Make no mistake about it.  Nothing sells news like murder and mayhem.  The same principle is involved when traffic slows to glacial speed even if the accident is well off to the side of the…

For those of you who are leery of the fact that I am a Republican, I thought I’d try to give you a better idea of my personal political beliefs.  You’ll find I’m not so…

As far back as December of 2009, I started warning the North Miami Beach City Council and then City Manager, Kelvin Baker, that the economy was on the verge of collapsing.  I sent them an…

My parents were honest-to-goodness hippies.  My father was the more staid of the two, never quite leaving the fifties, with his Fonzie haircut and his “gang” of fellow New Yorkers.  But my mother embraced the…

Somewhere amidst all the rhetoric being spewed over North Miami Beach’s budget crisis there is the truth.  Reasonable people know this.  Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be enough reason to go around these days.  Panic,…

Some people warned me that if I spoke my mind about unions there would be repercussions.  They also warned me that no matter how much I supported our North Miami Beach Police Department, in word…

A reader of mine was wondering how much money North Miami Beach taxpayers have been billed so far for councilwoman Phyllis Smith’s insistence on passing a Seating Arrangement Resolution.  Let’s see if we can come…

Maybe Phyllis doesn’t “read the blogs” but hopefully she reads the newspaper.  That’s, of course, assuming she stops talking long enough to read anything at all.  If she does, she’d read an article in today’s…

The First Annual Street Furniture Fall Runway Exhibit, featuring… The Phyllis Smith Couture Collection! This stunning tee shirt from the SmithWear Collection is what will be seen on all the most fashionable NMBers this fall! …

  Okay, so check this out.  It’s a sorta slow news day, so I wanted to run something by you that’s been on my mind lately.  Let’s talk about what constitutes a Conflict of Interest. …