Have you, any member of your immediate family or close personal friend ever worked for a politician? Have you ever owned a business? How do you get the news? Do you follow Billy Corben? Do you follow Political Cortadito?

Ladra is almost proud to have her work featured among the questions that might be asked of jurors in the federal $2.5 million first amendment lawsuit against Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo by his defense attorneys. Last week, they submitted 75 proposed voir dire questions — inquiries lawyers make to exclude a certain number of jurors — to U.S. Southern District Judge Rodney Smith, who will preside over the trial, set to begin Tuesday.

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Former Palmetto Bay Councilman David Singer has likely gone too far in his war against the village council and mayor comparing them to Adolf Hitler in a Facebook post Thursday and likening the removal and euthanizing of about 20 “aggressive” Muscovy ducks from Coral Reef Park to the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust.

On the eve of Passover.

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What is it that Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo and City Attorney Victoria Mendez don’t want us to know?

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Less than two months before the Coral Gables election this Tuesday, commission candidate Alex Bucelo signed a $990,000 mortgage for the purchase of a 4-bedroom, 3-bath home at 1432 Venetia Avenue, valued at $1.4 million — quite an upgrade from his 2-bedroom, 2-bath, $300K apartment on Biltmore Way.

Is he expecting some kind of windfall?

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Even Police Chief Ed Hudak has gotten involved

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Kase-who?

Miami-Dade Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to give the naming rights to the former American Airlines Arena — which, admit it, is what everybody still calls it even after it became the FTX Arena — to a local cybersecurity software company that almost nobody ever heard of before.

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