Coral Gables Watch

So Much Management Responsibility: Not in Coral Gables

October 31, 2010 Leave a comment

Similar to a finance officer who didn’t keep track of spending and income and then keeps his/her job. Sound familiar.

The head of the veterans health care system in Miami is back on the job three months after she was reassigned because thousands of South Florida veterans were given colonoscopies with improperly cleaned equipment.

Mary Berrocal returned Friday as director of the Miami Veterans Administration Healthcare System.

She was reassigned in July while authorities investigated how 2,400 veterans since 2004 might have received colonoscopies at the facility with equipment that might have been rinsed between uses instead of sterilized.

via Miami VA head returns after colonoscopy scandal | nola.com.

Filed under Florida

Plenty of Foreclosures to Go

October 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Not much to add to this. Please wake up the Coral Gables commissioners.

Banks have an inventory of about 1 million foreclosed homes, plus another 5 million homes where the loans are badly nonperforming.

via Numbers to Ponder, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty.

Filed under Economy, Housing

Wunder Blog

October 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Very good place to follow hurricane activities with incisive progressional analysis on this blog.

Wunder Blog : Weather Underground.

Filed under Florida

Actually, disaster losses happen because we do not prepare for natural hazards such as hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, floods, etc. We are vulnerable. If we prepare our houses for wind or shaking then you will be more like Chile after a huge earthquake, and not Haiti, where nothing was done to prepare its structures or society for a big earthquake.

In other words, so-called “natural disasters,” as if nature caused the disaster, don’t exist–the term is nonsensical. It is the human race and its failed policies that cause the losses.

Filed under Climate Change, Environment

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