If anyone thought Rolando Escalona would ease into the job, smile for the cameras, and wait politely for the dust to settle, they clearly haven’t been paying attention. Even before Miami’s newest city commissioner was sworn in Wednesday — officially, publicly, and with all the ceremonial trimmings — he had already gone to work. And […]
Just because there’s isn’t a date called yet for the special election in House District 113, the seat vacated by former State Rep. Vicki Lopez — who left when she was appointed to the county commission — doesn’t mean there isn’t any campaign mail. Tony J. Diaz, a small business owner, dropped the first USPS […]
If you’re going to sell off one of Miami’s last big pieces of waterfront land, why not do it at the very last City Commission meeting of the year — and the very last one for Joe Carollo and Mayor Francis Suarez? That’s exactly what happened last week, when the Miami City Commission voted 4–1 […]
Miami’s Mayor-Elect Eileen Higgins has barely picked out her office chair and she’s already doing something unheard of in the Magic City: surrounding herself with grown-ups. Competent ones. With résumés. On Friday, Higgins announced her incoming chief of staff and the transition team that will guide her first 100 days — and, folks, Ladra did […]
Miami’s latest political dust-up has hit a bureaucratic face-plant. If Miami politics has a recurring theme these days — beyond loud politicians and slow public records — it’s this: the theater of outrage always overloads the technical skillset required to actually accomplish anything. Case in point: the sham recall campaign against Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella […]
Joe Carollo slipped out of Miami City Hall at 11:59 p.m. Thursday night — and Miami let out a long, exhausted sigh. End of an era? Por favor. It’s the end of a nightmare. A 40–year Carollo political dynasty, gone like a thief in the night, with El Loco Joe choosing to resign before his […]
Miami’s new mayor-elect says the circus is over Miami Mayor-Elect Eileen Higgins held her first post-election press conference Wednesday, and the gist is that La Gringa no vino a jugar. If Francis Suarez turned City Hall into a political Airbnb — you know, a place where he crashed between photo ops and travel jaunts — […]
Tallahassee tiptoes toward Trump’s map makeover Ladra has seen some shameless legislative antics in her day — and trust me, that bar is high — but what happened again Wednesday in Tallahassee deserves its own little trophy shaped like a locked microphone. For the second meeting in a row, the Florida House Select Committee on […]
Miami politics is never just about the people on the ballot. In fact, half the drama is happening off the ballot. Another election cycle has come and gone, leaving behind the usual debris field of broken signs, bruised egos, and consultants still waiting to get paid. And while everyone is busy dissecting the candidates and […]
Did you feel the shockwave? The Carollo era is officially over. Kaput. Finito. Ciao pescao. Rolando Escalona — the 34-year-old restaurant manager whose political résumé could fit on the back of a Sexy Fish cocktail napkin — just beat former Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo in Miami’s District 3 commission runoff, ending four decades of one […]