Coral Gables Environment, Politics and Government
September 3, 2010 Leave a comment
Commission Chambers, City Hall, 405 Biltmore Way, 4:00pm, Thursday, September 16
CASE FILE LHD 2010-04 Designation of Architecture Building #48 and Architecture Building #49 called Architecture South and North, for consideration of the local historic designation of the buildings.
Contact Kara N. Kautz tel. 305-460-5090 for information.
September 3, 2010 Leave a comment
Not hard to guess where Miami and South Florida are ranked in a list of 200 cities of “safe” drivers. If I wrote #171 out of 200 would you believe me? See for yourself. Hialeah is even worse than Miami.
Survey: Allstate lists America’s safest driving cities [w/video] — Autoblog.
September 2, 2010 Leave a comment
I believe this is a different view of the Afghanistan war than we hear everyday in the news. It comes from someone with a historical, regional view from India, a former very senior minister there. This is something to think hard about given the considerable costs to the US of this undertaking and it is worth knowing the views of others, agree with them, or not.
..it now seems clear to anyone with eyes that the invasion of Afghanistan was built upon a great miscalculation: that Afghanistan can be successfully invaded.
Throughout history, such undertakings have always floundered. The country may, perhaps, be occupied for a time, but only temporarily; it cannot be conquered. The realization of this historical truth…is now troubling today’s invaders.
September 2, 2010 Leave a comment
Police and firefighter unions in South Florida (and in many municipalities across the US) have lost their way by refusing to negotiate salary and pension reductions and using delaying tactics to shield their unreasonable salaries and pensions.
If unions continue to insist on inciting the ire of voters and taxpayers then there is strong possibility that our union friends face will encounter the worst of both worlds– fewer numbers of firefighters and police AND lower salaries and pensions.
The days of rising property values are a thing of the past so cities will not have the revenues to maintain existing salaries and pension packages of firefighters and police. Time for union leaders and their member to wake up.
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