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 […]
Ladra got the most interesting phone call Monday, on the eve of the first debate for the Miami-Dade mayoral candidates in 2020. It was a push poll, likely for former Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas. Why? Penelas was the only candidate that my interviewer spoke positively about during a nearly 20 minute Q&A (okay it took […]
The voting public split the baby in Hialeah Tuesday — if the runoff election was a referendum on Mayor Carlos Hernandez, as they usually seem to be. One of Little Castro’s endorsed candidates won, beating an activist the mayor had arrested early on in the campaign. Jackie Garcia-Roves, who beat Milly Herrera, 54 to 46%, […]
Talk about persistence: It took a fourth try, but former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla is an elected official again. It also took about a million dollars. But more about that later. In what Ladra is pretty sure is yet another sign of the apocalypse, Dean DLP won the runoff for the Miami District […]
There won’t be a mayoral race but the three commission races in Miami Beach this November drew four candidates each for a total of 12 names on the ballot. You just know there’s going to be at least two runoffs. The only other incumbent is Group 5 Commissioner Ricky Arriola, who has drawn three solid […]
It was a bit chaotic at the Miami Dade College Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, where a “surprise” interim president was named and members continued to press for a politically-motivated do-over of a selection process to permanently replace the retiring Eduardo Padrón, whose last day is Friday. “A shitshow,” said one faculty observer. “A circus,” […]
With less than two weeks left before qualifying, a third candidate has filed to run against Miami Beach Commissioner Ricky Arriola. Stephen Cohen, a real estate investor specializing in the South Beach luxury condo market, on Tuesday joined Raquel Pacheco, a retired soldier, business owner and PTA mom, and Jonathan Welsh, a healthcare marketing executive, in the race to unseat […]
Operators of the Medley landfill want to go 75 feet higher and keep piling on the trash for 10 years longer than currently planned at their facility, which stinks for miles. And the state was poised to grant the “application for significant modification” — until the city of Doral stepped in. Now, citizens have until Aug. 8 […]