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HACKED!

As some of you may know by now, yesterday this website has been literally wiped out by a hacker.  The site itself wasn’t attacked, but my webmaster’s computer was hacked!  Whoever got into his computer…

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How ’bout a glass, Phyllis?

(Originally published 6/21/11) At tonight’s pre-council meeting, North Miami Beach Mayor George Vallejo said it seems like the council is rearranging chairs on the Titanic.  Boy, was that ever an understatement!  Again, councilwoman Phyllis Smith,…

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State of Urgency

(Originally published 6/19/11) Chicken Little reporting here.  Or, that would be the name I’m called by certain past and present members of the North Miami Beach City Council.  For the past couple of years I’ve…

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OMIGOD I MADE THE LIST!

(Originally published 6/15/11) I just found out that I made the “Best Of” list in the Miami New Times.  WOW!  How cool is that?  Your little ol’ worm digger won the “Best Gadfly – 2011″…

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Shooting the Messenger (and rather ineffectively, I might add)

(Originally published 6/14/11) Most of my faithful readers know that I’m a stickler for grammar.  When my children asked me to review their English essays, the first thing I did was red pencil poor grammar,…

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The Numbers Game

(Originally published 6/12/11) Believe it or not, I started out in life as a numbers person and not a wordsmith.  Growing up, my real passions were football, math and science.  In that order.  My original…

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You squawkin’ to me?

(Originally published 6/11/11) As I reported to you last week in “Phyllis Smith, Her Majesty the Baby” (https://votersopinion.com/archives/2847), North Miami Beach councilwoman Phyllis Smith is in the process of lobbying for council votes AGAINST the…

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HATE MAIL! YIPPEE!

(Originally published 6/9/11) A pretty well known blogger recently told me, “If you’re pissing someone off, you’re doing something right.”  Since I started this blog last August, I’ve actually only received one negative comment, but…

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More fun with our favorite Canadian! Eh?

(Originally published 6/8/11) As promised, this blog is all about the second complaint filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics by North Miami Beach ex-mayor Myron Rosner filed against his predecessor, former Mayor Ray Marin. …

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Phyllis Smith, Her Majesty the Baby

(Originally published 6/7/11) Tonight’s North Miami Beach pre-council meeting, a/k/a Council Conference meeting, was barely called to order when the new Mayor George Vallejo announced that the seating arrangement on the dais had to be…

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