Posted in North Miami Beach

Life inside the perimeter

Okay, so here I am, minding my own business, when all of a sudden a police search helicopter is circling overhead.  North Miami Beach police officers and dogs came into my yard, obviously searching for…

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Another exciting Saturday night

To paraphrase (plagiarize?) Random Pixels’ regular column, Your lunch hour time waster, I present to you Your Saturday night time waster. Earlier tonight I came across this March 5, 2014 investigative report from an NBC…

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“We had some drive by shootings…” (Updated)

Random Pixels’ latest column is a MUST-READ scathing discourse about the state of the Miami Herald today.  In There are no ‘dirt-bag’ murders, he published a short excerpt from a book written by Pulitzer Prize…

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“Transparency” is the new black: Charter School Edition

“Transparency” has replaced “accountability” as the mot du jour of government.  Almost every day I read a story about a city that “commits to transparency,” and then proceeds to break its own vows.  The latest…

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The Frantzie Show

Tuesday night’s North Miami Beach City Council meeting was once again a spectacle to behold.  And I don’t mean that in a good way.  This time, the star of the show was none other than…

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Let the p*ssing contest begin!

James C. Casey, Esq., the attorney for the former North Miami Beach City Attorney Darcee Siegel, threw down the gauntlet when he fired off a letter to Mayor George Vallejo on February 20, 2014. According to…

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Criminal Mischief

A little boy causes mischief by pulling a little girl’s ponytail on the playground and running away.  We all know (don’t we?) that he wouldn’t do something so mischievous if he wasn’t secretly crushin’ on…

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Bullets and Ballots (Updated)

It’s been a busy weekend in North Miami and North Miami Beach. First, the non-news, courtesy of

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Whatever happened to…

… Myron’s re-hearing before the North Miami Beach Code Enforcement Board on January 9, 2014?  You might recall that EX-Mayor Myron Rosner and his wife, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE SARAH ZABEL, filed an appeal to the…

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