Miami didn’t need a State of the City address at the end of the month. Not technically. Not politically. Not theatrically. Outgoing Mayor Francis Suarez had already taken his victory lap — his last SOTC address — on January 15, neatly buttoned up, ribbon tied, legacy laminated. Under the city charter, this annual report must […]
After false starts, county approves petition form Back in December, the crew who wanted to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava face-planted on a paperwork technicality. The Clerk of Courts sent them home to rewrite their homework. Many assumed the whole thing would quietly die on a laptop somewhere between a fundraising pitch and a […]
Delayed project has merchants begging for help Ladra doesn’t know who needs to hear this at City Hall, but East Flagler Street is not supposed to be a ghost town. Black Friday is going to be blacker than usual on Miami’s oldest commercial corridor, where mom-and-pop shops — the same ones the politicians love to […]
What a difference a chat makes. It turns out that the big, scary socialist bogeyman that Miami politicians loved to weaponize in the recent mayor’s race — New York’s free Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the one they tried to tie around Eileen Higgins’ neck like some kind of communism-flavored cowbell — is now, apparently, Donald Trump’s […]
Builders get a BOGO special and Miami gets… flooded Miami commissioners are set to vote Thursday on yet another Damian Pardo special. The Miami commissioners has proposed a shiny new ordinance that would let developers double the allowable density in some of the most flood-prone, overdeveloped corners of the city — as long as they […]
Miami City Hall is at it again, mismanaging public land like it’s a clearance rack at Ross. The city commission on Thursday will consider what looks like a fire sale on the south side of Watson Island, and the only ones getting a bargain are — surprise! — the developers. On the agenda for the […]
Even Joe Sanchez now says “Let the people vote” Well, well, well… look who suddenly found religion in democracy. On the eve of Tuesday’s big Miami-Dade Commission showdown over how to fill the District 5 seat vacated by Commissioner Eileen Higgins, who is in the runoff for Miami mayor, the winds have shifted so hard […]
Well, it looks like it’s happening. The Miami Seaquarium — once the depressing, algae-stained home of Lolita the orca and a bunch of overworked dolphins — is being reborn as… wait for it… a giant waterfront dining-and-marina playground. Because nothing says “environmental redemption” like swapping captive sea mammals for $60 ceviches and a fleet of […]
Just when you thought the dust had settled from Miami-Dade’s budget meltdown over nonprofit funding, the county commission is getting ready to cook up a permanent fix — and it’s one that could quietly take a bite out of every county contract. Ladra’s calling it the CBO skim. Thursday, the county’s appropriations committee will take […]
Florida politicians love to talk about “family values.” But when it comes to helping parents — especially working moms — actually run for office, they’ve been leaving them high and dry. That could finally change. State Senator LaVon Bracy Davis (D–Ocoee) and State Rep. Kelly Skidmore (D–Boca Raton) have filed legislation — HB 361 and SB […]