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Entries from July 2008

Putting the “naan” in community news

December 31st, 2007 · 5 Comments

By Carlos Miller
The Miami Herald’s oxymoronic decision to outsource the production of “community” news sections to India comes at a time when most major newspapers and organizations are shutting down foreign news bureaus.
And that, of course, comes at a time when the United States is steadfastly increasing its military presence abroad, engaging in […]

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Tags: Media

Why didn’t anybody tell me all I needed to do was donate toys to charity?

December 27th, 2007 · 10 Comments

Carlos Miller
Daniel Zuniga, the promising young prosecutor who was assigned to my case, was fired this week from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office for participating in a “toys for case dismissal” agreement with Miami-Dade County Judge Karen Mills Francis - the judge presiding over my case.
Unfortunately, I was never informed of this philantropic set-up, for […]

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Tags: Courts · First Amendment

Miami (Lakes) Vice

December 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Update: Check out the online bio of Miami Laker reporter David Snelling, who was removed from the political beat after he wrote an unflattering story on Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Nancy Simon.
By Carlos Miller
Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Nancy Simon was hoping to prevent fellow Lakes residents from learning that she was being investigated for a […]

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Tags: Media · Politics

Who needs citizen input anyway?

December 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

By Carlos Miller
First, Miami city and county officials approved a multi-billion public works plan that would build a port tunnel, a museum at Bayfront Park and a new baseball stadium where the Orange Bowl now stands.
All without the approval of the citizens of Miami.
Now, a group of Miami developers have broken out plans that would […]

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Tags: Media · Politics

Stripped of the Palmetto - Episode IV

December 22nd, 2007 · 16 Comments

By Carlos Miller
Not too long ago in a blogosphere not too far away…
It is a period of civil strife after Stuck on the Palmetto blogger Rick destroyed his blog in the midst of a fierce battle with the Daily Pulp blog, leaving hundreds of loyal readers floating through cyberspace without a permanent docking space to […]

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Tags: Blogs

Stalked on the Palmetto

December 21st, 2007 · 25 Comments

By Carlos Miller
The Stuck on the Palmetto saga is beginning to sound more like a Carl Hiaasen novel with tales of Rick being a Federal Agent who has the power to put people on terrorist watch lists and Manuel A. Tellechea being his psychopath stalker.
This intriguing plot, which is described further down, comes to […]

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Muck on the Palmetto

December 20th, 2007 · 16 Comments

By Carlos Miller
It’s been four days since blogger Rick shut down his Stuck on the Palmetto blog, yanking its entire contents off the Internet, leaving many in the South Florida blogosphere theorizing, analyzing and criticizing his abrupt decision.
Even The Miami Herald wrote an article about SOTP’s sudden disappearance, indicating that the mainstream media is […]

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State Trooper disciplined after arresting photographer

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

By Carlos Miller
Here’s guaranteeing that Thomas Weindruch will think twice the next time he gets annoyed by a photographer.

That is, if the Arkansas State Trooper is ever granted the privilege to arrest again.
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Technorati Tags: Arkansas state police, arrest, bill lawson, photographer, thomas weindruch

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Tags: Cops · First Amendment · Media · photography

Snuck off the Palmetto

December 17th, 2007 · 13 Comments

By Carlos Miller
Stuck on the Palmetto, one of South Florida’s most popular blogs, came to a screeching crash after it was revealed that its owner may have been blogging on the public’s dime, perhaps even as an employee of a law enforcement agency.
The man known only as “Rick”, who ran SOTP with his blogging partner, […]

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Tags: Blogs