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Biscayne Bay as an Economic Driver
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 06, 2023 01:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingConservationists have been trying to incentivize environmental preservation for more than a century in Florida. If history has made one thing clear, however, it’s that it’s not an easy feat. Indeed, not everyone sees – or cares about – nature’s intrinsic value, focusing rather on how it extrinsi...
Arch Creek Park Pollution Crisis Worsens
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 06, 2023 01:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingArch Creek Park is in trouble – dirty trouble – and local activists are organizing once again to save a historic landmark in North Miami they began fighting for more than 40 years ago. In 1972, environmental lawyer Maureen Harwitz read in a newspaper that Chrysler Automobile Corporation sought t...
North Miami Beach Mayor's Race Enters Final Lap
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 06, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe city of North Miami Beach’s special mayoral race is in high gear. Now that the qualifying period has officially closed, residents have one month to weigh out potential candidates before the Dec. 5 election. Although pickings are slim in quantity, residents may find that both names on the ba...
Trash Trouble: Miami-Dade’s Looming Landfill Crisis
This Month in Biscayne Times - September 11, 2023 03:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAs flames spread through Miami-Dade’s massive North Dade Landfill trash incinerator earlier this year in February, destroying the heart of the county’s waste-management system while spreading chemicals through the air, residents could smell, taste and see the results of decades of failed leaders...
Master Plan for Margaret Pace Park Unveiled
This Month in Biscayne Times - September 07, 2023 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe city of Miami has big plans for Edgewater’s Margaret Pace Park, and it’s asking the community what it thinks. District 2 Commissioner Sabina Covo and Chris Evans, the city’s parks and recreation director, came together Aug. 10, 2023, to unveil the park’s master plan at the park itself. Locat...
New World Symphony Goes Brilliantly Blue
This Month in Biscayne Times - September 07, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating“It will be blue for the Miami sky and for the sea, but also blue for the frames of Emtiti,” said Stéphane Denève enthusiastically, making a gesture around his face. Emtiti. Is that … something Egyptian? “No, no,” he laughed. “M.T.T. You know, Michael Tilson Thomas! He wears those blue glasses!”...
Special Election Could Shake up Surfside
This Month in Biscayne Times - September 07, 2023 07:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe town of Surfside will have a special election Nov. 7, 2023, that could change future elections in the municipality. Residents will vote on five charter amendments, one that would extend the terms of both the mayor and commissioners from two to four years and another that would require a mayo...
Women in Hospitality Talk Tourism Trends
This Month in Biscayne Times - September 07, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWith Miami’s hotel revenue soaring to 24% higher than pre-pandemic levels last year, networking coalition Commercial Real Estate Women Miami (CREW) gathered some of the industry’s top women leaders last month to home in on what’s working for the city’s tourism business – and what’s not. Moderate...
Biscayne Wildlife in Peril
This Month in Biscayne Times - August 18, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPoor water quality in Biscayne Bay and its effects on underwater sea animals have been hot topics since the 2020 fish kill, which made headlines statewide and has occurred again every year since. Lesser known, however, are the impacts such conditions have on those found higher up, both in the fo...
Miami Spice Picks for the Best Deals Around Town
This Month in Biscayne Times - August 18, 2023 17:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe job of the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau may be to attract tourism business to Miami-Dade County, but it’s well aware that fine dining isn’t just for tourists. So when the snowbirds start to fly north that’s our cue to enjoy three-course specialty menus at restaurants all around...
Messi Mania Means Cash in the Bank
This Month in Biscayne Times - August 18, 2023 17:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere will come a time, perhaps in the next two years as planned, when Inter Miami will move into its beautiful new soccer stadium at Miami Freedom Park near Miami International Airport. Until then, Fort Lauderdale civic officials want the world to know their city is the current home of Lionel M...
The Gibson Room: Out of the Way But Where It's At
This Month in Biscayne Times - April 29, 2023 23:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Gibson Room, as we realized, is never what you expect it to be. It’s better. Let the incurious and their patient Prestons insist on sorting experiences into narrow, limited categories. For the Biscayne Tippler, the gates to paradise open in the unlikeliest places as long as you have eyes to ...
Condo Wars! Inside the Palm Bay Feuds
This Month in Biscayne Times - April 29, 2023 22:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s a tale as old as time, with several chapters unfolding in recent months in the Biscayne Times. February 2023’s “$46 Million Condo Shock” cover story and “Palm Bay’s Triple Trouble” in March have collectively told the story of three Palm Bay condominium buildings that have become battlegroun...
Palm Bay’s Triple Trouble
This Month in Biscayne Times - March 07, 2023 18:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingResidents at Palm Bay Towers have been paying off high assessment fees as they wait for litigation against their condo association to conclude. Litigation against the Palm Bay Yacht Club’s $46 million assessment is well underway, with final testimonies, closing arguments and a judge’s ruling exp...
$46 Million Condo Shock
This Month in Biscayne Times - February 21, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Palm Bay Yacht Club stands 27 stories high at 780 NE 69th St., and real estate listings for its residences – with price tags between $338,000-$600,000 – boast of Biscayne Bay views, luxury amenities and an idyllic South Florida lifestyle. What’s not included in those effusive property descri...
