Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez took the stand last week in the public corruption case against former Homestead Mayor Steven Bateman, who is accused of using his elected position and office to benefit Community Health of South Florida, which had hired him as a consultant (read: lobbyist) to help get a clinic approved. Gimenez […]
It’s not like the forces who want to recall Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez needed another reason to add to their long laundry list of arrogant miscues and misdeeds, disregard for public safety, crony connections and ties to lobbyists and the underbelly of 305 politics. But they got one anyway: Gimenez flip flopped on […]
In what seems like a classic case of putting the cart before the horse, Miami-Dade Commissioners will discuss on Wednesday the possible ballot language for a question on the future and uncertain FIU expansion into land now used by the Dade County Youth Fair an expo, which would be moved to another location without using […]
Common Sense NOW, the PAC that helped get Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez elected, has spent about $34,000 this year — all on polls and “data research,” which is a fancy way to say polling. The most recent payments of $3,000 a piece each were made Aug. 6 and Aug. 19, which came after […]
Have all the budget town hall meetings been like the one Thursday at West Dade Regional Library? The room was packed, that’s for sure. But if you removed all the county employees, including the seven cops in uniform and the multiple people from the mayor’s staff, the library supporters and three members of the media, […]
After the Fourth of July boating accident that killed four people in Biscayne Bay caused a renewed demand for the county to put a fire rescue boat in the water, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez hunkered down and refused to refund the fire boat, saying that it probably wouldn’t have made a difference anyway. […]
AFSCME Local 199 became the fourth union to settle with Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez when the administration and the union’s negotiating team reached an agreement Thursday. “We’re done. We’re finished,” said Andy Madtes, president of the union that represents the largest number of employees at about 9,000. “We got all of our […]
UPDATED: Three of Miami-Dade County’s 10 employee labor unions have reached tentative agreements with a suddenly friendlier administration that they now have to take before their members for approval. Three more meetings are scheduled for today and it certainly looks like Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez is more eager these days to strike deals. […]
Is Ladra the only suspicious and jaded soul who thinks that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez scheduled a budget town hall meeting on Election Night on purpose? You know? So nobody would show up? The fourth stop on the mayor’s “Best Case/Worst Case Scenario” budget tour begins at 6 p.m. tonight at the Palmetto […]
Alex Ferro, the new chief of staff to Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Good to Go” Gimenez, got an 88 percent increase in his salary when he took over last week for former Chief of Staff Lisa Martinez. Son of Ambassador Simon Ferro, a lobbyist and land use attorney, and cousin to former State Rep. Marcelo Llorente, […]