The Downfall of the Miami Beach City Manager

Controversy and politics led to downfall of Miami Beach manager
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The city manager for Miami Beach, Jorge Gonzalez, stands in the background in the center of commissioners Jerry Libbin, left, and Edward Tobin, right, after announcing his resignation effective July 2012 at City Hall on May 9, 2012 in Miami Beach.

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Miami Beach commissioner shopping reality show
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By David Smiley The city that brought you South Beach Tow, the Kardashians and Miami Ink may birth a new reality star: Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Góngora. Góngora, who is contemplating a run for Miami Beach mayor in 2013, confirmed Wednesday that ...

Anne Hathaway Makes A Sexy Splash In Miami!
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Anne Hathaway was surrounded by some handsome friends when she traveled to Miami Beach for Valentino Garavani's 80th birthday! If you're wondering why she cut her hair, remember… she's filming Les Miserables! That also explains her thinner figure.

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Columnist: Momma rescued me and my brother, brought us to Miami
MiamiHerald.com
You can spend some fun time with your mother today at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, when professional actors Linda Bernhard, Natasha Weisfeld, Andy Quiroga and Giordan Diaz, will read cheerful, funny stories about Mom in a program entitled ...

Guess Who Was Caught Stripping Down On Miami Beach! (PHOTOS)
Global Grind
Anne Hathaway strips down to just an all black bikini on Miami Beach! Photo Credit: Splash Guess who was spotted on Miami Beach stripping down? It's the leading lady of the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises movie, Anne Hathaway.

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Kendra Wilkinson: Beach Day Babe
The Gossip Girls
Heading back home for Mother's Day, Kendra Wilkinson was seen leaving Miami Beach, FL on Saturday (May 12) after filming for her new WE reality show "Kendra On Top." The reality TV beauty looked like her casual self in blue sweatpants, UGG boots and a ...

Eclectic CRC professor didn't go by the book
Modesto Bee
He drowned April 29 while swimming in the ocean off Miami Beach when he and a friend became caught in a riptide. His companion survived. Survived by: Mother, Brigitte Barnes of San Jose; father, George L. Knott of San Jose; brother, Steven Knott of Los ...

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Larry King's Mother – Queen of Guilt Trips
San Antonio Express
Jennie went to the kosher butcher in Miami Beach and didn't like the lamb chops. "Perhaps you know my son, Larry King," Jennie told the butcher, and that was all it took for the butcher to take her in the back and get her some nice lamb chops for ...

Miami Beach in colour, 1939 | Retronaut
All images by Charles W. Cushman ... Source: Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection.
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Volunteers plant mangrove seedlings on Virginia Key for 'eco-art' coastal ...
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“The kids who plant these mangrove seedlings today will see them as trees 20 years from now and say 'I did that,' ” explained Cortada, who started by exhibiting seedlings at South Beach stores on Earth Day in 2006. “This is more about the person ...

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Five minutes with...Bart Mueller
Today's Sunbeam - NJ.com
A. I think probably the time my wife and I went down to South Beach. We hung out for a couple of days with some friends. It's probably our best and most fun trip. And, getting there on time and getting home on time. I always enjoy the flight down ...

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New procedures for hard-to-treat aneurysms
MiamiHerald.com
He is the director of Neuro-Intervention Service at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. The endovascular coiling procedure was implemented in the 1990s. Before, doctors had been doing open-skull, or clipping, surgeries to treat aneurysms.

New tool emerges to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease
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About three years ago, the Bencomo sisters learned about a new trial at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. The hospital was running a clinical trial to test a new way to screen for plaque build-up in the brain — known as beta-amyloid and which ...

Police Searching for Missing Juvenile
NBC 6 Miami
... black hair, weighing 135 pounds and measuring five feet, four inches, according to a police flyer. Asensio was last seen wearing a black shirt and black Capri pants, officials said. They added that the girl often frequents the Miami Beach area.

15th Anniversary of Downtown Miami Tornado
NBC 6 Miami
The F1 tornado was eight miles long with winds between 100 to 120 mph when it struck in 1997. The system had a path of destruction from 30 to 100 yards wide and made its way from Little Havana to downtown and onto Miami Beach.

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