The Three Amigos are no more. Miami commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla traded sharp barbs at a commission meeting Thursday — publicly accusing each other of ethical and maybe criminal lapses — in the wake of a scandal about a ghost employee at the Omni CRA who is ADLP’s longtime lackey […]
What does Jenny Nillo have on Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla? Not only does he give her a job at the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency fresh out of prison, but then — when she is busted as a no-show and he should try to distance himself from her — The Dean provides her […]
A real street fight between neighbors erupted earlier this month at an impromptu press conference about the street fight between the city of Miami and Miami-Dade County over the closure of several roads in Silver Bluff. And it’s all in time for this year’s city elections. The totally unnecessary press conference was more like a […]
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla flew to Las Vegas this week to visit Elon Musk and tour the Boring Company which has proposed building a $30 million tunnel under the Miami River connecting Brickell to the downtown. Talk about gambling with money and lives. First, nobody believes that Musk […]
Political observers knew it was a bad idea to give Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla the chairmanship of the Omni CRA. Now he is under investigation for having hired a longtime lackey as a ghost employee. Jenny Nillo, a onetime state senate plantidate and longtime campaign and legislative worker for ADLP, is […]
City commissioners in Miami could officially give the redistricting consulting contract to Miguel de Grandy on Thursday. That’s expected. The contract was taken from former State Sen. Bill Galvano, a pal of Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, last month and De Grandy was already spoken of as the chosen replacement. What’s not expected or […]
Add Zoning Director Joe Ruiz and Human Services Director Milton Vickers to the high-ranking employees who have left the City of Miami’s employ in the last year, or, basically, since the city commission pressured former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez to resign. Vickers’ exit seems to be a direct result of the abusive treatment from commissioners […]
Oooops! The Florida Legislature is already knee deep in committee meetings and the budget was presented by the governor on Thursday. Many if not most municipal governments have already sent their legislative priorities and designated lobbyists to Tallahassee to fight for their pet projects and piece of pork pie. But not Miami, where city commissioners […]
The bromance is over. Miami Commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla — the power duo that’s been wreaking havoc on the city — are just not getting along like they used to. Carollo is acting like a jilted lover. And while we don’t know what happens behind closed doors, Diaz de la […]
The back-to-back resignations Monday of three key city of Miami administrators is part of what several sources call a “purge” of officials to make room for political lackeys who will answer to Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Daniel Rotenberg, Director of the Department of Real Estate and Asset Management — better known as DREAM […]