What a sore loser! Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago, who is still butt hurt about his two pocket candidates losing in April, is all of a sudden pushing for a change to a November election. In an oped piece today in The Miami Herald — which last week the mayor said was propaganda — Lago […]
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust has gotten a complaint about Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and his intense interest in the annexation of Little Gables, where his lobbyist brother represents the largest property owner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ladra knows Lago said that nobody in his family had any business interest in the […]
A controversial takeover of the Coral Gables Country Club by a politically-connected businessman and lobbyist could be dead in the water after Rodney Barreto sent the city a letter Saturday saying that he gives up on what he called a “painful process.” Barreto has withdrawn his proposal to lease and operate the historic, taxpayer-owned “crown […]
City commission could give attorneys new direction A Miami-Dade judge last week refused to dismiss a case against the city of Coral Gables, saying the attorney and administration had no right to make massive changes without public input to a planned development that turned a restaurant into a WaWa. The Wednesday court debate also indicates […]
No real plans in sight for UM Hurricanes home at Coral Gables High Nobody would pay any attention to a late-night TV attorney who enthusiastically tweets over the weekend about building a football stadium for the University of Miami Hurricanes next to million dollars homes in Coral Gables — if it weren’t for the fact […]
Coral Gables Commissioners are poised to take the second and final vote Tuesday on the controversial zoning clean-up (read: rewrite), which includes remote parking, height increases downtown, and increased density in the neighborhood known as the Crafts Section. If they do, they will have completely ignored hundreds of residents who have concerns about the process, […]
City officials in Coral Gables may be violating their own zoning code to accelerate the green light for demolition of an old home on Asturia Avenue that the city itself tried to designate historic earlier this year. Even Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli has lobbied on behalf of the politically-connected family that bought the property two years ago. Valdes-Fauli […]
Who would guess that proposed bike lanes would cause so much trouble? A plan to connect the University of Miami with downtown and North Coral Gables via 4.6 miles of bicycle lanes — some of it with accompanying sidewalks — has met resistance from some of the residents on the chosen streets who say they’ve been left out […]
Just who paid for those t-shirts and bus rides? Updated with corrected and additional information: Last week, Miami-Dade County commissioners, at the committee level, squashed the long-planned annexation of the Little Gables enclave into the City of Coral Gables, citing the lack of alternative low income housing for 225 residents who live in 90 trailers […]
The commission seat runoff in Coral Gables has gotten nasty with back-to-back hit mailers attacking former Commissioner Ralph Cabrera with lies and innuendo. They come from the same Jensen Beach political action committee that sent three anti-Cabrera pieces in the first round — so we know now they are on behalf of candidate Jorge Fors. […]