You might ask why would anyone try to sift through the ads. Well, I do because there is good local material inside. Somehow I missed a big story and so did the Miami Herald. Former Scam Artist/Mayor Joe Celestin is in charge of the cleanup at Biscayne Landing. OMG could anything be more stupid? He is making $19,500 a month supervising the decontamination of the site. He says: By next year we will have a clean site. Celestin always had a penchant for hyperbole/bullshit (I wish I could find the State Attorney's office close-out memo on him):
Attorney (John) Dellagloria scoffs at the notion that Biscayne Landing can be fully remediated in less than a year, as claimed by Celestin. “The site will be monitored for the next 20 years. There is no such thing as ‘the site will be cleaned up in nine months,’” says Dellagloria, a former North Miami city attorney. “The site is today as it will be tomorrow. Anyone who alleges or believes that there will be a brand-new world nine months from now has no grasp of the actual situation.”How did Joe Celestin get put in charge of anything in North Miami after his tenure as Mayor there? I didn't know about this idiocy until I picked up Mullin's paper. (Note to Jim: The ads aren't so bad. I am always amused by the photos that Denise Rubin places in her ads of herself. Note to readers: I call Biscayne Landing Munisport and have 15 posts on it.)
8 comments:
Jim got shafted by New Times and no one has worked harder to succeed. He pays attention to his advertisers and to his reporters. He has a niche market and bless him for hanging in there.
What are Celestin's qualifications? Who hired him? Wasn't he involved in numerous ethical scandals when he was mayor of North Miami?
Agree -- he's done a bang up job.
Isn't Miami Dade Pollution Control in charge of cleaning up the site. Aren't taxpayer dollars from the Water/Sewer bill surcharge used for this? The last clean up plan approved by DERM involved pouring sugar into the groundwater. That apparently didn't work. How much as been spent so far on the "clean-up." Maybe the Huffington Post wants to investigate all this.
Huffington Post doesn't INVESTIGATE. They print editorials. We do both.
Right on Genius, right on! And you do a great job too!
I don't like Huffington and have no intention of looking at her stuff.
Sorry folks. I am more than satisfied with the passion of Eye on Miami and it is home-grown.
More than enough for me!
Celestin supposedly has a degree from the University of Haiti. LOL!
The clean up of the Munisport / Biscayne Landings site is something that is absolutely ripe for an investigation by the Inspector General or maybe even the SAO. Millions of public dollars spent without so much as a molecule of contaminants removed from the groundwater.
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