Tag: Opa-locka
Paging Kathy Rundle! North Miami Beach is a cesspool of corruption. Do something already!
Over Thanksgiving weekend, organized mobs of looters ransacked retail stores around the country from San Francisco to Los Angeles to two cities in Minnesota, places where police have been defunded, crime has been decriminalized, and…
Congrats, North Miami, you’re in the Top Ten!
The website RoadSnacks.net, a subsidiary of HomeSnacks.net, “combines recent data from the Census, FBI, OpenStreetMaps, and dozens of other sources into bite-sized studies to help you understand what it’s like to live in different communities…
What planet do these people live on?
Dear North Miami residents, Your brand new Mayor and Council will tell you they’re all about fiscal responsibility even as they drop tens of thousands of your tax dollars on two coronations inductions and three…
Hopeless in Opa-locka
If Opa-locka residents thought term limits were going to solve their corruption problem, they were sadly mistaken. With three career politicians about to vacate their seats on the dais, voters had the rare opportunity to…
Opa-locka: Vincent T. Brown Must Go! (UPDATED)
The Opa-locka Mayor and Commission are finally looking to replace their ethically challenged and fiscally irresponsible … and questionably intelligent City Attorney, Vincent T. Brown. Item 4 on the agenda for tonight’s Regular Commission Meeting authorizes the issuance of…
Fixing Opa-locka: Bring on the Whistleblowers!
Fighting against public corruption, especially in Opa-locka, is usually an exercise in futility. It’s nearly impossible to win even one battle, but a back-to-back sweep is nothing short of a miracle. Well, add another feather…
From bad to worse. Opa-locka’s self-inflicted troubles continue.
First came the scathing article from the Miami New Times that Opa-locka Crime Is Up 403%, Report Says. Reporter Jessica Lipscomb wrote: Conditions at the Opa-locka Police Department are so bad the city can barely…
Merrett Stierheim: North Miami must declare a fiscal emergency.
In an explosive article about the recent firing of former Assistant Budget Director Terry Henley for exposing the fraudulent 2018/19 city budget, Biscayne Times reporter Mark Sell’s Another Fine Mess uncovered even more sordid details…
Opa-locka, the City of Terminal Stupidity
A City Attorney who can’t comprehend his own municipal charter is a special kind of stupid. Then again, when the city is Opa-locka, and the attorney is Vincent T. Brown, anything is possible. This is…
Is there hope for Opa-locka? Don’t hold your breath.
Opa-locka residents will finally have the chance to clean house on November 6, 2018. But will it end the city’s documented history of corruption? Probably not. Thanks to term limits, which voters passed by referendum…
