Hmm…What Pillow Talk This Guy Must Have Generated for the Weithorns You may not be familiar with the names Keith Donner and Mark Herron. And if you’re not, you ought to be. They know you by name. In fact, in recent weeks, they sent a lot of mail your way, addressed to you. You’re not [...]
Recalling Hurricane Andrew 20 Years Ago This Weekend It was born in the central Atlantic Ocean, 1,600 miles from Barbados, on Aug. 16, 1992. A day later, it was a tropical depression. Five days later, on Aug. 22, and 650 miles from the Bahamas, it was upgraded to a hurricane. By the following day, after [...]
MIAMI BEACH Describing Beach voters’ approval last week of the 1% hotel bed surcharge as a “mandate for action,” local citizen-activist Frank Del Vecchio says that City Hall’s plans to redevelop its convention center “can and should move forward.” Del Vecchio, president of the South Pointe Residents Association and who spearheaded anti-casino and City Hall [...]
Tax Returns Distraction Won’t Go Away Because Romney’s Ego Won’t Let It The Late Show with David Letterman’s “Top Ten Things We’ve Learned About Mars”: 1. Easier to get to than Mitt Romney’s tax returns. My take on why Mitt Wrongney won’t release more extensive tax returns than those he’s already released is this: He [...]
In a surprise ending to a contentious statehouse race in which its chief combatants threw everything but kitchen sinks at one another, David Richardson was all but formally elected to the Florida House on Tuesday night. Richardson, a 55-year-old CPA who resides in South Beach, beat out fellow Miami Beach residents Mark Weithorn and Adam [...]
You’ve Been Tapped to Pay For Our New Convention Center, Suckas! Dear Out-of-Town Tourists: Welcome to Miami Beach! Where you’re sure to enjoy lots of sand, sun, and surf. Oh, but before you doff your shoes at the airport security checkpoint and allow your friendly TSA agent to treat you to a good groping, you’d [...]
Only two months after he became her third chief of staff, Carl Zablotny is forsaking Mayor Matti Bower and Miami Beach City Hall for a Las Vegas airline. Zablotny confirmed this week that he is resigning Aug. 17 to become public relations director for Allegiant Airlines. He became Bower’s right-hand man June 15, following the [...]
Carl Zablotny – in one of his last acts as Mayor Bower’s chief of staff – issued a clarification to the SunPost last Thursday in the did-she-or-did-she-not controversy over her requested reimbursement for expenses related to her junket to Basel, Switzerland, in June: “The Mayor wanted to be perfectly clear that she personally reimbursed the [...]
Countless area residents have been inundated by that type of mail that increases in frequency whenever a local election day – like next week’s – nears: The glossy campaign advertisement. And you can bet that a sizable fraction of such glossy mailers are not merely run-of-the-mill, biographical, this-is-where-I-stand-on-the-issues ads but rather the my-opponent-is-a-wife-beating-dog-kicking-Girl-Scout-cookie-thieving-tax-evading-closet-communist variety. Or [...]
Who’s to Blame for August Primaries? State Legislators, That’s Who I’ve never been fortunate to get a letter in the mail notifying me that I won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes (then again, didn’t they always deliver the good news with a knock at the door?). But when I went to my post office box [...]
B-Girl Big Boss Behind Bars Finally, the feds have their guy. A year after all the other pawns in this criminal enterprise were arrested and carted off to jail – alluring young women from Eastern Europe and the allegedly Russian-mob-affiliated men who were the masterminds behind it – now the last remaining pawn has made [...]
Last week’s opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics were a “colossal disappointment” to at least one Miami Beach resident who was in London to see the Games begin. Steve Berke, tweeting and Facebooking his impressions of the festivities in London, was initially excited about his trip to the Olympics, tweeting early last week that he [...]
