Author: Stephanie Kienzle
In Phyllis’ Chair
Yesterday I received a tip to listen to the final 45 minutes or so of last Wednesday night’s North Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Special Meeting specifically to hear Councilwoman Phyllis Smith bloviate in…
What part of BROKE don’t you understand?
A new article published today online in The Miami Herald, NMB tentatively approves budget with police layoffs (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/07/2397073/nmb-tentatively-approves-budget.html), focuses strictly on the fact that the North Miami Beach police UNION decided to lay off officers…
Community Notice
To: North Miami Beach Community and Beyond The family of resident Ernest Vassell is in need of assistance to pay for his funeral. They are short approximately $…
Channeling Jimmy Hoffa
UNIONS play by rules very different from the ones played by civilized society. According to the unofficial playbook of UNIONS, Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, the tactics are all laid out from the start. …
First Reading the North Miami Beach Budget; Phyllis Un-Muzzled
Let me start out by first screaming OMFG! Watching the first reading and vote on the City of North Miami Beach 2011/2012 Budget was yet another hair-pulling episode, which was time spent that I’ll never…
For a good time call 305-LEO-AFFAIRS
If you are under the mistaken impression that all police officers are professional, courteous, adult human beings, just hop on over to the website known as LEOAFFAIRS.COM (a/k/a Cops Tot Lot), and check out the…
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT
North Miami Beach employee and AFSCME President Janice Coakley starts every public comment in response to a department’s budget presentation with the phrase, “I have a problem with that.” Ever since the Budget Season has…
My WTF Moment of the Day
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times…I’m no financial expert. I could stare at the North Miami Beach budget and all the slide presentations given by the various department heads, and…
Random Thoughts and Nominations
Unless there are any really new developments in the not so breaking story of the North Miami Beach Police Department vs. the city, I won’t be writing more about this situation. No, I have not…
The Calico Cop from Hell
I want to personally thank Sergeant Nelson Reyes of the North Miami Beach Police Department for giving me the material to write this blog. If it weren’t for him, frankly, I doubt I could have…
