Some city employees get fired or transferred for real or perceived political alliances that aren’t in line with the current administration. Others get a 17 percent paycut forced on them or threatened with a 40 percent downsizing for retaliatory reasons. But not everybody who works in Hialeah has it so bad. There are created and choice jobs and “salary […]
Police arrived Wednesday to one of the monthly senior parties thrown for the residents of Hialeah Housing Authority facilities after someone called in a “disturbance”. But it wasn’t a fistfight between two viejitos over the Marlins MVP or a hair-pulling meleé de abuelas over the last piece of cake. No, the police were called to […]
Most people couldn’t believe their eyes and ears as they sat in Hialeah council chambers Thursday night and the misguided miscreant electeds ignored the pleas of residents and employees to reconsider the threatened firing of 105 of 266 firefighter paramedics in order to balance a bogus budget on their backs. As I described what transpired […]
As expected, the endorsement from the Unity Coalition for the Miami city election in District 2 went to Kate Callahan — who pays the group’s political director, Vanessa Brito, $4,500 a month to manage her campaign against incumbent Commissioner Marc Sarnoff. What was not expected is that the organization took it back four hours later. […]
The man acting as mayor in Hialeah must have forgotten that voters did not put him there. If he had remembered that he is but a temporary placemark puppet placed in power by his mentor/master Julio Robaina — who Ladra feels somehow still pulls the strings at City Hall — he may not have dared […]
The political advisor of a LGBT group that intends to make endorsements in the Miami city elections is also the campaign manager for one of the candidates. And while that appears to be an enormous — and possibly planned — conflict of interest to everyone in the universe, however, is defended as business as usual […]
Hialeah voters should tune into Actualidad radio tomorrow (1040 AM) and hear acting alcaldito Carlos Hernandez defend his flip flops on financial information and lack of transparency and his false accusation that I am a paid staffer of the Raul Martinez mayoral campaign. He told me that to my face at Tuesday’s meeting after he […]
The candidates who have filed to run so far in the upcoming Hialeah city elections were forced to show their hand by City Clerk David Concepcion this week after he was reminded that state law required candidates who ran in groups to stake claim to one before raising funds. Or should I say slight of […]
I have to daily thank any dieties that are responsible for Al Crespo, the blogger who brings us The Crespo-Gram Report, which keeps scooping all the mainstream media and bringing us breaking big stories like Tony Crapp’s resignation and the bribe, er, I mean early retirement offer by Mayor Tomas Regalado to Police Chief Miguel […]
While the mayor’s race in Hialeah seems to be attracting the big bucks — former mayor Raul Martinez and former State Sen. Rudy Garcia (REP, District 40) have more than $240,000 between them — the money is not trickling in as much for council candidates. Not all the campaign finance reports for the upcoming Hialeah […]