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Absentee ballots go out with little time to mail them back in Coral Gables
Voters can take them to the early voting drop box
Coral Gables voters will start getting vote-by-mail or absentee ballots for the runoff election beginning on Tuesday, one week before Election Day.
La Alcaldesa Daniella Levine Cava weakens Miami-Dade ‘strong mayor’
Commission Chairman Jose “Pepe” Diaz seizes power, fills void
One and only Coral Gables runoff debate will have ‘hard questions’
The four candidates in the two Coral Gables city commission runoff races will be grilled Wednesday at the only debate before the April 27 election. It’s going to be as if they were in virtual court.
“Former U.S. Attorney Leon Kellner will use his prosecutorial skills to extract truthful answers,” reads an ominous email from the Coral Gables Neighbors Association. “This will be the first and only debate this election and we saved this tough-question format for the runoffs.”
Kirk Menendez vs Javier Baños is not as easy a decision as voters may think
Mr. Coral Gables has a lot of debt on three Crafts Section homes
In snobby Coral Gables, ‘not one of us’ plagues some candidates at elections
With all the talk about racism in the recent Coral Gables election — a needed conversation on the heels of that terrible letter the new mayor signed opposing curriculum inclusive of marginalized communities at his daughters’ private school — nothing’s been said about other divisions that exist.
If many Gables residents aren’t outright racist — and that’s a big if, considering the city is the lone holdout on naming U.S. 1 Harriet Tubman Way — they sure are snobby. It’s not so much about black vs. white. It’s more about old Gables vs. new Gables. Cuban vs. Dominican. Private vs. public school.
Randazzo’s corner is crushed to rubble as first Miracle Mile building falls
Not much more than a month after Coral Gables commissioners approved an upzoning of Miracle Mile — and before the election runoffs and a new commission is installed — the first building is being demolished.
The corner of LeJeune and Miracle Mile, where Randazzo’s Little Italy once was, has been turned into a pile of rubble. The sight sent Gables residents into a tizzy as they envisioned a six story building take its place.
Raul Martinez gets dismissed from Caracol; gets his own YouTube channel
Former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez had a popular show on Caracol 1260 AM radio every afternoon. La Hora del Regreso, which translates roughly into “the afternoon rush hour,” was a political lightning rod that went after national hoodlums like Donald Trump and local hoodlums like Joe Carollo.
Until last week, when it was summarily cancelled without any notice after the owners of AmericaTeve signed an agreement to purchase the Miami radio station. They contract was signed Monday. Martinez was dismissed on Tuesday. By telephone.
Anti Alex Diaz de la Portilla flyer distributed in District 1 by ‘anonymous’
He’s still got two years on his term, but an anonymous flyer denouncing Miami Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla and warning residents about him is circulating in District 1.
In Spanish, it says Diaz de la Portilla is a career politician they can’t trust.
Judge says lawsuit against Coral Gables Wawa deal is ‘important,’ good to go
A group of parents and Gables residents suing the city to stop the construction of a Wawa on Grand Avenue had their first hearing Friday — and got their first victory of sorts.
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman didn’t dismiss the case, as the city’s attorneys wanted. Both City Attorney Miriam Ramos and their outside counsel, Holland and Knight attorney Annie Gamez, were there.
New Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago has ‘friends’ in all the wrong places
Now that he’s won the mayoral race in Coral Gables, we are going to have to keep a watchful eye over Vince Lago.
Ladra supported Lago over Commissioner Pat Keon because he has worked harder and represented the residents better, especially when it comes to overdevelopment, where he has been the consistent sole nay. But also because he has always been transparent, accountable and accessible.
