Absentee or mail-in ballots started arriving at voters’ homes more than a week ago. That means people are already voting for their county commissioners, mayor, judges, school board members, and state legislators and county constitutional officers in their preferred party primary. Most of the really good races don’t happen until November. And among those on […]
In one of the biggest and happiest surprises of the Miami-Dade 2020 elections results full of surprises is the Miami-Dade School Board race in District 9, where veteran Miami-Dade Commissioner Dennis Moss was beaten by young and inexperienced newcomer Luisa Santos. The commissioner known for adjourning county meetings with an exclamation to “move it,” is […]
The following story was written by Ladra’s new cachorro intern. Be nice. By Brandon Rosado for Political Cortadito The race to replace longtime Miami-Dade School Board Member Larry Feldman can be described as a classic David and Goliath battle between a veteran politician with much palanca and a young, idealistic newcomer with not-as-much palanca, but […]
The Miami-Dade School Board election results Tuesday were full of surprises. The only candidate to win outright on Tuesday was not Miami-Dade Commissioner Dennis Moss, who is termed out and running to replace Larry Feldman in District 9 because he doesn’t know what else to do. It was District 7’s Luby Navarro, the only school […]