The Miami-Dade mayor’s desired request for proposals on the overhaul of both the Rickenbacker and Venetian causeways — a necessary step after getting an unsolicited proposal — could hit a snag Thursday. A number of commissioners and other stakeholders — including city officials in both Key Biscayne and Miami Beach — have questions and concerns. […]
Mayra Joli, who came in fifth two months ago in the Coral Gables City Commission election, wants to throw her hat in the ring again. Only it’s a different ring. Joli has presented paperwork to run for city of Miami mayor. It will be interesting to see how she proves that she’s been a city […]
Two old oak trees on Grand Avenue in Coral Gables were cut down to make way for an entrance into the Wawa gas station and convenience store that is planned for that corner, despite the opposition of many residents and parents at the elementary school across the street. WaWa will pay a little more than […]
A mailer that landed in the homes of South Miami voters Wednesday tries to paint one of the candidates in next week’s special election as pro-development. But it was paid for by the same political action committee that smeared the three Hispanic candidates in the mayoral race last year. It is tied to former Mayor […]
What does Jenny Nillo have on Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla? Not only does he give her a job at the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency fresh out of prison, but then — when she is busted as a no-show and he should try to distance himself from her — The Dean provides her […]
It’s not a huge surprise that the Wawa gas station and convenience store planned across the street from G.W. Carver Elementary was the focal point of a Coral Gables candidate forum Thursday night organized by a coalition of parent-teacher associations. And Ladra imagines that nobody’s answers satisfied the group of concerned parents and residents who […]
Critics question process and lack of public notice If the committee meeting last week is any indication, the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization meeting Thursday is going to be long and hard. Have a big breakfast. That’s because the TPO is going to be discussing and voting on the controversial 87th Avenue “bridge to nowhere” that […]
The mailer that landed in mailboxes Saturday calling Coral Gables Commission Group 3 candidate Alex Bucelo a puppet was paid for by former Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. What does Miami have to do with the Gables? Well, while he denies it to the end, Javier Baños, who is also running in Group 3, is the […]
Please forgive me if you were at the Coral Gables Chamber’s candidate forum on Thursday and you heard Ladra snoring in the back row. Thank you, Chamber president Mark Trowbridge for the invite, but it was not worth risking COVID to be there live. I should have watched it on Zoom. Even Mayra Joli, the […]
Less you were forgetting that there is an election in Miami this November, District 5 commission candidate Michael Hepburn — who ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2018 — is ramping things up. On Thursday, he unveiled his Hepburn-On-The-Block campaign, with a plan to walk every block in all 37 precincts starting Monday and […]