Your Evening Sift

Happy New Year's Eve, readers! If you're going out, wear a hard hat and make sure your driver is sober. Be safe. Here's your last evening Sift of the 2010...

A- Random Pixels discusses some of the finer reporting done by the Herald this year as well as the people who did it...and then awards his first Nanook of the North Award.

But for sheer entertainment, it was hard to beat WSVN reporter Vanessa Medina's live shot on December 6th.

Standing on East Las Olas Blvd. wearing a knit cap and bulky scarf, she gripped the mike and stared solemnly into the camera and warned viewers to brace for the worst. The words words were barely out of her mouth when an elderly couple wandered into camera range behind her wearing short-sleeved shirts.

B- Happy New Year greetings from South Florida Lawyers, Taking Over Miami, Miami Favs, AshAndBurn and The Reid Report.

C- Soul of Miami has the Van Dyke's music calendar for January.

D- The South Florida Watershed Journal says we have a while to wait for South Florida's hydrologic New Year.

When does the new water year start in the swamp?

That would be June 1st with the start of the summer rains.

Or in other words, six more months to put my resolutions on hold.

E- Shorter Coconut Grove Grapevine...

The Grove is allowed to be quiet on New Years because so much is going on the rest of the year.

F- Bark Bark Woof Woof is appreciative and mentions SFDB so, you know...

And then, of course, there's you, dear Reader. Believe it or not, I don't do this just because I love to write. Well, I do love to write, but it would seem to be a hollow effort if I didn't think there was someone out there to read it and certainly keep me on my toes. I know the commenting system leaves something to be desired; in the two years we've been in this new format, it still has a few bugs in the system. Be that as it may, you have made this blog a joy to write, and I am always thinking of you when I sit down here in the early morning to look at the world with dry bemusement and try not to bump into the furniture on my way to the coffee maker.

G- Eye on Miami resolves to devote more time to absentee voter fraud in 2011.

Both the State Attorney's office and the Elections Department acknowledge problems with Absentee ballots (Elections less so) exist. I think both men mean well but that doesn't change the problem. The Elections chief, Lester Sola, had a long talk with me. He can't fix the problems. He assured me that he is taking all precautions. But I think he fails in properly matching the signatures.

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