The ordinance passed Monday by the Miami City Commission to limit recall efforts to once a year per elected is legally flawed and dishonestly presented. In passing it on first reading, the Three Amigos who voted in favor, said it was not about the recall of Joe Carollo and that it was only to stem abuse of the […]
Moments after his appointment was announced by Mayor Francis Suarez, new Miami City Manager Art Noriega immediately did what he was hired to do — he brought a broken city commission together with a unanimous confirmation vote. That is, after all, why Noriega was picked in the first place: Because of his relationship with commissioners […]
Even without the big “secret” city manager appointment, the meeting of Miami city commissioners Monday promises to be another battle between Commissioner Joe Carollo and his main target, Mayor Francis Suarez. Carollo is likely to denounce the way Suarez announced his manager selection — he hates being left out — and his hiring of a stand-in […]
It’s the worst kept secret in local politics: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is expected to name Miami Parking Authority Chief Executive Officer Arthur “Art” Noriega as the new city manager Monday — as Ladra first predicted more than a month ago — but probably for an interim period as they launch a national search for a […]
Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo is certainly taking advantage of the unfortunate incident that landed the mayor’s spokesman and city’s communication director in jail on charges of transmitting pornography to aminor. But he’s also throwing rocks from a glass house. Boulders. Because while he’s going around saying that the mayor let Rene Pedrosa amend his application […]
It opens up brilliantly on a pair of caged parakeets, birds that old Cubans love to keep and care for. And over soft music, the grandmotherly Cuban lady’s story sounds sad. It makes you want to cry. The first of several planned Joe Carollo recall ads with voter testimonials came out Thursday night about halfway through […]
Miami-Dade Police last month recovered a stolen excavating tractor from a property on Krome Avenue owned by the new and improved Miami City Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. The $117,000 tractor, owned by Earth Movers in Homestead, was stolen from a construction site at Southwest 136th Street and 157th Avenue between about 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 3, […]
Who is the city manager of Miami? That’s what everybody wants to know. Officially, it is still Emilio Gonzalez, who resigned last month after Commissioner Joe Carollo accused him of fudging the permit for his deck and tried to fire him. Instead, the commission voted for the auditor general to investigate and immediately after that, […]
The grudge match between Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo and Mayor Francis Suarez — a Hatfields and McCoys style family feud that goes back more than two decades — ratcheted up a notch or two at the commission meeting Tuesday. And it may have pushed Suarez to back the recall effort against his (or his dad’s) arch […]
It seems everybody knew who the new papi on the Miami City Commission would be even before the runoff last November. Former Sen. Alex Diaz de la Portilla only got 39% of the vote Nov. 5 — but it was almost 18 points higher than the number two guy. So the writing was on the Allapattah walls. […]