And Other Yakety Yak From 2011 “A huge window-shaking bang here in Abbottabad,” tweeted Sohaib Athar in the wee hours of May 2. “I hope it’s not the start of something nasty.” It was for his unfortunate neighbors in a certain nearby compound. Unbeknownst to him, Athar was inadvertently live-tweeting the year’s most notable event, [...]
To Tax or Not to Tax, Is the Question By: Alejandro Arce Special to the SunPost Following the irregularities occurring in our Miami, which includes The Miami-Dade County, The City of Miami, and The Miami Beach as well as the other numerous municipalities, the last irregularity, the one and most “VISUAL” is the big issue of the [...]
This week’s column is one I have dreaded writing for much of this year. It is altogether impossible to avoid now following last Friday’s news. Late Thursday, his heart stopped pumping, and the life blood ceased coursing its way to the brilliant wisdom factory that was the awe-inspiring cerebrum of Christopher Hitchens. I as well [...]
Here and Nationwide, One Party’s Scheme Has Already Hatched Media of all sorts – print, broadcast, internet, you name it – are all abuzz about the apparent attempt by Vladimir Putin’s backers to steal the recent Russian parliamentary elections. And of the resulting mass protests that such blatant vote-rigging and ballot box stuffing – some [...]
Let’s make sure we understand the ramifications of all this destination-resort-casino-monolith erecting and that we’re not ambling into this controversy eyes wide shut: The jobs they’ll create – and how many and what type – that’s debatable. Their boon to the local economy, that’s debatable. The threat they may pose to our hotel/restaurant industry, that’s [...]
Look for Him in the Details Talk about your too big to gamble with! Nascent gaming—poker at Gulfstream Park, maquinita slots in Cubaleah, er, Hialeah, ‘Beach Bingo’ at the Miami Beach Shane Watersports Center (“the greatest chance of winning big”)—has morphed from a neap tide to a groundswell to a towering tsunami, what with the [...]
Lord Knows We Need Some Smart Government So. The bipartisan congressional “Supercommittee” failed to reach a deal on reducing the federal deficit. But, hey, here’s what your elected federal legislators did achieve: Inserting language into an Agriculture Department appropriation bill declaring tomato sauce on school pizzas a vegetable and watering down Ag’s efforts to improve [...]
And Other Things Your Fearless Columnist Did, Heard & Saw At the Book Fair It’s Monday and I’m in recovery mode. Recovery from a weekend of author talks, book browsing, touring street fair exhibitor tents, and schlepping a backpack and tote bag chockful of books and stuff, at the Miami Book Fair International, the city’s [...]
Apparently our Cheez-It Commissioners are not quite mature. Remember that Cheez-It commercial where the white-jacketed technician comes in to see if the three commissioners talking about bicycle lanes are cheesy enough to be called mature? Neither do we. (We’re riffing off a www.transitmiami.com article.) The goofy premise is that only “mature” cheese makes it into [...]
These Clowns – Er, GOP Candidates – Expect Us To Elect One of Them? Stick a fork in him, this potato head is done. All hat, no cattle. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Like a prize fighter in the ring, barely hanging off the ropes by his underarms, knocked senseless by one too [...]
Casino Idea Promises To Keep Civic, Business Leaders Up, Biting Their Nails To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether to build a destination resort casino and invite, whichever way you see it, either jobs and economic revitalization, or higher crime rates and the possible atrophy of Miami Beach’s business community and [...]
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 [...]
