Friday, October 8, 2010

Another reason to vote against Charlie Crist: his pitching is clearly outside of the 'mainstream'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jirSqpYpvrE

After Charlie Crist loses the Senate election in 25 days to Marco Rubio and leaves office -and Tallahassee in the rear-view mirror for good- Crist will move up to one of his wife's homes in the New York City area, where he'll become yet another foolish Mets fan, and after listening to too much nonsensical sports radio, he will become a chronic serial caller to WFAN.
"Hello Charlie in Westchester County, you're on the air..."
Ha! Ha! Ha!

In this video, ABC News correspondent John Berman discusses presidential and celebrity ceremonial first pitches (and foul pitches), as well as his 'first pitch' at a PawSox game at McCoy Stadium in Pawtuckett, Rhode Island, as always, the AAA farm club of the Red Sox.
http://www.mefeedia.com/news/20617909

One of my substitute teachers at N.M.B. High School, Tony Torchia, was easily one of the most popular teachers at the school whenever he was there, especially with the male students, and it wasn't just because he was friendly and engaging and... the PawSox manager in 1975.

When the Red Sox played the Reds in the World Series that fall, naturally, he flew up to Boston to be at the Sox home games at Fenway Park.

Well, to give you an idea of what a great guy Mr. Torchia was, he brought back a World Series program for me, only one of my most-treasured sports collectibles EVER.
He was a classy guy!

'Safe at Home'
Alyssa Milano confesses her love for baseball in her book in an interview On The Record with Greta Van Sustern of FOX News. 2009.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/3933173/safe-at-home/

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The only way to kill the real estate developer monsters in Florida is to drive a stake thru their hearts, er, wallets -Yes on Amendment 4. It's true!

Coming so quickly after my August blog posts comparing Broward Comm. Ilene Lieberman's efforts to already weaken the brand-new Broward County ethics rules to any number of famous hard-to-kill monsters that starred in classic Hammer Films, honored last year by the Royal Mail with stamps -Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy- I feel a small amount of gratification.
Perhaps those posts of mine found an unintended audience, and helped contribute a kernel to the idea below.

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ilene%20Lieberman
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/content1?catId=32300674&mediaId=76000716

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuFEAx0eK4

http://www.youtube.com/user/FloridaHometown

Latest Amendment 4/FHD news stories at http://floridahometowndemocracy.com/news

Why the lies about Florida Hometown Democracy? blog

http://floridahometowndemocracyamendment.blogspot.com/

http://floridahometowndemocracy.com/

http://floridahometowndemocracy.com/blog

Reminder: Amendment 4 Informational Forum in Hollywood on Wednesday, October 13th, from 7-9 p.m. at the Hillcrest Playdium, 1100 Hillcrest Drive, Hollywood, FL. Free parking

See my post from last week on this meeting with lots of information on participants at:
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/forum-in-hollywood-on-amendment-4.html

Video: Channel 4 News technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen on the browser battle between Microsoft and Google for the British and European markets

I'm finally ready to play catch up on some news videos that I have been meaning to post here for quite some time. I think you'll find them quite informative and entertaining, which is the way the new should always be presented -but isn't. The first is one from February 15th from Channel 4 News (U.K.)

Technology correspondent Benjamin Cohen on the browser battle between Microsoft and Google for the British and European markets, Explorer vs. Chrome for customer loyalty and the $, Sterling & Euros that come to search engines.

February 15, 2010
Segment begins at 04:22

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1529573111?bclid=66056040001&bctid=66636953001

Benjamin Cohen's informative technology blog is at:
http://blogs.channel4.com/benjamin-cohen-on-technology/

Catch up on the last seven days of Channel 4 News programs with their catch up service at
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/

www.channel4.com/news

Obamacare death panels won't save legacy media's Newsweek: You could've been a MSM news mogul for the small introductory price of $1

On September 18, 2009, I wrote a post about my observations about Newsweek magazine's future, and as you can tell from the title I gave that post, Obamacare Death Panels have bad news for Newsweek: Doctors will pull the plug on mag at $75 a year; Newsweek R.I.P.
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/obamacare-death-panels-have-bad-news.html
I suggested that the reality was that there wasn't much of a future for them, because they had become increasingly irrelevant to the larger public discourse going on in America, in large part, due to their own insular liberal, hipper-than-thou parochialism and dis-connectedness to the country west and south of the Hudson River, and some rather uninspired editorial choices.
It was a mess.

