Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernández may be on the verge of another backroom deal — unless the Miami-Dade School Board stops him. Last year, Hernández sent a letter to School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho with an idea: Let’s rezone the vacant 12 acres of land adjacent to Hialeah Middle School — a vacant field that was used […]
The new Mike Hernández at County Hall will be, drum roll please, former El Nuevo Herald Editor and Vice President Myriam Márquez, who left the paper last summer. She will start in April and her salary will be the same $175,000. Ladra hopes Myriam remembers her fondly from our days together on the City Desk and that […]
While our electeds in Tallahassee mess up a perfectly starter gun control bill with their crazy school militia program and GOP House members repeatedly oppose amendments to close the gun show loophole, Democrat candidates in this year’s state elections are taking it straight to the source — urging the Miami-Dade Youth Fair and Expo to cancel […]
Republicans have shot themselves in the foot. In just a few days, GOP legislators in Tallahassee. by forcing a program that puts guns in public schools, have done more for the Florida Democratic Party than anyone since Al Gore. When the Florida Senate voted Monday 20-18 to pass the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
For the past three years, select electeds in Miami Beach have used a city non-profit to “provide assistance to worthy and qualified community needs and projects.” But it looks like a slush fund of special interest money to dole out for political favors and even votes. One Miami Beach, Inc., a 501c3 formed by resolution […]
Miami-Dade Public Schools’ wildly popular Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said on Thursday, in a very dramatic fashion, that he turned down a job leading New York City’s public school system to stay with the district where he began his career as a physics teacher at Jackson High. Wide speculation Wednesday that Carvalho was taking the School […]
Say it ain’t so, Alberto! Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, the charismatic populist leader of the 4th largest school district in the U.S., has been tapped to lead the largest school district in New York City, several news sources reported Wednesday afternoon. Perhaps New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, who was expected to make the […]
If there is one local state elected we need to replace this coming November, please let it be State Rep. Jose Oliva, the Miami Lakes Republican who sponsored the odious school “safety bill” (pffft) that doesn’t ban assault rifles but arms teachers in schools, instead. This is the man who will direct the House agenda […]
Ladra is lucky that her puppy is a graduating senior. The rest of you may need to start looking into home schooling after a group of Florida legislators on Tuesday voted to arm public school teachers — calling them “marshals.” This is what House Bill 7101, proposed urgently by State Rep. Jose Oliva in the wake […]
Sen. Marco Rubio almost totally blew it. Okay, yeah, sure, the Republican who has taken $3.3 million from the NRA during his political career was brave for just showing up at the CNN Townhall Wednesday in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High in Broward last week. The crowd at […]