Watchdog Report EXTRA May 7, 2017 EST;05.05.00 Celebrating my 17 Anniversary of weekly reliable publishing since 2000
>>>> Watchdog Report EXTRA: turns 17 and it has been a strange road that I embarked on, back in May 5, 2000, I took a licking but kept on going despite a number of medical issues and cannot believe I have done this so long and in the past year there were 50 WDRs every week, except when I was in a hospital for 16 days last July. A regular WDR will return next week and again thank all my supporters for all the support over those years.
I thought May 5 the Watchdog Report’s 17 Anniversary would be a happy event but that was tempered by the death of Arthur Hertz, 83, a longtime friend and one of the early four people who thought what I was doing was “important,” and I needed community support. Further, he contributed my first $1,000. back in April 2000 along with Stanley G. Tate, Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. and Mr. Hertz helped teach me what to look for in audits and at the time he was the chair of the Public Health Trust and the Miami Off Street Parking Authority and he resisted the city’s attempt to raid the authority for the Miami city’s coffers. And for more on Mr. Hertz’s life go to and the photo shows the man’s warm smile http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article148599504.html And my condolences to the Hertz family and children and grandchildren. Your father was a solid man who did public service in a very quiet way. Rest in Peace Art.
Further Mr. Hertz was on the Miami Orange Bowl Committee and a member of the University of Miami’s Iron Arrow society and was a major booster of his alma mater and he always asked if I was getting enough to eat that one my other supporters also asks me and these men were teachers to me and after so many years watching all the public institutions, I have an overview like no other in South Florida and since I was a featured Miami Herald editorial columnist and the a weekly news columnist ( I was also featured on the paper’s webpage under politics) where many of the stories were on The Jackson health System in the paper of record and I have been watching the PHT since around 1997 and there have been many changes in the administration since then and I would attend the PHT Nominating Council meetings and through County Commission Chair Barbara Carey Shuler,
The Trust’s monthly board meeting is now televised and the Trust gave space for the County’s IG office and had Shuler saying, “Yeah why should we have all the fun,” and she got the trust to cooperate with these entities. Further, she once asked me what I thought when I was in the Commission’s press room built into a wall in the the Chambers and I told her I felt like a “referee and announcer,” saying and they’re off Natcha takes a swing at Dennis, and he is up,” I jokingly told her at the time.
What is in the WDR arsenal when I cover events or meetings?
What gear do you use? I have a large digital mic recorder, That Dennis Moss once said, “looks dangerous,” referring to the device and I also carry a HD video recorder and binoculars with a 30 shot digital camera that cost less than $30.00 but had a big psychological impact on elected leaders and is why it is so important to have a citizen representative at these Sunshine Meetings and most people welcome me because they realize. If I am there no one can accuse them of doing something in the dark. So here we are today beginning my 18th year something I could never have imagined and to get to this land mark I used some $300,000. of my own money from my previous life over the years but back in 1999 someone had to step forward as multiple politicians were indicted and Miami commissioner J.L. Plummer on the dais for 29 years would often say he was a “proud Florida Cracker, and he “hated” a variety of ethnic groups and religions and I set my sights on getting him out of office, which happened but public institutions back then were like giant ships in the night, essentially saying drop dead with very little institutional knowledge of what the other public entities was doing and a key moment came when. Pediatric Cardiac surgeon Redmond Burke, M.D., loaned me a copy of Bill Gates book ‘Business at the speed of light,’ and how the internets had changed everything and I tried to create an informational nervous system between the public institutions and I am the Johnny Appleseed of info because I sign up people constantly so I have little Watchdogs at many meetings and sometimes I get an email saying I need to come by which was the case the Adrian Arsht Center back in 2004. And I started this on a purple IMac and it was my first computer and it had a great search engine and is why I still have an earth link email account all these years.
>>> A long debate at the Miami-Dade County about laundry services for the corrections department and valued at $658,000 had county commissioners puzzled why they could not use a local vender in the county and the Mayor Carlos Gimenez administration does not seem to realize a local Overtown vendor does laundry for Jackson Health System and it is Goodwill Industries that is locally supported in many ways and a major job creator and this is one of the reasons I do the Report because I have tried to be an information electrolyte connecting what are large public entities are doing and in the case of the laundry. I suspect no one asked about Goodwill so I can only conclude the commission or administration was unaware of this current significant contract, by a county entity with Goodwill and I am sure there is some ways to add these services and have to deal with MRSA infections and staph infections on the linens. And the only other venders accepted were two in Miami and one was as far away as Miramar. And for more on Goodwill laundry services including being used by UM Health go to: http://www.goodwill.org/blog/news-updates/goodwill-opens-innovative-hospital-laundry-facility-in-miami/ And the county should look at piggybacking with JHS on this.