Not that I was alone in my observations, given Michael Kinsley's spot-on take in The New Republic, Backwards Runs Newsweek, which could've easily been made the year before it ran last May and been just as accurate.
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/backward-runs-newsweek

It's hardly breaking news that Newsweek had never been relevant in the first place in longstanding public policy backwaters like South Florida, since as far as I can remember, it was never ever cited by anyone at any time at any public policy gathering I or any of my civic-minded friends ever attended from the mid-'70's on.

But in certain places throughout the country where ideas, especially new ideas, still really matter and have not just currency but urgency, and are argued about and discussed at length -and I don't mean that in a pejorative fashion but simply as a descriptive- it actually was relevant as recently as ten years ago.

I know because I've been to places where that really was true, at least among a certain sub-group of the local population that I knew, which is to say, friends of mine whom reporters and columnists call for quotes.

Places with serious, smart and well-educated people who read voraciously and who consume multiple hard news sources and trade/specialty journals weekly by the barrel and mega-bite.

Cities like Boston, New York, New Haven, Washington, D.C. , The Research Triangle in North Carolina, Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, Austin, Chicago and Evanston, Champaign/Urbana, Milwaukee, Madison, Ann Arbor, Columbus, Lawrence (KS), Albuquerque, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Silicon Alley, Sacramento, certain parts of Los Angeles and Orange County, and yes, Bloomington.

See http://www.theatlantic.com/richard-florida/ for more on why it is certain U.S. cities are incubators of ideas, public policy amd innovation, while other places, like South Florida, aren't.

To its own dismay, Newsweek had become the proverbial boyfriend who hadn't gotten the hint that he was about to be tossed overboard in favor of the new, more-interesting boyfriend, who was lurking discreetly off-camera, who doesn't take her for granted.

Boyfriend #1 is blindsided, of course, but to anyone actually paying any attention, it had seemed self-evident and rather inevitable since it was clear that there were no longer any sparks in the relationship, just a drab, mundane sameness and shallow me-too-ism. Loser.

Well today, or rather yesterday, we learned that you, too, could have become a media mogul for the low introductory price of exactly $1.

But the fact that one American dollar was more than hundreds of people and entities thought Newsweek magazine was worth as a going concern is perhaps the most salient fact of all, and a real warning to those who currently take their dwindling readership for granted, like the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel, who are barely relevant or trusted in their very own neighborhoods, as they continue to dangerously list.
Man the lifeboats!

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The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100606096_pf.html
Post Co. discloses Newsweek's price tag: $1

The Associated Press
Wednesday, October 6, 2010; 7:11 PM

NEW YORK -- The Washington Post Co. has revealed exactly how much cash that audio equipment magnate Sidney Harman paid for Newsweek magazine this summer: $1.

The Post Co. also agreed to cover up to $10 million of Newsweek's existing bills. And it will hold on to certain employee pension liabilities, though it did not spell out a dollar figure in a regulatory filing Wednesday.

No one thought Harman paid much for Newsweek, which lost almost $30 million last year amid circulation and advertising declines.

But the magazine's sale for less than its $5.95-per-issue price on newsstands is still a grim milestone for a brand that was once a prized asset at the Post Co., which bought Newsweek in 1961.

The filing comes as speculation builds that Harman's Newsweek will form some kind of partnership with The Daily Beast, a news and opinion site owned by Barry Diller's media conglomerate, IAC/InterActiveCorp, and run by former New Yorker magazine editor Tina Brown.

In a piece commemorating the site's second anniversary on Wednesday, Brown answered the buzz about a deal with Newsweek by saying, "Yes, there have been some interesting discussions going on, as we have with potential partners large and small all the time."

