WikicommonsAnd God said, "Let there be light in Dade County for at least one struggling young intellectual!"​No, this is not a joke, and you're not reading The Onion. There is actually a cultural non-profit in Miami who is looking for applicants for a full-time position. If I had professional-grade fireworks, I'd be launching them off the roof of the Miami New Times building right now. Instead, I just have this blog. (Pause for moment of self-reflection and regret)But remember, should you get
Lumilon.com via Flickr CC​Just a few weeks ago, at a county school board meeting, Bernie Winer -- a consultant for the Miami Beach Police Athletic League -- received a standing ovation. A month before that, Miami Beach city commissioners handed him an award. But Riptide has uncovered a PAL expense report that helped spark a police investigation into the hulking retired cop and other PAL executive board members' performances.
Winer was executive director of the non-profit, which sponsors
If ever the Miami State Attorney's Office has prosecuted a lose-lose case, the ongoing trial of former judge Phil Davis is it. Getting a conviction might just make the prosecutor's office look negligent in its past dealings with the alleged fraud organizer.​If Davis' sname sounds familiar, it's because he was one of four judges caught up in a juicy FBI sting in the mid-'90s called "Operation Court Broom." The feds snared the judges accepting bribes in brown paper bags and under car seats from
