It’s that time again, when Ladra separates the winners from the whiners, the power players from the posers, and the ones still pretending they didn’t lose from the ones already measuring the drapes at City Hall. No, not the candidates, silly. We’re talking about the hangers on. The consultants, activists and/or special interests that also […]
And a golf cart got arrested on Election Day The two incumbents in the Miami Beach commission elections Tuesday, Laura Dominguez and Alex Fernandez, held on to their seats with a firm grip — but not without some of that special Beach-brand political drama we’ve come to expect. Dominguez survived a nasty, personal campaign from […]
Is it our birthday? Did Christmas come early? What did we do to deserve this gift from God? After four decades of drama, lawsuits, late-night stalking and public tirades that made Miami politics look like a telenovela written by Kafka, City Commissioner Joe Carollo, who just placed fourth in the mayoral race Tuesday and missed […]
Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner can keep his corner office at City Hall — but he almost lost it. Miami Beach voters re-elected him Tuesday night by a thin margin, giving him about 51% of the vote over Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who came within striking distance at 49%. It was a squeaker at a […]
Miami voters didn’t give anyone the keys to City Hall Tuesday night, but they did serve up a spicy little runoff, as expected, between Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins and former City Manager Emilio González — two candidates who couldn’t be more different, except for the fact that they both promise to end chaos in a […]
The ink on Miami’s new lifetime term limits isn’t even dry — and already, some voters are asking a judge to make sure the city doesn’t pretend not to see it. Three Miami residents — Victor Milanes, Alex Almirola and Oscar Elio Alejandro, who case in fourth— filed an emergency injunction Tuesday night to block […]
The youngest mayor — and maybe the hungriest — pulls upset Well, well, well. Turns out you can still beat the machine in Hialeah. Bryan Calvo, the 27-year-old former councilman who once sued the city’s own leadership and knocked on thousands of doors himself, pulled off what nobody — and I mean nobody — expected […]
While everyone was busy watching which mayoral hopeful made it into the runoff — and whether Commissioner Joe Carollo would lose his temper before or after the polls closed — Miami voters quietly showed some serious smarts on the four city charter amendments that could reshape City Hall for years to come. The results? Yes, […]
Candidate Denise Galvez Turros loses residency challenge Just in time before the election that ends Tuesday, a court said “nope” last week to the last-ditch attempt to boot Rolando Escalona off the ballot for Miami’s Commission District 3 race — so he can still win this. Or, more likely, get into the runoff with former […]
So much for unity. After weeks of kumbaya talk, meticulous planning, and carefully-worded press releases, Coral Gables finally held its long-delayed “Interfaith Ceremony for Unity and Peace” Monday night. The city had spent nearly two months trying to find a way to honor the victims of October 7 without turning it into a geopolitical food […]