Calls to The Daily Beast and Newsweek seeking further comment were not immediately returned. The Post Co. also declined to elaborate on its filing.

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The Daily Beast: http://www.thedailybeast.com/

Media and investigative reporter Howard Kurtz joins The Daily Beast as Washington Bureau Chief.
By Tina Brown
October 5, 2010 12:40pm
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-05/howard-kurtz-joins-the-daily-beast/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR4

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New York magazine's Daily Intel blog
What Would a Tina Brown–Helmed Daily Beast–Newsweek Hybrid Look Like?
By Chris Rovzar
10/6/10 at 3:20 PM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/so_what_would_a_tina_brown-hel.html

New York magazine's Daily Intel blog
Michael Kinsley Attacks the New Newsweek, and We Feel Bad About It
By Jessica Pressler
5/22/09 at 10:11 AM
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/05/michael_kinsley_hates_the_new.html

New York magazine's Daily Intel blog
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Re those mean-spirited, untrue rumors that Joy Cooper & her feckless crew are spreading around. What did you expect? Cooper's an egotistical scorpion

Given her self-evident track record, personality and fear of accountability, the truth and the facts are hardly her best friends!

Oft-told riddle in Hallandale Beach:
What are the first five words Joy Cooper says every morning?
"Mirror, mirror on the wall..."

A number of weeks ago I sent out an email to some concerned and well-informed folks throughout South Florida about the Hallandale Beach City Commission race on November 2nd.

I opined that with no second pro-reform candidate in the race, just pro-reform Comm. Keith London vs. Comm. William "Bill" Julian -the devil you know- and Alexander Lewy -the devil you don't know, but definitely don't like- this election might well be one where the only thing everyone I knew was in agreement on was the great disappointment that there wouldn't be a second voice for public accountability on the five-member panel.

Well, that, of course, plus the question about the degree of sheer lunacy of the inevitable rumors that Mayor Cooper and her grab-bag of cronies and supplicants would start spreading in the last few weeks before the election to try to publicly discredit Comm. London, so that she can get her groomed back-stabbing protege Lewy on the Commission to help do her bidding.

Well, for the record, it's officially already started, as I was somewhat late to discover this past weekend what sort of creepy BS the mayor and her pals have been peddling.

I'm not going to stoop to her subterranean level and repeat them here, but even for such a despicable woman, they are particularly twisted.

If you want to know what they are, drop me a line.

You know what isn't rumors, though?
Those waves of first-hand stories I have heard over the past year from so many Hallandale Beach residents I didn't already know.

People, who, quite literally, walked-up to me, looked around to see if anyone was looking, introduced themselves and told me a story about Joy Cooper & Co. that left me dumb-founded, appalled and a little shell-shocked at the sheer volume and specificity.

Based on what I've been told by folks who are not involved in anything having to do with HB City Hall, people who are by their own words "just minding their own business," Joy Cooper and her family and friends have really sown the seeds of their own destruction with their over-the-top bellicose words, sordid accusations and personal threats.
All of which are going to come out in time, one way or the other.

I particularly like the threats uttered by the Coopers made a few years ago at the offices of the South Florida Sun-Times, the mayor's current personal lapdog, which never fails to praise her every word and deed, no matter how ridiculous, self-serving or myopic.

The oft-told story is that she and her husband threatened the management financially -and otherwise- unless they pulled every single copy of the faux newspaper that had already been distributed and placed in vending machines and dropped-off at the usual spots- and never mentioned the subject again.

It seems that the FREE faux advertorial had actually deigned to print something that so upset her, that she wouldn't take no for an answer.
And this being Hallandale Beach, the Sun-Times folks, hip to who was calling the tunes, promptly capitulated, and did as they were told, including making certain moves not worth getting into here now, but equally absurd.
And that's why seldom is heard a discouraging word...

I will have much, much more coming soon on Julian, Lewy and his mentor, Cooper, along with some news and info on the Sun-Times you probably never knew before.

As someone joked to me the other day over breakfast: "Alex Lewy for 'Cooper Commission Puppet.'

