Lots of items here for you to read and discuss this morning....
A- Palm Beach Post: FAU study says that South Florida is fat, uninsured, and that many of us have AIDS or HIV On the plus side, we're good hosts to private companies and organizations. Makes me want to stick around another 25 years.
B- Palm Beach Post: At home with St. Lucie County's "Bikini Teacher."
The bikini teacher has a monkey. And a dog. She also has three young sons, and a college degree, and a painted wooden sign on her kitchen wall that says "Wishes won't wash dishes."
And she has a name: Tiffany Shepherd. The reductive title "bikini teacher" makes it easier to judge, to make black and white what in reality is unavoidably gray. But here she is: Tiffany, a 30-year-old with her feet propped on her coffee table, offering a green grape to a monkey and talking about her kids.
C- Herald: I think the AP is about 20 years late with this "headline," In Miami, Spanish is becoming the primary language.
D- Herald: 6,000 new Americans were created in Miami Beach yesterday.
E- Herald: Almost 7 years after 9/11 and this weekend a boatload of illegal Jamaicans sailed right up the Miami River before being noticed. Feeling safer? Heckuva job, W.
F- Herald: City of Miami Police Chief Timoney gets a finger wagged at him for Lexusgate.
G- Sunpost: 570 arrests on Miami Beach over Memorial Day Weekend, down 27%.
The official word from the police department is that this Urban Beach Week “was arguably the best and most successful … over the last eight-year stretch.”
H- Miami Today: Panhandling is now illegal in downtown Miami and MBV.
I- CBS4: Might be a good time to buy a house this weekend if it's a Coldwell Banker listing.
J- WPTV: Lake Worth house has a hella roach problem. If you're freaked by these things, I'm warning you about the video that accompanies this story.
K- WPTV: South Florida teachers now relying on handouts for educational needs. But we can afford new stadiums.
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5 comments:
Quite a few comments I have for you so jumping right in:
1 - The added info on this Cooler post is great, made me want to comment! :)
B - I still don't understand why having a side job wearing a bikini doing something perfectly legal got her fired, but I might be missing something
C - Better late than never
E - Like combating piracy of media, it is the law-abiding citizens that are paying the price of the war on terror
F - Disgraceful, just disgraceful that he gets a slap on the rest for either stealing money or accepting a bribe
I - The market seems to be picking up a little, hopefully this helps, the economy could definitely use a boost.
A. Carolyn Dekle, executive director of the South Florida Regional Planning Council, said the report can serve as a jumping-off point for more collaboration. "I think we are getting to the tipping point where we all understand our futures are connected," Dekle said. "This piece does a nice job of explaining that."
More like, "I think we are at the point where everyone really needs to realize how badly the state and local government has effed us with poor planning and decisions."
B. I wanna know where I can get a monkey!
C. I think the AP is wrong. The word "becoming" should be removed from the sentance.
F. Scumbag gets paid while teachers get laid...off.
G. Great, now more people can be shot next year!
H. Great idea but I doubt it will be enforced. What are the cops gonna do? Arrest bums and lock em up? Thats just adding more unnecessary inmates to an already crowded prison system.
Am I the only one that can't read the Herald on-line because I won't 'register?'
I appreciate your links. However, after reading the paper before coming to work and then 'hearing' the paper all morning on the WLRN/Miami Herald newscasts, I seldom find anything new on your blog. But that's me, not you.
My problem is, when I want to link to something from your blog, I get the danmnable registration page, and can't get past it!
Isn't the point of having the paper on-line making it easy for people to access it? Is there a business model I'm missing?
South Ocean:
Use:
sfdb
sfdbsfdb
and you don't have to register.
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Rick setup a group username/password awhile ago to cure us all of this annoying problem. I believe the username is sfdb and the password is sfdbsfdb...
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