Archive for the ‘Eye on Miami’ Category
Lucie Tondreau is a force to be reckoned with in the Haitian American Community. The Biscayne Times has an excellent biographical article on Tondreau by Kathy Glasgow. I know it is excellent because I am quoted TWICE in the article. Tondreau actually had the cohones to go after Rolle’s seat in 2002. She got the Herald endorsement and a hefty number of voters for a challenger: 7,302 to Rolle’s
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A recent glossy mailer and proxy ballot for board members of Fairchild Garden was changed at the last minute to provide for an annual meeting of more than 35,000 members with Garden management racing the clock to manoever around an incipient rebellion. A first batch of expensive mailings did not include notice of the meeting. A second, did, calling for 8 AM on March 22nd. At such an inauspicious
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I just got some phony call from Voter Talk 2010. They asked if I was a Tea Party supporter. I said: "Of course." They asked if I supported Sarah Palin. I said "Of course" again. Whatever they are up to on this, I did my duty of supplying misinformation. According to the Caller Complaints website: Caution, 208-991-1227 is a "spoofed" number, which means "whoever called you tricked your caller ID
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A recent campaign finance report shows that US Senate hopeful, Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek has already gathered at least $28,000 from interests related to the Fanjul sugar interests. In a letter to Governor Charlie Crist, Meek — who will face either Crist or Marco Rubio in November– wades into the battle for Everglades restoration; an issue that scarcely piqued the congressman’s
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The real estate market was still hot when I looked at a condo in October 2005. I closed on the 1,600 square foot condo for $482,000 in December 2005 at the height of the bubble. A few days later I had a bad feeling and put the unit back on the market. While I owned it, I got a hurricane assessment. I had to carry the condo for 6 months and pay back-to-back real estate fees but I unloaded it for
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Every quarter Bauerfinancial rates the banks with stars. If you’re a bank you don’t want your ratings to drop and you certainly don’t want 2 stars – Problematic or 1 star – Troubled. And, a bank with "0" stars is in deep shit. Bauerfinancial only recommends 4 or 5 star banks. Below is the list of local banks that I have been tracking for 3 quarters. The September 30th 2009 rating appears before
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The County Commission sent the Ferro Application to move the Urban Development Boundary up to Tallahassee’s Department of Community Affairs (DCA) a few months ago for review. The review is back and not looking too good. It appears the State Department didn’t think much of the application, finding numerous inconsistencies with the Miami Dade County Comprehensive Master Plan, including that the
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A long-awaited front page report in the New York Times this morning takes a critical look at the US Sugar deal initiated by Gov. Charlie Crist. It is not favorable or flattering on the cost and terms accepted by the state and the South Florida Water Management District. In its own front page report yesterday, The Miami Herald notes, "Property values in the 16 counties that pay the district’s
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One thing you can say about Lennar: If they like an employee they hold on to them. The Herald said today that Anthony Seijas, past President of the Latin Builders Association and Lennar‘s former Regional Vice President for Southeast Florida, was appointed to the Board of Rialto Capital Management. I said to myself: "What, he left Lennar?" Then I looked up Rialto Management, it is a foreign
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This represents all the money that Stop-O Marco Rubio has collected through the end of the year according to the Federal Election Commission. I previously looked at some of his individual donations in October. He had over $3 million, as of last year, of individual donations. (hit on all images to enlarge them)All of you who worship Norman Braman, should know he and his wife gave $10,000 to the
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