Hmm…What Pillow Talk This Guy Must Have Generated for the Weithorns You may not be familiar with the names Keith Donner and Mark Herron. And if you’re not, you ought to be. They know you by name. In fact, in recent weeks, they sent a lot of mail your way, addressed to you. You’re not [...]
Luis Garcia, Jr., Florida House representative and former Miami Beach commissioner, qualified for a Nov. 6 runoff with incumbent District 5 County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro. He issued this statement to the SunPost on Wednesday: I am humbled by the support of the voters in District 5 and thankful for the diligence of the Miami-Dade Elections [...]
Tax Returns Distraction Won’t Go Away Because Romney’s Ego Won’t Let It The Late Show with David Letterman’s “Top Ten Things We’ve Learned About Mars”: 1. Easier to get to than Mitt Romney’s tax returns. My take on why Mitt Wrongney won’t release more extensive tax returns than those he’s already released is this: He [...]
In a surprise ending to a contentious statehouse race in which its chief combatants threw everything but kitchen sinks at one another, David Richardson was all but formally elected to the Florida House on Tuesday night. Richardson, a 55-year-old CPA who resides in South Beach, beat out fellow Miami Beach residents Mark Weithorn and Adam [...]
You’ve Been Tapped to Pay For Our New Convention Center, Suckas! Dear Out-of-Town Tourists: Welcome to Miami Beach! Where you’re sure to enjoy lots of sand, sun, and surf. Oh, but before you doff your shoes at the airport security checkpoint and allow your friendly TSA agent to treat you to a good groping, you’d [...]
STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 113 ADAM KRAVITZ Internet entrepreneur, attorney; age 47 Residence: Miami Beach Net worth (as of May 2012): $4,280,263 Business Investment “High-tech start-ups have the potential to transform our economy, but local entrepreneurs face a hostile environment. South Florida offers little or no access to the seed funding and venture capital that is [...]
U.S. SENATOR (R) Connie Mack Mike McCalister Marielena Stuart Dave Weldon U.S. SENATOR (D) Glenn Burkett *Bill Nelson MIAMI-DADE STATE ATTORNEY *Katherine Fernandez Rundle Rod Vereen STATE REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 113 Waldo Faura Adam Kravitz David Richardson Mark Weithorn COUNTY PROPERTY APPRAISER Carlos Lopez-Cantera * Pedro J. Garcia COUNTY COMMISSION, DISTRICT 1 Shirley Gibson Wade Jones [...]
Who’s to Blame for August Primaries? State Legislators, That’s Who I’ve never been fortunate to get a letter in the mail notifying me that I won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes (then again, didn’t they always deliver the good news with a knock at the door?). But when I went to my post office box [...]
QUESTION 1: Allowing Up to 1% Increase in Room Rent Portion of Resort Tax Shall Section 5.03 of the Charter be amended to allow the Commission to increase, up to one percent, the resort tax on room rent, to expand, enlarge, renovate, and/or improve the Convention Center, including payment of debt service related thereto, and [...]
Help Wanted: New State Attorney, One of Steel, Not Tissue Paper How does one know when she’s overstayed her welcome and become but a shadow of the effective, aggressive prosecutor she may have at one time harbored ambitions of becoming? How does one know when it’s long past time to clean out one’s desk, take [...]
Or, Rather, Whose Life Is About to Be Fed Through a Meat Grinder? Any day now, America will be introduced to its newest celebrity, its latest, talked-up-every-five-seconds-on-every-TV-screen-in-the-country-and-then-some personality. Someone who may already be well known to a couple million or so Americans but whose name and face is about to become instantaneously thrust across the [...]
110 Days to Go, Team Mitt’s Blunders Don’t Bode Well Boo-hoo, Mitt Wrongney as much as burbled like a baby last week. “Obama doesn’t fight fair. He and his partisans, beating up on me over my Bain Capital years, and when exactly did I leave the company, even though I was still receiving compensation from [...]
