Tomas Regalado

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado To Unveil "Profound" Mystery Lawsuit

In a few hours, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and Commissioner Marc Sarnoff will announce a mysterious new lawsuit they promise will have a "profound" impact on Overtown, Omni and downtown Miami. What could it be? New regulations for Ultra Music Fest? Stricter controls on police? JETPACKS FOR EVERYONE? ... More >>

Tomas Regalado's Slot Machine Expert Says Miami Maquinitas Are Gambling Machines

Braddock, Not MAST, Wins H.S. Culinary Cook-Off. Oops.

​Mayor Tomas Regalado handed the first place trophy to Braddock Senior High, not to MAST Academy, at the first annual Blazing Kitchen High School Mystery Basket Culinary Competition as I stated in a post a couple days ago. The cook-off between the schools took place during the second annual M ... More >>

Pitbull Makes GQ's "Least Influential" List, But Not Ours; Meet Miami's Five Least Influential

​​In the December issue of GQ magazine, our hometown boy Pitbull is the only Miamian to make the list of the "25 Least Influential People Alive." Tim Pawlenty claimed the top spot and others on the list with less clout than the Cuban-American rapper include actress Gwenyth Patrow, deposed E ... More >>

Three Miami mayors block Genting casino

Mayor Regalado Wants to Make Sure City Gets Cut of Casino Taxes

With Genting Group ready to plop down billions on a planned new high end casino in downtown Miami after a law-changing stop in Tallahassee, few prominent politicians are opposing it, as much as they are making sure their interests get that tax money. Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado wants to make sure the ... More >>

Police Union Prepares Lawsuit Over Recall After Overwhelming Vote to Oust Regalado

​The morning after the police union overwhelmingly voted to back a recall of Miami Mayor Tomás Regalado, union lawyers are drafting a lawsuit to force the city to figure out how to make it happen. The problem, according to union chief Armando Aguilar, is that the city charter specifies officials ... More >>

Miami Police Union President Wants To Recall Tomas Regalado

Tomas Regalado is no longer an FOP friend.​The police union president who helped Tomas Regalado become Miami mayor in 2009 is now calling on his brothers and sisters in blue to oust the city's embattled leader. Taking his cue from our recent cover story about the mayor's failures, Armando Aguilar ... More >>

County Puts the Brakes on Miami's Bid to Cover Every Vertical Surface With Advertising

Forty-story billboards are still illegal -- at least for now.​If Marc Sarnoff and Tomás Regalado had their way, pretty much any stationary object within 1,000 feet of a major Miami roadway would be plastered with an LED billboard by next Tuesday. (Surely this has nothing to do with the fact that ... More >>

Miami Police Bust Luis Boris Estrada For Illegal Gambling Machines

​The Miami Police Department's crackdown on illegal gambling machines continued today with the arrest of Luis Boris Estrada. Cops busted the 42-year-old Cuban for operating six "maquinitas" at the Rapido Discount he manages at 2742 SW Eighth Street, finding $1,000 in one of the machines. Miami Pol ... More >>

Here's A Copy Of The $200,000 Check Made Out To Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito

​When a royal brouhaha erupted last week over Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito's allegations that city officials offered him a "bribe" to resign, Riptide filed a Freedom of Information Act request for a copy the infamous $200,000 check.Well, the check just landed in our inbox. It shows that Mayo ... More >>

Exposito: City Officials Offered $400,000 To Resign As Police Chief

​A story that started yesterday with blogger Al Crespo posting a mysterious, voided city check for $200,000 ended with more ammo fed into the raging firefight between the Miami Police Department and City Hall when Chief Miguel Exposito admitted the check was part of a huge payout he was offered to ... More >>

Exposito and Regalado Tussle In Park Over Payout Offer

​At an anti-gun rally in Charles Hadley Park this morning, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and arch enemy/police chief Miguel Exposito blasted one another before TV cameras.The whole thing started like Sharks vs. Jets about 10 a.m. when Regalado was holding forth to a horde of reporters and a couple do ... More >>

