Black People Want to Know
Like all high profile, controversial news stories tend to do, the death of 17 year old Trayvon Martin has created several stories that become mini-dramas in their own right. In magazine-speak, these spinoffs are called…
I will now be boycotting Best Buy
I sent the following letter to: NewsCenter@bestbuy.com Dear Sir or Madam, I have been a long time customer at Best Buy in the Aventura, Florida store. I have always thought of Best Buy as one…
Attention Senior Citizens
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MEDIA CONTACT: Patrick Smikle 305-375-4789 PROPERTY APPRAISER PEDRO GARCIA REMINDS SENIORS TO RE-APPLY FOR THEIR 2012 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (MIAMI, April 20, 2010) – Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, Pedro J. Garcia…
North Miami Poised to Raise Water Rates
Message from North Miami Councilman Scott Galvin: North Miami Poised to Raise Water Rates What Will it Mean to YOUR Bill? At the North Miami City Council meeting this coming Tuesday, April 24th, the…
The Irony and the Hypocrisy
Can anyone spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y? Retired Miami-Dade County firefighter William Clark obviously cannot. Can anyone spell i-r-o-n-y? The Gadfly can. On Monday, September 17, 2001, a scant six days after the terrorist attacks on American soil,…
Dear Governor Romney
I was privileged to receive a copy of an email from a young man who wrote such an elegant letter to Governor Romney, that I asked his permission to reprint it on my website. He…
Rep. Barbara Watson: The Party of No
If the folks in Florida House District 103 thought they were electing a legislator to actually legislate when they cast their votes for Barbara Watson, they wasted their time. The electorate sent Ms. Watson to…
White People Want to Know
Grab yourself a cup of coffee and settle in. This is going to be one angry rant. This past Monday night I attended a meeting of the North Miami Beach Multicultural Committee, of which I…
What are we? Chopped liver?
It’s getting so that the City of North Miami Beach has become the Rodney Dangerfield of municipalities in Miami-Dade County. We get no respect. Not that we’ve done anything in the past thirty or forty…
Stephen Johnson, Epic Failure
North Miami City Manager Stephen Johnson has a problem. A really big problem. As reported by The Miami Herald, Channel 6 and this blog, he’s under the gun for allowing mayor Andre Pierre to gouge…
