all the shenanigans down here, a former Miami-Dade Public Works employee was sentenced Friday to 30 months after he accepted more than $13,000 in bribes — which included an oven and a fridge — from a county contractor in 2011 and 2012. […]
The Republican National Committee reserved a room at a Cuban restaurant in Doral last week to present its chosen team to engage Hispanics across the Florida in state campaigns — and nobody really noticed. After all, we heard a lot of hoopla about their similar efforts in 2012 and look how well that turned out […]
This article, without additions from Monday’s meeting, was first published by Ciudad Doral. In the past year, the city of Doral has been whipped by scandal after scandal after scandal, turning it into the laughing stock of the 305. Not an easy feat in a year of three mayors’ arrests and multiple federal investigations elsewhere. […]
The two new city attorneys representing Doral after the surprise firing of former City Attorney John Herrin last week have registered to lobby at the city — just within the last three months. Gil Pastoriza and Dan Espino — who work for the Weiss Serrota Helfman etcetera law firm — registered in January and March, […]
With five months to go before the Republican primary in the Congressional race for district 26, former Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Joe Martinez was thrown for an early loop this weekend: A burglary at his campaign office and the theft of his computers. Martinez had just secured the space at 1401 SW 107 Avenue — which coincidentally is […]
Miami Assistant City Attorney Veronica Diaz is looking for a new gig: Miami-Dade County Court judge. Diaz filed to run Friday against incumbent Judge William “Bill” Altfield a career prosecutor who served for 24 years as an assistant state attorney in Miami-Dade who was appointed to the bench by Gov. Rick Scott in 2011. A member of […]