Many, if not all, government meetings will be postponed or cancelled for the next week or two and there will be a countywide 11 p.m. curfew on bars and restaurants to try to stop community spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Miami-Dade, Miami, Coral Gables and Bay Harbor Islands, as well as other cities, were […]
So, the ordinance to limit recalls in the city of Miami passed 4-1 after Commissioner Keon Hardemon joined the Three Amigos after first seeming against the change — it even seemed like he offered the Ladra amendment, to make it after a failed recall election. But Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla wove his jabber magic […]
As expected and predicted on this very space not long ago, Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla has already delivered to at least two of the investors, er, contributors who bankrolled his return to office when he helped seal a settlement deal last month for the Magic City Casino, who had sued the city […]
UPDATED: The recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo may be headed to court after the city held the petitions hostage for a day — purportedly to review them — and then announced in the afternoon that they were submitted too late. So why review them? Both City Clerk Todd Hannon and City Attorney Victoria Mendez […]
Why stop at Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo? A group of longtime active citizens wants to oust all three of the Miami city commissioners that form the new majority and that, they say, have thrown the city into chaos and controversy. Ladra affectionately calls them the Three Amigos, and this group of activists would have them all […]
One of the consistent complaints about the Joe Carollo recall effort from the Three Amigos on the Miami City Commission has been that it is being funded and organized by “outside interests.” People who don’t live in District 3. People who don’t live in Miami. People in Coral Gables. But Commissioners Carollo, Manolo Reyes and Alex […]
Don’t think the bromance between Miami City Commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla is over just yet or just because The Dean flew to Paris, of all places, with Mayor Francis Suarez, Carollo’s number one nemesis — or number two after Daddy Commissioner Xavier Suarez (more on that later). It was kind […]
The ordinance passed Monday by the Miami City Commission to limit recall efforts to once a year per elected is legally flawed and dishonestly presented. In passing it on first reading, the Three Amigos who voted in favor, said it was not about the recall of Joe Carollo and that it was only to stem abuse of the […]
Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who has already shaken up the city quite a bit with his power grabs and grandstanding as the new boss in town — has introduced legislation that would limit the citizens ability to recall their elected officials to once per elected per year. This comes at the same […]
Miami-Dade Police last month recovered a stolen excavating tractor from a property on Krome Avenue owned by the new and improved Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. The $117,000 tractor, owned by Earth Movers in Homestead, was stolen from a construction site at Southwest 136th Street and 157th Avenue between about 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, […]