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Close-up photo of the cute head-turning window display at the Apotek Hjärtat -Sweden's largest independent pharmacy chain- located at Ringvägen 113, near the Skanstull T-bana in Södermalm, Stockholm.
The sign reads, "Årets nyhet: du! Ett helt nytt och obrukat år är här. Just nu känns det lite lättare att välja om, förändra vanor och bryta gamla mönster. Vi hjälper gärna till. Du vill, du kan, du törs!'
(New this year: you! A brand new and unused year is here. Right now it feels a little easier to choose, change habits and break old patterns. We're happy to help. You want to, you can, you dare!) Sounds like good advice that I ought to actually follow in 2015, unlike 2014!
IUAthletics YouTube Channel video: IU Athletics Receives Historic Gift: Fred Glass and President Michael A. McRobbie. Uploaded December 19, 2013 http://youtu.be/ev5UgwK27PQ
"Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today announced that IU Athletics has received a $40 million gift - the largest in its history - from IU alumna Cindy Simon Skjodt to provide much needed renovations to Assembly Hall and launch IU Athletics' ambitious and unprecedented $150 million "Catching Excellence: The Campaign for Indiana University Athletics" capital campaign. President McRobbie also announced that in honor of the landmark gift made by Catching Excellence co-chair Cindy Simon Skjodt and her philanthropic organization, the Samerian Foundation, IU will rename Assembly Hall the Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall."
On a momentous day when Generosity, Hoosier Love and Big Bucks come knocking, IU Hoosier AD Fred Glass knows to open the door and welcome them in. Result? $40 Million to the IU Athletic Dept. and the over-due renovation of basketball icon, Assembly Hall. But where's the BigTenNetwork with any coverage? Nowhere to be found! Below is the Indy Star's video of the complete 2:30 p.m. announcement, including remarks by philanthropic Hoosier Cindy Simon Skjodt, followed by links to their stories by Zach Osterman, @ZachOstermanhttps://twitter.com/ZachOsterman
By the way, in case you were wondering about the name and any prospective name changes in the future, IU's policies rule out corporate names, so at least that's a positive.
No worry about being changed to give some PR to insurance names, car parts manufacturers, et al, like has happened at Joe Robbie Stadium, which has been desecrated with awful corporate names -including bankrupt companies- over the past 20 years, none of which I use on this blog. :)
So, did you see happen to turn your TV dial to The BigTenNetwork on Thursday to see how they were bringing its viewers around the country up-to-date on what happened in Bloomington on Thursday afternoon, a moment that could prove so very important to the future success of Hoosier Nation and its legion of fans and former players -and future fans and players- who want more consistent success, but with the requisite amount of class we've come to expect and demand? No, of course not, because they didn't do a damn thing. I'm writing and posting this online more than 12 hours after that press conference at Assembly Hall has been over, and there is still no original content of any kind about the story of a very generous IU alum with control over $40 Million knocking on the door and Fred Glass being smart enough to hold the door wide open. And what might happen next as a result of that. There's no original content of theirs of consequence about this subject on The BigTenNetwork website anywhere. Not even the video that most of us have now seen more than a few times. Why? I thought one of the principal reasons for the network being created in the first place, besides the need by the Big Ten office to make even more money from national and regional advertisers and give millions of that to the athletic departments, was to be able to directly service and connect fans and alumni from Big Ten schools, often located far from those campuses, like me here in South Florida, with what was actually going on. The sort of thing that leads some fans to even finally start giving some money back to their schools, even if not quite $40 Million. But here we are, more than six years after its creation, and all my doubts over the years about what they were actually doing, producing and seemingly settling for, have proven more true than I wanted in one big strikeout for Hoosier fans across the country. The BigTenNetwork is NOT a Community College alternative radio station in the Quad Cities or a student-run newspaper run out of a Columbus office building by some silver spoon legacy whose father owns the building, they're supposed to be a professional media organization that has the resources and common sense to know in advance of a big story to ACTUALLY have people in place to cover the story and tell an original and compelling story that's different than the one told by the ambitious beat reporters for the school newspaper or the breezy comments offered by national reporters doing drive-bys on cold winter days. So where were they? WISH-TV, Channel 8, Indianapolis video: IU's Assembly Hall to be renamed after donation By Jeff Wagner Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 7:59 PM EST Published: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 2:38 PM EST http://www.wishtv.com/news/local/iu-makes-major-announcement 13 WTHR Indianapolis WTHR-TV, Channel 13 Indianapolis video: Philanthropist donates $40M for Assembly Hall renovation Updated: Dec 19, 2013 6:21 PM EST http://www.wthr.com/story/24262048/2013/12/19/sources-iu-renaming-assembly-hall My other blog, to be rejuvenated in the new year, is South Beach Hoosier: http://southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/
