How in the world can Miami-Dade’s first female mayor, a self-proclaimed progressive who fights for equality and champions immigrants, women and the LGBT community visit a country like Qatar for no good reason?
This is a country with an abysmal human rights record, according to Amnesty International. Women and gays are routinely discriminated against and persecuted by law and by society. Homesexuals and journalists routinely “disappear” and are jailed without trials. The government allows the abuse and exploitation of immigrants.
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The first mailer of the Election 2022 season to hit Ladra’s mailbox arrived Saturday. It’s a piece for Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar and, predictably, it touts her as “a freedom fighter” who is keeping socialism out of the United States.
And it comes within days of Sen. Annette Taddeo‘s announcement that she switched races from the governor’s bid to this congressional contest.
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Posted by Admin on Jun 9, 2022 in Fresh Colada, News | 0 comments
The city of Miami might one day operate out of the Melreese Golf Course.
An item on Thursday’s agenda for the city commission would have the city manager negotiate the construction of a new administration building on the western edge of the Melreese property. It would move the future site of Miami’s headquarters from a parcel next to the Miami Riverside Center to the future site of the controversial Miami Freedom Real Estate Park.
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Posted by Admin on Jun 7, 2022 in Fresh Colada, News | 0 comments
State Sen. Annette Taddeo (D-Miami) announced Monday that she was going to withdraw from the Florida governor’s race — where she promised to become the first Latina guv — and will instead run in the primary for the congressional seat in Florida’s 27th Congressional District against U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar.
She said the guns made her do it.
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The city of Miami’s Omni Community Redevelopment Agency is responsible for 35% of the debt service paid for the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center. It is so delineated in the 2007 interlocal agreement and has always been paid. Every year.
Until now.
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2020 campaign funding could be under scrutiny by the Miami-Dade SAO
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