Ladra had to laugh out loud when she read the announcement. Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, in partnership with the Miami-Dade Age-Friendly Initiative, will launch the “Mayor’s Age-Friendly Challenge,” encouraging business, civic and elected leaders “to take a pledge to help make our community more age-friendly.” Okay, I know that Ladra is a jaded bitch, but […]
Florida legislators jump at the chance to become Florida’s next U.S. Senator Wow. Just look at the legislators lunging for the coveted open Senate seat left by Marco Rubio‘s White House ambition. The list 15 months out already makes for two delicious 2016 primaries in what is already a year full of races to watch. No matter […]
A questionable $2 million city of Doral contract that is already being investigated by the FBI has been trotted out in public almost four years later in what could be a pre-emptive strike against former Mayor JC Bermudez, who is seriously considering a comeback. The city of Doral spent about $1.8 million in 2011 on […]
Three open seats on the Miami Beach City Commission this year have really brought the wannabes out of the woodwork: November’s Beach ballot keeps growing, with two new candidates, bringing it to a total of nine all-new faces in the three group races. And while nobody’s running yet against Mayor Philip Levine — who hasn’t […]
Don’t our elected officials ever learn? Here’s some free advice to them: Do not threaten city employees — especially when you are up for re-election. Apparently, and according to emails published by Stephanie Kienzle (who could be called the Ladra of the north), North Miami Beach Councilman Frantz Pierre and his wife came outside “aggressively approach” […]
Miami Lakes Mayor Wayne Slaton has thrown in the towel and former Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi is now, officially, really, the mayor. Slaton announced at a press conference Monday that he would not appeal the most recentcourt ruling in favor of Pizzi, who is likely heading for Town Hall to take his place behind his desk […]
South Miami Commissioner “Bicycle Bob” Welsh is at it again — but this time, he’s passing out flyers from his two-wheeled throne more than a few miles away in the city of Sweetwater. Welsh is supporting activist Deborah Centeno, who hopes to become the city’s first Nicaraguan-American mayor. He says he has distributed more than […]
Former Miami Lakes Mayor Michael “Muscles” Pizzi — who was arrested on federal public corruption charges in 2013 and acquitted last year — has one more notch on his victory belt. After getting his acquittal on the bribery charges and the court to force Gov. Rick Scott to rescind his suspension from office and another […]
President Barack Obama was in Everglades National Park Wednesday to talk about climate change on Earth Day. Ladra does not think that it is a coincidence that this is the first time he visits the Everglades as POTUS — the year that two South Florida Republicans, former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio, are […]
Former Miami-Dade Police Det. Fred Suco lost his bid to unseat Miami Springs Mayor Zavier Garcia earlier this month by 341 votes. Garcia won-re-election with 56% of the vote. Or did he? Suco and his attorneys say that Garcia never qualified or was qualified illegally for the April 7 election because all but one of […]