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Can you picture Miami Beach’s bus shelters featuring a big flat screen TV that changes that change images every eight seconds?
That’s what Clear Channel sought permission to do in Miami Beach with digital outdoor signs, a proposal the Design Review Board voted down last week. But the proposal is expected to resurface — perhaps at the City Commission — as Miami Beach continues to wrestle with proposals to put more advertising messages on public spaces.
Read more at Belle Isle Blog.
Many Florida businesses and public institutions provide domestic partner benefits for unmarried employees. Some now also cover the tax on the benefit.
A South Beach club operator was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring with his business partners and “bar girls’’ to rip off male customers at their Russian-style lounges.
Over 250 people attended the inaugural “Out of the Kitchen” Dinner & Silent Auction, held May 2 at the St. Regis Bal Harbour. The event, which featured top area chefs preparing food table-side for guests, netted $75,000 for Pride Outside: Building Better Playgrounds for Ruth K. Broad Bay Harbour K-8 Center.
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