But in ventriloquism, isn't the person who only pretends to speak actually called a "dummy," not a 'puppet'?
Semantics I know, but you get the basic point of the barb.

Everyone who has been paying attention to what has been going on in this city and hereabout knows exactly what Lewy's role would be if elected: roll-over, fetch, vote.

Fair warning: To the Hallandale Beach city employee with the City of Hallandale Beach vehicle seen driving around town with the Alexander Lewy campaign posters inside.
I haven't seen you myself, but several very reputable people I know and trust say they saw exactly what you did.
And they also know that there weren't Lewy campaign posters on that site a minute ago.

Until you drove-up.
Just saying...

If I see you do that, I'm taking your photo and one of the car and the posters and I'm posting it for all the world to see.
Not that the world outside of HB cares, of course, but you have been formally issued a caution.
Fair warning.

Secretariat, starring Diane Lane & John Malkovich, opening October 8th, from Walt Disney Pictures; Wither Gulfstream Park Race Track?

Girls and horses?
That's a license to print money.
Always has been, always will be.

Secretariat by William Nack
http://www.hyperionmedianet.com/web/showpage/bookpage.aspx?program_id=3131354&type=lead

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/secretariat/

And featuring the return of Fred Thompson to feature films!

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmuvjL2cVw

Secretariat at the 1973 Belmont Stakes, winning by 25 lengths to win the Triple Crown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoFquax2F-k

Amanda "AJ" Michalka - "It's Who You Are" Music Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kShUvrr7QVU

http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/secretariat/videos/making_of/index.html

Above, the Gulfstream Park street sign for the north-south road from the grandstand to Hallandale Beach Blvd., and the north entrance monument sign on U.S.-1/South Federal Highway.
October 5, 2010 photos by South Beach Hoosier.

I've been thinking about this Secretariat film quite a lot the last few weeks as I walk or drive thru the empty NW parking lot of Gulfstream Park Race Track, not far from my home, which I take as a short-cut when doing errands, grabbing something to eat at one of my usual spots or heading over to the beach, which is less than two miles away.

(Anything to avoid the notorious red-light surveillance camera on north-bound U.S.-1 at Hallandale Beach Blvd., which the HB City Commission installed, supposedly, for safety purposes, but which has turned-out to be nothing but a cash cow for the city's coffers, as well over 95% of all tickets issued thus far are for right turn on red violations, NOT for running the intersection, the purpose cited. Because of local area driver's great reluctance to turn too quickly now, east-bound traffic is often stalled for two or three blocks along U.S.-1, with no alternatives open to you but the race track short-cut.
Despite the public disclosure of the statistics, financial and otherwise -city revenue from citations for the month of July 2010 for that one camera was $119,613.987, of which the overwhelming majority were for right turn on red violations- the HB City Commission doesn't care, and is now expanding the use of red-light cameras. Not for safety purposes, mind you, but strictly to get their hands on more money! It's that simple!)

October 5, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier.
Looking east at the three Gulfstream Park dorms, and in the distance, on the beach at A1A, the three condos that comprise The Beach Club complex.

As always, I have my trusty camera with me, ever-ready to snap a shot that captures my fancy. But after several years of being back in South Florida, after being so long up in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. areas, having been so geographically close to this race track, being in or near it every single day fro seven years, I almost have come to take it for granted.
Almost.

The same way I became blase walking from my home on Capitol Hill at night during the summer, after I first moved to Washington in 1988, to nearby places you may have heard of.

First past the U.S. Capitol, along the pathways of The National Mall, past the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian, past the Washington Monument and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 'till I was finally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Even when it's hot as hell during the summer at night, which is always since there's no Gulfstream breeze, the place is so magnetic, the sense of history so strong and palpable, that it's hard not to get wistful, reflective and philosophical.

For the first few years I lived in the Washington area, it was all so terribly exciting, but eventually, the excitement of the history that is all around me turns into a rather mundane routine, except for when friends and family came to visit and it became alive for me all over again, especially when I was with my adorable nieces, who lived in suburban Maryland.

