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. …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

While we anxiously await tonight’s City of North Miami Beach budget workshop so that I can blog about current events, I thought I’d go off on a random tangent about a favorite topic of mine…

Today I received a copy of a Memorandum dated August 16, 2011 from the International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO to the North Miami Beach Police Officers Association, IUPA Local 6005.  Turns out, this Memorandum…

Thanks to a three day migraine, and the desire to simply not be aggravated again, I chose to watch the North Miami Beach Council meeting last night on my computer instead of attending in person. …