Posted in North Miami Beach

More on Paule: Caveat Emptor

Responsible voters should take the time to learn everything they can about the candidates running for office. Paule Villard, for example, is challenging incumbent Marlen Martell for her Group 7 seat on the North “Maimi”…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Vote for FrantziePaule PierreVillard!

If you weren’t sure whether or not North Miami Beach Council Weasel Frantz Pierre recruited candidate Paule Villard to run against his own colleague, this advance copy of their twin mailers set to be sent…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Campaign signs gone wild!

Campaign sign violations are nothing new in North Miami Beach.  Every election season, you can count on candidates simply ignoring sign laws and ordinances because, frankly, there are no consequences for not complying. Unfortunately, no…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Phyllis Smith: Frantz Pierre 2.1

Politicians lie.  It’s simply what they do.  They tell lies with poker faces, as if no one in the room knows they’re lying.  Unfortunately, more often than not, they get away with it. In his…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Campaign season is here. Let the fun begin!

The qualifying period for the North Miami Beach City Council election has come and gone.  I’m pleased to announce that all the candidates running for office are actually bona fide residents of the City of…

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Posted in Broward County Davie North Miami Beach

Our Top Story Tonight

The big news out of Davie, Florida is that the giant snail infestation appears to be stopped! The Sun-Sentinel reported yesterday that “The snails are on the run.” One week to the day that I…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Bond Court Revisited

If I were a fiction writer of true crime stories, the narrative would go something like this: After cooling his heels in a jail cell for over a month, Elton found himself back in very…

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Posted in Aventura Miami Shores North Miami Beach

Fun with statistics.

In the comment section of a recent blog, a North Miami reader posted a website called Neighborhood Scout, which stated that the crime index in that city is 6 out of a possible 100, with…

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Posted in North Miami Beach

Time for a hot MOCA break!

It seems that the ICA gals are still having trouble finding a director for their spin-off museum. The Art Newspaper reported in February that “in less than five months after announcing [her] appointment,” the former …

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Posted in Sweetwater

Tag, you’re it!

Is North Miami the new Sweetwater?  I’m beginning to wonder. As Miami Herald reporter David Ovalle posted in Sweetwater cop charged for using stolen plates to avoid tolls, one more cop has been added to…

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