Nobody knows where it came from. Nobody remembers any discussion about it. It wasn’t on any of the slides in the presentation of the Coral Gables 2023-2024 operating budget at Wednesday’s first public hearing. It wasn’t in the draft budget presented to city commissioners and the public in July. But tucked into the $258 million […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince “Sore Loser” Lago is still upset about having both his commission candidates trounced in the April elections. So he keeps cutting newly-elected Commissioners Melissa Castro and Ariel Fernandez — who was once a Lago ally — out of photographs he posts on social media. And he keeps ignoring them at public […]
Three commissioners opposed him on firefighters and tax rate, too Did ya feel it? The Earth shifted in Coral Gables Wednesday when Mayor Vince Lago lost his grip on power and the majority vote. Lago lost on his proposed charter amendment to move the city’s election from April to November. He lost his fight with […]
The residents of Little Gables, an enclave of unincorporated Miami-Dade nestled in North Gables, are voting right now on whether or not they want to be part of the City Beautiful, paying taxes into Coral Gables and getting services — most importantly police and fire — from Coral Gables. It came as a surprise to […]
Critics worry that special interest influence will grow UPDATED: The Coral Gables commission this Wednesday may change the date of city elections from April to November, forever altering the way electeds are elected in the City Beautiful. It’s not just about a date. This change will make it harder for grass roots candidates with little […]
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 sunshine meeting Tuesday evening in Coral Gables was supposed to be a workshop for the city’s budget. Everyone expected to hear Mayor Vince Lago‘s ideas to bring the “millage” or tax rate down. That didn’t happen. Instead, we pretty much got a horse and pony show about where the taxes are coming from and […]
Coral Gables Commissioner Rhonda Anderson has booted Claudia Miro, a onetime commission candidate, from the planning and zoning board, saying her attendance, or lack thereof, is the reason. But the timing and circumstances point to another motive: Miro, who was recently reappointed by Anderson, voted last month against naming former Commissioner Wayne “Chip” Withers the […]
Change could give Mayor Vince Lago an additional 20 months in office To increase participation and reduce costs, the Coral Gables Commission may move the city’s biannual elections from April to November. But the question is, will they start in 2024 or 2026? The earlier option, moving the April 2025 election to November 2024, means […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is a sore loser. Three months after the April election, in which his chosen slate lost to two independent commission candidates, Lago is still being petty and vindictive with the victors. This week, he cropped them out of the photo he posted on Twitter from the Fourth of July celebration […]