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• Citizens Insurance Representatives Explain Rate Increases & Depopulation Effort at South Dade Government Center

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  The board of the state run  Citizens Property Insurance Corp. voted to raise rates by a statewide average of 7% next year, adding $178 million in new insurance costs for policyholders.
  Most property owners will face a 10.7% hike. That would translate to an average premium increase of as [...]
  From HOMESTEAD IS HOME at July 11, 2013, 8:03pm in Communities

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• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen flashback to 1989 - WTVJ-TV video: Ros-Lehtinen wins Special Election to succeed late Rep. Claude Pepper and makes history

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  Wolfson Archive YouTube Channel video: On what was a Special Election night in August of 1989, WTVJ reporter Ileana Bravo reports on the historic occasion of Florida state Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen winning a bruising election for the then-Miami Beach based congressional seat of Claude Pepper, who had died on May [...]
  From Hallandale Beach Blog at July 11, 2013, 6:19am in Communities

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• County Mayor Carlos Gimenez Proposes an even Higher Property Tax Hike!

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  County Mayor Carlos Gimenez first proposes an overall property tax increase of 4.06% now it turns out it was actually higher at 5.37%, but he's supposedly made a "U-TURN" according to the Miami Herald and reduced the increase to 4.34%.  The beastly county government just can't get small enough [...]
  From HOMESTEAD IS HOME at July 10, 2013, 10:16pm in Communities

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• Per tonight's crucial Hallandale Beach CRA meeting at 6 p.m., here's an HB CRA primer to bring FL legislators and the press corps up-to-speed, as well as the South Florida Editorial Boards that have been ignoring it at their peril -News Flash: the FL L

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  Above, Hallandale Beach City Hall Complex on S. Federal Highway/U.S.-1, where attention to details and appearances has NEVER been their strong suit in the nine years I've lived here, after returning to South Florida after 15 years in D.C. area. Thanks to the city's incompetent, myopic and poorly-managed DPW, the spotlights' [...]
  From Hallandale Beach Blog at July 10, 2013, 2:13pm in Communities

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• Taking a break

  I have a personal issue I have to take care of in the next week or so, so I am not going to not publish. I'll explain it all when I'm back.
  
  I'll make up the days with the advertisers when I return in a week or so.
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  From Coconut Grove Grapevine at July 10, 2013, 10:00am in Communities

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• Great Grove Bed Race is back September 1st!

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  The Great Grove Bed Race is back Labor Day Weekend and don’t hit snooze, you’ll lose. 
  
  Homemade beds race down the streets of Coconut Grove, the origins of bed racing date back three decades with this being the fifth anniversary of the Great Grove Bed Race race with it’s [...]
  From Coconut Grove Grapevine at July 10, 2013, 6:00am in Communities

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• County Mayor Carlos Gimenez Proposes Property Tax Hike!!!

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  County Mayor Carlos Gimenez is out of his mind to think the county has recovered to increase property taxes now.  The  Mayor's proposes to increase the overall county tax rate by 4.06%.  This increase will supposedly avoid fire station and public libraries from closing plus pay for an [...]
  From HOMESTEAD IS HOME at July 09, 2013, 7:32pm in Communities

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• "High Noon" in Hallandale Beach on Wednesday night? After so many months of HB City Hall intentionally stonewalling the public, the city's long-running CRA scandal and the Broward IG's damning report of the HB CRA Board, alleging "gross mismanagemen

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  Above, looking north on U.S.-1/S. Federal Highway at the scene of so much of the toxic public policy problems in our small ocean-side city the past ten years, where logic, reason and integrity rarely if ever intersected, with residents, taxpayers and small business owners always taking it on the chin [...]
  From Hallandale Beach Blog at July 09, 2013, 2:42pm in Communities

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• Spidey is back, minus the suit

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   Sean is back for the summer -- our Spider-Man Rickshaw guy, but during the hot summer months, I don't think we're going to see that hot spandex Spider-Man suit,  but people can still see him flying around Coconut Grove doing his thing.
  
  
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  From Coconut Grove Grapevine at July 09, 2013, 12:01pm in Communities

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• New art gallery to open on Commodore Plaza

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  A new Haitian art gallery is Coming to Commodore Plaza. This is Emmanuel Dostaly owner of the Gallery, which is not open yet, and he is waiting for approval paperwork to open up the gallery/studio.  His address is 3137 Commodore Plaza. [...]
  From Coconut Grove Grapevine at July 09, 2013, 10:42am in Communities

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