Madeline Pumariega, executive vice president and provost at Tallahassee Community College, was raised in Hialeah. She went to Miami Dade College and later became president of the Wolfson Campus in downtown Miami. And now she’s coming home to MDC as its new president — the first female president of the largest and most diverse community […]
The presidential search committee at Miami Dade College meets this week to resume the politically-tainted process of finding a new leader to take the nationally-recognized state college into the future. They will review 60-plus applications for the top job and whittle that down to a maximum of 10. But it might be another colossal waste […]
It was a bit chaotic at the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, where a “surprise” interim president was named and members continued to press for a politically-motivated do-over of a selection process to permanently replace the retiring Eduardo Padrón, whose last day is Friday. “A shitshow,” said one faculty observer. “A circus,” […]
Everyone is concentrated on the special elections this summer and there’s more than a year to go before the primaries for the state legislative races next year. But a few open seats have hopefuls planning early — none more than in House District 115, the seat vacated by termed-out State Rep. Michael Bileca, which happens to […]
Former State Sen. Dan Gelber will file for the Miami Beach mayoral seat in February. Oh, he hasn’t committed. But after a short chat with Gelber Tuesday night, Ladra is predicting that he will, indeed, file for the seat very soon. My guess is he’s just waiting for the beginning of the month so he […]
The last candidate forum hosted by the Kendall Federation of Homeowners Associations sounds like it might be a little one-sided: While three candidates have confirmed their attendance, their opponents will likely be MIA. All of them are — surprise, surprise — incumbents. By now, we are used to Miami-Dade Carlos Gimenez skipping the neighborhood debates […]
God help us, but Ladra thinks State Rep. Frank Artiles could very well become my state senator in November. Yes, he is a homophobic, sucker-punching Fight Club aficionado who looks like Magilla Gorilla (it’s the jaw line), lied about his residency when he was first elected and wants to kill a Florida black bear. The only real […]
While everybody was concentrated on the primary last week, several Republicans without August challengers were eager to get to November, with mailers and TV ads already — since even before qualification and the Fourth of July. That would be State Rep. Frank Artiles, who is running for Senate in District 40 against incumbent Sen. Dwight Bullard, who won […]
Both the Democrats in the primary race for the seat in State House district 115 are similar in that both are well-liked gringos, perennial candidates who have run before and who are running wholly positive campaigns. In fact, some people who know them both are having a hard time making a choice. But if the end […]
Looks like we may have a Democratic primary in the House 115 race between two perennial applicants. Ross Hancock, who ran against Erik Fresen in 2012 and 2014 and for Coral Gables City Commission in 2013, has been running since January. Earlier this month, Jeffrey “Doc” Solomon, who has run for state House twice and for Pinecrest […]