DeFillipo’s Residency Scandal Intensifies Racial Divide
This Month in Biscayne Times - February 21, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe racial divide in North Miami Beach city government is coming to a head, with white commissioners “standing by their man,” Mayor Anthony DeFillipo, regardless of growing evidence that he has moved to Davie in violation of the city charter. Meanwhile, the city’s Black commissioners are making ...
Trust Dwindles in Town of Surfside
This Month in Biscayne Times - February 21, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt would be difficult to imagine that a small eight-block town on the coast of South Florida could produce so much controversy within its borders, but Surfside has found a way. In just two months, a concealed meeting with wealthy developers, sudden resignations, a parody email and an underfunded...
Focus on Frisco: Let's spread some good news & vibes with our friend Shannon Hammond
Star Local Media Podcast Network - February 16, 2023 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of Focus on Frisco, Rick sits down and chats with Shannon Hammond, Frisco’s No. 1 "good stuff" advocate. Hammond has lived in Frisco since 1995, and she’s made it her mission to love and welcome. That's why she helped inspire the vision for Pride Frisco, and created the ‘Good St...
Focus on Frisco: Bringing people together is a life's mission for Jason Young
Star Local Media Podcast Network - December 10, 2022 01:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTraces of Jason Young's impact can be seen across Frisco. After 17 years in corporate America, he became the creator and owner of Verona Villa, a special event venue that hosts a variety of events and that has helped nonprofits raise over $2 million since 2016. He also runs programming for the N...
Heavy Turnover at Aventura City Hall
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 05, 2022 01:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe future is clear for Aventura politics as the races to fill all but one of its open commission seats have been over for months now. Mayor-elect Howard Weinberg and future Commissioners Michael Stern and Paul Kruss were automatically elected when they each stood unopposed by the qualifying dea...
Insurance Crisis Rises Along With Floodwaters
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 05, 2022 00:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, images of the widespread devastation of homes in southwest Florida caused by a relentless storm surge has political leaders and insurance industry advocates clamoring for a major overhaul of the state’s property insurance market to deal with the catastrophic im...
Dry Goods, Warm Hearts at Lost Boy
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 05, 2022 00:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoe Cole is a bartender. He’s not a mixologist, not an apothecary, and not an artisanal cocktail crafter. He has a warm smile framed by a flowing white wizard’s beard. Somehow, he manages to be everywhere at once, making all the folks who walk into his establishment a little bit happier for havi...
UHealth and Luxury Developers to Build Monster Medical Center
This Month in Biscayne Times - November 05, 2022 00:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat could be missing from a $4 billion master-planned community whose blueprint already includes luxury housing, retail shops, green spaces and even a 7-acre artificial lagoon? For SoLé Mia developers LeFrak and Turnberry, the answer was rather straightforward: health care. The idea fell into t...
Redrawn district brings race to Miami-Dade and two challengers against Shevrin Jones
This Month in Biscayne Times - August 11, 2022 05:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe reconfigured Senate District 34 seat, formerly District 35, has three opponents on the Aug. 23 primary ballot, fighting for a fair shot at representing its constituents. Incumbent Sen. Shevrin “Shev” Jones, Florida’s first openly gay senator, has served in the seat for two years since the 2...
Focus on Frisco: Making sure our children have what they need to be confident is Elizabeth Watkins' mission
Star Local Media Podcast Network - July 29, 2022 21:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of Focus on Frisco, your host Rick Rogers sits down with Elizabeth Watkins, the president and founder of Refresh Frisco. In just 30 minutes, you will quickly understand the mission of Refresh Frisco, and the passion Elizabeth has for making sure the more than 1,400 students recei...
On the Record in Celina, TX: A look into the life of police work in Celina, Texas
Star Local Media Podcast Network - July 29, 2022 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode of On the Record with the Celina Record, your hosts Rick and Audrey give a behind-the-scenes look at a special project we've been working on, with a little help from our guests from the Celina Police Department. Over a span of nine weeks, Audrey was a member of the Celina Cit...
Can Audrey Edmonson Make a Comeback?
This Month in Biscayne Times - July 20, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere’s no doubt Audrey Edmonson is itching to get back into the political arena. The former Miami-Dade County commissioner appeared ready to shake up the status quo by taking on U.S. Rep Frederica S. Wilson in the upcoming Democratic primary in August. Now that Edmonson’s backed off that seismi...
Focus on Frisco: When there is a need, Frisco Family Services is here to help
Star Local Media Podcast Network - July 14, 2022 23:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn this episode of Focus on Frisco, your hosts Rick & Audrey have a conversation with Michael Straughter, marketing manager with Family Family Frisco, just days ahead of the Feed Frisco event. For more than 28 years, Frisco Family Services has helped members of our Frisco and Frisco ISD commun...
North Miami clawing its way out of the red
This Month in Biscayne Times - July 14, 2022 19:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAfter six years in the red, North Miami is at last in the black. From one end of the city to another, signs of life are visible everywhere – from Solé Mia in the northeast and downtown to uninviting stretches of NW Seventh Avenue. More than a dozen significant developments will likely alter Nort...
Micky Steinberg’s Rise to Miami-Dade County Commissioner
This Month in Biscayne Times - July 14, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingResidents living in District 4 of Miami-Dade County will have one less box to check on their ballot come Election Day, and with a new commissioner already decided, constituents of Miami Beach can expect a familiar face. Former Miami Beach Commissioner Micky Steinberg automatically won the race ...
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