Kudos for Innocents Lost series

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Kudos for Innocents Lost series

Miami Herald deserves raves for its Innocents Lost series, as well as the series about abuses in prisons. Well-researched and reported, the findings are appalling. They call for leadership.

I would have expected Gov. Scott to stand up and scream that these abuses are unacceptable and he won't stand for it any longer. He would appoint a blue ribbon committee of professionals from academia, medicine and social services and issue bulletins and updates every month in a press conference announcing changes and progress. Instead, what I have seen is just shifting the deck chairs.

Step up, Governor.

Dick Blattner,

Hollywood City Commissioner

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Mayor Gimenez: My integrity is sacrosanct

By Mayor Carlos Gimenez

December 19, 2018 02:13 AM

Re Fabiola Santiago’s Dec. 14 column, “The ethics of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and his lobbyist sons stink,” about my sons and my ethics: First, my son Carlos J. (C.J.) does not lobby Miami-Dade County government. He is a lawyer who was working in the government legal affairs field before I was elected mayor in 2011.

Yet he has not been active in any county business. Santiago initially included him as an active lobbyist in the online version of her column, then when advised that he is listed as “not active lobbyist” — as posted on the county website — she did not include the date of Jan. 27, 2011 that is listed as the last “inactive.”

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