Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez, Coral Gables Commissioner Vince Lago, North Miami Beach Councilman Anthony DeFillipo and Coral Springs Commissioner Dan Daley will headline a fundraiser Wednesday for Miami Lakes Councilman Manny Cid, who is running for mayor. The event is titled “Young Professionals for Manny Cid,” and it includes the president of the Miami Young Republicans Jessica […]
Miami Lakes voters were in a giving mood this week, saying yes to and overwhelmingly passing every single one of the 10 charter amendments proposed to them — most of which take powers away from the mayor, making it a mostly ceremonial position. They also made Mayor Michael Pizzi‘s re-election pretty much a pipe dream. […]
Close to 19,000 voters in Miami Lakes will get a ballot in the mail in the next couple of days that could change the way the city governs for years to come. Ten charter amendments — not one, not two, but 10 — are on the ballot that are due back by May 17. It almost […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi may have gotten his seat back after a protracted court battle. But he’s going to have to campaign hard to keep it. Pizzi, who is widely expected to file for re-election, already has two challengers — former Mayor Wayne Slaton, who was removed from office after Pizzi was acquitted […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi is having a tremendous run of luck in the courts. First, he was acquitted of federal bribery charges after being caught in an FBI sting applying for grants he allegedly knew were bogus. Then he got the court to agree with him on having Gov. Rick Scott lift his suspension […]
DEVELOPING STORY: Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi has sued the his own town twice to recoup $3.2 million in alleged legal fees from both his fight against federal bribery charges and is fight to get back into Town Hall. Pizzi’s team of attorneys filed two lawsuits Wednesday. One seeks $700,000 for the civil case he won […]
Don’t call us Hialeah. That’s what the people of Miami Lakes have basically said for about ten years as they have sought a new Zip code that would take Hialeah off their mailing addresses and create a Miami Lakes, FL postal destination. Town leaders say it’s not elitist. It’s not because, well, they don’t want […]
Former, suspended, acquitted Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi really, really, really wants to be mayor again and is going to court one more time to try to get back into his office at City Hall. You know, the one with that closet he likes so much. Pizzi was suspended by Gov. Rick Scott in […]
Former Miami Lakes Michael “Muscles” Pizzi may like to say he’s half Cuban and may sound like the name of an Italian mafia enforcer, but he’s got the luck of the Irish. Suspended last year after he was arrested in an FBI bribery string, Pizzi let off last month by a jury that was simply […]
Granted, Ladra has been accused of being slightly overly suspicious before. I haven’t met too many conspiracy theories I didn’t like. One of my favorite former senators says that I am way too jaded. But what some people call paranoid, others might call vigilant. Astute, even. So, here’s the latest conspiracy theory that occurred to […]