As Ladra types this, Doral Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz is arriving at the city’s police station to file a harassment information report on City Manager “Crazy Joe” Carollo after another reported outburst with her and her “illegal” intern. She drove over from City Hall in a caravan after Carollo “stomped” into a conference room where she […]
Many suspected Doral was doomed to a downward spiral when Mayor Luigi Boria bought his election and then hired his campaign man, former Miami Mayor “Crazy Joe” Carollo, as the city manager. It is unsure, however, if anyone expected the slide to be quite so steep. Or so swift. The once-sleepy town of hard-working and/or […]
Not content in trying to put his own puppets in political office, which he miserably failed at last year anyway, automobile industry mogul Norman Braman is now endorsing candidates for local party leadership. District committeeman Emmanuel “Manny” Roman, who is credited with getting the Miami-Dade Republican Party to condemn the Dolphins Stadium deal and is now suddenly […]
With the Miami mayoral race six months away, Commissioner Francis “The Future” Suarez launched his “Our Time Is Now” video campaign on YouTube in a series of three pieces that remind Ladra of the Barack Obama commercials last year and that seek to position Baby X as the fresh, forward-minded option to lead the city […]
If Pablito Rivera lived in Little Havana, you’d hear him yelling — over the sound of his moped, Marc Anthony wafting from some window y las gallinas next door — “The Democrats are coming! The Democrats are coming!” Local Dems invaded Little Havana, so to speak, this week when they opened their official headquarters Monday in […]
With the Miami Dolphins performance, you’d think he would be used to it. But Dolphins and SunLife Stadium owner Stephen Ross, who just lost his blatant grab at public dollars when the Florida House of Representatives closed the session without bringing the bill up, seems like a sore loser. He lashed out at House Speaker Will […]
Now that the Dolphins stadium bill is dead in the water in Tallahassee — gavel down, not a peep of it in the House after passing overwhelmingly in the Senate — is the stadium modernization down the pipes with it? Not everybody thinks so. Former Commissioner Katy Sorenson said at a debate on the publicly-financed […]
Naturally, we all know the bigget loser in today’s defeat of the Miami Dolphins stadium modernization bill in the Florida House is Stephen Ross, who had hinged getting the roof and some fancy upgrades for his very own SunLife Stadium on using public dollars and creating a new revenue stream for himself. Indeed, he had invested […]
As the last day of the 2013 legislative session begins, there is one sound that is going to be heard loud and clear in the heads of those who are furiously driving the bill that would give the Miami Dolphins’ owner a potential $379 million in public funds to roof and renovate his private stadium, and those […]
Whether or not the Dolphins stadium scam gets its green light in Tallahassee this week, whether or not voters here get the chance to kill it, the negotiation to provide up to $379 million in public tax dollars for the renovation of SunLife Stadium has split both parties at the local level, at least. And […]