South Miami mayoral race gets ugly with ethnically-tainted hit piece

South Miami mayoral race gets ugly with ethnically-tainted hit piece

South Miami is the City of Pleasant Living. Until election time. This week, voters got an attack mailer that targets three of the five candidates: Horace Feliu, Mark Lago and Lina Sierra. Is it just a coincidence that all three are Hispanic? They don’t think so. Was it a veiled message to keep Hispanics out […]

Philip Stoddard hangs on as South Miami mayor

Philip Stoddard hangs on as South Miami mayor

Incumbent South Miami Mayor Philip Stoddard was able to beat back a comeback attempt by former mayor Horace Feliu Tuesday night, winning the race with almost 53% of the vote. A third candidate got 7.5% leaving Feliu — who served from 2002 to 2004 and 2006 to 2010 — with just under 40 percent, according […]

Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu wants old job back

Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu wants old job back

Former South Miami Mayor Horace Feliu filed for election to his old seat Friday against incumbent Mayor Philip Stoddard. Feliu told Ladra that he had been watching the development in the small city with a wary eye but that he made up his mind about the race after the police shooting last month of a […]

House Leader backs So Miami mayor

House Leader backs So Miami mayor

While Ladra has been busily distracted getting her heart broken and her perfectly proportioned rear handed to her in Hialeah, the political telenovela industry has turned its attention to the sleepy city of South Miami, where there is a Valentine’s Day election next week. But someone in Tallahassee has been paying attention. House Majority Leader […]