Karma is, indeed, a bitch. Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez — who has famously blocked Ladra from events and expelled her and others from council meetings — was himself intercepted and prevented from entering a meeting Tuesday with Gov. Ron DeSantis and several local mayors to discuss ongoing efforts to curb the spread of COVID19 in […]
The shit is getting real. The threat of coronavirus and community spread of COVID19 is getting more dire every day as 58 more people in Miami-Dade tested positive by Sunday night for a total of 227 — and 50 of those cases were reported between the Florida Health Department’s morning and its evening briefing. At least 37 […]
The voting public split the baby in Hialeah Tuesday — if the runoff election was a referendum on Mayor Carlos Hernandez, as they usually seem to be. One of Little Castro’s endorsed candidates won, beating an activist the mayor had arrested early on in the campaign. Jackie Garcia-Roves, who beat Milly Herrera, 54 to 46%, […]
Milly Herrera, a candidate for the Hialeah City Commission, thought she was just campaigning like every other candidate in the U.S.A. Thursday when she stopped by Villa Aida, a senior living facility near City Hall, to hand out campaign flyers. She found herself under arrest by Hialeah Police — likely under orders by Mayor Carlos […]
Former Hialeah Councilman Luis González may have the support of Mayor Carlos Hernández, but he is not going to have an easy coast back into office this November. Back after a two year hiatus to run for the open seat left by the termed-out Isis García-Martínez, Gonzalez will have to beat back two other candidates. There […]
There could be a perfectly good reason why Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo hasn’t officially announced his bid for county mayor in 2020: Because he may not run, after all. Despite raising more than $1.1 million for his political action committee, Transportation Solutions for Miami-Dade, Bovo has likely done or seen polls that show he can’t win a […]
Monica Pérez has big, er, plans. The elementary school teacher is running for Hialeah Council against incumbent Lourdes Lozano, one of the Seguro Que Yes council members who give Mayor Carlos Hernández an iron rule on the city. Pérez could have chosen one of three open seats and not run against an incumbent. But she says that Lozano […]
Following in his stepdad’s footsteps, Oscar de la Rosa, the actor, lawyer, children’s foundation founder and stepson of Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo, is running for Hialeah Council. That’s where Stevie Boy got his political start in 1998 when he was appointed to the council. After he was re-elected twice, Bovo went to the Florida House and served […]
With three of his Seguro Que Yes Council members leaving the dais due to term limits, Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández has devised a plan to keep his iron fist rule on the city: He’s running a slate of new pocket votes. This year, the mayor loses Councilmembers Isis García Martínez, Vivian Casáls-Munoz and José Caragol […]
After canceling a show by performers deemed too close to the Cuban regime, the city of Hialeah is switching gears and the council will likely vote on Tuesday evening to spend $30,000 on U.S.-based Cuban talent for the Fourth of July celebration at Milander Park. Willy Chirino‘s Zarabanda Productions would get $20,000 and Albita Rodríguez […]