Four months after he got sworn in as Coral Gables’ newest commissioner, Richard Lara is finally bringing his first resolution to the dais. You’d think it might be some bold policy idea to set the tone for his term. Maybe something on development, zoning, traffic — or even trees. Nope. Item F-17 on Tuesday’s agenda […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago has a new political target in his crosshairs — the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center Association, the decades-old civic group that safeguards the land where the city’s youth center now stands. But it’s only because former Commissioner “Coach Kirk” Menendez, who had the guts to challenge him in the […]
Well, vecinos, it looks like the Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago has finally found a way to get rid of Planning & Zoning Board member Sue Kawalerski — the only member who regularly sides with residents over developers. All it takes is three votes of the commission on Tuesday in what could be an unprecedented […]
It looks like Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago is backpedaling on his decision to move the city’s election from odd- to even-numbered years just because he wants to and is now suddenly saying that the public should vote on it after all. What a concept! At their next meeting Tuesday, city commissioners will again discuss […]
Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and Actualidad 1040 AM have officially kissed and made up — or at least signed on the dotted line — in that defamation lawsuit Vinnie filed last year over comments made on the Spanish-language “Contacto Directo” morning radio show in 2023 about an investigation of a possible conflict of interest in […]
It’s good to have friends at City Hall. Just ask Chelsea Granell. The longtime Coral Gables staffer — who was Mayor Vince Lago‘s chief of staff with no staff — quietly got another sweet little promotion in June. She’s now the director of Governmental Affairs — basically the city’s chief lobbyist — leading legislative the […]
On the heels of the court ruling last week that the Miami election year change was unconstitutional because, well they skipped the pesky part about asking voters, Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro has doubled down on her push to revisit the city commission decision in May to move their municipal election date the same way. […]
Melissa Castro suggests ballot language for referendum The city of Miami’s court battle to move municipal elections from odd to even years — effectively cancelling this year’s mayoral and commission races and extending electeds’ terms by a year — may have reverberations in Coral Gables, where the commission voted to move the elections from April […]
Looks like Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago was playing with fire when he went on a full verbal assault of the firefighters union president at a public commission meeting earlier this month. And what are firefighters good at? Putting out fires that are out of control. IAFF Local 1210, the city’s firefighter union, just slapped […]
Commissioner then mysteriously withdrew his request Coral Gables newly-elected Commissioner Richard Lara — who repealed the prior commission’s increased salaries and talks a lot about fiscal responsibility — tried to nickel and dime the city himself with a reimbursement request for a ticket he bought to the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce’s Centennial Gala. A ticket […]