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CORRUPTION ALERT: North Miami Beach Criminal Commissioner Paule Villard is now stealing another $225,000 of your money to buy votes!

Item 11.3 on the Agenda for the August 16, 2022 North Miami Beach City Commission Meeting is Resolution No. R2022-118, sponsored by none other than Criminal Commissioner Paule Villard, for the alleged purpose of “using…

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Start popping the corn! Agriculture Commissioner candidate Naomi Blemur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.

A word to the wise:  If you want to run for public office, your private life becomes a public record.  If you don’t want the skeletons hiding in your closet to see the light of…

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City “Attorney” Hans Ottinot, The Bully of North Miami Beach

North Miami Beach City “Attorney” Hans Ottinot was a bully on the Little League field, and, no surprise, he’s a bully in real life. During my tenure as President of the North Miami Beach Little…

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Injustice is Served! Corruption in North Miami Beach is Still the Order of the Day.

Once upon a time, the North Miami Beach City Clerk’s Office was unimpeachable. Throughout the City’s history, the City Clerks took their jobs seriously and were always responsive to the needs of the public.  They…

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Duke Sorey is out to bankrupt North Miami Beach. And we have the receipts!

North Miami Beach City Manager Arthur “Duke” Sorey can’t spend your tax dollars fast enough. Then again, Duke wasn’t hired for his fiscally responsible style of “management,” as evidenced by the Red Garden Sinkhole he…

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North Miami Beach property taxes will skyrocket, thanks to City Manager Arthur “Duke” Sorey

On June 1, 2022, the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser released the 2022 June 1st Estimates of Taxable Values, which reflect a countywide increase of 10.2% over 2021. In the City of North Miami Beach, property…

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Cultural Appropriation

In his Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in Confederate States as legally free.  It wasn’t until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution…

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P Card Madness, Part 2. NMB Criminal Commissioners are addicted to spending your money! (UPDATED 2X)

Due to the highest inflation rate in over 40 years, the price of food has increased 9.4% over the last 12 months, and gas has jumped an astronomical 43.6%.  Most Americans are now living paycheck…

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P Card Madness, Part 1. North Miami Beach Criminal Commissioners charge up a storm on your dime!

In a previous blog, we revealed how the seven elected officials in North Miami Beach are spending their “discretionary” funds. Although they are each allotted an insane $20,000.00 a year, $6,500.00 of that amount they…

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KUDOS! In her very first budget year as North Miami City Manager, Theresa Therilus fixed the hot mess she inherited from Duke Sorey.

Long before he was hired as the City Manager for North Miami Beach, we had been following Arthur “Duke” Sorey’s less than stellar career as a public administrator in the City of North Miami. In…

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