Commission already took the bite out of the watchdog Miami voters did what they were supposed to last year. They turned out at the ballot box in August and voted overwhelmingly — by a margin of 79% to 21% — for a truly independent Inspector General to root out shady shenanigans at City Hall. But […]
Miami’s political telenovela just cast another familiar face: Former Miami Mayor and former District 7 Miami-Dade Commissioner Xavier Suarez wants his old job back — and maybe a rematch with Commissioner Joe Carollo. Just hours after a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge on Monday declared the Miami City Commission’s election year change by ordinance unconstitutional, effectively […]
Miami Assistant City Manager Larry Spring, the city’s chief financial officer, has submitted his resignation and will be leaving the city’s employ — for the second time — in about two weeks. “As you know, over the last three years, I have genuinely enjoyed the opportunity to be back with my City of Miami family […]
The historic structure could become a charter school Miami commissioners are about to give themselves an extra year in office, and everyone is talking about that. But nobody is talking about the giveaway of the historic Olympia Theater on Flagler Street to developers of the largest charter school company in the state, maybe the country, […]
Spotted at the Pollo Tropical on 57th Avenue and Northwest 7th Street Wednesday: Miami Commissioners Damian Pardo and Ralph Rosado, who was elected earlier this month to fill the vacant seat in District 4, chatting and bonding over maduros. Pardo said it was just a chance encounter: Both men stopped for a bite to eat […]
As always, there are winners and losers in every election that go beyond the candidates. As tradition, Political Cortadito has analyzed the campaigns and results of the special election last week in Miami’s District 4 to replace the late Manolo Reyes. Ralph “Rafael” Rosado, an urban planning consultant and fired city manager of North Bay […]
Proposed change of election year is part of the ruse There’s a new political action committee in town. It was formed late last month, just in time to get involved at the last minute in the special election in Miami’s District 4 to replace the late Commissioner Manolo Reyes, which was won Tuesday by the […]
Evil triumphed over good on Tuesday in the rushed, special election for Miami commission in District 4, to replace the late Commissioner Manolo Reyes., who must be rolling in his grave. Ralph “Rafael” Rosado, an urban planning consultant and compulsive liar whose campaign was run and funded by Commissioner Joe Carollo, beat Jose Francisco Regalado, who left […]
For 100 years, the elections in Coral Gables have been in April. It is so written in the city’s charter, which is being celebrated this year for the City Beautiful’s centennial. But that history was erased this month. The new city commission majority, formed in last month’s elections, voted last week to change the biannual […]
The political battle between Miami commissioners Joe Carollo and Miguel Gabela — which began in earnest after Gabela took the chairmanship of the Bayfront Park Management Trust from Crazy Joe — erupted into a full blown war this week with several bombs launched. It culminated Thursday at a city commission meeting where Gabela’s wife accused […]