Miguel Gabela won’t answer questions about spending Right after he was elected as an outsider and government reformer, Miami Commissioner Miguel Angel Gabela promised voters he would expose the questionable spending habits at the Bayfront Park Management Trust under former Commissioner Joe Carollo. Instead, he seems to be copying those tactics now that he’s in […]
For four hours on a recent Wednesday, Miami-Dade commissioners sat around the dais debating the future of a mental health facility everybody claims they desperately want to open but nobody wants to fully pay for. And somewhere in the middle of all the speeches about compassion, fiscal responsibility, sustainability and “mission alignment,” an uncomfortable truth […]
A political action committee tied to Miami Commissioner Damian Pardo has apparently decided it is no longer enough to quietly freeze out downtown activist James Torres. Now, they want to publicly nuke him from orbit. A text blast sent Thursday paid by a PAC connected to Alex Miranda — one of the more quiet but […]
So it turns out the whispers were not whispers after all, queridos. They were spoilers. Just days after Doral Police Chief Edwin Lopez announced his move to become the top cop in Miami, las malas lenguas told Ladra that Miami Springs Police Chief Matthew Castillo — who already looked less like a small-town chief settling […]
A tradition at Fritz & Franz Bierhaus could be over Apparently, Coral Gables is ready for the FIFA World Cup. Just not the people who actually gather to watch it together. On Tuesday, Mayor Vince Lago, Vice Mayor Rhonda Anderson and Commissioner Richard Lara once again kicked the can (the ball?) down the road on […]
Did he upset Mayor Lyin’ Vince “The King” Lago? And just like that, Coral Gables City Manager Peter Iglesias is out. Iglesias — the once-fired, then dramatically rehired city manager who became the administrative face of Mayor Vince Lago’s restored political machine — announced suddenly Wednesday that he will resign effective Oct. 2, immediately after […]
The gloves are off in Coral Gables. Actually, the gloves came off months ago. Now they’re using brass knuckles wrapped in public records requests and legal threats. The latest chapter in the increasingly ugly war between Mayor Vince Lago and the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association came this week in the form of […]
Fritz & Franz Bierhaus is once again in mayor’s crosshairs Coral Gables wants the giant FIFA ball on a downtown street. It wants the branding. It wants the prestige of serving as headquarters for the 2026 World Cup operations. It wants the photo ops, the international attention and all the economic sparkle that comes with […]
Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins came into Thursday’s commission meeting ready to sell urgency, crisis and moral responsibility. Instead, she got a very public reminder that being mayor of Miami and actually controlling Miami are two very different things. In what could be seen as a political setback for Higgins just five months into her administration, […]
The South Florida AFL-CIO officially kicked off its “Labor 2026” political campaign Saturday morning with a giant union breakfast in Opa-locka that doubled as both a warning flare about Miami’s affordability crisis and a reminder that organized labor still intends to flex political muscle in South Florida — even in a county where developers often […]