Tony Crapp Jr. Resigns As Miami City Manager After Six Months on the Job

​After six months of doing exactly nothing about a police department in disarray and a looming $40 million budget gap, Miami City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. is packing up his office this afternoon and bailing for a cushy private-sector job in Broward County.Gee, thanks for all the hard work, Tony. Any ... More >>

Tomas Regalado Got Thousands in Free Tickets To Heat Games, Boxing Event

courtesy Al CrespoTomas Regalado and Sean Penn in a private box at a Heat game.​In Miami Beach, a storm is brewing over accusations that city officials strong-armed the New World Symphony to give them free tickets to concerts. But Beach leaders aren't the only politicians accepting free seats.Miam ... More >>

Possible gambling video fuels fight between mayor and police chief

Video Could Help Arm Miami Police Chief Against Mayor

Photo by Michael MillerPolice Chief Miguel Exposito​As the saga of Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito's war with Mayor Tomás Regalado rages on, a new development could fuel the battle between the two estranged friends over illegal gambling in the city's bodegas and cafeterias. New Times has obtai ... More >>

Miguel Exposito Blasts Tomas Regalado, Says Police Aren't Following the Mayor

​In front of a dozen television cameras and a packed room of reporters, Police Chief Miguel Exposito blasted Mayor Tomas Regalado this afternoon over Regaldo's claims that he was being tailed by police officers. Exposito also defended his department's conduct in the six recent fatal police shootin ... More >>

MPA head Art Noriega "living la vida loca," Regalado says

Mayoral aide Ada Rojas fights Obama roadblock

Art Noriega Spent Your Parking Fees On Fancy Trips, Posh Lunches and (Gag) Free Parking

Where is this meter maid taking your cash?​Next time you pony up for one of those $6-per-hour parking meters downtown, consider this: That cash has helped the guy running the Miami Parking Authority avoid his own parking fees for years. It also bankrolled stays at top-end Vegas hotels, ritzy meals ... More >>

A Tomas Regalado Employee Goes to Jail During Obama's Last Visit

City of Miami​Next time President Barack Obama is in town, Ada Rojas may want to steer clear of his motorcade. Or hope that her boss, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado, melts his icy relationship with the city's boys in blue before the next presidential visit.On October 11, Regalado's resident affairs an ... More >>

Norman Braman's Recall Real Fishy

Mr. Braman: Recall everybody not just Carlos Alvarez​We've never hidden our disappointment and disgust with Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez's administration. Voters handed him immense powers in 2007, but Carlos "El Fuerte" never materialized. And he sandbagged Miami-Dade taxpayers with the Marlins ... More >>

Miami Commission Looks To Hack Salaries and Pensions Today As Unions Promise A Fight

​Like a blackjack fiend down to his last, filthy dollar bill at 3 a.m., the City of Miami has gone through most of the stages of grief over its budget disaster. First came denial (illegally shuffling money around to hide the problems), then anger (electing firebrand Tomas Regalado), desperate ... More >>

Election Day Races to Keep an Eye On

Will Bill McCollum and Kendrick Meek hold back the two millionaire candidates? Will Miami ​Mayor Tomas Regalado's blossoming political machine get his daughter a seat on the Miami-Dade School Board? Will Dorrin Rolle survive his scandalous year to win another term to the county commission? Wi ... More >>

With No Experience and Lots of Cash, Miami Mayor's Daughter Raquel Regalado Runs For School Board

Raquel RegaladoTomas Regalado and daughter, Raquel, at a school board campaign event​School board candidates are typically a veritable who's that of local gadabouts or gray-haired teachers with little recognition outside home room. In District 6, which covers parts of Coral Gables and South Miami, ... More >>

Video: Activist Lays Into Mayor and Police Chief About Cop's Fatal Overtown Shooting

​If you don't understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday's police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown's St. John's Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers f ... More >>

Is the City of Miami About to Go Bankrupt? Marc Sarnoff Seems to Like the Idea

​Since Mayor Tomás Regalado's election, the City of Miami's dismal budget crisis hasn't improved much. The city coffers are still being strained by high salaries for city employees and large pension payouts. Now Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, the second most powerful elected official in the city afte ... More >>

