Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo‘s little stunt to get out of a traffic ticket in 2012 probably cost him about 10 times as much as the original citation would have. Carollo, who apparently called the police chief in August of 2012 after he was stopped in Coconut Grove, pleaded no contest Wednesday to an accusation that […]
Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo may have given the elderly residents a domino table to play on during these last city elections, but a lot of us know that these people have a lot more serious issues that need to be addressed. The lack of air conditioners has been an issue for years, but there are […]
Now that Miami Commissioner Francis Suarez has bowed out of the mayoral race and nobody came out of the shadows to replace him, we only have two races worth watching. And one of those is the fight by Commissioner Frank Carollo to keep his seat against challenger Alex Dominguez. Carollo may have a little questionable […]
More than 190,000 absentee ballots will be mailed today to voters in Miami-Dade County for the Nov. 5 question on the public financing of Jackson Health System’s modernization, which is being pushed by the same team of campaign consultants, more or less, who got Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez re-elected and got last year’s school bond […]
It may not rank as high on our corruption scales as a mayor charged with unlawful compensation for a secret lobbying gig or another politico getting passed $3,000 in closet kickbacks. But we’re on a roll. Miami Commissioner Frank Carollo may have used his elected position to get out of a traffic ticket last August. And […]
Now that Senator Alex Diaz de la Portilla has set his mind and heart on a still-elusive seat in the Florida Senate and abandoned thoughts (for now, anyway) about the house seat in district 112 — being vacated by his term-limited friend Rep. Carlos Lopez Cantera — it’s safe for other Republicans to come out […]