Beach Officially Opposes Casino Development The City of Miami Beach is officially opposed to Florida approving any new casino gambling. The city commission unanimously voted to urge Tallahassee thusly before a chamber filled with residents and high profile allies opposed to the measure under consideration that would permit limited development of three resort casinos statewide, [...]
An Election Rife With Alleged Dirty Politics Results in Few Voters, the Status Quo With a collective shrug and aggregate apathy, a handful of Miami Beach voters opted to maintain the city’s political status quo, Tuesday, concluding one of the most anticlimactic election cycles in recent history. The entirely anticipated buttressing of establishment power at [...]
The Time Has Come For Miami Beach to Choose Its Fate. Considering how scant the challengers are to members of the Miami Beach City Commission and no matter how low turnout is expected to be in next week’s city election, it has been a long and contentious campaign. Throughout the late spring and summer, candidates [...]
Miami Beach Divided on Miami Casino Project When Lisa Boyle traverses lower Biscayne Boulevard near downtown and sees the site that was for years home to the Miami Herald, she sees opportunity. “It seems like a waste of space and a reminder that Miami used to have a newspaper that was really good and really [...]
Innocuous Letter Prompts Allegation of Racism Against City Commissioner Given the degree to which Urban Beach Week has been debated around Miami Beach, Commissioner Deede Weithorn must have been surprised when a seemingly noncontroversial email brought about the accusation of racism from a longtime south Florida civil rights entity. “I thought it was pretty innocuous,” [...]
City to Host Next Round of Recycling Ordinance Debate This Month Complaints expressed over a Draconian proposed recycling expansion ordinance at a recent City of Miami Beach Finance and Citywide Projects Committee meeting have apparently not gone unheeded at city hall. Instead a meeting later this month will put member of the public in a [...]
Commission Resists 30-Year Deal with FP&L “We have no idea what technology will exist for producing electricity in the future. Why should I handcuff our residents to using potentially outdated technology.” — Miami Beach Commissioner Deede Weithorna It’s a minor item that many Miami Beach residents don’t even notice, in and amongst a litany of [...]
Two Mayoral Candidates Have Plans to Restore Sanity on Memorial Day Weekend Memorial Day. Mention of the holiday in the American midwest conjures images of high school bands, somber veterans and small children waving flags as a small town parades march by. And then there’s Miami Beach with its collection of images from the past [...]
Corruption allegations prompt commission to slow Lincoln Road privatization effort Explosive allegations of underhanded politics at best and outright corruption at worst prompted the Miami Beach City Commission to at least slow its effort to award — without bid — a contract to a private company for the management of the city’s most beloved residents’ [...]
Love of entrepreneurism inspired Mark Soyka to create the city’s signature cafes Entrepreneurism gets a bad rap these days. After all, the new conventional wisdom tells us that business is bad, evil, a blight on society. Government must micromanage every aspect of it to ensure that businesses produce the right goods and services, employs those [...]
Deco Bike Says Reports of the Program Being Troubled Are Off Base Five months ago, Deco Bike launched to great fanfare and expectations. In the days before and following the bicycle rental/green commuting program officially opened, kiosks opened across town in high-traffic locations, irritating some because of the loss of parking spaces to Deco Bike [...]
Hotel Developer Alan Lieberman Has Left His Imprint on South Florida Alan Lieberman is the owner of The South Beach Group — a burgeoning independent Art-Deco boutique hotel company in South Florida. The South Beach Group currently owns and operates nine art-deco hotels on South Beach and one in Hollywood Beach. Lieberman was born and raised [...]
