Former State Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla , now a city of Miami commission candidate, had his second best fund raising month in June, with more than $50,000 in additional contributions. That brings his total to just over a quarter million dollars, according to the latest campaign finance report. This would be The Dean’s fourth […]
The District 1 race for the city of Miami commission is getting more interesting every day. Only hours after Ladra wrote that former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla, who helped Commissioner Joe Carollo in his comeback, had filed to run for the seat vacated by the termed-out Commissioner Willy Gort, a onetime aide and chief […]
Hey! Alex Diaz de la Portilla! You just lost two elections, one for Senate and one for county commission, and the Little Havana house you were born in was foreclosed on last week by the bank, which is putting it up for sale because you owe them $638,000. What are you going to do next? Why, […]
Of course it’s a mega retail shopping complex. You didn’t think it would be just a stadium, did ya? For soccer? Where’s the fun (read: money) in that? Well kept secret details of the long-awaited plan to turn Melreese Golf Course, the only golf course owned by the city of Miami and a historic gem, […]
Miami City Commissioner Ken Russell was not able to get even a second on his motion to fire City Attorney Victoria Mendez Thursday. Russell had made the move to terminate Mendez because he said she intentionally withheld emails that he had asked her for. He said the 26 emails not provided to him painted a different […]
Veteran Miami Commissioner Willy Gort will not get to coast into automatic re-election after all since he now has a real challenge from a former zoning board member who is running on a single issue: Crime. Miguel “Mike” Gabela, a real estate investor and auto parts business owner, filed to run in March but launched […]
The photogenic highlight of the week has to be the emotional installation ceremony where Miami-Dade Commissioner Jean Monestime was installed chairman. But there were other things going on this week, too. A ground-breaking, a ribbon-cutting and even a couple of parades. The first of two parades was last weekend as politicos pressed the flesh with […]