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North Miami: Still crazy after all these y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ weeks.

Now that the North Miami Beach election is over, I have plenty of time to keep tabs on my other favorite city.  Not surprisingly, things are still as crazy as ever in good ol’ North…

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North Miami Beach post-election analysis, and Carnac’s predictions.

If you’ve been paying attention, you already know that Phyllis Smith won the runoff election in North Miami Beach by 75 votes. If you’re one of the 18,944 registered voters who stayed home instead of…

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Phyllis won

Oh well.

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And the winner is…

????? Here it is over an hour and a half after the polls closed in the City of North Miami Beach and there are STILL no results! Seriously. How long does it take to count…

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The Incredible Two-Faced Phyllis Smith!

The smell of desperation is in the air! Phyllis Smith is out there at the polls today telling would be voters how she’s been stopping Big Bad Development from coming to North Miami Beach. There’s…

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NMB: Last Chance to Lose Phyllis! (UPDATED)

Phyllis Smith concocted an entirely fictional person in order to wage the worst type of smear campaign against one of her opponents.  “Laura Smith,” the fictional “Mother of 2, Business Owner and Concerned Resident of…

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NMB: Mayor, Council and Community Leaders Endorse Candidate Michael Joseph for Group 3

In North Miami Beach, Councilwoman Phyllis Smith is being challenged for her seat by Michael Joseph.  She recently sent out a mailer which included a long list of people whose endorsements she scared up.  Only…

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Chief Lenny’s Boys Will Be Boys Club

Three days after Michael Etienne successfully finagled his way to an unchallenged campaign by making sure his opponent Janet Reed didn’t qualify, he sent another one of his famous rah-rah emails to Police Chief Leonard…

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Well, this sure clears things up, eh? SMH!

North Miami Assistant City Clerk Rafael Pedron, bless his heart, sent me a three, count ’em three, page document with instructions on how to open the public records files I received yesterday. It starts out…

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North Miami’s New “Transparency”

When is a public record not a public record? When it’s requested from North Miami City Clerk Michael A. Etienne, Esq. After years of receiving complaints about the problems receiving public records from the Clerk’s…

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