By Anne Newport Royall Special to the SunPost The usually punctual meetings of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association began almost 40 minutes late, as all awaited the arrival of the guest speaker. At 8:45 sharp Gimenez strode into the crystal-encrusted two-level room, where the Taxpayers were enjoying the hospitality of the Shelborne Hotel’s fruit and [...]
By Anne Newport Royall While road construction seems a regular part of life for the residents of Miami Beach, Middle Beach between 63rd Street and Lincoln Road will see almost every street touched by massive change over the next two years. PINE TREE DRIVE AND LA GORCE DRIVE BETWEEN 61ST AND 52ND STREETS: Several years ago, [...]
With less than ten months until Opening Day, 2012, the New Marlins Ballpark is more than 70% complete. The construction progress remains on-time, on-budget and continues to exceed all local employment participation goals. Current construction highlights include major advancements on the Ballpark’s exterior skin including final stages of the decking operations on the Retractable Roof [...]
By now everyone in the world well knows that Wynwood’s beloved Joey’s Italian got jacked last Monday night. That three masked men, armed with six handguns between them, burst through the doors and forced 19 diners and most of six staff members to the floor before robbing the register and swiping a cell phone. Why [...]
Barreiro Visits The Breakfast Club By Anne Newport Royall Following last week’s off-shore visitor, Donna Milo, candidate for District 2 Commissioner in the City of Miami, the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club paid host to home County Commissioner, Bruno Barreiro on August 30th. The long-serving commissioner was first elected in 1998, has had little to no [...]
By Anne Newport Royall Looks like that proposal for “Miami Beach Fest 2012” may be dead in the water. “I was told the proposal was rejected,” Verdant Capital Board Member Barbara Guibard said when contacted about her company’s role in the gated beach-festival proposal Town Hall Meeting organizer Commissioner Jerry Libbin has apparently distanced himself [...]
Wells Fargo Bank employees and eager, green volunteers gathered at lunchtime on Tuesday, August 23 to support ECOMB’s Eco-Partnership Program and cleanup the South pointe Jetty on Miami Beach. And cleanup they did. Digging deep, volunteers removed over 40 bags of trash during this go-green cleanup effort sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank. Joining the ECOMB [...]
Rain clouds that covered the sky for most of the day finally cleared up just in time for the end of the summer celebratory bash that was created by the City of Miami Beach Parks & Recreation Department. Over 800 children played, rode and bounced their way through the Back to School Bash that featured [...]
Miami Beach Town Hall Meeting Held to Discuss Memorial Day Weekend 2011 By Anne Newport Royall Less than 150 people sat about the cold and cavernous ballroom overlooking the busy pool and beach at the Loews Hotel on Collins Avenue Tuesday evening, August 24, as the City of Miami Beach held it’s long awaited Town [...]
By Anne Newport Royall If cronyism were the buzzword in a drinking game, and the beverage was the café con leche served at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club, those core members in attendance for this week’s speaker would be buzzing right past Hurricane Irene and into next week. Cronyism is at the core of all [...]
By John Zur Ex-Miami Beach police officer Derick Kuilan, whose ATV joyriding – with a woman he picked up at The Clevelander – resulted in two serious injuries, is now claiming the blood test taken after the accident was illegal. He and Rolando Gutierrez, who was on-duty with Kuilan that night, but was not present [...]
The Miami Redistricting Hearings Analyzed By Anne Newport Royall Special to the SunPost As they stood, one by one, 30 or so Florida legislators rattled off the individual long list of communities they represent with increasing length and breadth highlighting the diverse, wide and crooked districts that make up the most gerrymandered state in the [...]
