The United Teachers of Dade, which represents more than 30,000 Miami-Dade County teachers and education professionals, will launch a series of daily “one-on-one conversations” with each of the county mayoral candidates beginning Friday afternoon (that’s today). “The effort seeks to increase civic engagement among all education professionals and secure more pro public education leadership for […]
Everyone’s internal polls have them winning the Miami-Dade mayoral election this year, and Commissioner Xavier Suarez is no different. He told Ladra that he was leading the other six candidates in a poll done earlier this month of 503 likely voters countywide. The survey by John Zogby Strategies found that Suarez had 21% of the vote. […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava is all in. The 64-year-old who wants to make history as the county’s first female mayor made it official Friday when she submitted her resignation letter to the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections, as required by Florida’s “resign to run” law. This also means that her seat officially opens up, and […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime announced Thursday that he was suspending his campaign and blamed the coronavirus spread and COVID19 infections that have hit his community particularly hard. Yeah, okaaaay. That must be the new version of “I want to spend more time with my family.” Monestime, who still has two years left on his term […]
Updated: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an emergency order on Friday that suspends the Florida statutes that require a quorum be present in person for government meetings and that they be conducted in a specific public place. This means that the Miami city commission, which had been pushing for the approval, might be able to meet […]
While everyone was busy buying toilet paper for the coronavirus or trying to get the recall petitions against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo freed from the city’s grasp, Miami-Dade Commissioner and mayoral 2020 candidate Daniella Levine Cava sent out her first countywide mailer. It’s the first Miami-Dade mayoral race mailer that arrived at Ladra’s house, and […]
Ladra got the most interesting phone call Monday, on the eve of the first debate for the Miami-Dade mayoral candidates in 2020. It was a push poll, likely for former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. Why? Penelas was the only candidate that my interviewer spoke positively about during a nearly 20 minute Q&A (okay it took […]
After eight public meetings that were scantily attended — one person went to the Hialeah town hall — the public will have at least three opportunities to comment on the $9 billion 2019-2020 Miami-Dade budget before the commission votes on it next month. The first look comes courtesy of Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava, who has her […]
It wasn’t a secret. Everyone expected Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez, who is termed out this year, to run for mayor to replace Carlos Gimenez, who is also termed out, causing an open seat dash. And some of the other wannabes reacted to the announcement better than others. Former Commissioner Juan Zapata, who was the first […]
As expected, Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez made his mayoral dreams official Friday when he announced publicly that he was going for the top county post vacated by his nemesis, the termed-out Carlos Gimenez. “I want to put the resources of this county to work for the residents and taxpayers in a way that is both […]