Posted in Miami-Dade County North Miami Beach Sweetwater

We are SO not Sweetwater!

Nearly three years ago on May 28, 2011, Random Pixels published a column entitled, Sweetwater…still dirty after all these years.  He followed that up on December 8, 2011 with Sweetwater…still dirty after all these years…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Channel 10: 2 burglary suspects in custody in North Miami Beach (UPDATED)

2 burglary suspects in custody in North Miami Beach Published On: Apr 09 2014 03:27:01 PM EDT   Updated  56 m   NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. –  Two home burglary suspects were arrested Wednesday after shots were…

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Posted in Miami-Dade County North Miami Beach

The Moral of the Story

There are so many morals to the latest story out of Miami Gardens that I don’t even know where to begin.  But, here goes anyway. The headline, Exclusive: Video shows shooting of Miami Gardens police…

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Posted in Miami-Dade County North Miami Beach

The ties that bind (Updated 1/24/14)

Some of my North Miami Beach readers like to think there is no news worth reporting from outside The Perimeter.  They get annoyed with me for writing about any other city, especially neighboring North Miami. …

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Re-brand This!

I got a call this morning from David Smith, the Hallandale Beach Blogger, who asked me if I saw Channel 10’s This Week in South Florida this morning (which I did not, but it’s online…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Public Notice: City of North Miami Beach

West Parking Lot – Golden Glades Monday, January 06, 2014 to Monday, June 30, 2014   OVERVIEW On Monday, January 6, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is scheduled to begin a parking lot modification…

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Posted in National

The Great Disconnect

On the surface, it would appear that Ethan Couch and Anthawn Ragan, Jr. have absolutely nothing in common.  Couch is the Texas 16-year old who was charged with and acquitted of the deaths of four…

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Moving … forward?

My favorite local blogger, Random Pixels, has written extensively about police corruption, especially in Opa-locka.  Today, he wrote about the crazy stuff happening in the City of Miami Gardens, in which the police have been…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

It sucks to be us

In what has sadly become a typical storyline in northeast Miami-Dade County, the Miami Herald’s Nadege Green reported a heartbreaking tale of yet another gang-related shooting death of an innocent child in the City of…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

North Miami’s … Water-Gate?

A year ago, almost to the day, I published a column called What’s in your water?  In it, I questioned the wisdom of the City of North Miami’s decision to give a no-bid $800,000.00 contract…

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