They said they were leaving and sure enough they did. All the window shades were up. I could see into my neighbor’s house. The rooms were bare. The kids toys were gone from the back yard, no car, no van, the white picket fence gate was ajar. Smokey the dog was nowhere to be seen [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Atlas Shrugged and Florida’s middle class
October 31, 2007
Breaking: Mediation in Cuba Girl fight-Breaking
October 28, 2007
We have been informed by a juvenile court spokesperson that phase two of the custody trail involving the five-year-old Cuban girl has been postponed. It was scheduled to begin Monday morning October 29th. The reason given is both sides in the issue are continuing with mediation. This is the case of the girl who is [...]
Fast Talk and a Cafecito saves the day!
October 17, 2007
Lester Sola always seems to have just finished one of many cafecitos. He talks fast and moves quicker. Lester is the Supervisor of Elections for Miami-Dade County. It is a job that has taken down more than a few bureaucrats during the last decades or so of election turmoil in South Florida.Actually Lester is a [...]
Why "Going Green" works.
October 15, 2007
In the late 1980’s I dismantled our environmental reporter beat. That was when I was involved in the operation of several television stations out west. Viewers told us in focus groups they had grown weary of the stories about recycling, saving water, planting zero scape gardens, putting their thermostats up to 78 degrees. The viewer [...]
This and that from the streets.
October 4, 2007
The sport fishing boat “Joe Cool” has been removed from the dock at Coast Guard Station Miami. We are told the boat had been taking on water. It has been moved to a shipyard in the Miami area. The four person crew still missing.
****Slot operators in Broward County have to be sitting on pins and [...]
The Joe Cool Case: "The Face Of Evil"
October 3, 2007
You sit in court and wonder what makes the accused tick. That is certainly what I have been doing as the drama of the Joe Cool case unfolds in Federal Court. Kirby Archer and Guillermo Zarabozo charted the fishing boat, Joe Cool, for what was essentially was a taxi ride to the Bahamas. On the [...]
