If congressional hearings were scored like Olympic events, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted a perfect 10 last week in the category of combative deflection. Unfortunately for the country, the event was oversight. Also unfortunately, it’s been mocked all over the world and will go down as the biggest public temper tantrum by a cabinet member […]
People are talking and Democrats are dreaming For years now, Democrats have searched — sometimes desperately — for someone who could seriously threaten U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar in a district that stubbornly refuses to behave the way they want. They may have just found him. Newly retired CBS Miami anchor Eliott Rodriguez, one of […]
Mayor Eileen Higgins has been in office just long enough to learn where the bathrooms are at City Hall — and already she’s making one thing clear: This administration would very much like to be taken seriously. Last week, Higgins rolled out her senior leadership team, a ritual that in most cities barely registers as […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins — one of the county’s most polished, disciplined and politically savvy Democrats — may finally have something she hasn’t faced in a while: A real race. Enter Martha Hero. Yes, Ladra hears you asking already: Who? Hero filed Monday to challenge Cohen Higgins in District 8, and while she’s not […]
Ever wondered why some Miami city commissioners seem unusually polished — press releases at the ready, social media humming, messaging tighter than a campaign ad? Well, the taxpayers are paying for it. Public records show that Miami Commissioner Miguel Gabela has spent nearly $249,000 in taxpayer funds over the past several months on an outside […]
If there is one group absolutely thrilled with newly-appointed Miami-Dade County Commissioner Vicki Lopez these days, it’s the people who sell the product. The Miami Association of Realtors has named Lopez, a state rep for District 113 until November, its 2025 Housing Advocate of the Year, praising her for championing condominium reform, pushing accessory dwelling […]
At what point does a political disagreement stop being governance and start looking like, well, fixation? Because Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago just dragged his long-running feud with Commissioner Melissa Castro all the way to Tallahassee — and in doing so, may have revealed far more about his own political instincts and ethics than hers. […]
At this point, it’s no longer fair to say Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is “unbothered” by Miami New Times. He’s just lying — again. The man is fully, publicly, enthusiastically bothered. Ladra might even say obsessed. Lago is so bothered, in fact, that after spending half an hour at a commission meeting ranting about […]
Florida ranks 47th in the country for affordable healthcare. And the group behind the long-simmering effort to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot is relaunching statewide signature collection this month — this time aiming for the 2028 ballot, after the Legislature moved the goalposts mid-game with a little thing called HB 1205. You remember HB […]
In a discussion thick with irony, Miami-Dade commissioners on Monday advanced legislation that would reshape the hiring rules for their own watchdog — while investigations touching the dais continue in the background. Commissioner Oliver Gilbert’s proposal to rewrite the hiring rules for the county’s inspector general — the very office tasked with probing corruption and […]