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• Genting Berhad: Being Jaded in Miami doesn't mean getting ripped off on a condo purchase ... by gimleteye

  I don't know how you feel about the a Malaysian billionaire parachuting in to rescue downtown Miami, but serial, developer "visionaries" and the costs they inflicted on taxpayers and voters have me jaded. There was Bayside Marketplace ("The completion of the colorful Bayside Marketplace in 1987 and'" [...]
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• Fever in the morning, fever all through the night. By Geniusofdespair

  Peggy Lee sang Fever in 1958, I have lived it for the past 4 days. I am feeling a bit better today, but still sick.
  
  I decided to take this opportunity, half zoned by fever, to talk about your comments that I have been moderating [...]
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• US Century Bank: depositors can't say now, they haven't been warned ... by gimleteye

  This blog is the only place that readers curious how Miami operates can see the connections to the insider piggy bank, to be known only a little while longer as US Century Bank. The board of directors of US Century, led by founder Sergio Pino and Ramon Rasco, were the [...]
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• Seen on the Street. By Geniusofdespair

  
  This was very depressing. I think I am going back to bed. Actually, I have a fever so it probably isn't a bad idea.
  
  Check out the Haggman story on Mayor Gimenez's generous salaries to his top aides in the Miami Herald.' [...]
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• When did Mike Collins start taking checks from Big Sugar? ... by gimleteye

  During Jeb Bush's terms as governor, Mike Collins was his enforcer on the governing board of the South Florida Water Management District. Recently, Collins wrote in a letter to the Palm Beach Post: "Rick Scott is putting politics aside and using his office to streamline Everglades restoration." As [...]
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• Mike Grunwald on the Idiocracy ... by gimleteye

  Miami-based, Time Magazine senior national correspondent Michael Grunwald has a refreshing viewpoint on the fiscal crisis engulfing American politics. "One of the major parties has abandoned its grip on reality."
  
  Viewpoint
  Still True Today: Frequently Forgotten Facts of the Debt Debate
  By MICHAEL GRUNWALD Wednesday, July 27, 2011
  
  If the debt-limit debate had [...]
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• FEC Slip in Bicentennial Park is a Historical Site With a WW II History. By Geniusofdespair

  
  County Commissioner Dennis Moss wants to fill in the FEC slip in Bicentennial Park. I don't think he or any of the other County Commissioners know the slip has a historical component. This was the location of the Submarine Chaser Training Center (SCTC) during World War' [...]
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• LBA Paying Homage to the New Mayor? By Geniusofdespair

  From a Press Release: "On Friday, July 22nd, Mayor Gimenez was the keynote speaker at the Latin Builders Association Luncheon, where he discussed his budget plans and legislative priorities for the year ahead."
  
  In office for a few weeks and already over to the LBA? I hope this isn't' [...]
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• The Skinny on the Boehner Budget: from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ... by gimleteye

  I trust The Center On Budget And Policy Priorities to whittle down the blather, rhetoric and demagoguing on the budget. Here is what Robert Greenstein had to say, yesterday:
  
  CBPP Statement: Updated July 26, 2011
  For Immediate Release
  Statement: Robert Greenstein, President, on House Speaker Boehner’s New Budget Proposal
  Robert Greenstein
  The Center [...]
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• Failing to Protect Florida: the Unfolding Rick Scott Governorship ... by gimleteye

  The Orlando Sentinel published a spot-on editorial the other day on a subject we are sickeningly familiar with:  the determination by the state Republican leaders and the hang-dog legislature that treads in their footpath: we can't afford to clean up the mess we have made of Florida's waters. It is [...]
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