The everyday existence and hustle -and sheer tension- of living in the Washington, D.C. area really wears you out, so after awhile, once I'd moved across the Potomac to Arlington County (VA), since I wasn't one of those person with a summer house share in Delaware, every so often, when I was free on weekends, I started going with friends down to Charlottesville and other places in Virginia where the sense and pull of America's early history is still both strong and palpable. (Or out thru the hills to West Virgina.)

I've always liked being in places where I couldn't take things for granted, though to be sure, every time I ever walked past The White House on the Pennsylvania Avenue side, so many thousands and thousands of times over those 15 years, I never took THAT view for granted.
Not once.
But I saw plenty of people who did, and I never wanted to be one of those people.

So, all that being said, and knowing that I'm someone who has always been a voracious reader and a person who particularly loves history, and American cultural history at that, one of my biggest disappointments living here in Hallandale Beach has been witnessing the way the current owners of Gulfstream Race Track, MAGNA Entertainment, have allowed some of its history, beauty and majesty to recede.

See a glimpse of what the race track once looked like at:
http://www.cardcow.com/search3.php?substring=gulfstream%20park

October 5, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier.
Looking south from the NW parking lot towards the grandstand and the Village at Gulfstream Park retail complex.

Churchill Downs would never tolerate the way things are routinely done here, and neither would Disney or Universal or any other consumer-oriented attraction that wants visitors to spend money.
I suppose that's precisely why I get so very angry when I see how poorly-maintained parts of the admittedly huge facility are, and how unattractively it presents itself to visitors.

It's almost like the MAGNA people take it for granted that people will come.
But they aren't, are they?

Nope, the Village at Gulfstream Park retail complex is far from a success, yet at least some of the reasons for that discomforting reality could hardly be more obvious.

Personally, as I've previously written here, I can't fathom how you could own that place and allow a large Gulfstream Park advertising sign that you have that is visible to busy U.S.-1 traffic to be unlit at night for years, yet they do.
I've shown you photos of that very sign here many times, haven't I, as well as the plant overgrowth that obstructed some of the signage?
It's not a secret, it's common knowledge.

I've often written in this space about my litany of well-founded criticisms of Gulfstream Park, complete with my photos to highlight and buttress my contentions, self-evident facts that have been well-nigh invisible to the very people who actually ought to have been MOST concerned with what customers actually thought about them: MAGNA Entertainment.

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Gulfstream%20Park%20Race%20Track%20and%20Casino
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Village%20at%20Gulfstream%20Park

Yet they continue to be blasé and ignore what is right in front of them, seemingly content to have nobody in charge of Quality Control, someone able to whip the place into shape so that consumers find it inviting and interesting and FUN.
It simply isn't ANY FUN at all.
It's the opposite of fun -it repels!

That months-old promise I made here once to discuss some constructive suggestions for improving things at Gulfstream Park will finally be posted soon, along with some helpful aids to hammer those points home.

But I wanted to say now while I could that my genuine hope is that the great success of the Secretariat film will do something -anything!- to shake the MAGNA folks out of their sleepwalking stupor, and realize once and for all that if they aren't in it to win, they need to sell the place to someone who will manage this historic facility with the foresight, intelligence, care and marketing savvy it deserves.
All of those factors are currently MIA.

I'll also have a lot to say soon about the prospects of night racing at Gulfstream Park, too, as I've been sitting on that subject since last year while getting more and more information from reliable sources.

Though I am personally in favor of a racing schedule that includes limited night racing, as usual, the folks at MAGNA are completely f-ing botching this possibility thru their careless words and actions, seemingly oblivious to their need to first communicate openly and honestly with the citizens and communities most directly affected: Hallandale Beach, Aventura, Hollywood and Broward County.
They haven't done that.

Frankly, MAGNA operates like all they need to do to secure the ability to hold night racing is to curry favor with enough Florida State Senators, esp. those from the Panhandle, perhaps thru their favorite lobbyists, and magically, after they snap their fingers, it'll just happen.
NOPE!