>>> Update on WLRN an auditor analysis of options a great read
The Miami Dade County School Board Audit and Budget Advisory Committee is meeting Tuesday and at the end of the agenda is a thorough examination of what is going on with Friends of WLRN and it is a fascinating read and for more you can read the multi-page explanation of what the schools District options are regarding the public radiostation.http://mca.dadeschools.net/AuditCommittee/AC_May_9_2017/item13.pdf owned by the school board and the subject of controversy.
With the May 8 opening of the Frost Museum?
>>> The new Dr. Phillip and Patricia Frost Science Museum and is a tour de force and it came in at $305 million and the museum is curiosity on steroids and is an amazing structure.
Dr. Frost a major philanthropist contributed millions to make the museum happen along with $165 million in county bond money but getting the museum approved and funded was a hard slog and its past director Gillian Thomas first went to the Miami-Dade County Commission and demanded the county come up with funding in the 2004 GOB that was approved by voters back then and had Commissioner Dennis Moss asking “who are you?” since the request was seen as a threat since Thomas said they would do it themselves if the County did not help, and that could have had an impact on the county’s bond passing and at internal budget committees Thomas was always asking for more money and once even suggested they might have to use some of the bond money for internal issues, That past Frost board Chair Dan Bell recently said that was “not the case,” and his wife Trish Bell was also on the board.
What about the Certification of Occupancy?
The WDR over the past weeks asked Miami officials if a CO Had been granted and communications Dir. Dianne Gonzalez asked the building director and she wrote back, “According to Building Director Jose Camero, as of right now they don’t have a CO or TCO pending generator test approval.
But the Museum can open under a “Fire Watch” (which means firefighters will be present while the building is occupied) and events can be held under a Temporary Use Permit,” wrote Gonzalez which includes Fire fighters at the location that the Museum will end up paying for and the WDR is just glad it is coming to an end for the press and IG were both banned coming to the Museum’s board meetings. And here is a great story on the Museum http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/MiamiHerald/
>>> Further, here is a national news story done on me that ran in all the Tribune papers around the nation; to read it go to: http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190341_1_ricker-school-board-president-miami-s-first-cuban-american
I want to thank the readers and friends who contributed to my Pay Pal and with your help I was able to cover my rent. And I hate being dramatic in this regard and I hope the coming months to have a better cash flow for Miami is such an expensive city now if you are a renter. Further, since 2000 every person that sent a check got a thank you letter and recently I have been unable to keep that tradition going but I thank you so very much. And my Best to all.
>>> Further Tim Schmand the former director of the Bayfront Trust was elected last week to be the new director of the Coconut Grove Business Improvement District (BID).
I thank you from the bottom of my heart. And to donate to my pay Pal account go to http://paypal.me/WatchdogReport that accepts most credit cards in a secure site found and if you can help keep me out in the field especially with all the new GOB bonds passed by JHS, M-DCC school district and needs to be kept watch on, and I am one of the few press that covers these important oversite boards watching how your public billions are being spent. Further, as I close in on my 17th year of weekly publishing I .think I have established myself and hope for many more years with your support.
And here is my philosophy on why I do this?
To have a free neutral community education news service resource available to all. Since over the 17-years I have used my own money to support this (And even returned some money from certain people). >>>> Further, over the past 17-years I have created a free news service brand and community education resource. I have done around 200 radio shows on WLRN 91.3 FM since Mar.2000 and been an editorial and hard news columnist for The Miami Herald. And in regard to WLRN and why I have not been on Topical Currents for the past year. I apparently had a bad show and management Peter J. has to approve me to be back on the show. Further here is a national story that ran in all the Tribune papers around the nation and covers the early years of the WDR: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190045_1_ricker-miami-watchdog and s different versionhttp://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190341_1_ricker-school-board-president-miami-s-first-cuban-american
>>> However, I have not used social media effectively to expand my audience with younger leaders trying to make their mark in Miami-Dade County. Further I have interviewed a large number of political candidates from former President Barack Obama, John Huntsman and presidential candidate John McCain, and a host of others since 2000 after Miami’s election fiasco back then.
>>>And having a member of the press at public meetings gives teeth to the Florida Sunshine Law and open meetings tape recorded keeps good governance in place and reduces waste fraud and abuse, and is why you don’t speed in front of a state trooper for example.
>>>> Further the www.watchdogreport.net in South Florida is an established news service presence, because most people are too busy to go to these important meetings. That is why my motto is ‘I go when you cannot.’ >>> Further, I am very efficient since I work alone and all the information comes through me as a central point allowing me to see things at a 100 mile altitude and being an early warning system when projects have overruns or other issues. But my job is to sound the alarm and I have done so many times over the past years in a host of ways.
