Commissioner Frank Carollo makes more moves for juicy Bayfront Park job

Commissioner Frank Carollo makes more moves for juicy Bayfront Park job

Less than five months ago, Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo got fellow board members of the Biscayne Park Management Trust — which oversees all activities at Bayfront and Museum parks — to approve a no-bid $2 million contract for a playground that would be paid for with funds from the Omni CRA. Tuesday, he will ask the […]

Laughable campaign mailer casts Miami’s Regalados as commie cronies

Laughable campaign mailer casts Miami’s Regalados as commie cronies

Actor Sean Penn just made a cameo appearance in the Miami city elections. A campaign mailer arrived at the home of voters in District 3 Saturday with a photo of the two-time Academy Award winner — and celebrated socialist sympathizer and apologist — at a Miami Heat game in 2011 with Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, […]

Finally! Manolo Reyes looks real good in Miami Commission race

Finally! Manolo Reyes looks real good in Miami Commission race

Ya era hora. It looks like this might be Manolo Reyes‘ year after all. Every poll says so. Even Ralph Rosado‘s poll. These two guys have been running for Miami City Commission forever — or at least since when they both thought they would be on the 2013 ballot for District 4 before Commissioner Francis […]

Carlos Hernandez uses Cuban seminar excuse to wage war on ethics board

Carlos Hernandez uses Cuban seminar excuse to wage war on ethics board

In a sick plot twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan, Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez flipped the script on the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust Tuesday and announced that his city had been investigating the agency’s possible expenditure of public taxpayer dollars on a seminar this past March about doing business in and with Cuba. […]

‘Resign to run’ law should be extended to electeds in federal races, like CD27

‘Resign to run’ law should be extended to electeds in federal races, like CD27

Ladra dares Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez to put his committee vote into action and resign his seat now The open congressional seat thanks to the announced retirement of U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has attracted almost a dozen hopefuls who want to represent us in Washington, D.C.: A whopping 11 candidates have either declared their intentions […]

No real 2017 mayoral bids in ‘Big Four’

No real 2017 mayoral bids in ‘Big Four’

We’ve been robbed. Cheated! The four biggest cities in Miami-Dade have elections next month without a single mayoral race. Not really anyway. The four frontrunners have zero or marginal opposition. That means there will be no debates, no conversation about the direction of these cities, no real choice for the voters of Miami, Miami Beach, […]