Andrew Wittry YouTube Channel: Indiana Men's Soccer National Championship Reception Postponed. Uploaded December 9th, 2012. http://youtu.be/RpJAVPws_qE Above, the great Chuck Crabb , IU Assistant Athletic Director, explains to some disappointed Hoosier fans last night why the planned 8:30 p.m. reception for the team at Assembly Hall was postponed, owing to bad weather in Nashville, where the team stopped on their way from Birmingham back to Bloomington. More on Chuck at bottom.. It was great to see that Hoosier basketball star Jordan Hulls was in the stands for yesterday afternoon's game, and drove the 8 hours down to Alabama after the Hoosier basketball game Saturday night against Central Conn. State, the school that my friends and I had never heard of, but which at Spring Break in FTL during early 1980's boasted a disproportionate amount of the most good-looking coeds. Jordan Hulls @JordanHulls1 twitter.com/JordanHulls1 IU soccer championship gear is here: http://iuhoosiers.cbscollegestore.com/store.cfm?store_id=406 ----- This is what I wrote about Chuck on my other blog, South Beach Hoosier, when I started it in 2007:
The IU sports administrator most responsible for helping me make sense of all things Cream & Crimson, was IU's do-it-all, 24/7 Renaissance man, Chuck Crabb. With equal amounts of enthusiasm, hard work and patience, Chuck lovingly and masterfully managed IU's Student Athletic Board, an organization to which I devoted many thousands of hours to -and loved every minute. Both the more difficult times, like trying to manage things and stay dry during downpours at IU soccer games at Bill Armstrong Stadium, and those that were more fun, like helping out with the logistics of running the lengthy IU cheerleader and pom squad tryouts, up on the HPER's beautiful second floor wooden gym, with very precise routines all set to Prince's genius music, circa 1982, which was blaring out of the speakers. Fun and hard work! After all those hours and hours of watching those carefully choreographed routines to his music -routines that I can STILL see in my head- I could never hear Prince's songs again without thinking of those tryouts and smiling. And of all those eager but flushed and exhausted Hoosier faces, anxious to help project Hoosier Pride to Hoosier Nation.
Miami Herald vending machine in front ofDenny'srestaurant, Hallandale Beach, FL.July 3, 2011 photo bySouth Beach Hoosier
Below is the email that I sent last Friday afternoon to David Landsberg, President and Publisher of McClatchy's Miami Herald, with cc's to Herald Executive Editor Aminda Marques and Managing Editor Rick Hirsch, along with certain Broward County elected officials and activists I keep in regular contact with.
This is the first of two emails sent directly to him about the Herald's considerably lackluster performance for the year 2011, where sins and errors of the past were neither corrected nor forgiven but merely repeated over-and-over to an inexplicable fair-thee-well.
In the subject header that day, I wrote: More lumps of coal in your Christmas stocking for such a consistently lousy year of journalism at the Miami Herald covering Broward County. -----
December 16, 2011
Dear Mr. Landsberg:
You're the publisher and president of the Herald, and yet as of 4 p.m., it's now been more than 65 hours since the Broward County Commission formally approved new district maps based on 2010 Census information, and as of right now, your newspaper has printed absolutely NOTHING about it in-print or online. http://www.miamiherald.com/search_results?aff=1100&q=redistricting Nada!
But then the Herald also NEVER wrote in-print about any of the myriad issues arising out of the many public meetings that've been held in the county the past few months about that required redistricting in Broward. Nothing about what the maps might look like given that some members will soon be termed-out, or even whether or not it was likely that a 'Hispanic-majority' district might somehow be carved-out of it somewhere, which might necessarily change the county's current dynamic. http://www.broward.org/Redistricting/Pages/Default.aspx
Congratulations!
That's certainly entirely in keeping with the strange and counter-intuitive journalism decision-making that beleaguered Broward readers have continued to see coming out of 1 Herald Plaza the last few years, with enough bad decisions having emerged to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to your remaining Broward readers that you all consider Broward to not just be terra incognita, but almost persona non grata as well, given how Broward barely exists at all in your blogs, too, regardless of the subject area.
