FYI–Swearing In for Mayor and Commission Coral Gables

April 13, 2011 Leave a comment

Swearing In Of Elected Commission Members Set For This Friday

An Investiture Ceremony for newly elected Commission members takes place thisFriday, April 15 at 11:30 a.m. at City Hall in the Commission Chambers. The ceremony will be televised live on Coral Gables Television, Channel 77. The Oath of Office will be administered by the Honorable Frank A. Shepherd from the Third District Court of Appeal. A reception will follow the ceremony. On Tuesday, Coral Gables voters elected Jim Cason as Mayor, Frank Quesada as Commissioner for Group Four and reelected Bill Kerdyk Jr. as Commissioner for Group Five. The Mayor will serve for two years, while the Commissioners will serve in their roles for the next four years.

(Source:  E-News Coral Gables)

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A New Era of Participation in Coral Gables?

April 13, 2011 Leave a comment

This is clearly a new stage in the political life of Coral Gables.  The mayor’s program of a happy future was rejected by about two-thirds of the voters, in favor of two candidates Cason and Korge, who pushed for financial, management and political-cultural (openness and participation) reforms in the city.

The new commissioner Quesada will be a young, fresh, analytical voice on the commission.

The agenda they face is a huge and difficult one, but the new Mayor Cason and the commission will have the active support of many members of the community–all they have to do it seek it out.

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A Special Welcome to International Delegations: Miami Council for International Visitors (MCIV)

April 12, 2011 Leave a comment

Coral Gables is privileged to be the home of the Miami Council for International Visitors (MCIV;  www.miamiciv.org).  This premier local organization, which is a member of the National Council for International Visitor (NCIV), is host to delegations to the South Florida region from throughout the world, whose participants are here experiencing the culture, society, politics, economics and social dimensions of our great region and city.

These visitors’ activities are financed through the Department of State and NCIV, and the delegations are selected by our U.S. embassies in the world.  MCIV Miami is host to literally hundreds of visitors during the year and its “citizen diplomat” members of MCIV, host the visitors in their homes, offices and work places.

For those interested in becoming “citizen diplomats,” collaborating with MCIV and meeting these international visitors, you can contact Annette Alvarez, Executive Director MCIV, through their website at http://www.miamiciv.org.

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Bleak Future For Social Safety Nets

April 11, 2011 1 Comment

..Mr. Obama is conspicuously failing to mount any kind of challenge to the philosophy now dominating Washington discussion — a philosophy that says the poor must accept big cuts in Medicaid and food stamps; the middle class must accept big cuts in Medicare (actually a dismantling of the whole program); and corporations and the rich must accept big cuts in the taxes they have to pay. Shared sacrifice!

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…I’d say that the nation wants — and more important, the nation needs — a president who believes in something, and is willing to take a stand. And that’s not what we’re seeing.

via Obama Is Missing – NYTimes.com.

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