Miami Beach Police Chief Carlos Noriega’s last day is officially the end of December. Unofficially he’s already gone, banished by the ghosts of controversies past. After 30 years on the job, he’s leaving behind a department mired in controversy, disarray and continued bad press. The often embattled chief will be moving on to as yet [...]
On the Waterfront Miami Beach-style If you think the lightweights that duked it out with Mayor Bower and Commissioner Weithorn took a dive then consider poor Howard Cain. He couldda been somebody. Where’s Terry Malloy when we need him? So a floozy “wanting to set the record straight”—a deadbeat unemployed single mother bankrupt on many [...]
An Election Post-Mortem With the Occupy Party rioting in the streets—mobs are always leftist, violent and without a cause—we decided it’s a good time to get out and vote. Not that there’s anything going on like that around here (ignore the nonsense down at Government Center, Gertrude; you can’t tell the bums from the occupiers) [...]
By Anne Newport Royal With the elections barely 12 hours over, most of the politically aware on Miami Beach were still asleep in their beds and not at the monthly meeting of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association. Russell Galbut’s pop-up political forum and free continental breakfast at the Shelborne Hotel on Collins Avenue had easily [...]
By Anne Newport Royall LAND USE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE October 26, 2011 Who’ll Let the Dogs Out? Over 40 people crammed into the fourth floor large conference room to beseech the Committee to let the dogs run for free for two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening at Pine Tree Park, located [...]
Now the Licking of Chops for ’13 Begins There haven’t been many elections that the candidate I preferred at race’s start turned out, alas, not to be the one I eventually voted for in the end. But it happened that way in this year’s Miami Beach mayoral sweepstakes. I kept wondering, hoping, staring down into [...]
The Candidates “Debate” On TV Handicapping politics is becoming something of a tradition around here. The recent spate of debates—at the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club, the Colony Theatre, and this last pre-taped, pre-recorded, what? Not a soliloquy, really… nor exactly debates, either…. how about solilobates?; yeah, that’s it!, the solilobates shown on the City’s slightly-off [...]
The Latest Campaign Filing Reports By Anne Newport Royall Special to the SunPost MAYOR”S RACE With early voting in the City of Miami Beach underway, a look at the latest campaign filing reports reveal one of the smallest elections in recent history in terms of money raised and spent. Mayoral Candidate Steve Berke continued to [...]
People In The Community You Should Know: Mathew Krieger & Jacky Korn Tour Creators Discovery Miami Beach Who are you? We the creators of Discovery Miami Beach, a self-guided audio tour that allows our customers to explore 29 of the best locations that Miami Beach (past and present) has to offer. We also wanted our [...]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow… Where have all the voters gone? As we wrap-up another election it’s interesting, and possibly instructive, to note what, or possibly what not, happens in the process of electing incumbent, or possibly new, officials. What we’re trying to say, Gertrude, is why do so few voters take the time to [...]
Jorge, Hilda Escape Prosecution – Now Commission Must Act So this is how the curtain goes down on that tawdry operetta called Ticketgate: Not with a fat lady belting one out but with a prosecutor muttering, “Case closed.” The State Attorney’s Office – specifically, Chief Assistant State Attorney Jose Arrojo – conducted its probe of [...]
By Anne Newport Royall PROPOSED RECYCLING ORDINANCE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE WORKSHOP Monday October 24, 2011 Although the meeting was advertised for a 5:00 p.m. start, and the room was assembled by 5:05 p.m. with the 25 people who would participate in the workshop all present and signed-in, it was not until 5:25 p.m. that Sustainability Chair [...]
