Magistrate says city gerrymandered new boundaries

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Newly-elected Coral Gables Commissioner Melissa Castro was so excited about her first commission meeting on Tuesday, nothing would faze her. Her car wouldn’t start, her heel got stuck in the elevator door, the Uber driver turned the wrong way and made her a few minutes late. But none of it mattered.

She was so psyched about her first chance to serve the residents that she took it all in stride. She was so happy to be there and so concentrated on the items in front of her, that she didn’t realize Mayor Vince Lago had been a condescending jerk, treating her like a little girl.

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Coral Gables City Manager Peter Iglesias will live to see another day at City Hall.

Iglesias survived an attempt to fire him driven by newly-elected Commissioner Ariel Fernandez, who said at Tuesday’s commission meeting that Iglesias was too secretive and rude to residents and was leading the city in the wrong direction.

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Mayor Jose “Pepe” Diaz gets his slate to run the city

DEVELOPING STORY: Sweetwater on Tuesday was the opposite of Coral Gables because the mayor got all his candidates elected in the city elections.

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Planned “mobility hub” garage gets a big thumbs down

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