Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, March 14th 1pm
In appreciation of Daylight Saving Time we’ll be riding from Miami to Ft. Lauderdale, 75 miles round trip. The extra hour of daylight is great for cyclists and pedestrians alike, let’s take advantage of it.
Similar to the Valentine’s Day Ride to Hollywood, average speed will be 20-22mph. This is a longer ride so keep yourself hydrated and bring an extra tube/patch kit/tools. We’ll most likely split into two groups, keep in mind this is not a ride for novice riders. We’ll be riding through busy streets at peak traffic hours.
Our destination in Ft. Lauderdale will be the Antique and Custom Bicycle Show at Coral Ridge Mall. We’ll check out the bike show, grab a snack and then head back to Miami. The ride will take an estimated 6 hours (rest time included), we should be back in Downtown Miami before dusk.
Here is a link to the route.
Don’t forget to set those clocks forward at 2am Sunday, remember you will lose sleep Saturday night!
House Rep. Marcelo Llorente is quietly amassing a bankroll to run for the Mayor of Miami Dade County. He has already collected almost $200,000 in a a fund-raising frenzy. Llorente went to Tulane as an undergrad and graduated from Florida State University College of Law. He was elected to the Florida House in 2002 and is Chair of two committees, Full Appropriations Council on General Government &
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US politics are in gridlock because elected officials, Democrats and Republicans, are fighting to revive an economic model based on land speculation, production homebuilding and construction of infrastructure related to sprawl. Instead of breaking with leap-frog, car-centric development molded to fit financial derivatives– admitting that trillions of taxpayer handouts have been given to banks to
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I received this insightful piece written by Maynard Hershon for the Rivendell Reader at last night’s Critical Mass ride. Someone printed out copies and was passing them around, thought I’d share it here.
Miami, do you miss the days of Studio A? Tired of trekking up to Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach to see a show just because Miami lacks a mid-size venue? Did you feel some shows schedul…
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Over at New Times Broward-Palm Beach sister blog the Juice, we find that heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne is to join the illustrious company of Miami’s own Pitbull as a recipient of a city…
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Gov. Charlie Crist latched onto a new campaign slogan Saturday, one day after U.S. Senate rival Marco Rubio confessed he double-billed taxpayers and the Republican party for eight plane tickets when he was a state legislator: "Trust.''
Crist used the loaded word at least a dozen times in a 10-minute speech at a breakfast in Miami hosted by the Christian Family Coalition, an offshoot of the well-known Christian Coalition.
"This is about trust,'' Crist repeated to reporters. "We're asking people for their vote and by doing that we're asking them to trust us.''
The harsh attacks traded by Crist and Rubio dominated the event, which marked the second time all of the major candidates for Florida's U.S. Senate seat appeared together. Rubio, who said Friday he would repay the party $3,000 for the billing "mistake,'' tore into Crist's anti-abortion credentials in his speech to about 400 religious conservatives.
"If you do not believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned, you are not pro-life,'' Rubio said. He added, referring to Crist's statement in 2006 that he would rather change hearts than law: "Senators can't change hearts. Only God can change hearts.''
Reaction from some vocal Marco Rubio fans to
revelations that Marco Rubio double-billed Florida taxpayers and the
Florida GOP for eight different flights from Miami to Tallahassee:
Club for Growth spokesman Michael Connolly: "Sounds
like Marco is doing the right thing reimbursing taxpayers for the
$3,000. Hopefully Gov. Crist can do the same thing about that $787
billion he owes us.”
RedState's Erick Erickson: "It doesn't give me any
pause in supporting him. Life happens and with it mistakes.
Considering the Executive Director of the Party spent as much in a
month as Rubio did in multiple years, I don't think it is a big issue.
I can't wait for the open records acts on Charlie Crist's international
travel and minibar raids. Rubio's expenditures are peanuts in
comparison."
No. Wing-nuts won’t care about Marco Rubio double billing for airline tickets, they will believe Rubio’s "mistake by his staff" defense. I did like Crist’s quote in the Miami Herald today regarding Rubio playing the blame game:"If he wants to find out who to blame for this, he should look in the mirror…"
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On March 5th you can get just that, a free lunch and a free continental breakfast in the most beautiful surroundings, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden (also free). All you have to do to get the free food is sit through the Miami Dade County Park’s Summit. It is painless to sit through and informative. There is actually a lot of thought that goes into recreation in Miami Dade. I have been to
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