To my eyes, among the worst and most unforgivable sins for a media enterprise that still contends that they're RELEVANT now is how week-after-week, month-after-month, NOTa single instance of an article, column or essay written by a Miami Herald employee -or even a Guest Op-Ed- will appear in that embarrassing excuse for a Sunday public policy section, Issues & Ideas, that directly concerns issues, people, pols, government and personalities of and in Broward County. Month-after-month-after month!
The self-evident facts, the actual newspaper itself, don't lie, and they could hardly be more glaring or damaging to the newspaper's faltering credibility.
Here we are at the end of the year 2011 and there is NOT a single Broward-oriented columnist appearing in print in your newspaper. How can you possibly think that's a good idea?
As for your decision to go seven-plus months without an official Reader's Ombudsman, since Edward Schumacher-Matos left for NPR, and the curious management decision to NOT replace him, well, there's yet another completely counter-intuitive journalism decision that further shows the newspaper's lack of seriousness and integrity. But hey, who's counting all those curious decisions, right?
I mean there's only... well, now that you mention it:
-the longstanding lack of even one South Florida-based conservative columnist with both some historical knowledge of the area and some flair & verve in their writing that could challenge the stagnant South Florida status quo to readers 2-3 times a week
-the complete lack of an Education blog in the year 2011
-the Editorial Board's abject failure to consistently run meaningful well-written dissenting points-of view in your so-called "Opposing Views," as you instead prefer running columns and essays that merely replicate the prevailing status quo orthodoxy of the Editorial Board, even to the point of running crummy columns by Mary Sanchez of the Kansas City Star that sound eerily like Herald editorials. But she's even more condescending and patronizing, if that's possible; and she proves it whenever you deign to put her words into print.
To most reasonable people, Mr. Landsberg, calling something Opposing Views conjures up a mental image of an actual opposing point-of-view, not merely uttering the same exact ideological nostrums or cant with someone else's name attached to them. It's the difference between a voice and a chorus. A more accurate name for the top of that editorial page in the Herald now would be "The Choir."
And lest you forget, as we approach 2012, there is NOT a single Broward-oriented blog on the Herald's entire website. Pitiful!
That said, you sure have managed to corner the market to yourself on useless minutiae on Cuba, or writing sycophantic stories about commercial and residential real estate 'upturns' in downtown Miami. I will give you credit for that, if that's what it is.
At some point in the next few weeks, you might want to avail yourself of a blog post I wrote on November 27th of last year that connects-the-dots rather well on what I and many other well-informed and civic-minded residents of Broward County continue to see as your and the Herald's failings.
It's just one of many posts on the decline we've all seen at the Herald, and in particular, your perfectly awful news coverage of Broward County. I don't know whether you plan on making any meaningful, positive changes to the newspaper and website in the new year or not as part of some collective New Year's resolutions, but if you aren't, you're making a huge mistake.To quote myself from that post:
When specifically is Miami Herald publisher David Landsberg finally going to publicly share with Herald readers what his actual plan is to rescue the newspaper, and make it relevant to readers and news consumers, which it increasingly is NOT by any stretch of the imagination? It's getting kind of late in the voyage with Landsberg at the helm, and while I'm no expert on icebergs, I can see with my own eyes that the known and unknown icebergs keep getting closer and closer to the Herald's bow as it steers into unchartered waters without a compass or, seemingly, a legitimate plan to get to its destination. And like you all, I know with absolute certainty that most of an iceberg is unseen -and below the surface.Just like the Herald's myriad problems.But some problems are too big to hide.
Continuing to routinely treat so many of a newspaper's readers with profound condescension and almost child-like indifference is the sort of thing that at other newspapers would quickly get people fired, but is something which at the Miami Herald is simply called business-as-usual or, Sunday.
You can either change that or you can just ignore that. We'll all see in January which choice you made.
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In my original email to Mr. Landsberg on Friday, I made a small mistake. I called the column on the page opposite the Herald editorial page that, rather than being contrary to the HeraldEditorial Board's position as you'd think, based on what they call it, it's usually complementary, "Opposing Voices." It's actually called "Opposing Views."
Regardless of what the Herald calls it, the point is not just valid, but still just as sheepishly embarrassing as well.
For those of you who are new to this blog and have never seen it before, when I first started my South Beach Hoosier blog and Hallandale Beach Blog in 2007, I made a conscious point of posting the following as an anchor to the blog -something that would always be present- so that anyone coming to them would know precisely where I stood on the issue of the Herald and its faltering news coverage of South Florida and fleeting influence within it. I mention this because there are a lot of people in the blogosphere who are Miami Herald sycophants, from whom "seldom is heard a discouraging word..."
