Month: March 2014
Life inside the perimeter
Okay, so here I am, minding my own business, when all of a sudden a police search helicopter is circling overhead. North Miami Beach police officers and dogs came into my yard, obviously searching for…
Another exciting Saturday night
To paraphrase (plagiarize?) Random Pixels’ regular column, Your lunch hour time waster, I present to you Your Saturday night time waster. Earlier tonight I came across this March 5, 2014 investigative report from an NBC…
“We had some drive by shootings…” (Updated)
Random Pixels’ latest column is a MUST-READ scathing discourse about the state of the Miami Herald today. In There are no ‘dirt-bag’ murders, he published a short excerpt from a book written by Pulitzer Prize…
“Transparency” is the new black: Charter School Edition
“Transparency” has replaced “accountability” as the mot du jour of government. Almost every day I read a story about a city that “commits to transparency,” and then proceeds to break its own vows. The latest…
The Frantzie Show
Tuesday night’s North Miami Beach City Council meeting was once again a spectacle to behold. And I don’t mean that in a good way. This time, the star of the show was none other than…
Let the p*ssing contest begin!
James C. Casey, Esq., the attorney for the former North Miami Beach City Attorney Darcee Siegel, threw down the gauntlet when he fired off a letter to Mayor George Vallejo on February 20, 2014. According to…
Criminal Mischief
A little boy causes mischief by pulling a little girl’s ponytail on the playground and running away. We all know (don’t we?) that he wouldn’t do something so mischievous if he wasn’t secretly crushin’ on…
Bullets and Ballots (Updated)
It’s been a busy weekend in North Miami and North Miami Beach. First, the non-news, courtesy of
Whatever happened to…
… Myron’s re-hearing before the North Miami Beach Code Enforcement Board on January 9, 2014? You might recall that EX-Mayor Myron Rosner and his wife, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SARAH ZABEL, filed an appeal to the…
