UPDATED: A Coral Gables Police major has been suspended with pay while Internal Affairs investigates an incident Wednesday in which she was caught allegedly spying on a resident at a commission meeting at City Hall. And Political Cortadito has learned that the State Attorney’s Office may also be looking into it. Maj. Theresa Molina, who served […]
In what may be one of the most stark contrasts between the two Miami men who would be president — not counting the crazy millionaire who is seriously deluded — young Jeb Bush supporters get Jebby, the candidate’s son, to rally them at South Florida events while Sen. Marco Rubio‘s fans get the real McCoy. […]
The deal’s been cut and it looks like Coral Gables City Manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark will be forced to name Interim Chief Ed Hudak the city’s permanent top cop after all. There’s been too much backlash on her plan to restructure the police department and name two chiefs who would report to her new assistant city […]
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 […]