Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak and City Commissioner Vince Lago were the subjects of a secret internal investigation conducted by the former chief last year. An audit of the Coral Gables Police Department’s internal affairs cases in the last several years shows that there was at least one unauthorized, rogue investigation into then-Major Hudak and his […]
After a 15-year hiatus, former Coral Gables Mayor Raul Valdes-Fauli is planning a comeback to City Hall — as the handpicked successor to Mayor Jim Cason, who has said he won’t run again (though we’ve heard that before). The rumors have been escalating for weeks as Valdes-Fauli, who was tossed out by voters in 2001 after […]
In what is yet another disingenuous move in what has become one of the most dishonest campaigns Ladra has ever seen, Coral Gables incumbent Mayor Jim Cason seems to have used a city photograph out of context for his re-election campaign. The photo is in one of three full-page campaign ads in the Miami Herald’s […]
Official numbers say crime is down in Coral Gables. But people are questioning that after a spate of robberies and burglaries in the City Beautiful that hit the news this week. And at Thursday’s commission meeting, Gables Police Chief Dennis Weiner could become the second top administrator in the city fired for fudging the numbers. […]
The palm trees on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables — the ones that took out former City Manager Pat Salerno — are being removed today from the corner bumpouts just north of Alhambra Plaza. These would be the 14 Bismarckia palms whose created traffic visibility issues were covered up by Salerno but deemed […]
The palm trees that cost former Coral Gables City Manager Pat Salerno his job — after he was caught in a lie about them — must go, too. An independent consulting firm has found that 14 Bismarckia Palms along Ponce de Leon Boulevard in downtown Coral Gables do present a visibility issue to drivers, after […]
Aaaaaah. City employees in Coral Gables have been breathing easier for almost two weeks now that the paranoid and problematic City Manager Pat Salerno, who resigned abruptly last month, is gone. At least physically, though some fear he is still in the background. For most employees — some of whom joked (read: feared) that the […]
Among the three companies Coral Gables Commissioners considered Monday to find a new replacement for former City Manager Pat Salerno — a controversial figure who resigned abruptly two weeks ago rather than answer for the lies he had been telling the commission — was the company that put Salerno there in the first place. Colin […]
Coral Gables Commissioners on Wednesday named Assistant City Manager Carmen Olazabal the interim chief of the city until they can find a permanent replacement for Pat Salerno, who resigned abruptly last week rather than face questions about lies he told the elected body. And they also talked about choosing a recruiting firm to make a […]
The morale at Coral Gables City Hall and among municipal employees made a 180 degree turn Tuesday after City Manager Pat Salerno — who was basically, and finally, caught in a lie — resigned abruptly during a commission meeting. “A lot of people are very happy,” said one woman who works at City Hall. But […]