The two newest candidates in the Coral Gables April election came out strong last week with their first month’s campaign finance reports, which were eerily close, and start off their respective bids with a bang. Tania Cruz-Gimenez, the daughter in law of the former mayor and current Congressman Carlos Gimenez, reported a total of $38,350 […]
The Miami-Dade County commission committees — where the real wheeling and dealing for county contracts occurs — were repartido, or handed out, last week to the new batch of commissioners. And it’s clear who the chairman’s favorites are and who, ahem, are not. New Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz, who was sworn in under way […]
Medical emergency my fat Cuban ass. Congressman (ew) Carlos Gimenez cancelled a television interview this past weekend because he was embarrassed, full of regret and genuinely afraid of how people, including his Cuban-American core voters, would take his objection to the Democratic process and involvement in what amounts to nothing less than a coup attempt […]
The county torch will be passed again this week and Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz will become the chairman of the board for the next two years, his final two years on the dais before he goes back to Sweetwater to run for mayor, a position he was first elected to in 1999. He gets […]
The current COVID-19 vaccination distribution process in Miami-Dade is apparently not for everyone — at least not for those without Internet access. Registration for the new life-saving vaccine is only online. So, Miami-Dade Commissioner Kionne McGhee has opened his office for constituents without WiFi or internet access to register there. “I want to make sure […]
This April’s interesting Coral Gables election just got more interesting: Mayra Joli, the “nodding lady” from President Donald Trump‘s Miami town hall earlier this year has joined the Group 2 commission contest. Jolly filed paperwork Tuesday to run in an already crowded seat that is shaping up as a battle between Jose Valdes-Fauli, the brother […]
Not everybody is going to be as excited as Ladra is about this, but there are more elections where that last one just came from. A bunch more. And they start right away. In fact, candidates for the Golden Beach general election in February have to qualify between Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 for a […]
They were supposed to get their lump sum payments this week, hundreds or, in some cases, thousands of dollars in back pay owed to them since 2017. And just in time for the holidays, too. But Miami-Dade transit workers found out Wednesday that most of them will have to wait until early next year. And […]
So, that’s why we suddenly see the former Miami-Dade mayor’s son and his wife on these Community Newspaper Facebook chats doing their best to look like James Carville and Mary Matalin. Tania Cruz Gimenez is running for Coral Gables commission. Ladra was wrong when she thought, after running into her and lobbyist Carlos J. “CJ” […]
Miami-Dade Commissioners on Tuesday could approve a proposed freestanding Jackson Health System emergency room and medical offices on a property at the northeastern corner of SW 8th Street and Galiano Avenue in Coral Gables. This would be part of the Jackson Health Systems network and aims to fill a growing demand, according to Jackson’s own studies. […]