The City of Miami Beach Commission for Women will honor local women for their contributions to the community in a ceremony next week. The Women Worth Knowing program will celebrate the achievements of Sabrina Cohen, Sherry Roberts, Elsa Urquiza and a Posthumous Award to Randie Hofer. The Women Worth Knowing program honors women who have [...]
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The situation at the decrepit property located at 1020 6th Street in South Beach, a few paces from the new shopping center, had become scandalous, thanks to Juan Luis Maldonado, Jr., the owner of record, Bank of America, the mortgagor, the Compliance Division of the City of Miami Beach, which had literally permitted the property to go to hell, and the City Manager’s office, which obviously fails to oversee its various departments in several respects.
By Frank Maradiaga After a decade of talk and some false starts, Miami Beach is looking to finally modernize the convention center. Last week the city issued a Request For Qualifications to lure developers interested in producing a master plan for the Convention Center District. The goal is to not only upgrade the convention center, [...]
By Frank Maradiaga For a brief moment the nameplate of former North Bay Village Commissioner Frank Rodriguez adorned the dais to the meeting that would select its replacement. City Manager Dennis Kelly caught the oversight and gently put the nameplate out of view, and the Commission went on to choose experience and a lifetime of [...]
By Frank Maradiaga The outsourcing of the maintenance services on the Lincoln Road Mall was sent out to bid in the February meeting of the Miami Beach Commission. The City’s in-house maintenance of the pedestrian mall has long been under fire and plans to privatize the service spans back over a year. A proposal by [...]
Frank Maradiaga The Miami Beach Commission again pushed back a vote on a contract agreement that would increase towing fees in the city. Beach Towing and Tremont Towing, whose current contract with the city expires in March, will have to wait until the June Commission meeting to see if their new three year contract with [...]
By Gregg Tremain A call for a strong mayor form of government in the City of Miami Beach highlighted the February meeting of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association. Three former Beach mayors advocated a switch from the city manager system before some 150 residents and taxpayers during a lively panel at the Shelborne Hotel. Neisen Kasdin, [...]
Breakfast Meeting David’s Cafe January 31, 2012 8:30 am By David Arthur Walters David Kelsey moderated the Tuesday morning breakfast meeting, attended by 60 people from the community including city employees, neighborhood leaders, and other concerned citizens. City of Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson was the guest of honor. The main topic of his presentation [...]
By David Arthur Walters Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez wanted residents to think they had more than enough police officers on the force to deal with crime on the beach, and he cited the FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics to prove it, as if dealing with the seven major crimes on that report is [...]
Resolution Passed to Reject Large Special Events in Haulover Park By Frank Maradiaga Special to the SunPost The Bal Harbour Village Council has come out against the fashion event Funkshion, the musical group Swedish House Mafia, and all large scale events in Haulover Park. The council passed a resolution in their January meeting that urged [...]
MB Tax Payers Assoc Holds Forum – ‘Miami Beach: Then and Now’ Five former mayors of Miami Beach have accepted invitations to take part in a panel discussion on ‘Miami Beach: Then and Now’ this Wednesday at the monthly meeting of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association. The former mayors are Harold Rosen, Neisen Kasdin, Norman [...]
By Linda Mooney If you’re like many South Beach transplants, you moved here with the giddy intention to sell your car at long last and live the life of a beach-bound, walking/biking bohemian who has sworn off oil dependence. But, like many car-less residents, you might have found that life without four wheels can indeed [...]
