Does anybody want to know how much it is costing Coral Gables taxpayers to go after the War Memorial Youth Center Association? Because, apparently, it’s going to cost $500 to find out. Ladra did a public records request for all invoices from and payments made to outside attorney Israel Reyes, who is the one who […]
Ladra must have misheard. Didn’t newly sworn-in Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins say she would conduct a proper search for a new city manager? You know — open it up transparently to competition and seek résumés from city managers who have, say, managed a city? Because what Miami got instead was a memo quietly sliding across […]
Dear Mayor Eileen Higgins, Welcome to the City of Miami — where the skyline keeps climbing, but our fire trucks and patrol cars struggle to keep up. If anyone tells you the city’s public safety system is “just fine,” you might want to double-check. They’re not lying, exactly — they’re just reading from old talking […]
Nearly three years after what Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava memorably called a “Super Bowl Sunday inferno of garbage,” the county and the former operator of the Covanta waste-to-energy plant that burned down in Doral are now locked in a full-blown blame game — with millions of dollars, a $2 billion replacement project, and the […]
What should be one of Coral Gables’ least controversial civic institutions — a youth center built to honor fallen veterans and serve local kids — is now the center of a political and legal brawl. At issue: who really controls the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center — the city that owns and funds it, […]
There’s political loyalty, and then there’s political self-harm. Ashley Perez-Biliskov — sister of Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez and the early favorite to inherit his District 116 seat when he terms out next year — recently sent out a mailer that manages to be both bold and oddly out of touch. Front and center: a […]
Back in October, Robin Peguero was already doing something most first-time congressional candidates struggle to pull off: raising serious money, fast. In his first quarter in the race for Florida’s 27th Congressional District, the former federal prosecutor and congressional investigator of the Jan. 6 riot hauled in more than $330,000, according to the Federal Elections […]
’Twas the day before Christmas Eve, and all through the Gables, a political action committee was stirring — and not in a “peace on Earth” kind of way. Just as Coral Gables residents were thinking about midnight Mass, Nochebuena prep, and whether the roast would dry out, Coral Gables First, the PAC that Mayor Vince […]
Miami’former frequent flyer mayor — the guy who once turned taxpayer money into his own personal presidential wannabe protection program, with cops in tow across Asia, the the Caribbean, and the campaign trail — has added a new footnote to his abuse of power file. Remember when activists pointed out that while Francis Suarez was […]
T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the town, all the people worked hard, to bring us up — or bring us down. The activists spoke, as they were ignored. The electeds just yawned — they are always so bored. The lobbyists conspired, the developers stole. Some government flacks left us all in a […]