Commissioner Pat Keon has drawn first blood in the mayoral race with a dark money attack mailer against Vice Mayor Vince Lago that calls him “a rubber stamp for big developers.” It’s almost laughable, because Keon is the development darling in the race. Lago has consistently been the lone no vote on several controversial developments […]
Please forgive me if you were at the Coral Gables Chamber’s candidate forum on Thursday and you heard Ladra snoring in the back row. Thank you, Chamber president Mark Trowbridge for the invite, but it was not worth risking COVID to be there live. I should have watched it on Zoom. Even Mayra Joli, the […]
The two newest candidates in the Coral Gables April election came out strong last week with their first month’s campaign finance reports, which were eerily close, and start off their respective bids with a bang. Tania Cruz-Gimenez, the daughter in law of the former mayor and current Congressman Carlos Gimenez, reported a total of $38,350 […]
This April’s interesting Coral Gables election just got more interesting: Mayra Joli, the “nodding lady” from President Donald Trump‘s Miami town hall earlier this year has joined the Group 2 commission contest. Jolly filed paperwork Tuesday to run in an already crowded seat that is shaping up as a battle between Jose Valdes-Fauli, the brother […]
So, that’s why we suddenly see the former Miami-Dade mayor’s son and his wife on these Community Newspaper Facebook chats doing their best to look like James Carville and Mary Matalin. Tania Cruz Gimenez is running for Coral Gables commission. Ladra was wrong when she thought, after running into her and lobbyist Carlos J. “CJ” […]
A long and complicated item on the Coral Gables Commission agenda for Tuesday has some residents worried that the city is trying to sneak some zoning changes in only two weeks after a controversial move to increase heights on Miracle Mile was temporarily stalled. But Vice Mayor Vince Lago and Commissioner Pat Keon both assured […]
There are already seven Coral Gables residents who have expressed an interest and willingness to run for one of the two commission seats that are up for grabs next April. Both Commissioners Pat Keon and Vince Lago have said that they are going to run for the mayor’s seat, being vacated by Raul Valdes-Fauli. They […]
Updated: That fight over development on Miracle Mile at the last Coral Gables Commission meeting between Commissioner Pat Keon and Vice Mayor Vince Lago was just a preview of the mayoral race to unfold over the next few months in the City Beautiful. Keon told Ladra Monday that she was, indeed, going to run for […]
And a city staffer may have fudged grant documents Gables residents, 2 – City staff, 0 The Coral Gables Commission on Tuesday voted with a group of residents who don’t want bike lanes in front of their Alhambra Circle homes, nixing the second such project in less than two years. Last year, homeowners on Riviera Drive […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayoral Son CJ Gimenez, the lobbyist, was at a meeting Saturday of Coral Gables residents who live on Alhambra Circle and on the side streets along the planned bicycle lanes from Coral Way to San Amaro Drive. That’s nowhere near his house. So why was he there? CJ Gimenez lives much further away than […]