Attention anyone who wants a high paying job with all the government perks at the city of Miami Beach: Just run for office. That’s basically the message that the city commission sent when it unanimously approved a request by Commissioner Ed Tobin to apply to the police department without waiting the two-year period required of […]
UPDATED: Miami Beach Commissioner Ed Tobin, who is termed out in 2015 and has always wanted to be a police officer when he grows up, is asking his colleagues to waive the two year requirement before he can apply to the city’s police force. Tobin has requested a discussion on the matter at Wednesday’s meeting […]
When Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco dared to defy Mayor Phillip “Fix It Phil” Levine, the latter lashed out in the media and on an email calling the sole dissenting vote on the 84% stormwater rate increase “playing politics.” But it wasn’t enough. Like the jilted half of any bad break-up, Levine needs to vent […]
It was a short-lived honeymoon and Ladra sees the pending end of the bromance between Miami Beach Mayor Philip “Fix It Phil” Levine and Commissioner Michael Grieco, who ran on the Levine slate last year to overcome longtime Beach incumbents. At Wednesday’s city commission meeting, Levine lashed out at Grieco for being the sole nay […]
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has proved, yet again, how difficult it can be for a millionaire businessman who is used to ordering folks around and getting his way to transition to that public servant role and follow the rules. Let me get this straight: First, Levine bullies and baits a police officer at the […]
You would think Miami Beach activist and amateur cartoonist Mike Burke would be sitting pretty, happy that the incumbents he railed against lost and glad that newly elected Mayor Philip “Fix-It Phil” Levine was taking over City Hall and everything else. He’s not. Burke is apparently perturbed, er, I mean inspired with the scandal that […]
In what seems like a poetic turn, the Miami Beach Commission aide fired by newly elected Mayor Philip Levine on his first day is also a member of the city’s Charter Review Board — and he’s recommending an amendment. After Alex Fernandez read in the Miami Herald that Levine had told the reporter, via text […]
As expected, Alex Fernandez, the aide to Miami Beach Vice Mayor Deede Weithorn, was fired from his city job by the newly-elected mayor Tuesday for endorsing the opponent in the recent mayoral election. The city will defend its action by saying that Fernandez was an at-will employee. But everybody knows that it was because he […]