Tomas Regalado

Reader Mail: Gun Control Is as Boneheaded as Prohibition

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado on Ultra 2013: "One Weekend Is Enough, People Complain About the Kids"

As usual, the City of Miami commission meeting convened at 9 a.m. today. Amid discussion of telecommunication contracts and waste management, our municipal pols will also decide whether vice chairman Marc Sarnoff was correct when he called Ultra Music Festival fans a "urinating, defecating ... thr ... More >>

Here's Your Reminder to Not Shoot a Gun Into the Air Tonight

Twice a year, during the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve, the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County have to constantly reminding everyone in town NOT  to shoot their guns off in celebration. Actually, a news conference held last week highlighted the Rickia Issac Foundation's 14th ... More >>

Olympian Danell Leyva Gets Giant Cake, Medal at Brickell Irish Pub

Also read "Danell Leyva, Miami's Olympic Prodigy, Goes For Gold."Friends, family, and fans gathered at Brickell Irish Gastropub last evening to watch the closing ceremony of the 2012 summer Olympics and to honor Miami's own Danell Leyva, who returns to south Florida after winning the bronze medal fo ... More >>

Miguel Exposito, Former Miami Police Chief, Asks Judges Today To Give Him Job Back

For two years, Miguel Exposito was the head honcho at the Miami Police Department. They were jolly times for the Magic City's muckrakers, who made an easy living as Exposito butted heads with Mayor Tomas Regalado and produced a too-crazy-to-be-true litany of scandals and shootings. When he was fired ... More >>

Mayor Tomás Regalado and Daughter Raquel Fined for Campaign Finance Violations

​The family that pays fines together, binds together, we guess.Both Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado and his daughter Raquel Regalado, a Miami-Dade School Board member, have been fined for sloppy bookkeeping during his 2009 campaign for office.

Mast Academy Wins High School Culinary Cook-Off

​​Mayor Tomas Regalado handed the first place trophy to Mast Academy last night at the First Annual Blazing Kitchen High School Mystery Basket Culinary Competition. The cook-off between Mast and Braddock Senior High was one of the Blazing Kitchen events that took place within the second annual M ... More >>

Al Crespo: Bank robber and justice seeker

Lokal's Grand Opening Party: Have a Beer With the Mayor Next Thursday

​For some reason, in Miami a restaurant will open and then hold its grand opening about six months or a year later.Lokal's Matthew Kusher is taking a more traditional approach to the grand opening party -- he's holding it less than a month after his Coconut Grove restaurant actually opened its doo ... More >>

Miami's Dirty Dozen 2011

View the Miami New Times Dirty Dozen 2011 slide show.

Miami On the Hook For Millions In New Taxes On Marlins Parking Garages

​When we recently counted down the six most absurd lies about the new Marlins Stadium, fib number one was that politicians were working for taxpayers. Even a casual glance over the deal made it clear: This $550 million stadium was a cripplingly expensive gift from struggling taxpayers to the milli ... More >>

Sleepy Miami Commissioners Pass Budget Deal at 3 a.m., Don't Really Know What's Inside

​Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn't know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted ... More >>

Miguel Exposito's Lawsuit Tossed, Leaving Chief's Job In Michelle Spence-Jones' Hands

​This morning Miami-Dade Judge Barbara Areces threw out suspended Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito's lawsuit against the city, putting his fate back into the hands of the commission.In case you've forgotten that we live in a very strange city, Areces decision essentially means that Michelle Spen ... More >>

Miami's Red Light Cameras are a Financial Failure that May Lead to Furloughs

As much as city officials try to talk a good game about installing pesky red light cameras for public safety, most were really swayed by extra money generated by tickets. City of Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado pretty much admitted as much, and the city hoped red light cameras would bring in $10 million ... More >>

Rusty Pelican Goes Out With a Bang (Pictures)

All photos by Laine Doss Fireworks display from The Rusty Pelican's patio​The Rusty Pelican, Key Biscayne's iconic spot for waterfront dining since 1972, held a closing party to celebrate both its imminent renovation and the country's birthday yesterday, complete with fireworks, food ... More >>

Fire Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito Now

​Miami police chief Miguel Exposito confirmed yesterday that he was offered $400,000 to quit. The news was broken by uberblogger Al Crespo and then parroted by the WSVN-TV Channel 7 and the Miami Herald. Exposito has been under attack by more than a year after numerous battl ... More >>

Rick Scott's Veto Will Leave Poor Seniors in Miami Without Hot Meals

Yesterday, we ran through many of the local programs that will lose funding thanks to Gov. Rick Scott's record breaking $615 million in vetoes to the state budget. About $40 million of those were cuts to local programs, and one of the most controversial was vetoing $430,298 meant for the hot meals p ... More >>

Al Sharpton Wants Justice Department to Investigate Miami Police Department

​Mayor Tomás Regalado isn't the only powerful enemy Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito has made in his relatively short run atop the department. Now, national civil rights leader and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton is calling for a federal investigation into the Miami Police Department. ... More >>

Miami police chief Miguel Exposito's violent reality TV promo

Here's Your Yearly Reminder Not To Shoot Off a Gun on New Year's Eve

via CBS4​Every year, local officials have to remind citizens not to shoot of their guns into the air on New Year's Eve in Miami at the stroke of midnight. Every year someone does.Last year, someone shot up a bullet and it hit a six-year-old Italian boy in the chest as he was eating dinner with hi ... More >>

