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• Miami Beach eyes Google; so do other cities

  Miami Beach’s pitch to compete for one of Google’s proposed high-speed broadband networks, which we first blogged about last month, has lots of competition and isn’t exactly gathering momentum, according to this piece on MiamiHerald.com. Even so, it would be cool for the Beach to be a part of it. [...]
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• Will Belle Isle be counted?

  BelleIsleBlog received its census questionnaire in the mail earlier this month and mailed it back pronto. It really matters as the federal government, state of Florida and Miami Beach decide how to spend their tax money during the next decade, not to mention how it figures in political participation. Today, we [...]
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• Is this what Belle Isle really looked like?

  At BelleIsleBlog, we’re really getting into this history stuff. We live on this great island, walking distance from great restaurants, the beach, shopping on Lincoln Road and the craziest people watching in the world. Buy we live in high-rise condos, overlooking the Bay and and towers of this urban Beach playground. [...]
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• Sunset over South Beach

  The sun shimmers down and the wine glasses tip up. Thank God, another week behind us and good times ahead. [...]
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• City will fix flooding, investigate traffic woes, commissioner says

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  Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson met with Belle Isle residents Thursday night at the Belle Plaza condo, and spent about an hour listening to complaints about traffic, street flooding, loud motorcycles and other issues. Wolfson didn’t give a speech and he didn’t politic. He did promise to follow up on  a [...]
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• Belle Isle census: 2,023 and counting

  Census forms hit Belle Isle mailboxes Monday and Tuesday, and we turned ours out today. We’re getting a barrage of encouragement to return them, so your BelleIsleBlog will add its voice to the chorus. Census data gets used to determine just about every funding formula, from the city to the feds. The [...]
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• Walking to discounts — who’s In and who’s out

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  There is a sign at Epicure that says it won’t accept the InCard after today. The InCard is that discount card started by the Miami Beach chamber that provides discounts on food, restaurants, spa services and attractions, lots of them walking distance from our homes in Belle Isle. It’s free if [...]
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• Belle Isle residents — start your questions!

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  Wondering why the city insists on locking one side of the dog park all the time, even if that’s the side with pools of standing water? How the city stands on the South Beach Local bus service? Is there a way to improve free WIFI coverage so you can actually use it [...]
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• Will Google test its high-speed network on the Beach?

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  Miami Beach’s  free WIFI experiment may not be setting the world on fire, but at least our city commissioners are looking ahead. Wouldn’t it be something if the Beach and Belle Isle became a test site for an “ultra high-speed broadband network” planned by Google? Here’s the background: On Feb. 10, Goodle [...]
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• The view from Belle Isle

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  Every once in a while, we need to take a look at how we live and where we are. Does it get any better than this? [...]
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