Subject: Dennis Moss

• Down in Flames

  July 15, 2004

• Letters from the Issue of March 10, 2005

  March 10, 2005

• Dennis the Moderate

  Come January, expect to see a new dynamic take shape on the Miami-Dade County Commission when Dennis Moss becomes chairman. For one, Natacha Seijas will no longer have influence over the selection of committee chairs and assignments. Each of the last three commission chairs, from Barbara Carey-Shuler to Joe Martinez to Bruno Barreiro, forged alliances with Seijas to snag one of the most powerful positions in the county. The result was Seijas getting plum assignments chairing commission committe

  December 11, 2008

• Esto solo pasa en Meeyami

  Today, the last day of 2008, Banana Republican highlights his ten favorite news stories of the year, the tales that truly capture life in a sun-drenched, third-world dimension. 10. Marc Sarnoff's Memo to Himself. The Coconut Grove loving city commissioner has a super secret meeting with Joe Arriola at which time the former city manager informs Sarnoff that another city commissioner, Michelle Spence-Jones, is shaking down developers. After the clandestine encounter, Sarnoff jots down the detai

  December 31, 2008

• Dennis Moss Picks Committee Chairs

  Dennis Moss is done putting together the new make-up of the county commission's committees and I'm impressed with most of his selections. In case you don't know, the commissioners use the committee system to hammer out decisions that ultimately impact our tax dollars, from formulating new ways to tax us to doling out patronage in the form of lucrative contracts. As the new Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman, or the Big Triple C, for short, Dennis Moss has the authority to reshape the committe

  January 23, 2009

• Odebrecht Is Portuguese for "Big Money Donor"

  For the past two days, I've noted all the work Miami-Dade County awards Brazilian engineering and construction firm Odebrecht. Despite a history of completing jobs behind schedule and over budget, the company continues to get the nod to build county-funded projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Part of the firm's success has hinged on the ability of Odebrecht's man in Miami to navigate the county's political heirarchy, which usually means ponying up for campaign contributions every ele

  February 20, 2009

• They Saw Red

  May 18, 1994

• Let me get this straight

  So at around the 7:04 p.m. mark of the Miami-Dade County Commission's nine-hour bull session to approve the Florida Miami Marlins' new stadium, Commissioner Sally Heyman posed a rather simple business question. She asked what would happen to the ballpark's projected $1.9 billion cost if the municipal bond interest rates went up half a point when the county actually issues the bonds? County Manager George Burgess, who's been heralded as a financing guru, replied: "We're not going to know what th

  March 24, 2009

• A Meaner, Leaner Latin Builders Association

  July 20, 1995

• Going South

  October 12, 1995

• Isiah Who?

  April 23, 2009

• Pastor Targets Corruption

  Simon Graves wants to dunk crooked pols.

  January 3, 2008

• On the MMAP

  The key to understanding the new corruption charges? Look at the old ones.

  December 27, 2007

• Law Library Checks Out

  October 18, 2007

• Inherit the Worth

  June 8, 2006

• Miami Gun Rhapsody

  May 5, 2005

• Letters from the Issue of , 2002

  February 24, 2005

• The Redland Menace

  January 27, 2005

• In His Own Words

  December 16, 2004

• Commission Quest

  November 25, 2004

• The Gridlock Candidate

  July 1, 2004

• Bass Relief

  May 27, 2004

• Neighborhood Bully

  November 6, 2003

• The Cuban Kong

  March 6, 2003

• The Thick Blue Line

  June 13, 2002

• The Hot Seat

  May 23, 2002

• The Carlos Lacasa File

  July 19, 2001

• We Built This City

  May 3, 2001

• You Are Cordially Invited

  April 19, 2001

• The Manager's Many Friends

  January 25, 2001

• Doing the Lord's Work Is Never Easy

  December 21, 2000

• Riptide

  August 24, 2000

• That's Rich

  August 10, 2000

• It's About the Money, Stupid

  June 29, 2000

• Best Whiners

  May 11, 2000

• Screwing up the Center

  February 10, 2000

• Letters

  January 21, 1999

• A Day of Reckoning

  December 10, 1998

• Principles vs. Politics

  November 26, 1998

• Don't Call Me a Lobbyist!

  July 23, 1998

• The Teele Deal

  November 20, 1997

• Sitting Petty

  July 3, 1997

• Letters

  August 22, 1996

• Good Enough for Political Work

  August 8, 1996

• Flying Blind

  February 1, 1996

• In the Dead of the Night

  August 17, 1995

• Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Town Hall Meeting Draws Big Crowd

  Scott Cunningham​Just got back from the Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Town Hall Meeting at the Miami Science Museum, where close to 300 people showed up to voice their dissatisfaction with Mayor Alvarez's proposed budget cuts of $11.168 million in public arts funding.The 240-seat auditorium was completely filled and patrons were standing along all the walls and out the two doors, peeking in. In short, it was a solid initial show of support for the arts in Miami, which are legitimate

  August 3, 2009

• News Roundup

  The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office decided the cops who pulled their guns on an innocent University of Miami student during his first day of school did nothing criminal. However, the student's parents want the officers suspended. [Herald]Commissioner Dennis Moss handed out raises to close aides hours after the mayor warned that the county isn't in such great financial shape. [Herald]The gambling deal reached by Governor Crist and the Seminoles excludes the possibility for slot mach

  September 2, 2009

• Two-Thirds of Voters Have Negative Opinion of Mayor Alvarez, 46 Percent Support Recall

  Jonathan Postal Miami-Dade Mayor Alvarez and the County Commission have thrown sizable pay raises to staffers like they were life-vests on a sinking ship. They've simultaneously tossed funding to cultural efforts and other social programs overboard. That hasn't proven popular with voters. According to a new poll commissioned by Local 10 and conducted by Bendixen and Associates, key county leaders are facing high levels of negative opinion, with 46 percent of voters even going as far

  September 10, 2009

• The County Budget Hearings Have It Backward

  For several weeks, I've been reading passionate plea emails to save the $11 million in funding for Miami-Dade cultural programming, all of them written by the heads of well-established, reputable organizations such as the Miami Art Museum, the Wolfsonian, and Vizcaya. Because the funding they receive from the county is crucial seed money -- used to secure all the other grants and donations they apply for -- the loss of county funding would be devastating for all 400 organizations, and

  September 17, 2009