On Tuesday, Miami-Dade commissioners will get a report from Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Mr. Giveaway” Gimenez on efforts to relocate the Dade County Youth Fair to make room for Florida International University’s expansion. In it, he identifies four potential relocation sites — really two, since two are old sites already rejected — as if progress has been made. But […]
Advocates for body cameras on police officers say they reduce citizen complaints and use of force incidents. They say that it’s natural for police officers to be on their best behavior if big brother is watching. But who is really watching? Not me and not you. The Florida Senate is considering a bill that would […]
Henri Sori, the Miami-Dade county department head that came under fire last year for that “Harlem Shake,” “morale-boosting” video his staff produced in 2013, resigned from his position Friday. The official reason is that the director of the Community Information and Outreach Department found outside employment. But sources tell Ladra that Sori was told to resign […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Commissioner Rebeca Sosa will have to testify, after all, about the intimate conversation they had during a police union impasse meeting that may be a violation of the cone of silence rules, a judge said this week. But they didn’t want to. When the mayor and Sosa — who was […]
The mega mall proposed for the Northwest corner of Miami-Dade, known as the American Dream Miami complex, is gaining speed now that the School Board has released its lease hold on part of the property and the county commission approved to be a purchase pass-through for 82 acres of state land. But is it really […]
The Miami-Dade School Board approved the release of a lease hold on about half of a state property that is now in a convoluted land deal between the the county and the developers of a proposed mega mall and tourist attraction where I-75 meets the Florida Turnpike. But not before Superintendent Alberto Carvalho revealed the county […]
In yet another race against the clock, under the gun of yet another looming deadline that could have been completely intentional, Miami-Dade commissioners on Tuesday got into the real estate business and approved a land assemblage deal that is the first necessary step in development of a megamall/tourist attraction in the northwest corner of the […]
Controversial plans for a super mega retail mall with tourist attractions in a northwest corner of the county may have come out of nowhere earlier this month, but it’s looking like the project is going somewhere fast. American Dream Miami — the 200-acre complex that includes a skating rink, water park, performing sea lions and an […]
It’s not bad enough that Miami-Dade got caught lying to the federal government to get somewhere around $6 million in transit grants that we apparently didn’t use right and now Uncle Sam is demanding we pay back. It gets worse: Some honcho at County Hall had the gall to fire the eagle eye employee who […]
Dressed in a crisp white skirt suit that shimmered just a little, with a big green flower pin that matched her high heels, Miami-Dade School Board Member Raquel Regalado — the 305’s favorite political daughter — became on Monday morning the first Hispanic woman to run for Miami-Dade mayor. While the media throng made a […]