Chris Mazzella

Three agencies against a Star Destroyer?

Kicked Back and in the Green

Secure Monopoly

Owing to the laziness of Transportation Security Administration and Miami-Dade County Aviation Department bureacrats, a company with a lucrative venture at Miami International Airport won't be getting any competition anytime soon. For the past eight years, Secure Wrap of Miami has held the exclusiv ... More >>

Secure No More?

Turns out Miami International Airport bureaucrats aren't so lazy, just a bit slow at fostering competition. Earlier today, I wrote about the Miami-Dade Aviation Department's reluctance to competitively bid the baggage-wrapping concession operated by Secure Wrap of Miami, which has held on to the lu ... More >>

Inspect no commissioners or the mayor

This past March 4, the Miami-Dade County Inspector General's Office announced it had nailed a county vendor falsifying his insurance paperwork in order to get a county contract. Thanks to the inspector general's investigation, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office was able to charge Eddy Joe Allen ... More >>

That's a Wrap

A fight brews over Secure Wrap's county contract at MIA.

Letters from the Issue of September 11, 2008

"Does it intimidate you that a black man from Queens could be compared to musicians such as Bob Dylan?"

The Bitch

Rave Robbers

Charles Hankerson, Former Miami Northwestern High Principal, Embroiled In Grade Changing Scandal

​A Miami-Dade Public Schools principal credited with turning around a storied inner city high school's academic performance is under investigation for illegally changing student grades. The allegation against Charles Hankerson is the latest black eye for Miami Northwestern High School, which earli ... More >>

Marlins Stadium Whistleblower Questions Safety As Inspector General Probes Welding

​Sure, the new Marlins Stadium is a taxpayer-draining succubus approved through wholesale lies and deceit -- but is the retractable-roofed ballpark also unsafe? That's what a whistleblowing former contractor says today, with the ominous warning: "I won't go to that stadium. I won't take my kids to ... More >>

Micky Arison and Miami Heat Get Audited by Miami-Dade Inspector General

County watchdog auditing American Airlines Arena's financials. Following multiple stories from Riptide about the Miami Heat refusing to share profits from the American Airlines Arena with county taxpayers who subsidize the place, Miami-Dade Inspector General Christopher Mazzella has apparently decid ... More >>