If Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo really wants to see his bank statements, Commissioner Damian Pardo is ready to prove that he used part of his lifelong savings to self-fund his campaign for the District 2 seat last year. All Carollo has to do is resign. “I’m not giving them to him for nothing,” Pardo told […]
UPDATED: Christi Tasker, a two-time candidate for Miami Commission in District 2, was arrested last week after she allegedly interrupted a police traffic stop in her Brickell neighborhood. A video taken by an anonymous passerby shows she was forcibly taken to the ground before she was handcuffed. At one point, it looks like an officer […]
The first Coral Gables commission meeting Tuesday after the required recall petitions for Mayor Vince Lago were submitted last week was long and a bit awkward for everybody. Ladra cringed a few times. Lago said the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was investigating the recall effort and accused the new three amigos — Commissioners Melissa […]
Miami City Commissioner Miguel Gabela wanted the city to stop payments to attorney Ben Kuehne in cases where he was representing former Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla in civil court. Kuehne is also Diaz de la Portilla’s attorney in his felony criminal case on money laundering, bribery and other public corruption charges. But before […]
And Vince Lago hasn’t raised any PAC money in a year The establishment candidate propped up against Coral Gables Commissioner Kirk Menendez by the mayor and his cronies has not raised an extraordinary amount of money. Not even close to what was expected. At least that we know of. According to his campaign finance report, […]
Ed Hudak says city can be a ‘transfer portal’ for cops The city of Coral Gables and it’s police union might be headed to an agreement after the 38 vacancies were discussed during Tuesday’s commission meeting and the mayor and commissioners agreed that filling those positions and approving a contract were priorities. “The contract is […]
For a second time in a month, a group of Killian residents will go to County Hall Tuesday morning to try to fight the proposed development of a two- and three-story, 216-bed assisted living facility with a 126-space underground parking garage in their mostly residential neighborhood. Miami-Dade Commissioners will consider changing the Comprehensive Development Master […]
Angelica Pacheco starts ‘Dime Hialeah’ YouTube series In advance of a state amendment on the ballot that could legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida, Hialeah Councilwoman Angelica Pacheco — who says the skunky scent of pot already permeates the City of Progress — wants to outlaw marijuana smoking in the city’s public places. But Mayor […]
After a somewhat ugly tussle between the Village of Palmetto Bay and the residents who live adjacent to a 2.5-acre parcel that each wanted to buy from Miami-Dade County, there seems to be the possibility of a compromise. “Have you had a conversation about splitting the baby,” asked Commissioner Raquel Regalado at a committee meeting […]
A forum for the candidates is scheduled Wednesday Two of the 17 candidates for Miami-Dade sheriff — who have all been invited to a forum on Wednesday — have out-fundraised the rest by leaps and bounds, and they are exactly who everyone expected to lead the money race, which is likely to be in the […]