Municipal and state candidates wait in the wings If anyone ever made an argument for term limits, it was Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban Bovo just last week when he was sworn in as the new chairman of the board and talked about actually making decisions in the next two years because, after all, this is his last term and […]
Doral’s founding mayor, who served from 2003 until he was termed out in 2012, was sent back to City Hall Tuesday by voters who connected to his getting Doral “back on track” message — and who tossed out an incumbent that had waged a particularly nasty campaign. J.C. Bermudez won with a whopping 67 percent, a […]
It’s becoming a broken record: Politicians lie or cheat or steal or hide something or otherwise fail us and when Ladra exposes it — or simply points out something curious that they don’t want anyone to notice — they shout “witch” to redirect the attention from themselves. This has happened to Ladra over and over […]
Finally, one of the infamous rivalries in Doral is going to battle on the ballot: Former mayor J.C. Bermudez and Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz both want to be the mayor. Bermudez announced last month — though he has been rumored to be mulling it over since a poll showed him blowing Boria out of the water […]
Doral Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz will sponsor a resolution next week condemning billionaire businessman, reality TV star and presidential candidate Donald Trump for his “racist, derrogatory” remarks about Mexicans and immigrants in his campaign announcement speech. Even though other electeds have expressed outrage at the incendiary comments and the county commission passed a similar resolution last month, […]
Here we go again. Doral went three for three last month when City Clerk Barbara Herrera became the third charter official to be fired in less than a year – the third termination for what seems like political rather than professional reasons. Councilman Pete Cabrera said he wanted to fire Herrera because of inefficiency and […]
Newly-elected Doral Councilman Pete Cabrera has not been on the job for a month even, and already he wants to fire City Clerk Barbara Herrera. Is he a savvy professional businessman who knows when administrative changes need to be made? Or is this, as some believe, the first salvo in a series of attempts to restructure […]
This article, without additions from Monday’s meeting, was first published by Ciudad Doral. In the past year, the city of Doral has been whipped by scandal after scandal after scandal, turning it into the laughing stock of the 305. Not an easy feat in a year of three mayors’ arrests and multiple federal investigations elsewhere. […]
Doral’s recent war between the mayor and the city manager — and it’s resulting and multiple criminal investigations — were almost a faint memory when another chapter of political intrigue opened in the small city on the western edge of the county. Councilwoman Sandra Ruiz’s surprise attempt to fire City Attorney John Herin last week failed to get […]
Jorge Forte, one of the lobbyists arrested by the FBI last week in a sting operation that also nabbed two mayors on bribery and extortion charges, had several contracts with the city of Doral, dating as far back as 2009. Three of Forte’s companies had contracts or agreements to do business with the small western […]