The following is what was on South Beach Hoosier in 2008 and 100% accurate at the time it was written, though many changes have taken place since then -just not enough positive ones for South Florida residents who want more 'hard news' coverage in their newspapers more often -everyday.
I hope it provides some helpful context for understanding what I wrote in Part 1 above and what you'll soon see here in Part 2.
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South Beach Hoosier will also examine the latest amusing or not-so-amusing scandals, cover-ups, controversies, contretemps and mis-adventures bedeviling South Florida, something I became used to while growing up in North Miami Beach in the late 1960's and the 70's. Fortunately, because of my news-junkie DNA and myriad magazine subscriptions, and long-standing relationships with media types in Miami, I was able to keep up pretty well with the South Florida area while living in Bloomington, Chicago, Evanston, Wilmette and Washington, D.C./Arlington, VA. Communities where sensible civic activism and high standards of journalism were the norm and not the exception.
Due to my own personal/business/political interests and experiences in those cities, as well as my good fortune to have a large number of well-informed and well-connected friends and former housemates while living there, many but not all of whom are or were reporters, columnists, editors, TV/film producers, along with a few who are now well-placed in Statehouses and legal circles across the country, I'll have a deep bench of facts, opinions, point-of-views and fact-checkers to work with. That's the goal for South Beach Hoosier.
It's my hope that this'll help me offer up pinpoint criticism, whether of national and South Florida pols, media organizations and sports or show biz personalities, that have heretofore evaded public scrutiny, transparency or accountability -as well as well-aimed brickbats. To examine the proverbial case of the latest dog that doesn't bark, or analyze why the latest case of media conventional wisdom has -again- been proven wrong, and why.
This is especially true of The Miami Herald, the morning newspaper I grew-up with and have suffered with since first leaving North Miami Beach for Bloomington in the Fall of '79, as its most talented people jumped ship and the paper become evermore a shell of what it once was: an excellent newspaper with talented and respected reporters and editors telling compelling and intriguing stories of intrinsic value to its readers throughout polyglot and transient South Florida.
Television news-wise, when I'd return to South Florida from school or work in Bloomington, Evanston, and DC, whether for Christmas vacation, Baltimore Oriole spring training games or visits for weddings, I could still see that Miami had the kind of scrappy and innately curious reporters who make a tangible difference in a community. The sorts of enterprising reporters that so many of my friends at Ernie Pyle at IU, and Medill at Northwestern were already well on their way to becoming.
Reporters who might have the talent and ability to convey to the waves of newcomers and visitors to the area, a nuanced sense of South Florida's decidedly mixed historical past, by writing with the proper amount of factual research, balanced perspective and sense of disbelief, to describe the events unfolding around them. Then, ending the piece by dropping the hammer on whichever local corrupt/incompetent miscreant, pol or agency hack was the target of their ire, for attempting to perpetrate yet another in a long of of dubious acts against the people of South Florida.
Sadly for the people of South Florida, things have gotten so bad now that The Herald's numerous flaws are as much for what they don't publish, as much as for the self-evident mediocre quality of its writing and reporting, lack of thorough fact-checking, and inadequate search for conflicts of interest. For all the talk of improving the paper by the new McClatchy management, it shows no tangible signs of changing for the better any time soon, a great disappointment to its readers.
It's common knowledge within the industry that The Herald's website is a joke compared to the efforts of many smaller circulation newspapers. www.miamiherald.com
Frankly, the website itself remains a constant source of embarrassment for Herald reporters and columnists, who are constantly besieged by readers and told yet another horror story about not being able to find recent Herald stories that should be on the paper's website but aren't. The reporters can do little more than shrug their shoulders in response.
Even in the year 2008, The Herald still DOESN'T have a permanent Public Ombudsman to represent the interests of both its readers and basic fairness, like many newspapers with much smaller circulation numbers! Meanwhile, with much more to fear and lose, The New York Times has an independent Public Editor, currently Clark Hoyt, who weekly takes the Times' policy, owners, editors, reporters and columnists to task publicly, even providing links back to the original story or column in question, unlike the once-in-a-while effort at the Herald. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/thepubliceditor/index.html?8qa
Meanwhile The Herald's Sunday attempt at high-minded opinion-shaping and public policy, Issues & Ideas, is so embarrassing and muddled on so many different levels that it's all one can do to not laugh from crying, so feeble is its effort, so low is its aim, so puny the actual result.
