Some politicians ease into office. Bryan Calvo walked into Hialeah City Hall last week, raised his right hand, said “So help me God,” and immediately started unplugging things. At 28 years old — now officially the youngest mayor in Hialeah’s hundred-year history — Calvo didn’t waste his first afternoon taking ceremonial photos or handing out […]
The youngest mayor — and maybe the hungriest — pulls upset Well, well, well. Turns out you can still beat the machine in Hialeah. Bryan Calvo, the 27-year-old former councilman who once sued the city’s own leadership and knocked on thousands of doors himself, pulled off what nobody — and I mean nobody — expected […]
The race for Hialeah mayor — which was already shaping up to be a good old-fashioned street fight with chancletas flying — has turned into a full-blown telenovela. And the one smiling quietly in the corner right now is Council President Jesús Tundidor, who’s watching both of his rivals trip over their own scandals just […]
Hialeah’s first budget hearing for 2025-26 last week turned into another political telenovela, with interim Mayor Jacqueline Garcia-Roves and Councilman Jesús Tundidor digging into their rival tax-cut proposals like two kids fighting over the last croqueta. And since the council is still missing a seventh member to break ties, nothing got done Thursday. Nada. The […]
It was like a shadow government meet-and-greet Just when you thought that the old Hialeah politics mix of evil alliances and public distrust were behind us, along comes a secret society supper vibe from former mayor Esteban “Steve” Bovo, joined by ex-mayors Julio Robaina and Carlos Hernández. The bad boys of the City of Progress […]
It must be election season in Hialeah because, suddenly, everybody wants to give away tax cuts like they’re pastelitos. Interim Mayor Jacqueline “Jackie” Garcia-Roves — who is running to keep the job she was handed when former Mayor Esteban Bovo went to D.C. to lobby and be with his wifey — called a press conference […]
Some residents in Hialeah were surprised last week to find that they could pay for their water and research a nearby charter school at the same time. That’s because a flyer for the COHEA (City of Hialeah Education Academy) Career and Collegiate Academy was found in the same envelope with the utility bill. Several residents […]
Hialeah Councilman Carl Zogby, the former police department spokesman, won re-election outright in a three-way Group 5 race Tuesday, with 57% of the vote. Mayra Jimenez got 27% and Salvador Blanco got 16%. But the other two council races, the open seats which had five and six candidates vying, are headed into a runoff after […]
The voting public split the baby in Hialeah Tuesday — if the runoff election was a referendum on Mayor Carlos Hernandez, as they usually seem to be. One of Little Castro’s endorsed candidates won, beating an activist the mayor had arrested early on in the campaign. Jackie Garcia-Roves, who beat Milly Herrera, 54 to 46%, […]
Former Hialeah Councilman Luis González may have the support of Mayor Carlos Hernández, but he is not going to have an easy coast back into office this November. Back after a two year hiatus to run for the open seat left by the termed-out Isis García-Martínez, Gonzalez will have to beat back two other candidates. There […]