The voting public split the baby in Hialeah Tuesday — if the runoff election was a referendum on Mayor Carlos Hernandez, as they usually seem to be. One of Little Castro’s endorsed candidates won, beating an activist the mayor had arrested early on in the campaign. Jackie Garcia-Roves, who beat Milly Herrera, 54 to 46%, […]
Talk about persistence: It took a fourth try, but former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla is an elected official again. It also took about a million dollars. But more about that later. In what Ladra is pretty sure is yet another sign of the apocalypse, Dean DLP won the runoff for the Miami District […]
Its quite possible that yet another sweet, no-bid real estate project gets approval in a fast track process for what seems like the worst transit plan ever by the end of the day Friday — before anyone can notice. Virgin Trains may get, in a series of back-to-back emergency meetings, $76 million in half penny […]
Milly Herrera, a candidate for the Hialeah City Commission, thought she was just campaigning like every other candidate in the U.S.A. Thursday when she stopped by Villa Aida, a senior living facility near City Hall, to hand out campaign flyers. She found herself under arrest by Hialeah Police — likely under orders by Mayor Carlos […]
Add Homestead Councilman Elvis Maldonado to the list of men that want to replace termed out Miami-Dade Commissioner Dennis Moss next year. Maldonado filed paperwork Thursday indicting he had opened a bank account for a county commission race in District 9. That means he has to move six months before the qualifying deadline in June […]
It’s Julio’s turn. Again. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez only has about a year left in his term. That means he’s got to step up the parceling out of projects and contracts for those on his friends and family plan. On Thursday, his administration is asking the county commission to give a $5 million economic incentive […]
In the middle of a controversial battle over two unused bridges to nowhere that would connect West Hialeah to the east through Miami Lakes, someone started construction on the roadway of the 170th Street bridge Wednesday. Mayor Manny Cid and Town Manager Ed Piederman had to rush to the scene to stop large trucks from […]
The Florida Third District Court of Appeal said Wednesday that former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi could continue his lawsuit against the town for payment of his $3.25 million in legal fees from his 2013 public corruption trial. Pizzi had a dream team of attorneys to fight the federal bribery charges after an FBI […]
November is a month away, but there was an election already on Tuesday. Bet nobody noticed outside of Homestead, where they work the runoff backwards, having a primary in October whenever there is more than one candidate in any race. And guess what? All three races are headed to runoffs. Former Mayor Jeff Porter — […]
If you thought Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert is going to have an easy coast in the Miami-Dade Commission race to replace the termed out Barbara Jordan, think again. Gilbert may have more experience and campaign money, right now, but all the momentum belongs to Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old who was unarmed […]