This ain’t Disneyland

What follows is a commentary sent to me by John McAuliff, executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, an NGO out of New York. John was very involved in the…
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The more we stay the same… City of Miami voters yesterday returned Michelle Spence-Jones to power. She’s the commissioner who was removed from office just a couple of months ago by…
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I once thought ex Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas was number one on my list of corrupt or corruptible mayors from the area -- at least since I’ve been following these things. Our current…
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From the start I said that former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre would have a tough time raising money in his Quixotic attempt to win the nomination on the Democratic Party side for the…
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I suppose it’s true what they say that “the more things change the more they stay the same.” Such is the case at The Miami Herald. With elections just weeks away in Honduras and the…
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Loved a recent entry in the Miami Herald’s Cuban Colada blog where reporter Renato Perez Pizarro writes that “A Republican Party consultant who works in Washington, Blakeman stopped…
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As reported by the South Florida Business Journal in their Friday, October 30 edition, it seems one of our area’s distinguished members of congress (well, really his wife in this case…
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There is good news. Boston developer Dennis Stackhouse, accused of stealing nearly $1 million from a proposed taxpayer-supported biopharmaceutical park intended to revitalize Liberty…
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In last week’s Al’s Loupe column I reported that Kendrick Meek would most likely drop out of the U.S. Senate race to fill the seat vacated by Mel Martinez last month. This week across…
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  You know there is a problem in this country when there are schools complaining that school children should NOT have to listen to the president of the United States. Right here in…
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