Archive for the ‘Eye on Miami’ Category
This weekend, make it a goal to talk to ten friends about Amendment 4: Florida Hometown Democracy. Ask each of those friends to tell another ten people and to spread the word: Amendment 4 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the way big campaign contributors from the development and real estate industries dominate local legislatures and decisions on growth. To the extent you are able:
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The Third District Court of Appeal in Florida (Before COPE, SHEPHERD and SALTER, JJ.) granted a Gay Adoption. The reason for the appeal:Cope: This is an appeal of a final judgment of adoption, under which F.G. became the adoptive father of two boys, X.X.G. and N.R.G. (collectively, “the children”). The trial court found, and all parties agree, that F.G. is a fit parent and that the adoption is
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Natacha Seijas did a tit-for-tat search of Miami Herald’s Myriam Marquez’s public records and came up wrong. The problem was not that the name was spelled differently. Often I find records misspelled. Here is the key for all you sleuths: YOU MUST COMPARE SIGNATURES before you assume it is the person. That is where the vile one went wrong, and that is what I do to be accurate (very time consuming
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For decades, Miami politics have been organized around Fidel Castro. A common enemy united the bloc vote of Cuban Americans in Florida’s most populous county and provided the energy to form an economic coalition around a $7 billion county budget. Initially through county construction contracts, the Cuban American business elite developed a scalable, user-friendly model of wealth creation; linking
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Candidate for County Commission District 8, Lynda Bell, picked up $33,580 this cycle and it contains many of the names you would expect to see on Vile, Natach Seijas’s campaign report: Many are people pushing on the Urban Development Boundary. Silvio Cardoso (Investments at Village Park) also president of Builders Association of South Florida (BASF) gave $1,000 through two corporations. He was a
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Not many Cuban American business leaders in Miami felt an uptick of happiness with news that the longest economic downturn since the Great Depression ended in June 2009. More than a few cigars were lit by the news, to find comfort in smoke. In South Florida, the economic model based on converting raw land into subdivisions– the bread and butter of the Latin Builders Association– is still busted
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You have to give people something to dream on. – Jimi Hendrix County Commissioner Dorrin Rolle has the usual suspects giving to the tune of $290,735 – he raised almost $20,000 since August 20th. More interesting are his expenses. First he bought a generator for $500. Who buys a generator for a campaign? He paid FP&L almost $900, so he is paying for electric. I asked a friend who works on
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Fidel Castro is outliving Fidel Castro. The statement is bitter fruit for many Miami Cubans who waited decades to dance on Fidel’s grave. Change is coming to Cuba, faster than Washington. The hard liners still control Cuba politics in DC. But the unwillingness to change– for fear of losing Miami-Dade’s Cuban American voters– mirrors the inability of our own politics to cast aside failed
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Apparently they go into business…. State Representative Julio Robaina and Juan Zapata have joined losing Primary Candidate Jose Pazos’ property management firm. The new name of the company is Pazos, Robaina & Zapata Management Group. Jose Pazos said:"We look forward to helping those condo and HOA owners via the private sector since we were unable to do so through public service. I will be
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What a good day, Natacha Seijas gets a dressing down in the Miami Herald. Myriam Marquez (I knew I would like her) takes VNS on, finishing with:If this is the type of “research” the commissioner conducts on the budget, well, no wonder we’re broke.Ouch! You have tangled with the wrong beast Marquez. How will she punish you?
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