Expect more firings, shake-downs, quid pro quo The executive director of the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency — who last year fired the ghost employee hired by Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla — is leaving the agency, at the commissioner’s behest. Jason Walker gets one month of his salary, or $15,000, half his banked sick […]
Hialeah, Miami Beach pass local laws to limit huge rent hikes The Miami City Commission may set aside $5 million on Thursday to help reenters in the city who are “unable to absorb dramatic rent increases.” But only some people. Even though the resolution would establish a new “special revenue project” called “Miami for Everyone […]
A selection committee helping to pick the next Hialeah police chief has narrowed the list down to six candidates and will interview each of them Wednesday before providing a shortlist of three to Mayor Esteban Bovo. The finalists from the 33 applicants from as far away as Alaska who qualified for the job are: Biscayne […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Eileen Higgins is the invited speaker this week for the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club meeting in Miami Beach. Higgins is going to want to discuss county projects in Miami Beach, including budget and legislative highlights. But Ladra is pretty certain the crowd will want to know about the monorail project proposed for the […]
Or ‘How the demotion of Daniel Junior caused a domino effect’ A major shake-up in the Miami-Dade public safety and corrections leadership was announced Friday by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. The changes involve at least eight people — but one could argue that none of it would have happened if La Alcaldesa didn’t need to […]
Consider this a Political Cortadito Page Six tidbit. Guess who was spotted having lunch Friday at Morton’s Steakhouse in Coral Gables? CJ Gimenez, the son of the Congressman who last week slapped Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla at the same Ponce de Leon restaurant and got arrested right after. Nobody was arrested this […]
Perhaps the new chairman will hire more ghost employees Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla grabbed the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency from Commissioner Ken Russell last week — again — and immediately asked the executive director to resign. Ladra could not reach Executive Director Jason Walker, but sources at the city say that the […]
It’s not that it’s an attack against Congressman Charlie Crist that has people riled up. We expect that. Heck, we like it. It’s more like the tacit endorsement of guardianship programs that often target and abuse the elderly that is rubbing people the wrong way. And it’s a blatant dis to our querida Britney Spears. […]
Pro cityhood mailers paid by developers have already arrived The process to see if Westchester homeowners want to incorporate has just started — and it’s been very bumpy and very fast at the same time. Some residents are upset that the Miami-Dade Commission in November, at the request of District 10 Commissioner Javier Souto, waived […]
And Crazy Joe Carollo goes off the reservation on a rabid rant Buried in the Miami city commission meeting last week, dropped during one of Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo‘s disturbed diatribes — which is maybe why nobody caught on to it — was news that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the Miami […]