La LEY Counterpunches With Facts of Their Own and This Blog

Last year we mentioned in a blog post that there were documents on the City of Homestead website that appeared to be fabrications. These documents gave the Charter Schools and Red Apple Development rights to use the Sports Complex roadways for pick-up, drop-off, stacking and parking. The documents have signatures that verify the agreement date as March 3, 2009. The documents were created in 2011 and filed in 2011. Signatures of Sergio Purrinos and...

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City of Homestead Punches La LEY With Facts on Paper

From: George Gretsas  ggretsas@cityofhomestead.comDate: April 26, 2012 8:07:30 PM EDTTo: Steven Bateman SBateman@cityofhomestead.com, Jon Burgess JBurgess@cityofhomestead.com, Judy Waldman jwaldman@cityofhomestead.com, Stephen Shelley SShelley@cityofhomestead.com, Patricia Fairclough PFairclough@cityofhomestead.com, Jimmie Williams JWilliams@cityofhomestead.com, Elvis Maldonado  EMaldonado@cityofhomestead.comCc: Richard...

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Jeff Burnside Interviews Al Sharpton Photograph

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LA LEY Stadium At The City Of Homestead Sports Complex Is Closed By MDFR

  Fire safety violations resulted in the relocation of a young group of aspiring baseball players living at the Homestead baseball stadiumRead more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/26/2770614/stadium-closed-over-safety-violations.html#storylink=cpyBy Christina Veiga cveiga@MiamiHerald.com A group of young ballplayers living at the Homestead baseball stadium have been relocated after...

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Reporter Who Received "Leaked" Text Messages CD Fired for Edit of George Zimmerman Call

    Jeff Burnside Reportedly Fired For Apparent Prejudicial Edit From Talk Left  By Jeralyn, Section MediaPosted on Wed Apr 25, 2012 at 05:13:34 PM ESTUpdate: NBC 6 Miami acknowledges its mistake for its March 19 report and story with the misleading edit of George Zimmerman's call to police. Apparently, the Today show's erroneous and prejudicial edits were separately done and unrelated. NBC 6 Miami does not address why it waited...

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La LEY Sublet City Owned Property to Canadian Group

  https://twitter.com/#!/gigantebaseball http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gigantes-Baseball-Group/265419623507323A Univision report saying young athletes were without food or supervision at a Homestead baseball stadium program leads to several investigations.BY CHRISTINA VEIGAcveiga@MiamiHerald.com Homestead police and the Florida Department of Children and Families were investigating a program at the Homestead baseball stadium on Wednesday...

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Who Is Responsible? Complaint Of Kids Living And Not Being Fed @ The Stadium?

What is going on in Homestead? Why Are Kids Living In The Stadium? Why Are They Hungry?Here is an email to the city and others about this situation from a concerned resident.From: Michelle Rusch <michellerusch@yahoo.com>Date: April 24, 2012 11:53:24 PM EDTTo: "neighbors@miamiherald.com" <neighbors@miamiherald.com>,  "cveiga@MiamiHerald.com" <cveiga@MiamiHerald.com>,  "ben@rescuemiami.info" <ben@rescuemiami.info>, ...

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Will Council Sell City Property Valued At $2,500,000 For $500,000? Property Used For Shotgun House Loan To Payoff Steve Shiver

             By Christina Veiga cveiga@MiamiHerald.com Negotiations are again under way for the sale of Homestead’s long-abandoned bowling alley. City council members last week picked iconic Miami company Bird Bowl from a field of three companies to begin negotiating a contract for the facility, located at 111 S. Homestead Blvd.Bird Bowl,...

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Boss Tweed, Tammany Hall Corruption, A Historical Perspective

Does Homestead Need More Corruption?Tweed regimeMain article: William M. TweedTammany's control over the politics of New York City tightened considerably under Tweed. In 1858, Tweed utilized the efforts of Republican reformers to rein in the Democratic city government to obtain a position on the County Board of Supervisors (which he then used as a springboard to other appointments) and to have his friends placed in various offices. From this position...

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It's Time To Stop The Sock Puppet Mayor From Gaining More Power

The weak sock puppet mayor has not been a good fit for Homestead. Developers, contractors and entrepreneurs control the current mayor and the sock puppet has been great for them. Is that because he is weak, they view him as weak, they know he is beholding to them, what is the reason that they feel they can order him around as their houseboy?Look at the favors he has done. Free electricity, waived code enforcement fees, passes on red-light camera...

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Bateman Sycophant elhor Was Against Strong Mayor Before He Was For It, Yes, Definitely He! Comments Appear In The Miami Herald Comments Section

SycophantPart of Speech: noun Definition: person who caters to another Synonyms: adulator, backscratcher, backslapper, bootlicker, brownnoser, doormat, fan, fawner, flatterer, flunky, groupie, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, lackey, minion, parasite, politician, puppet, slave  Link to elhor's prior comments:http://disqus.com/mcclatchy-0ad4fee89acd49b4e665dbe5ac0cdc67/Subject of elhor's comments are below in blue. Hmmm.....elhor care to comment? Methinks...

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Mayor Steve Bateman's Clandestine Campaign To Be Strong Mayor Now In The Miami Herald

Systems of local government Here are some commonly cited pros and cons of the two most common systems of local government. A.) Council/manager Pro: City is run by a professional city manager in a businesslike way; professional manager is thought to make decisions for efficiency rather than political reasons. Con: Unelected manager may become too powerful; may be hard for voters to know who to hold accountable. B.) Strong mayor Pro: A single leader...

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