Yet rather than seeking the creative input of bright and knowledgeable new faces who are familiar with the real problems of South Florida, The Herald still regularly farms-out the Guest Op-Ed space in the paper on Saturday to people living outside of the area, more than any other newspaper in America I've ever read. They continually run long excerpts in their editorial space from parochial interest groups whose political sentiments echo that of the the Herald's own Editorial Board.
Even worse, if possible, in many cases these particular guest editorial tangents have already appeared in other forums or publications! And speaking of the Herald's Editorial Board, who's on that exactly, anyway?
It's a great mystery that nobody seems able to fully explain away, yet The New York Times, under the guidance of Andy Rosenthal, has an entire webpage specifically devoted to detailing the background and credentials of its Editorial Board. http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/editorial-board.html
Hmmm... call me old-fashioned, but South Beach Hoosier prefers transparency!
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By the way, as I write this post on early Wednesday morning, it's now been exactly a week since the Broward County Commission vote on redistricting and the Herald has STILL NOT published anything in print or online.
Part 2, my follow-up email to the above, will be here soon.
Hollywood, U.S.A. and the sign that lures the world
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TheWrap Shhhh ... 5 of Hollywood’s Secret Social Clubs From the poker table to the hardwood to the far right wing, these Hollywood hangouts require a Hollywood pedigree By Mikey GlazerMarch 28, 2010
Yeah, that's right -- Hollywood has secret clubs. And it ain't that new spot Drai’s at the W in Hollywood.
For these clubs, it's not enough to know someone to get in. First you have to know they exist.
From hoops to poker to right-wing politics, they’re secretive in nature and selective in membership. And in an appropriate twist, TV super-spy (Zach Levi) belongs to two of them.
TheWrap went sleuthing to bring you the full reveal of Hollywood's secret social scene.
Read the rest of the story at: http://www.thewrap.com/article/shhhh-5-hollywood%E2%80%99s-secret-social-clubs-revealed-15742
See also:http://www.thewrap.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/user/thewrapnews
Was planning on running a photo of me with the Hollywood sign behind me, circa 2000, but couldn't find it.
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Some Hollywood odds and ends from my other blog, South Beach Hoosier http://www.southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/
Hoosiers in Hollywoodare Making Their Mark! But what they'd really like to do is "Direct..." Hollywood Hoosiers-Bringing togetherIndiana University alumni in the entertainment industry inLAand greater SoCal for the benefit of a grateful media-consuming nation. http://www.hollywoodhoosiers.com/
Michael Uslan's funny2006 IU Bloomington Commencement Address Michael Uslan, originator of the Batman films, describes his long journey from Bloomington to Batman, and it reads as funny now as it did the first time I read it. Not unlike IU grad and media & technology genius Mark Cuban, this is one very smart, funny and insightful guy who "gets it."
In an entertainment world that actually made sense, Uslan would alreadyhave an additional gig as the host of a popular and influential TV program dealing with the intersection of pop culture and media, and the tension between creatives and 'the suits,' but withoutNPR's usual pretensiousness or PBS' deadly earnest seriousness.
So, where is that program now, exactly, the one you'd expect to already find on Bravoif the Cable TVindustry was really giving its viewers what they wanted?
Indiana Hoosiers in the Film Industry, Past and Present A good source for checking Hoosiers in the film industry -No, notCary Grant pretending to be Cole Porter in 1946's Night & Day- is this one from a website run by former Ball State prof. and chair of the IPAHF board, and author of Hoosiers in Hollywood(Indiana Historical Press, 2006, $60)David L. Smith.
It's currently accessible by subject headings of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Composers, Directors, Screenwriters, Novelists, Made in Indiana, Oscar Winners, The Silent Era, and Non-Native Hoosiers. http://www.whenmoviesweremovies.com/hoosiersintro.html
The simple insightful wisdom of Hoosiers in film "A man's life ain't worth a hill of beans except he lives up to his own conscience." -Jess Birdwell (Gary Cooper), inFriendly Persuasion, 1956 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049233/
Driver runs red light, puts big hole in Broward government building, police say
By Alexia Campbell and Scott Wyman, Sun Sentinel
March 12, 2010
FORT LAUDERDALE
A vehicle hit Broward County's personnel building early Friday and left a huge hole in a wall, forcing government workers to relocate.
