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 […]
DLC names two key cronies: Ed Marquez, JD Patterson Miami-Dade Deputy Mayor Ed Marquez is safe. For now. Marquez was on a list of county officials that many political observers thought would be out with the election of Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who was expected to clean house. We can cross him off. He has […]
In their first meeting with the five newlyelected members, the Miami-Dade Commission moved Thursday to poach former Vice Mayor and Budget Director Jennifer Glaser Moon from the newly-elected mayor’s office. Nobody heard Mayor Daniella Levine Cava complain. Moon is the woman, after all, who said “Under this mask, I’m saying fuck you,” on a hot […]
Miami-Dade’s first female mayor was sworn-in Tuesday at a ceremony that was long on pomp and circumstance — there was even a marching band — and short on specifics. It was a bit anticlimactic. La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava, who alternated to short brief Spanish summaries of what she said in English, did name the […]
They had their goodbye ceremony already and each got a key to the county, but the termed out commissioners who are being replaced next week just had to have another fire sale, er, another meeting to give away more county land, move around and allocate more GOB monies, and dole out the rest of the […]
President Elect Joe Biden‘s transition might not be going along as quickly as some might like, and Miami-Dade Mayor Elect Daniella Levine Cava doesn’t get sworn in until next week, but she’s already taking charge at County Hall, making key hires and meeting with department heads. She might want to try to pace herself. This […]
While Democrats across Florida and Miami-Dade in particular are still wringing their hands and pointing their fingers at the disastrous Tuesday that ended in big state and congressional losses for South Florida, local Republicans are still grinning ear to ear and patting themselves on the back. Sure, they lost the presidential race in Miami-Dade, but […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Daniella Levine Cava beat her colleague on the dais to become the next county mayor — making history as the first woman elected to the position, the second most power political job in Florida. Levine Cava won with 54% of the vote, an 8-point lead over Commissioner Esteban Bovo, according to the Miami-Dade […]
Brandon Rosado, Ladra’s cachorro intern, has a keen eye for campaigns and elections. He wanted to provide his own analysis of his ballot for our readers. So just in time, without any further ado (and tiny bit of editing for syntax, not style or substance), is Brandon’s ballot picks for Tuesday’s elections — from top […]