Looks like Little Havana’s favorite strongman in a suit, Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo, just took another legal chancletazo — this time from the U.S. Court of Appeals, which politely (but firmly) told him, “Nananina.” In a ruling Thursday, the appellate court affirmed the district court’s decision to deny Carollo’s desperate motion for a mistrial on […]
Questions raised about intimidating senior voters Newly-elected Miami Commissioner Ralph “Pinky” Rosado was elected with a lot of help from his friends, mostly two veteran politicians who poured around $1.6 million into his campaign for a special election last month that drew 5,346 people — or 11% of the District 4 registered voters. According to […]
The latest campaign finance reports for the Coral Gables election show that newly-elected Commissioner Richard Lara spent more than three quarters of a million dollars to win the race for Group 3, which went into a runoff in April against activist and attorney Tom Wells. Between his own campaign account and Coral Gables First, which […]
After what turned out to be yet another City Hall cage match between Miami commissioners Joe Carollo and Miguel Gabela, the commission voted to abolish the Bayfront Park Management Trust. Not right now. But by January of next year. This was Commissioner Damian Pardo‘s brilliant idea. Both he and Gabela folded fast like a pair […]
Remember those lifetime term limits that Miami commissioners are set to put on the ballot? The one that would prevent legacy professional politicians from coming back again and again? Not so fast, gente. There’s now a loophole for the most professional of all, current Commissioner and former Mayor Joe Carollo, who is threatening to run […]
Pressure mounted after weeks of inaction, soft words Finally! After weeks of soft punches and lackluster response, Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine Cava has found her spine and is fighting back against the fascist forces that built and are operating a secret immigration jail in the middle of the Everglades — on an abandoned airstrip that […]
Their vote to change election year is illegal, he says What is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis waiting for? Last week, DeSantis said that he could suspend the Miami city commissioners who voted to move the election from odd years to even, effectively cancelling this November’s mayoral and commission races, and giving themselves an extra year […]
‘Conflicting data’ and lack of strategic plan cited The Coral Gables Fire Department has flunked a national assessment that evaluates the agency’s performance, response and delivery of fire emergency services to the community, resulting in the failure to get re-accreditation for the first time in decades. But the mayor and the fire chief say it’s […]
A group of elected officials flew to Panama City last week for the U.S. Embassy’s Fourth of July celebration, at the invitation of Ambassador Kevin Cabrera, a former Miami-Dade County Commissioner and Republican Party committeeman who was tapped for the overseas job by Donald Trump early in his new administration. But almost all of them […]
County commissioner endorses Jackie Garcia-Roves Surprise, surprise. Not. Miami-Dade Commissioner René García officially pulled the plug last month on his not-so-convincing bid for Hialeah mayor, confirming what just about everyone in political circles and their abuelas already knew: He was never really in it to win it. The District 13 commissioner — whose turf includes […]