“He was one of those rare examples of trickle down economics having a positive and lasting impact.” That’s Galen Bradley, a barista at Wynwood’s Panther Coffee speaking after Tuesday’s passing of Tony Goldman, who was as much a visionary as he was a developer and entrepreneur. Like the rest of the Wynwood neighborhood, the young [...]
A Miami-Beach Police Officer was arrested on racketeering charges last week in connection with an intricate car scam that bleed nearly $500,000 from local auto businesses. Officer George Robert Navarro Jr., has been charged with eight felonies that include racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and one count of organized fraud greater than $50,000. In addition [...]
MIAMI BEACH Beautiful images of Miami Beach are no stranger to publications and video screens worldwide. Be a part of this visual wave by submitting and showcasing your favorite Miami Beach photos in the Like2Love Miami Beach Photo Contest on September 1, 2012. The contest kicks off Miami Beach’s new civic pride campaign, Like2Love Miami [...]
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 [...]
Buy a tourist a drink; they’ll cover the Convention Center remodel. Miami Beach voters approved the resort tax hike by a two to one margin In an election that saw a measly 20% county-voter turnout, 67% of beach residents who voted backed raising the resort tax. The breakdown was 4,783 for and 2,334 against. The [...]
By David Arthur Walters Unlicensed general contractor Jihad Doujeiji dba Sharron Lewis Design Central had gotten ahead of every luxury condominium job we had investigated thus far on South Beach. He got away with not pulling a permit at all at Icon 1801. At Continuum 2602, he had a licensed contractor pull a flooring permit, [...]
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 [...]
By Daniel Ward, Editor, Language Magazine For the first time, the U.S. Department of Education has reported that the number of homeless students in America has topped one million while another new report estimates that 23% of children in the U.S. live in relative poverty. Hungry, tired kids are difficult to teach. Their environment, health [...]
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 [...]
Tax-Free Weekend’s Here This year’s annual state sales tax holiday weekend begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday. During this period, no Florida sales tax or local option tax will be charged on sales of clothing, footwear, and certain accessories selling for $75 or less per item, or on certain school supplies selling for $15 or [...]
