To the Editor: As you may know the City Manager of the city of Miami Beach is requiring all employees to sign a pledge against wrongdoing AND they must agree to report any misdeeds that they may encounter. This is a wonderful idea but unfortunately it lacks an essential ingredient. I would like to suggest [...]
By Alejandro Arce, Special to the SunPost It is appalling to be daily informed of the outstanding corruption happening in our city and committed by elected or appointed authorities or their subordinates. Difficult to begin appraising the “Who is right and who is wrong,” in a place where we read almost in every news that [...]
Results from Residents & Businesses’ Opinions will Help Guide Miami Beach’s Future According to the most recent Miami Beach Community Satisfaction Survey, a majority (89 percent) of resident respondents reported that their overall quality of life within the City of Miami Beach is either excellent or good. In addition, a record high, 89 percent reported [...]
Gathered with the throng outside Miami Beach City Hall last Thursday to speak with protestors and observe their rally was Commissioner Ed Tobin. He, fellow Commissioner Jonah Wolfson, and Mayor Bower were the only City Hall notables to appear at the rally. The mayor having just been confronted by angry demonstrators before leaving the area [...]
Galbut Development Unveils Versions to the Public Three distinct visions were unveiled to the public last Thursday of what the three-block area between 6th, 7th, and 8th streets at Alton Road could look like in a few short years – a grand, yet scaled, outlet mall/residential development which its various architects intend to be a [...]
Civic Circle Comes Full Circle to Honor Jorge Gonzalez By David Arthur Walters Miami Beach residents have gotten another runaround from city officials and have come full circle since the February 2010 inaugural cocktail meeting of the Civic Circle. City Manager Jorge Gonzalez was promoted as its esteemed guest of honor by Miami Beach Toastmaster [...]
Snippets from the Mayor on the Move Sessions “We’ve lifted a rock, and turned on the lights” With days to go before a crucial City Commission meeting at which will be raised the controversy of the recent corruption arrests of seven city employees and a likely vote on the future of the city manager who [...]
His Fate’s on the Line as Meeting Looms Almost a month to the day after the Miami Beach Seven – the crooked seven, not the Commission Seven – were busted and City Hall became more mistrusted, yet another city employee may be about to bite the dust: The city manager himself. Some City Hall watchers, [...]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, announced today that it will begin Phase 2 work of the Miami-Dade County Shore Protection project in Miami Beach on May 7th. During this phase of construction sand will be removed from an accreted portion of the beach between 10th Street and 18th Street and will be [...]
At least two other Miami Beach city employees – unnamed and yet to be charged – are involved to some extent in the bribery scandal in which 7 city code compliance and fire inspectors were busted by the FBI earlier this month. The criminal complaint filed against the seven in federal court by the U.S. [...]
In an attempt to combat corruption within his workforce and to restore public confidence in it, Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez issued a five-pronged response on Wednesday to the recent arrests of 7 city employees for extortion and bribery. In a memo to Mayor Bower and city commissioners, Gonzalez enumerated a series of actions [...]
Pleas of “not guilty” were entered Wednesday in U.S. District Court by several of the 8 men charged in the South Beach nightclub extortion and cocaine trafficking scandal. This followed a federal grand jury’s formal indictment of the suspended Miami Beach city employees – plus one Miami-Dade cop – for their roles in the alleged [...]
