Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago likes to talk about political theater, but his recent guest appearance in a supporting role at a Miami Commission meeting deserves its own program insert. Lago showed up to the city commission’s December meeting to support a resolution that would help declare several aging hotels along SW 8th Street in […]
At what point does a political disagreement stop being governance and start looking like, well, fixation? Because Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago just dragged his long-running feud with Commissioner Melissa Castro all the way to Tallahassee — and in doing so, may have revealed far more about his own political instincts and ethics than hers. […]
At this point, it’s no longer fair to say Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is “unbothered” by Miami New Times. He’s just lying — again. The man is fully, publicly, enthusiastically bothered. Ladra might even say obsessed. Lago is so bothered, in fact, that after spending half an hour at a commission meeting ranting about […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago had another emotional meltdown on the Coral Gables dais this week. But this time, it wasn’t about Commissioner Melissa Castro. It wasn’t about Ariel Fernandez. And it wasn’t about the Coral Gables Gazette or — sadly for me — Political Cortadito. No, this week the target of Lago’s righteous fury […]
Just when you thought Coral Gables politics couldn’t get any more creative, along comes a brand-new political action committee with a very wholesome-sounding name: Good Government for Coral Gables. Awww. Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Except Ladra has seen this movie before. And she knows who’s holding the camera. The PAC was formed earlier this month […]
It was only a matter of time before Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago found someone to run against his nemesis, Commissioner Melissa Castro, in her next election, which he is trying to move up by four months. A first-time candidate named Nestor Menendez has popped onto the Coral Gables political scene with an impressively padded […]
Long, chaotic commission meeting features bickering There are city commission meetings, and then there are Coral Gables city commission meetings under Mayor Vince Lago, which increasingly resemble a telenovela written by someone who hates everyone in the cast. Tuesday’s meeting was long. It was contentious. It was rude. It was chaotic. It was — depending […]
As usual, las malas lenguas were right: Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is no longer warming a chair at BDI Construction. Pero why? Pick your poison. Is this more fallout from the FBI’s sniffing around developer Rishi Kapoor’s influence over Miami Mayor Francis Suarez — a.k.a. Lago’s political BFF? Is this a pre-emptive cleanse before […]
So much for unity. After weeks of kumbaya talk, meticulous planning, and carefully-worded press releases, Coral Gables finally held its long-delayed “Interfaith Ceremony for Unity and Peace” Monday night. The city had spent nearly two months trying to find a way to honor the victims of October 7 without turning it into a geopolitical food […]
Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro has had enough of the quiet quid pro quo culture that seems to linger like cologne after a ribbon cutting. So she’s bringing a little disinfectant to the dais. Castro plans to introduce an ordinance that would make it crystal clear that no elected official in the City Beautiful can […]