Drink a Latte, Change the World By Linda Mooney Okay, maybe not the world, but your surroundings. Actually, you don’t even have to drink coffee, or tea, or even like the sight and idea of a Starbucks. If fact, you could be the anti-corporate-local-coffeehouse hipster across the street riding free on their internet–and you can [...]
The ’70s were a very frightening time. Jimmy Carter was president. [Audience laughter, then applause.] And we had a president who lied to the American people who was almost impeached before he had to resign. And most troubling of all, we had to overcome disco [more laughter] and bell bottoms, and the Bee Gees.” [From [...]
By Linda Mooney It’s hard to believe that a metropolis named “America’s Cleanest City” just four years ago by Forbes magazine, partly for its vast green open spaces and visual aesthetics, and which relies so heavily on tourism thanks to this status, would consider such a thing, but the day has come. On Thursday, April [...]
Memorial Day Countdown Begins Memorial Day weekend – May 25-28 – is fast approaching. In six short weeks, Miami Beach residents, business owners, and civic leaders will learn if the 12 months of planning and preparation between last year’s controversy-stoking holiday weekend and this year’s paid off with a better-managed, less-chaotic, and safer weekend. With [...]
Miami Beach CDC has been invited to participate in the Starbucks Community Card: VoteGiveGrow program in recognition of its work helping the community to thrive — through historic preservation, economic revitalization and affordable housing. Starbucks Foundation will distribute $4 million to 124 non profit organizations, based upon votes by thousands of individuals throughout the month [...]
By Alejandro Arce It is tiring and appalling to read almost every day regarding the irregularities, to say the least, of the monies to be allocated for the redevelopment of one of the ugliest and poorly managed Convention Center which appears in the Miami Herald today. It smells as another technically overcharged projects in which [...]
The Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board unanimously voted Tuesday night, April 3, to recommend that City Hall withdraw its RFQ for potential developers for the city’s convention center and put the brakes on its estimated $1 billion redevelopment plan. The board, also unanimously, recommended the city issue a request for proposals for the improvement [...]
A memorandum from Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez proposes the city head off a repeat of last year’s Memorial Day weekend chaos with a host of solutions including safety and DUI checkpoints on the MacArthur Causeway and implementing a “cruising” loop to divert heavy traffic from residential side streets. In addition, police presence would [...]
SunPost Helps to Expose Management Trouble at the Setai Hotel Last summer, the SunPost ran a story detailing the poor treatment of employees by the management company, General Hotel Management Ltd. (GHM) of the Setai Hotel on South Beach. The article (Setai Hotel Exposed! While Models and Celebs Luxuriate, Foreign Workers Suffer By John Zur) [...]
The Bay Harbor Islands Town Council will have two new faces on the dais. Voters elected first-time politicians Solange Rousselot and Franciso J. Temprano to two seats left open by retiring incumbents Mayor Ileene Wallace and Councilman Kenneth Weinstein. Out of a field of three, the top two won the seats. From 2,831 registered voters, [...]
Restoration efforts for the historic Miami Marine Stadium have been advanced a step further with last Thursday’s adoption of a measure by the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority. The Authority’s approval of amendments to a memorandum of understanding, adopted March 8 by the Miami City Commission, paves the way for the creation of a partnership [...]
By Daniel A Ricker Watchdog Report 180 Giant Sheets of Hurricane Proof Glass for Art Museum a Challenge, Science Wants Extra $30 Million Next Year The senior staff of the Perez Art Museum and the Frost Science Museum that have new buildings going up on Museum Park in Miami’s Bicentennial Park and receiving a good [...]
