Category: Miami Beach
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A tale of enduring friendship: dementia and Miami’s true-crime reporting queen Edna Buchanan
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
This is a story about a 43-year friendship surviving amid turbulent times. After a dozen years at the helm, Rick Hirsch who retired as Miami Herald managing editor in December 2021, but he did not relinquish his concern for a talented former colleague: Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and multi-book author. -
Conservancy rakes in cash at taxpayer-owned Miami Beach Botanical Garden
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A non-profit group turned the Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a cash cow by obtaining federal pandemic aid funds and charging top dollar for hosting booze-filled events. But the Miami Beach Garden Conservancy fattened up its coffers without giving the city its fair share, and without contributing any money for maintenance of the taxpayer-owned flora facility, an internal audit found. -
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Miami Beach Inspector General targeted by two commissioners who don’t like independent watchdog’s oversight
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Two Miami Beach commissioners are on a mission to fire or at least muzzle the city’s independent watchdog for doing his job too aggressively. -
Former Miami Beach cop accuses police chief of fostering toxic, sexist workplace
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami Beach Police Chief Richard Clements orchestrated a female sergeant’s wrongful termination after he ignored her complaints of constantly being sexually harassed by male colleagues, including some of her supervisors, according to a federal lawsuit. -
FEC slaps U.S. Rep. Salazar’s campaign for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal contributions
By Francisco Avarado
FloridaBulldog.org
Miami Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar’s re-election committee has amassed $147,400 in illegal excessive campaign contributions for her primary, according to a pair of recent warning letters from the Federal Elections Commission. -
Cheating on Miami Beach police exams? Nothing to see here, move on, says county ethics boss
By Francisco Alvarado
FloridaBulldog.org
A Miami Beach cop’s year-long effort to get county ethics officials to investigate credible allegations of cheating and other irregularities with the city’s exam process for promoting police officers has been snubbed.
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