Just when we thought the list of people running for a seat that doesn’t even have an election date yet was long enough, aquí vienen former Miami-Dade Commissioner Bruno Barreiro and onetime congressional candidate Gloria Romero Roses — business leader, community builder, assisted living maven — are now the newest contestants in the Florida House […]
Miami Beach Commission runoff candidate Monique Pardo Pope — yes, the same Monique whose family history Ladra still can’t believe is real — is now the subject of an official Florida Bar inquiry after documentarian and professional Miami trouble-stirrer Billy Corben accused her of lying about his legal record. And, folks, the Bar doesn’t just open […]
Resilience trust fund’ scheme still needs final vote If you blinked at the last Miami City Commission meeting, you might have missed the moment the city basically admitted it has lost control of its own skyline. But don’t worry — it’s on video. Commissioners advanced yet another density-doubling bonanza, this time wrapped in a shiny […]
Only in Miami does a sitting member of Congress host a book signing about dignity while refusing to take a single question from the very people whose dignity she’s been chipping away at in Washington. That’s exactly what happened the other night in Coral Gables, where Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar held a cozy, closed-door […]
And Miami’s immigrant families are on the menu Leave it to Donald Trump to turn Thanksgiving — a holiday about gratitude, family and not strangling your tío during political discussions — into a xenophobic midnight rant attacking immigrants. While everyone else was eating leftovers, the ex-president was online serving up a reheated plate of hate […]
If you thought the 2025 Miami Beach election season was all settled after Nov. 4, think again. Because there’s still one seat up in the air — one commissioner’s seat, one citywide vote, and two women each claiming they’ll save the soul of the Beach. Monica Matteo‑Salinas , a longtime city staffer who worked for […]
Delayed project has merchants begging for help Ladra doesn’t know who needs to hear this at City Hall, but East Flagler Street is not supposed to be a ghost town. Black Friday is going to be blacker than usual on Miami’s oldest commercial corridor, where mom-and-pop shops — the same ones the politicians love to […]
Something stinks at Miami-Dade County, queridos, and it’s not the trash at the illegal dump sites Commissioner Kionne McGhee keeps complaining about. No — this is an entirely different kind of smell. A political one. A transactional one. A “wait, what did they just do?” kind of stench. Let’s start at the beginning, because this […]
After two months of insisting that their September vote to hand over 2.6 acres of prime downtown real estate next to the Wolfson Campus for Donald J. Trump’s presidential library was perfectly fine, even though nobody knew about it, the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees suddenly decided Tuesday to take a “do-over” and hold […]
What a difference a chat makes. It turns out that the big, scary socialist bogeyman that Miami politicians loved to weaponize in the recent mayor’s race — New York’s free Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the one they tried to tie around Eileen Higgins’ neck like some kind of communism-flavored cowbell — is now, apparently, Donald Trump’s […]