For starters, the reality is that are looking at first having to hold lots of public meetings, and they are going to have to completely STOP with the transparent half-truths and lies, and actually level with the citizens who already live near here.
Night racing is NOT something that MAGNA is entitled to have simply for asking for it.

Personally, I'm starting to believe that the best thing for everyone concerned would be for there to be no night racing at Gulfstream Park until after MAGNA sells the race track and associated property to an entity with the financial resources to run it in a creative, first-class manner, so that it really is a FUN place to be.
That is NOT what Gulfstream Park is now.

http://www.gulfstreampark.com/

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Timeline for Peter Deutsch & Ben Gamla Hebrew Charter School in Hallandale Beach's 2nd proposed application in 2 years; STILL not on city's website!

I will have more to say about this particular subject in the coming week on my blog, perhaps even with some Guest posts, but for now, here's the Ben Gamla Hebrew Charter School's formal application to the City of Hallandale Beach and a photo of their public notice for the city-required community meeting, now scheduled for Tuesday, October 12th at 6:00 p.m. at the Hallandale Beach Cultural Center, located behind HB City Hall.

Former U.S. Rep. Peter Deutsch, Ben Gamla's founder, will be speaking before the HB Education Advisory Committee monthly meeting the day before, on Monday the 11th, at 4:00 p.m. at Hallandale Elementary School, 900 S.W. 8th St, Hallandale Beach.

If you can manage to do so, please attend that meeting and let your voice be heard.

Most of you already know what I personally think of bully-boy Peter Deutsch and his completely over-the-top scare tactics and threats against the city and community in general, and the single-family neighborhood specifically, but in case you forgot:

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20Gamla%20Hebrew%20Charter%20School

The next formal step after these two meetings will be the Hallandale Beach Planning & Zoning meeting on Wednesday October 27 at 1:30 p.m. in the City Commission Chambers.

As these meetings have drawn near, many of you have asked me via emails or personal conversations a variation of these three basic questions.

a.) Whether or not I think South Florida's somnolent news media will actually wake-up and cover this controversial story and what transpired last year, now that Peter Deutsch and Co. are eager to get a bite of the apple again, and force themselves into this single-family neighborhood rather than thinking strategically and locating at any of the many sites that are much more compatible with their long-term intentions: growth into a K-12 .

b.) Whether or not I think we should expect an encore performance from the Ben Gamla management, wherein they intentionally created a false pretense in order to motivate their parents from all over Broward to descend on HB meetings, intentionally misinforming the parents so that they appear.

(Lest we remind them, these are meetings for the benefits of residents of Hallandale Beach, NOT one for Ben Gamla parents in Tamarac, Sunrise or Pembroke Pines, and no matter how much they think we will be impressed by their tales of woe about how long it takes them to drop-off or pick-up their kids at Ben Gamla, we still won't care.

When we hear these sort of tales, and we will, it's our obligation to forcibly remind these parents that that they're driving air-conditioned SUV's and Mini-vans, not horse-drawn Conestoga Wagons to California. And besides, that's not our problem, it's their CHOICE.)

c.) Whether or not I think our perpetually-AWOL Broward School Board representative, Ann Murray, will FINALLY get off her butt and STOP hiding, and actually appear at a public meeting in Hallandale Beach where concerned citizens are present and want some honest answers.

(Say, like the meeting scheduled for October 12th, so she can finally see what Peter Deutsch & Co. are really like, meetings that she has previously avoided and hidden under the bed like my sister's dog when there's a thunderstorm. Like she has nothing to do with anything.)

As most of you who come here regularly know, I have NEVER personally seen Murray in HB at a public meetings since she was first appointed to replace Eleanor Sobel, and according to all of you, based on your own answers to my specific questions, NONE OF YOU have EVER seen here, either.

Hmm-m-m... you'd think that the South Florida news media would pick up on that after more than two years.

As you look at the photos below, remember that N.E. 8th Avenue in Hallandale Beach is currently a two-lane, one-way south-bound road, about two blocks east of U.S.-1/South Federal Highway.