Miami-Dade county commissioners won’t be seeking that pay raise after all. Shockingly, they decided not to ask voters for a pay hike, even with a financial crisis looming. (Most unlike them.) Someone must’ve woke up and smelled the coffee, and now the commission has concluded it isn’t the time to ask for a pay raise. We’re so glad logic prevailed; just when we were wheeling up the heavy artillery. That slaughter wouldn’t have been pretty.
Abigail DuBearn is probably special-ordering a bumper sticker right now that declares: “I’M THE PROUD PARENT OF AN HONOR STUDENT WHOSE PRINCIPAL HAS A FOULER MOUTH THAN MY KID’S.” Ms. DuBearn is a member of Coconut Grove Elementary’s “Educational Excellence School Advisory Committee”. Her recent email request – about a seemingly tame matter involving an upcoming committee meeting – provoked a rather unsavory and unpalatable response from her kid’s principal, Eva Ravelo, who, according to the Miami Herald, wrote back, tersely:
“Try not. Do or do not. Trying is nothing.” —Yoda: Return Of The Jedi “Resolved: Encourage the city of Miami Beach to support and pursue implementation of the Baylink project through the MPO by requesting the MPO to commence and take appropriate steps to move the process forward.” —Allen Fishman: Return Of Baylink Thank you, [...]
A good woman is soon to leave County Hall at a time when we desperately need more like her. Infinitely more. These are Katy Sorenson’s final months as District 8 commissioner. Her constituents, from Pinecrest to Homestead, have seen fit to return her to the Stephen P. Clark Building in three elections since 1994, but [...]
Skullduggery abounds. Did you know that Miami Beach is about to get gambling? Maybe not the kind that’ll attract the Rat Pack or professional cardsharps, no, but your grandmother for sure, the way a flame draws moths. What kind of gambling is this, you ask? Bingo! And when is Bingo not just Bingo? When the [...]
Last week’s issue of Newsweek sports Texas Gov. Rick Perry (“Governor Goodhair” to his detractors) on the cover, big bold letters blazoned across his business suit: DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS. Don’t know about you, but I’d like to see Texas messed with just once, if only to shut them up from using that damned infernal [...]
South of Filth Residents continue to take comfort in limiting activities in their park. In fact, many battle-weary South of Fifth Neighborhood Association (SOFNA) members passed on yet another opportunity to vent during last week’s Breakfast with the Mayor. This bit of intimacy attracted some four dozen diehards to the second floor veranda overlooking Government [...]
We weren’t there personally, but we understand things very nearly went off the rails. Our spies—they’re legion—came away from this bit of political theatre traumatized. One reason is, surprise!, that the commissioners punted (newsflash elected officials: tackling the problem du jour shows a distinct lack of vision and is more rightly wardheelism: promising to fix [...]
By the rumblings out of South Pointe, you’d think the Beirut Green Line had been dragged 3000 miles west to become a line of demarcation between warring factions south of Fifth. Only this confusing crossfire is more between business, resident, and high school-kids instead of religious fundamentalists. Frank Del Vecchio, activist and unofficial “mayor” of [...]
The coast of Namibia, in Africa, is strewn with the bleached bones and rusting relics of cargo ships that came to grief, ran aground, and were pounded to pieces by wind and wave. Some wrecks are so old they lie wrapped in dunes a half-mile from the restless, shifting shoreline. This Skeleton Coast, as it’s [...]
VOTE NO! Captured at deadline was a group of protestors on the 79th street Causeway on Miami Beach. With loud chanting, tambourines, whistles and hand crafted signs the crowd of mostly women and children were protesting a bill in the Florida Legislature, Senate Bill 6 and House Bill 7189. The bill ties half of teachers’ salaries [...]
Is the Miami Beach Police Department in free fall? It sure seems like they’ve gone headfirst down the rabbit hole….
