Former Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla just keeps on winning. After getting 11 felony charges, including bribery and money laundering, dropped in November, Diaz de la Portilla won another court ruling Thursday when a judge dismissed a civil lawsuit from a lobbyist who says he was shaken down for a vote on a […]
In what turned out to be yet another show of political division in the city of Coral Gables, Deputy City Manager Alberto Parjus was named city manager to replace Amos Rojas, who resigned earlier this month. The appointment will be effective at the next commission meeting Jan. 28, at which the salary and benefits package […]
When Coral Gables City Manager Amos Rojas took the job last year amid the controversy after the firing of Peter Iglesias, he said he would only want to do it for a year. Time’s up. Rojas sent a note to his staff shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday explaining that he would resign, effective Feb. 28. […]
In what seems like a complete abandonment of his stated principles and mayoral campaign platform, former Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid — who was trounced 58% to 23% by Daniella Levine Cava in last August’s election (no need for a runoff) — has taken a newly-created $200,000-a-year job in a make-believe department in the top-heavy administration […]
Healthcare business titan Benjamin Leon Jr., who founded Leon Medical Centers and made a fortune off Medicare patients — and who gave more than $3 million in campaign contributions last year — was appointed this week by President Elect Donald Trump as his new ambassador to Spain. Think of it as a thank you. More […]
God help us. Roberto Rodriguez-Tejera, the veteran journalist who put the morning radio commute on Actualidad Radio 1040 AM in the number one position in ratings — above English-language stations, even — signed off the air on Thursday after mandando a todo el mundo al carajo. Well, not entirely. Rodriguez-Tejera says he’ll still do a […]
Every year, Miami International Airport beats its own record from the year before — a conduit for 52.3 million passengers and 2.78 million tons of cargo in 2023. Is there going to be a need for a second airport sometime soon? Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera — who could be months from becoming an ambassador so […]
Well, everyone knew it was going to happen. Even before President Elect Donald Trump had announced his appointment of Miami-Dade Commissioner Kevin Marino Cabrera — who has been instrumental in Trump’s Florida campaign — as ambassador to Panama, everyone knew it was coming. This week, Trump made it official in a post on Truth Social, […]
While there is only one candidate declared to be running for Miami commission, in District 5, there are many potential and rumored hopefuls — and most of them, if not all, are known entities in the community. Attorney Alfie Leon, who almost beat Joe Carollo in 2017 for the District 3 seat (came within 252 votes) — […]
Former Miam-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez — the first Cuban-American mayor of Miami and is the father of current and termed-out Mayor Francis “Baby X” Suarez — is rumored to be eyeing a run for his old seat in the city. But the senior Suarez, who left the District 7 commission office to run for county […]