The accident at Andrews Avenue and Broward Boulevard happened at 1:53 a.m., said city Fire Rescue spokesman Matt Little.
A woman ran a red light on Andrews, lost control of her vehicle and hit the wall, said police spokesman Sgt. Frank Sousa.
The woman was treated by Fort Lauderdale firefighters and then taken to Broward General Medical Center, Little said. Her injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, Little said.
No one was in the building at the time, said county spokeswoman Judy Sarver.
Officials determined the building is unsafe until repairs can be made.
The county will have to temporarily relocate its job application processing services, which were handled in the building, Sarver said. People seeking county jobs should go to Broward's government website — http://www.broward.org — to apply online.
Sarver said the damage was still being assessed Friday and county officials were not sure when the building would reopen.
---------- Unfortunately for Broward taxpayers, the errant car didn't crash into the hideously dirty East side of the Broward County Personnel Building facing Andrews Avenue, which has been an absolute abomination for at least three years -to the eternal shame and discredit of County Administrator Bertha Henry and the entire Broward County Commission. I've been taking photos of it for that long, every time I go to the Broward Govt. HQ at 115 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale, for Charter Review, Ethics, Planning Council and County Commission meetings.
It's almost like Broward County is channeling the management geniuses at Hallandale Beach City Hall! And by geniuses, of course, I mean the motley crew of incompetents who make our city a laughingstock. January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
Same building a month later. February 25, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier Above, the Broward Legislative Delegation meeting of January 26th, 2010 at the Broward College HQ on East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, which met to discuss a bill creating an Inspector General to be an ethical bloodhound tracking Broward's many miscreant pols. http://www.broward.org/legislative/
That's Miami Herald reporter Amy Sherman on the far left wearing the red top and blue jeans.
Recognize anyone else, public policy sleuths? Well, there's state Sen. Chris Smith, state Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, the Delegation Chair, and Broward Coalition president Charlotte Greenbarg and...
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
Looking north from the SW corner of Andrews Avenue and Broward Blvd. Fort lauderdale. You can see where people have written and drawn things on the dirt-caked wall. Oh, and there's also a caved-in metal utility cover directly in front of that building on the corner, next to that pole, that will absolutely break your ankle if you're not looking. You're lucky if you get off just being tripped. That's been there for at least two years. February 25, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
It's like the County, with all the resources taxpayers have given it, STILL can't quite figure out some way of getting a pressure-washer there to completely zap that while building and work its way south to the Broward Govt. HQ, since the whole sidewalk smells like an ashtray -with a urine chaser!
What a great welcome for visitors and Broward taxpayers alike to the official home of Broward County!
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier That area is also where buses deposit the homeless, with predictable results.
See:Broward Politics Hanging in Stranahan Park http://www.youtube.com/user/BrowardPolitics#p/u/4/NQCEokl23Hg
and Broward Politics: Billy the panhandler, age 48 http://www.youtube.com/user/BrowardPolitics#p/u/5/rkA-TE_aT-M
On my way to the Broward Planning Council's meeting re the Diplomat LAC last month, I swung-by the McDonald's a block away to grab some McMuffins. On the way back, I snapped this shot of someone, below, sleeping on the sidewalk of Broward Blvd. at 8:55 a.m. Two blocks from Fort Lauderdale City Hall.
February 25, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
Looking east on Broward Blvd. & Andrews Avenue., just north and across the street from the Broward County Personnel Bldg. Though I'm not posting photos of it, that whole area is positively crawling with trash and debris everywhere, two blocks from Fort Lauderdale City Hall.
That area is a real dump and yet the city and the county just seem to ignore it, like it'll all just wash away with the next downpour. Not much of a plan!
I sure didn't see any Super Bowl 44 flags over there in late January like over on East Las Olas Blvd., near the Sun-Sentinel HQ, where it was a bit over- the-top.
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
Looking south on Andrews Avenue & East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier Super Bowl 44 sign, looking east on East Las Olas Blvd. & Fort Lauderdale.
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier Super Bowl 44 sign, East Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale.
January 26, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier
The dirty and dumpy sign in front of the Broward Govt. HQ at 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. In the morning, this immediate area smells like an ash tray in an old abandoned car that's had its windows rolled-up for years.
Minutes of Broward County Ethics Commission: http://www.broward.org/EthicsCommission/Pages/MeetingSchedule.aspx
For more video, see: http://www.youtube.com/user/BrowardPolitics
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