City costs are estimated at $23.6 million In his fight for the annexation of Little Gables, which looks more difficult after Tuesday’s meeting than before, Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago wants to keep his own city’s residents from voicing their opinion. He must know they don’t like the idea. Lago actually said Tuesday that it […]
The campaign finance reports filed last week by Coral Gables Vince Lago are pretty boring. He hasn’t raised any money either in his 2025 campaign account or in his political action committee in months, according to the most recent campaign finance records. Not that he needs to. He has more than $656,000 in the PAC […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago had another bad day at City Hall Tuesday. Not only did he lack the votes to reject the proposed salary increase for himself and vice mayor — a grandstanding move that would have locked in future mayors and vice mayors — and is apparently losing the effort to annex High […]
Mayor uses salary hike to smear commissioners, critics Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is a liar. Last week, on his damage control PR tour, Lago went on the radio and said that Ladra had extorted him for money. He actually said that he had texts to prove I said I would write negative things about […]
That clock that Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago wants to put somewhere downtown was manufactured by a company that held a fundraiser for his BFF Miami Mayor Francis Suarez‘s now-abandoned presidential campaign in June. Lago brought up the Masion F.P. Journe clock again during a discussion in a commission meeting last month, where he sought […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is pushing annexation like never before. The city sent petition ballot cards to property owners in the Little Gables and High Pines/Ponce Davis area. Two town hall meetings were scheduled to talk to residents and hear their questions. And Lago has declared himself the lead negotiator with the county on […]
The land-use attorney and lobbyist arrested Thursday on money laundering, criminal conspiracy and political corruption charges also has business ties with Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago. William “Bill” Riley Jr. was one of the four real estate agents registered along with Lago at the brokerage owned by former Hialeah Councilman Oscar de la Rosa, who […]
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 […]