Robert Asencio probably shouldn’t put a deposit on a Tallahassee apartment just yet. And Ladra bets David “King Nine Lives” Rivera is lighting a candle to Cachita right now. Because the election might have been on Tuesday, but we still don’t know who won the seat in Florida House district 118. Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor Christina […]
It’s understandable. People want to vent. To say that not everybody is happy or even okay with the presidential election Tuesday would be so much more than the understatement of the year. Everybody is so not okay. Thousands of people from Portland to New York City marched to protest the election results, chanting “Fuck Donald […]
She may have been beaten, yet again, in the Democratic primary for the 26th Congressional district by the candidate who lost anyway to U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo Tuesday. But Annette Taddeo will not go gently into the good night. She is raging against, not a dying light, but the Republican darkness. Taddeo is still vice […]
The head of the Beacon Council resigned last month. But it’s likely he would have been fired anyway when his contract expired in October. That’s because it looks like Larry Williams has exaggerated his accomplishments. Williams, president and CEO of the Beacon for the past three years, announced in late August that he was taking a […]
So, now that people — both investigators and reporters — are looking into her job with Miami-Dade Water and Sewer and making public records requests, Barby Rodriguez Gimenez showed up to work Tuesday. Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s daughter-in-law was paraded up and down the Coral Gables offices of Aecom, 135 San Lorenzo Ave., by Esther Monzon, president […]
God help us, but Ladra thinks State Rep. Frank Artiles could very well become my state senator in November. Yes, he is a homophobic, sucker-punching Fight Club aficionado who looks like Magilla Gorilla (it’s the jaw line), lied about his residency when he was first elected and wants to kill a Florida black bear. The only real […]
One of the main criticisms on Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez is that he is too comfy close with lobbyists. It’s not just Ladra. A June 2013 poll showed that 55% of the people think he’s too beholden to lobbyists and special interests, and is being led by them rather than by the best interests of the […]
The city of Coral Gables will host a candidate forum Wednesday with the four people running for Miami-Dade School Board in District 6, which includes The City Beautiful. Ladra hopes that Carlos “CJ” Gimenez, the mayor’s quick-tempered son, won’t be there just to scare off the candidates who are not his aunt, Maria Teresa Rojas. […]
Former Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Góngora keeps racking up those endorsements in his bid to become the next Florida Senator in District 38. But so is some young gun attorney named Jason Pizzo who nobody ever heard of before. It’s natural that Góngora would get his ex colleagues on the dais to join his team: Former Miami Beach Commissioners Ed […]
Not everybody was shocked by the news Friday that Miami-Dade Commissioner Juan Zapata had withdrawn his candidacy and was leaving county government. Zapata — who has repeatedly expressed his frustration with the lack of transparency and the “cost of doing business” at County Hall — has had enough. “For the past four years, it has […]