Watchdog Report Vol.24 No.91 January 26, 2025: EST: 05.05.00 – For 24-years a free weekly community education resource
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Vol.24 No 91, January 26, 2025, Celebrating May 5th,2000: 24 -years of free weekly publishing! www.watchdogreport.net & Former Miami Herald featured, news reporter & education resource & news service, without the attitude.
>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
>>>ARGUS REPORT: HEARD SEEN ON THE STREETS
I got some bad medical news and the report will be different this week after I find results Tuesday, and I lived in Australia for five-years the skin cancer capital in the world.
OPINION
>>> Miami community leaders and public need to tamp down ethnic comments, in the 1970s “speak English,” was a frequent comment at a Publix by the Anglo community now a minority in Miami-Dade County. And I wish I didn’t have to write about this as it reverberates in the media, if it escalates, which I hope not, but Miami is a passionate community, with a host of people worldwide not just Cuban.
Last week the community saw some ethnic tension not seen since young Elian Gonzalez was extracted by the federal government in 2000, and protesters in Homestead back then with confederate flags with Blacks shouting “F… the Cubans,” Was a surreal time and not a good look for our community, caught in a Miami Herald photo.
Modifying a controversial Miami tree ordinance brought out these passions with commissioner Joe Carollo once again fanning the flames of division as he did back then. One public speaker brought up Sen. Bob Menendez- NJ, and his then court case involving corruption and cited other examples. Carollo shot back that the man was suggesting all “Cubans were corrupt,” he angerly responded.
I bring this up because at the county commission commissioner Keon Hardeman suggested speakers and a group from The Circle of Brotherhood, “was threatening the commissioner and he knew “gang activity when he saw it,” and people were coming to see me, said the defense attorney and former public defender.
The change in the tree cutting ordinance has ignited this past ethnic divide and with President Trump, pushing English language over Spanish hitting Jeb Bush and his Mexican wife during a debate comment these past elements are potentially forming again sadly.
Miami is a minority majority community, and when Anglos governed Hialeah there was corruption and public speakers who remain calm and make a cogent sensible argument have a better chance of getting what you wish I have found over the years. I hope this does not occur, but Miami has a history.
On a separate note: President Trump fired a host of federal Inspectors Generals and thankfully it is being challenged for waste fraud abuse is not just Miami where we are the “graduate school for fraud,” said a Southern District Attorney General in Miami years ago and the FBI office has two Medicare fraud task forces, though fraud still flourishes around the nation.
Let Zero Child Drown is a program with the city of Miami, and the Miami-Dade County Children’s Trust. The program has taught 20,000 children age 4-5 how to swim where children drowning in all the water bodies is a parental nightmare. The program is a county program. For more go to: https://www.miamidade.gov/global/initiatives/zero-drownings/home.page
I will be back next week and hope to be in better writing shape, wish me luck and some support this week, thank you Dan Ricker.
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