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UNTITLED. Because I’m too pissed to think of one!

Last night’s North Miami Beach City Council meeting was a real eye opening experience for me.  Fully expecting the “sea of blue” to the fill the Council Chambers, I knew I wouldn’t be getting a…

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Blue Herrings and Hunting Cats

So here I am standing at the kitchen sink this morning washing dishes when I catch a movement out of the corner of my eye.  I instinctively look down and right there on the counter…

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Interview With NMB Mayor George Vallejo on St Surin 1700am Radio (Parts 1 and 2)

   Part 1    Part 2

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If it bleeds, it leads

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…

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In Defense of GOP Principles, by a Common Sense Republican

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…

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Roosting Chickens

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…

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“Making Friends and Influencing People?” I think not!

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…

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Bad Apples?

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,…

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Spelling Counts!

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…

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Math can be fun! No, really!

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…

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