MISSING DOC LAWRENCE?…..
For his many ardent fans…who made a beeline to his coveted page in the former BTSTimes…Doc Lawrence is missing no more…
He can be found online…on the Piedmont Review website……http://www.piedmontreview.com/
‘The Piedmont Review, “A Review of Atlanta’s Finest People, Places [...]
Archive for the ‘Scoops’ Category
Here’s The Scoop….MIA…No More…”Housecalls’ Are Available…..
Posted in Local News, Scoops, Web News, tagged Local News, Scoops, webnews on January 5, 2009 | No Comments »
Here’s The Scoop…Top Job Brings Them Running…Including A Familiar Name…
Posted in Local News, Local Politics, Scoops, tagged Local Politics, Local News, Scoops on January 5, 2009 | No Comments »
80 WANTED THE JOB….CITY MANAGER OF DANIA BEACH…
The previous City Manager was let go…3 days from retirement….(previous post)…
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/832114.html
http://www.ci.dania-beach.fl.us/
Now they are down to 12…using a headhunter…
Did Dania Beach read about Pompano Beach’s headhunter experience….in the Fl. Sentry/J.P. Bender Series…”The Wizard of Pompano”?…
http://flsentry.com/
Included in the final 12…for Dania Beach….is former LBTS Town Manager Baldwin…who has been Manager [...]
Here’s The Scoop…2009….The Year Of The Fees….Do The Math…
Posted in Local Politics, News, Scoops, State Politics, tagged fees, local-state government, Scoops on January 5, 2009 | No Comments »
THE YEAR OF THE FEES…
‘Prez-Elect Makes New Pitch, Promises on Job Creation — Including 600,000 New Government Employees’
‘No. 1 goal of my plan … is to create three million new jobs, more than 80 percent of them in the private sector.”
If you do the math: 20 percent of three million means 600,000 new government employees.’
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/prez-elect-make.html
Jake [...]
Here’s The Scoop…Heading Home…Holidays Are Over…
Posted in Local Politics, Scoops, VFD, tagged VFD, Local Politics, Scoops on January 4, 2009 | No Comments »
LBTS BOUND….
Holiday’s waning …with only hours left…and of course the hope that the planes are running on time…
Final day in Chicago…called for scattered morning flurries and falling temps…maybe the weatherman…called it in…but so far…so good…it hasn’t happened…
A great barometer is watching the lake from the apartment…and the ever stretching increase of ice….really fascinating…
We headed out [...]
Here’s The Scoop……….Firefighters Gallery Of Pictures…LBTS-VFD Included…
Posted in Scoops, VFD, Web News, tagged VFD, Scoops on January 4, 2009 | No Comments »
SENTINEL ONLINE….FIREFIGHTERS…..IN ACTION….
LBTS included….question is …are the 2 VFD members shown…still in the department?…..
‘Lauderdale-by-the-Sea fire drill’
(Sun Sentinel/Josh Ritchie / September 25, 200
‘Lauderdale-by-the-Sea volunteer fire fighters Eric practice using the hoses during the company’s drill.The town’s volunteer fire company took over fire suppression services from the BSO fire department on October 1.’
‘Lauderdale-by-the-Sea fire drill’
(Sun [...]
Here’s The Scoop…Lunch And Exploring Chicago…
Posted in Places To Go, Scoops, tagged chicago, Places To Go, Scoops on January 3, 2009 | No Comments »
ON THE STREETS OF CHICAGO…..ONCE MORE….
RLs…is a restaurant…Ralph Lauren’s restaurant… http://rlrestaurant.ralphlauren.com/…set up next door to the RL store on Michigan Ave an E. Chicago …a beauty…set up like Capital Grille…with the same type of wood- paneled decor …atmosphere…menu and prices..a lovely respite to enjoy some time getting caught up with dear old friends from the [...]
Here’s The Scoop…Local Papers…’Government Mantra’….
Posted in Local News, Local Politics, Scoops, tagged Scoops, local government, local papers on January 3, 2009 | No Comments »
IT’S BENDER TIME…
Dear Readers this is the 9th in the ‘Wizard Of Pompano’ series…and all throughout the series this writer has offered a link to it and found dubious comparisons…in what we here in LBTS face …alongside our neighbor to the north…
In our case… a Town Manager who has made it a “practice”of hiring from [...]
Here’s The Scoop….From The News…….
Posted in News, Politics, Scoops, tagged Politics, Scoops, News on January 3, 2009 | No Comments »
IT’S THE TIMING MAN-(AGER)….
‘Set to retire, manager fired over comments
By Amy Sherman |The Miami Herald
January 1, 2009
DANIA BEACH - City commissioners say their manager wrote his own pink slip when he sent a farewell letter to employees with parting shots directed at public officials. They fired him three days before Christmas.
But the manager, Ivan [...]
Here’s The Scoop….Chicago…
Posted in Places To Go, Politics, Scoops, tagged Obama, chicago, Scoops, plcs to go on January 3, 2009 | No Comments »
MICHIGAN & STATE STREET….STROLLING ALONG….
Chicago is bustling with walkers..and tourists…in various stages of warmth…fashion be damned for most…..with a smattering of those who will literally throw caution to the Lake Michigan wind…and suffer for their vanity…
The Macy holiday windows…were a disappointment..seen on this site…Nov.27th…”Macy’s Windows Suck”… http://www.thrillarama.com/2008/11/index.html ….nowhere near the awe remembered from the regular [...]
Here’s The Scoop….IN 2009….Words Only….
Posted in Local Politics, Scoops, tagged Local Politics, Scoops on January 2, 2009 | No Comments »
FOR READERS WHO WANTED THE WORDS….
(to the previous Scoops post…links to the videos…check the Scoops category)……
IN 2009…
Mayor Minnet Will be…’STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU’…By Steelers Wheel….(A one- hit wonder)
(readers can figure out the “you”)
Well I don’t know why I came here tonight,
I got the feelin’ that somethin’ ain’t right,
I’m so scared in case I [...]