News Roundup: Lil Wayne Gets Eight Root Canals

Lil Wayne had his sentencing delayed so he could return to Miami for oral surgery. Well, TMZ said he underwent a marathon session yesterday and got eight -- yes, eight! -- root canals. You'd think that would be punishment enough for his weapon charges, but he'll still likely spend eight months to a ... More >>

Sources Say Miami City Manager Pete Hernandez Has Resigned

via City of Miami Pete Hernandez has handed in his resignation.​Miami City Manager Pete Hernandez has handed in his resignation, two of Riptide's sources at City Hall have confirmed. Herandez's ouster is a major victory for Mayor Tomas Regalado, clearing the way for Regalado to bring in an ... More >>

New Miami Commissioner Denies Breaking Sunshine Law

Miami City Commissioner Francis SuarezLast night, Banana Republican spoke with a political consultant who worked on Francis Suarez's campaign who insisted the new commissioner did not have private discussions with his new colleagues about who to pick to replace Angel Gonzalez.The city commission -- ... More >>

News Roundup: Mayor Diaz's Last Day; Heat Off to Hot Start

As of noon today Manny Diaz will no longer be Mayor of Miami. The Herald paints him as a "a sober, patient reformist up to his elbows in the minutiae of turning around a troubled city" who enacted "an agenda of a scope unmatched by any other Miami mayor in decades." One likely, for better or wo ... More >>

The Timoney Boot Party Countdown, Day 2

Whitney Roux​ The morning breeze whips John Timoney's rosy cheeks as he settles into his rowboat moored at the Miami Beach Rowing Club. He pushes off the dock and begins paddling up Indian Creek, soaking in the dry, mild November weather, pondering where his next gig will be.Maybe he'll roll throu ... More >>

Politics and Name-Calling: Is the Miami Herald Really "Sucking Up" to Cubans?

jacco.org via Flickr CCEditors, shmeditors.​On the opinion page of the Miami Herald , Patricia Kawaja's letter begins dramatically. "I am alarmed by Tomas Regalado's election as mayor of Miami," she blasts. "Another Cobwebbed politician...."Only that's not what she actually wrote. When the British ... More >>

News Roundup

Mayoral candidate Tomas Regalado may be accused of not being able to deal with his personal finances (he claims to only be worth $5000 year after year, and once had his wages garnished for not paying taxes), but his campaign manager is doing a good job with his war chest. He's consistently out-raisi ... More >>

The Return of Loco Joe

Alex Izaguirre​ The tepid race to replace Miami Mayor Manny Diaz could soon get a shot of Sazon if the chatter emanating from city hall is true. A handful of political consultants said earlier today that former Mayor Joe Carollo is seriously considering jumping into the contest. As of now, it ... More >>

News Roundup

A former confidant of ex-county Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler claims that in the '90s, she accepted kickbacks from developers. [Herald]Tomas Regalado is apparently the "underdog" in the mayoral race, though I'm pretty sure by most measures he's doing just as well as or better than Joe San ... More >>

Dancing with the Pols

Coming in November, the City of Miami's public access channel will try its hand at some new, innovative programming to get residents amped up about the Magic City's elected officials. It's a variety show based loosely on the popular television series Dancing with the Stars. And the first contestan ... More >>

Miami Mayoral Donnybrook

Miami Commissioner Joe Sanchez, a former cop, has opened an account to run for city mayor, opening the way to the best political contest in recent memory. Commissioner Tomas Regalado, who announced several months ago, is sure to attack, particularly as we get close to election day. Regalado's ethica ... More >>

FTAA Settlement Reached

A New Times exclusive: The door's about to close on John Timoney's most infamous chapter

The Dullness of Being Manny Diaz

Miami used to be a punch line, but now the joke is on bored reporters

The Bitch

Letters from the Issue of January 31, 2002

The Dissection of Miriam Alonso

Corruption investigators are delving into the county commissioner's every financial nook and political cranny

On the Block

In an act of audacious short-sightedness, Miami is offering its finest bayfront property to the highest bidder

DeFede

Mail Call

Riptide

Remains of the Day

The Cuban American Defense League wanted a little official recognition. They got it.

The Scoop That Might Have Been

Weeks before the controversial tale of a Cuban double agent set Miami abuzz, the Miami Herald and Channel 51 engaged in a little intrigue of their own