It seems everybody knew who the new papi on the Miami City Commission would be even before the runoff last November. Former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla only got 39% of the vote Nov. 5 — but it was almost 18 points higher than the number two guy. So the writing was on the Allapattah walls. […]
The organizers of the recall effort against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo stood in front of City Hall and cameras and the world at an eagerly-promoted press conference Tuesday morning and pretty much showed they don’t know what they’re doing. They’ve got the passion, but they’ve been running around like chickens with no heads. And no […]
South Miami Mayor Phillip Stoddard wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but he won anyway when his hand-picked replacement (read: puppet) Sally Philips took 34% of the vote in a five-way race to become the new mayor. Philips is lucky there is no runoff (don’t listen to the Miami Herald because they got it wrong) because the […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, king of the pay-to-play game, got two free tickets to Super Bowl LIV this Sunday as a gift from Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium owner Stephen Ross, a longtime ally and campaign donor who (1) got a sweet deal in 2014 where the county pays him up to $5 million […]
About 100 people — give or take a few dozen political operatives and candidate relatives — showed up Thursday for the fifth and possibly final candidate forum for the South Miami Feb. 11 election. And Ladra wants to thank South Miami Neighbors and the South Miami Elks not only for hosting the event, but also […]
The One Miami-Dade political action committee chaired by Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon‘s lobbyist aunt collected another $88,700 in December — and more than half of that came from Jorge Mas who wants to build a $1 billion mega mall and hotel complex disguised as a soccer stadium on the Melreese Golf Course. At least $52,200 […]
UPDATED: Former Miami-Dade Commisioner Juan Zapata has dropped out of the county mayoral election after realizing that a countywide race was more difficult than he thought. He posted his exit on Facebook around 9 a.m: Dear Friends, Regrettably things did not come together the way I would have liked and that a campaign of this […]
Well, if there was any question that newly-elected Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla was big man on campus, it was answered Thursday, when he made himself co-chair of the Southeast Overtown Park West Community Redevelopment Agency and the city’s member representative to the Tourism Development Board. ADLP, who already chairs the Omni CRA, […]
Is Alice Bravo the next Miami city manager? Hundreds of morning commuters were running late to work Tuesday after trains were delayed, leaving them stranded at some northbound stations for about an hour. Not a single person more fit on the platform at Dadeland North about 8:30 a.m., where the riders were so deep they […]
Another one bites the dust: former Miami Beach Commissioner John Elizabeth Aleman, who had been selected as the executive director of the Miami Downtown Development Authority, resigned from her unconfirmed position Tuesday, because of the tenure (read: power shift) at City Hall. “I have concluded that the prospect of working within the current political climate is […]