In Phyllis’ Chair
Yesterday I received a tip to listen to the final 45 minutes or so of last Wednesday night’s North Miami Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Special Meeting specifically to hear Councilwoman Phyllis Smith bloviate in…
What part of BROKE don’t you understand?
A new article published today online in The Miami Herald, NMB tentatively approves budget with police layoffs (http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/07/2397073/nmb-tentatively-approves-budget.html), focuses strictly on the fact that the North Miami Beach police UNION decided to lay off officers…
Community Notice
To: North Miami Beach Community and Beyond The family of resident Ernest Vassell is in need of assistance to pay for his funeral. They are short approximately $…
Union Hypocrisy
Sometimes only comedy can adequately convey the true absurdity of a situation. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart exposes the United Food and Commercial Workers union of Nevada for the hypocrites that they really…
Yet another UNION tale
As fate would have it, I have another UNION story that broke while all of you were having lunch. As reported in an article on MSNBC.com, Longshoremen storm Wash. state port, overpower guards and dump…
Channeling Jimmy Hoffa
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. …
First Reading the North Miami Beach Budget; Phyllis Un-Muzzled
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…
For a good time call 305-LEO-AFFAIRS
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…
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT
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…
My WTF Moment of the Day
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…