Cats With Chops

Letters from the issue of September 2, 2010

Unions Slam Mayor, Commission Over Proposed Pay and Benefit Cuts

photo by Tim Elfrink This cop wants you to know his biblical thoughts on Tomas Regalado.​They packed City Hall by the dozens this afternoon -- the firefighters in bright yellow, the police in dark blue, the general service workers in civvies. They beat the floor, pounded the windows and wh ... More >>

Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito should be fired

With Bodies Hanging Over His Head, Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito Has to Go

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke says it's time for Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado to fire police Chief Miguel Exposito. Last week in Overtown, an ... More >>

Michael's Genuine Food Cart on the Move

Michael's Genuine's food cart.​The Michael's Genuine food cart, which made its debut last month, will make two appearances this week. Tomorrow, April 7, Michael Schwartz and his foodie pushcart will be at the Roots in the City grand opening ceremony. This nonprofit organization is all about bringi ... More >>

Overtown Farmers' Market

Carlos Migoya, Former Wachovia Exec, To Be Named Interim City Manager

via City of Miami Former City Manager Pete Herandez handed in his resignation on Friday. Bank exec Carlos Migoya will be announced as his replacement this afternoon.​Mayor Tomas Regalado will name Carlos Migoya, a former Wachovia Bank president and Autonation executive, as interim city mana ... More >>

That 6-Year-Old Italian Boy Wasn't Miami's Only New Year's Shooting Victim

Less than an hour after midnight New Year's Eve, a bullet fell from the sky and plunged into the chest of a 6-year-old Italian tourist hanging out in the Design District with his family. ​City leaders were horrified and immediately set about to help the victim: Miami's good image. OK, OK, ... More >>

Top Local Stories of the Decade

​It's just about 2010. Here are my choices. What do you think?1. After being snatched by federal authorities, Elian Gonzalez is sent home to his father in Cuba on June 28, 2000.2. Art Basel Miami Beach starts in 2002, an offshoot of the Swiss affair, it changes Miami's cultural life forever. 3. No ... More >>

No Appointment For Angel Gonzalez's Seat?

City Commissioner Francis SuarezNewly elected Miami City Commissioner Francis Suarez may have unwittingly scuttled plans to appoint a replacement for Angel Gonzalez, who last week resigned from the commission as part of his guilty plea deal with prosecutors.Commission Chairman Marc Sarnoff has calle ... More >>

Miami Police: Miguel Exposito In. Frank Fernandez Out.

​Mayor Tomas Regalado;'s new administration has made its first choice -- and it's a guy who ain't likely to be too popular at the headquarters on NW Second Avenue. Miguel Exposito who parlayed a whistle blower suit into a the rank of major, will become new Miami police chief, multiple sources are ... More >>

News Roundup

Tomas Regalado's vision for Miami for the next four to eight years: basic services and nothing else. [Herald]Miami-Fort Lauderdale has the most foreign-born residents than any other area in the nation, with 36.9 percent. [CBSNews]For once, Alan Grayson apologizes: He's sorry for calling that lady a ... More >>

News Roundup

Here's how The Herald cleaned up Channing Crowder's "They're undefeated, they're probably smelling themselves, rubbing each other's balls, all that shit..." quote: "They're probably smelling themselves, rubbing each other's [back]." Come on, since when is back a proper substitute for balls? [Herald] ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of October 8, 2009

"The naked truth is that the Castro tyrants have taken Cuba 50 years back in time to poverty, decadence, and slavery."

New CIA Files Show Miami's Most Infamous Cuban Terrorist Was a Snitch

Last week, Riptide was all about Eduardo Arocena, the Miami dockworker convicted in 1985 of setting off 32 bombs in Little Havana and Manhattan. A certain mayoral candidate (ahem, Tomas Regalado, ahem) seems to have flirted with supporting Arocena back in the day, not that he'll admit it.via Wi ... More >>

News Roundup

An appeals court in Miami today will take up Florida's gay adoption ban. [AP]Michael Beasley's stay in rehab was planned; in fact, he had already been in Houston attending therapy for two weeks beforehand. [Herald]After seeing so many wackos storm Democratic congressman with accusations of ... More >>

Timoney Loses, Freedom Wins, Taxpayers Pay

Miami Police Chief John Timoney screwed up, and we taxpayers are just gonna keep paying and paying.Back in November 2003, the City of Miami shut down some protests against a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting being held here. The cops beat some protesters and illegally jailed others. Jus ... More >>

Perversion and Justice

Will the state help with the growing sex offender colony under the Julia Tuttle Causeway?

Waterfront Access Is for Commies

"Miami residents should take development where we can get it. It’s basically our last chance."

Letters from the Issue of March 30, 2006

“An up or down vote is all we ask”

Arriola Resign? Fuhgeddaboutit!

In the wake of Miami's fire fee scandal, the city manager goes nuclear on the Herald, Tomas Regalado, and taxpayers

The Bitch

Obitchuary Column

Pity the Poor Politicos

Voters gave Miami's city commissioners a huge raise, but that hasn't stopped them from keeping their day jobs

BEST SMALL-TOWN PARADE

Three Kings Parade

Packed, Stacked, and Hijacked

How a citizens advisory board created to investigate illegal billboards became an industry support group

Best Restaurant For Election Returns

Versailles Restaurant

Riptide

Reappearing acts

X Mayor

Legal experts and insider politicos agree: Voter fraud will soon force Xavier Suarez from office. Then What?

A Race About Race

If Humberto Hernandez has it his way, Miami's only black commissioner, Rev. Richard Dunn, will be history