By Grant Miller.... How are we doing? Our Village has been incorporated for 14 years now and we want to know what you think. Take our brief survey in this issue on page 6 and tell us what you think about the Mayor and the Councilmembers. And, our Village Manager’s contract is up for renewal; [...]
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By Grant Miller.... Voters hope that the people they elect are of good character; that they can trust those officials to do what is right which is the point of representative government. One of the responsibilities of a Palmetto Bay council member is to sit and judge zoning applications. It is a very serious process [...]
By Grant Miller.... Here are some of my thoughts about what’s going on in Palmetto Bay Voters hope that the people they elect are of good character; that they can trust those officials to do what is right which is the point of representative government. One of the responsibilities of a Palmetto Bay council member [...]
By Grant Miller.... The dust is still settling from the runoff election and the obvious sign is that the current council and its new mayor lack a mandate. Job one needs to be bringing the community together, not pushing though any political personal agendas. Palmetto Bay was less than enthusiastic in anointing a successor to [...]
By Grant Miller... Wealthy car dealer Norman Braman threatened before the final county budget hearing to seek the recall of any county commission members who voted for the new budget, of which he disapproved. He has made good on that threat, at least in part, with his current efforts to get 52,000 signatures on petitions [...]
By Grant Miller.... Several weeks ago I wrote a column, an opinion piece headlined “No more schools, churches, expansions?” Palmetto Bay Councilmember Shelley Stanczyk apparently is really hot under the collar about the content, as she is out and about loudly voicing her opinion about my opinion. She certainly is entitled to do that and [...]
By Grant Miller.... The Cutler Bay Town Council at its last meeting turned down a second attempt by Vice Mayor Ed MacDougall to make the town’s expenditures transparent and readily available to the residents by posting the town’s check register on its own website. The Village of Pinecrest has its “check book” right on its [...]
By Grant Miller.... It is almost impossible for teenagers to put the things that happen to them in school in proper perspective. On the athletic field, in the school parking lot, in the classroom, it’s all the same; it’s always big, really big; as big as the BP oil spill or flooding in Pakistan. So, [...]
By Grant Miller.... As we all know, Palmetto Bay councilmember and mayoral candidate Shelley Stanczyk has spearheaded the campaign against the Palmer Trinity School expansion. At the May 4 (and 5) public hearing on the school’s revised site plan, she arbitrarily capped the student population at 900, and then voted against her own amendment. Not [...]
By Grant Miller.... It is almost impossible for teenagers to put the things that happen to them in school in proper perspective. On the athletic field, in the school parking lot, in the classroom, it’s all the same; it’s always big, really big; as big as the BP oil spill or flooding in Pakistan. So, [...]
Grant Miller Publisher’s Note There has been a call for reinstat-ing the military draft in the United States in recent months. Some cringe at the thought of forcing this nation’s young people into a minimum of two years in the U.S. Army; others say it is long overdue. At the heart of this discussion is [...]
Sworn police officers are leaving the Pinecrest Police Department in ever growing numbers. In the last two years alone, 25 officers tendered their resignation, most of them to take similar jobs in the police departments of other South Florida municipalities. Four more officers have departed our Village force in just the first three months of [...]
Every day, we’re faced with choices — buy from Home Depot or the guy that owns the hardware store in the Village? Get a cup of coffee at Starbucks or go to the local restaurant? Buy from a local clothing store or from Marshall’s? In these difficult economic times, to me it makes sense to [...]
