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• Indefensible: Manny Diaz, former Miami mayor ... by gimleteye

  He can't win. Manny Diaz has launched a full fledged charm effort in advance of a campaign to become the Democratic candidate to face Gov. Rick Scott in 2014. Scott is highly beatable, but not by Manny Diaz.
  
  Diaz is taking a run, like Alex Penelas did in a [...]
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• Lynda Bell's Wrath: The Beacon Council in Trouble. By Geniusofdespair

  
  
  One thing some Miami Dade County Commissioners are good at is punishment.  The Beacon Council, like DERM before it,  found itself in the cross hairs of County Commissioner Lynda Bell's whim to seek and destroy. DERM, we remember, angered Lynda by enforcing wetland regulations for pal John [...]
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• Sea level rise, the view from Southern India ... by gimleteye

  We had been looking at temples built in the 8th century along the shore on the Bay of Bengal. One complex of four structures was carved from a single block of granite (photo below). Along in the region, there are more than one thousand structures from the same epoch. These [...]
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• Miami Herald, Senator Bob Menendez, Casa de Campo, and the Dominican Republic... By gimleteye

  The Miami Herald calls The Daily Caller a 'conservative blog'. Well it's not a blog, the way Eye On Miami is a blog.  A cursory Google search of the Caller, responsible for leaking email transcripts purportedly revealing a FBI investigation about ties between Menendez and his close friend, a' [...]
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• People Get Ready for Battle 2: Target Store. By Geniusofdespair

  Environmental land battles are never over. Target Stores purchased a property on SW 8th Street from Lowe's Store 11/19/2012 for $9,800,000. As you can see they wasted no time hiring lobbyists, the ink was hardly dry on the deed. To be fair to Target, they could build the store on' [...]
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• Miami New Times Breaks a National News Story. By Geniusofdespair

  Tim Elfrink of Miami New Times reports that a host of athletes, including Yankee's Alex Rodriguez, were getting performance enhancing drugs from a clinic recently closed in Coral Gables:
  
  "Taken as a whole, New Times' three-month investigation into Biogenesis adds fuel to the raging national debate over the'" [...]
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• Palmetto Bay: Bad Boys, Bad Boys? By Geniusofdespair

  Not having ever been invited to the Thursday night poker games rumored to be happening at Vice Mayor  John Dubois's house, I must say I feel out of the loop on Palmetto Bay government.  I can picture John and the fellas smoking cigars and playing but I have no clue' [...]
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• Gov. Rick Scott and Cabinet addicted to Big Sugar ... by gimleteye

  It is hard to believe that Gov. Rick Scott could be a worse friend to the Everglades than Jeb Bush, the last Republican to hold the office of Florida governor. But it's true. We wrote last week about the terrible deal under consideration by the Cabinet at the insistence [...]
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• Splitting Hairs with the Miami Herald. By Geniusofdespair

  Close out Memo written by State Attorney Joe Centorino, May 2010 Today's Herald Editorial got it wrong. They said: "The ordinance, approved by the County Commission two years ago to address the election fraud issue, took effect July 1."
  
  The ordinance passed by the County Commission 12/6/2011 [...]
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• Manny Diaz angles to be Democratic contender for governor: not in our book! ... by gimleteye

  I have been staying out of the controversy of former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz' recent autobiography; a spin job according to those with the time and interest to read it.
  
  I haven't read the Diaz book, because I was never a supporter of the former Miami mayor.  As a [...]
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