Category: Opa-locka
Congrats, North Miami, you’re in the Top Ten!
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Hopeless in Opa-locka
If Opa-locka residents thought term limits were going to solve their corruption problem, they were sadly mistaken. With three career politicians about to vacate their seats on the dais, voters had the rare opportunity to…
Opa-locka: Vincent T. Brown Must Go! (UPDATED)
The Opa-locka Mayor and Commission are finally looking to replace their ethically challenged and fiscally irresponsible … and questionably intelligent City Attorney, Vincent T. Brown. Item 4 on the agenda for tonight’s Regular Commission Meeting authorizes the issuance of…
Fixing Opa-locka: Bring on the Whistleblowers!
Fighting against public corruption, especially in Opa-locka, is usually an exercise in futility. It’s nearly impossible to win even one battle, but a back-to-back sweep is nothing short of a miracle. Well, add another feather…
From bad to worse. Opa-locka’s self-inflicted troubles continue.
First came the scathing article from the Miami New Times that Opa-locka Crime Is Up 403%, Report Says. Reporter Jessica Lipscomb wrote: Conditions at the Opa-locka Police Department are so bad the city can barely…
Opa-locka, the City of Terminal Stupidity
A City Attorney who can’t comprehend his own municipal charter is a special kind of stupid. Then again, when the city is Opa-locka, and the attorney is Vincent T. Brown, anything is possible. This is…
Is there hope for Opa-locka? Don’t hold your breath.
Opa-locka residents will finally have the chance to clean house on November 6, 2018. But will it end the city’s documented history of corruption? Probably not. Thanks to term limits, which voters passed by referendum…
News Briefs Redux
More trouble for Opa-locka? The Miami Herald reported on Monday that Merritt Stierheim, who was appointed by the state to fix Opa-locka’s financial woes, has given up his advisory position, citing a “deeply rooted culture…
Shades of Frantzie! Opa-locka Code Enforcement Officer under fire for doing his job!
Another South Florida public employee has incurred the wrath of an elected official for daring to issue a code violation citation. Two years ago, North Miami Beach Commissionweasel Frantz Pierre went postal on a code…
Luis Santiago: Guilty is as guilty does
Remember that time former Opa-locka Commissioner Luis Santiago insisted he would not plead guilty to bribery charges? Apparently, he doesn’t either. On December 30, 2017, he surrendered to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in response to…
