Posted in North Miami Beach

Phyllis Smith: How do I l̶o̶v̶e̶ lie to thee? Let me count the ways.

After more than five years of patiently tolerating his “colleague” on the dais, North Miami Beach Mayor George Vallejo finally had enough of Phyllis Smith’s running off at the mouth with “misinformation,” innuendoes and outright…

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Posted in Lauderdale Lakes North Miami Beach Opa-locka

Is this the end of the road for Kelvin Baker?

Lauderdale Lakes commissioners are understandably nervous that their Financial Services Director, Susan Gooding-Liburd, might be doing a perp walk out of City Hall. The Sun-Sentinel reported in Lauderdale Lakes finance director linked to Opa-locka controversy …

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Posted in Lauderdale Lakes North Miami Beach Opa-locka

I’m not saying it was Kelvin Baker, but…

After the latest breaking news out of Opa-locka, the Lauderdale Lakes commissioners might want to consider a forensic audit of its entire city. As hard as it is to believe, things in Opa-locka just got…

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Posted in Lauderdale Lakes North Miami Beach Opa-locka

Opa-locka’s Theater of the Absurd. Co-starring Myra Taylor and Kelvin Baker!

Once again, the news out of Opa-locka is making jaws drop as the bizarre details of political greed, stupidity and unbelievable sense of entitlement are being exposed. From the You Can’t Make This Up files…

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Posted in North Miami Beach Opa-locka

Opa-locka: Oops, there goes another one!

It didn’t take long for Wilfredo A. Ferrer to convince former Opa-locka City Attorney David Chiverton to see things his way. Twelve days after the city’s Assistant Public Works Director Gregory Harris pleaded guilty to…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Phyllis Smith, shut up and sit down!

At a special meeting of the North Miami Beach city council called for the sole purpose of passing a single piece of time-critical legislation, Faux Councilwman Phyllis Smith deliberately inconvenienced everyone in the room by…

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Posted in Opa-locka

Opa-locka Mayor Myra Taylor gets no respect!

It’s bad enough that Opa-locka is thisclose  to losing its City Hall in foreclosure. Even worse, the county just took control of the city’s water department. But horror of horrors, the Governor’s appointed oversight board…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Is Phyllis Smith lying again? Well, her lips ARE moving. So, yeah. She’s lying.

Last week North Miami Beach Faux Councilwoman Phyllis Smith wasted everyone’s valuable time at a specially called meeting … to complain that there are too many specially called meetings. Yeah, she’s that clueless. After she…

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Posted in Miami-Dade County National North Miami Beach

‘Twas the night before the Primaries, and all through the House (and Senate)…

In Florida, early voting ended yesterday.  Today, all the candidates were out in full force trying to convince anyone who hasn’t voted yet to come to the polls tomorrow on Election Day. The weather, however,…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Phyllis Smith goes postal, Tony DeFillipo saves the day!

Who can resist making fun of North Miami Beach Faux Councilwoman Phyllis Smith’s foot-in-mouth disease?  I mean, seriously.  Phyllis is a one-woman parody of, well, herself. At a special meeting of the city council called…

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