Here we go again. After almost a year, an award for construction supervision at Miami International Airport was stalled last week after the mayor’s office said it needed more time to review a bid protest from the company that was not chosen. It had to be the airport, where bids go to be challenged. And […]
Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz seizes power, fills void Miami-Dade Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz is flexing again and could get his colleagues to strip Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of more power by taking certain offices and departments from the mayor’s purview. The commission already voted 10-3 in March at first reading to give Diaz […]
The first female and first Jewish mayor of Miami-Dade County will deliver her first State of the County address Friday morning without a live audience, thanks to COVID19, which promises to be the central theme of her speech. La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava will present the annual report on the county’s status and goals virtually, […]
Frank Artiles? Really? The former and disgraced state senator, forced to resign after a public racist rant at a Tallahassee bar, is among the folks being considered Monday by the Miami-Dade commission to fill the vacancy in District 8 caused by the resignation of Daniella Levine Cava, who has become the mayor. Artiles likely won’t […]
Now more than ever — after the Miami-Dade commissioners held off the District 8 appointment to open it up to more wannabes — voters countywide must demand a special election as the only way to maintain our trust. The process of replacing Daniella Levine Cava, who was elected to mayor and left her commission seat […]
The NAACP is backing down, after all, from its demand that Jimmy Morales not be appointed as the Chief Operations Officer of Miami-Dade County. But only to wait and see for 100 days. After that, the former Miami Beach city manager and Mayor Daniella Levine Cava will get a report card on their promised actions […]
There’s been quite some community pushback on the appointment of Jimmy Morales as the county’s chief operations officer by the newly elected Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. And everything could change after Monday. The Miami-Dade NAACP has not backed down from its position that the former Miami Beach city manager is not a good fit […]
Newly elected Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, the first female mayor in the county’s history, has already hired four of her top chiefs — and none of them are women. But she told Ladra this week that she was getting ready to make more announcements and that at least one of them would be a […]
The top name on that “clean house” list that people are passing around — hoping that new Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has one, too — is Alice Bravo, the director of the Miami-Dade public works and transit departments. “We do want to see some change,” says Jeffrey Mitchell, president of the Transit Workers Union Local […]
Despite issues with labor, blacks, he gets a key No. 2 post When Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales said early last month that he was leaving the city for greener pastures, he claimed he didn’t have another job option. But Ladra and many others didn’t believe him. Nobody leaves a $306,000-a-year job with nothing […]