WATCHDOG REPORT EXTRA
Miami-Dade, Fla.
Vol.17 No, 50 May 7, 2017
www.watchdogreport.net & Former Miami Herald news & editorial columnist
Est. 05.05.00, I go when you cannot, for 16 years & a trusted community education resource & news service, without the attitude
>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
>>> If you wish to be deleted, just e-mail me with that message.
>>> And here is the story done by Miami New Times when they named the publisher as the community’s Best of Miami and Best Citizen and to read the story go to: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/best-of/2003/people-and-places/best-citizen-6399517
>>> And here is the verbiage related to the award: Three years ago we said Ricker was our Best Gadfly. Given his dedication and perseverance, this new honor, Best Citizen, is well deserved. Ricker goes to 2500 mind-melting meetings annually, from the Public Health Trust’s purchasing subcommittee to the Efficiency and Competition Commission to the Alliance for Human Services’ nominating council to the school board’s audit committee. Sometimes he’s the only public observer. Object: to be the Public Citizen for all those out there who can’t attend, and to connect and serve as an information bridge among the special-interest-dominated Miami-Dade governmental institutions that seem newsletter, The Watchdog Report, celebrates its [16th] Anniversary. In a former life Ricker made a handsome living as an international salesman of heart pacemakers. As the hard-working publisher of Watchdog, though, he’s struggling financially — this despite the fact that his weekly compendium of meeting summaries, analysis, interviews, and commentary has become essential reading for anyone involved in public affairs. What his written work may lack in polish, it more than makes up for in comprehensiveness. So raise a toast to the man whose official slogan says it all: “A community education resource — I go when you cannot!”
>>> A PBS Channel 2 program called The Crowd and the Cloud documents the thousands of people that are documenting water quality as Citizen Scientists and participants range from retired engineers and scientists and with the EPA budget cuts the local people on site in their community and these people from all around the nation
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365985099/
Community EVENTS & Public Service announcements
http://www.margulieswarehouse.com/index.php#/exhibitions
>>>> Now open and the Warehouse has a new exhibit and check it out at http://www.margulieswarehouse.com/#/home
>>> And the Margulies Warehouse will be opening the season in weeks and to see what art is on display and when it plans to close the season for this community treasure go to http://www.margulieswarehouse.com/#/home
>> Press release: The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science and Miami Science Barge join together to bring the expression of art to a scientific experiment. Visitors will have the opportunity to create artworks on a drift card that will be deployed into the ocean. These drift cards will help scientists gain understanding of how the ocean currents distribute debris through the Biscayne Bay. Admission is free. Miami Science Barge 1075 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
EDITORIALS
>>> Politicians since the dawn of time have hated the media, Trump’s fixation on press, distracts from his policies and administration, needs to get more focused and fill key lower level administration staffers
Since the dawn of time leaders have hated the press and media yet President Trump keeps harping on the “dishonest media,” and actually singled some of the nation’s news organizations and a republic needs a diverse and strong press to challenge authority and calling the media the “enemy,” of the American people which is ironic since Trump was in many ways created by the media and he is extraordinary marketer.
But people will get tired of this demand for adulation that the president seems to feed on and he won and now people want him to get to governing. For the world is a dangerous and having the national security council head vacant is a serious issue and when it comes to Russia Trump should clearly state he or his staff did not have contacts and perhaps release the transcripts of the conversations if the president wants to end this distraction on the world stage.
Further he is saying some of the executive orders are being rewritten and he is moving quickly carrying out his campaign promises. However, in many ways Trump is a creation of the press and his constant carping is getting old with the American people and some are wondering why he is so fixated on his victory considered a long shot by the media ever since he went down the escalator but he won .And Americans expect him to govern and keep the nation safe and that is the job he accepted when he ran for office.
>>> The Watchdog Report is Celebrating 17 years of weekly publishing since May 5th 2000 and when I started back then I never thought I would be doing this so this is a national story in all the Tribune papers
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190045_1_ricker-miami-watchdog. And while I have taken a licking over the years including some medical issues I have kept at the job thanks to my supporters who I thank so very much over the many years. And the community’s public institutions are better when it comes to them knowing what the other is doing. And Why I have tried to be an information electrolyte for these giant institution’s leaders and things and here is a national story done on why I started to watch government back in 2000 http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190045_1_ricker-miami-watchdog and to all the people along the way that have helped me I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
LETTERS
>>> Reader and Physician supports freedom of the press with Jefferson quote about not having a government without a free press
Yes, many presidents have had issues with the media. Early in our country’s history, of course, the media was in print. As long as there is freedom of the press and other media sources to say what they want, whether based on substance or not, there will be complaints. Even Jefferson had conflicts with some of the newspapers of his time, but that did not stop him from making the following statement:
“…were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Thomas Jefferson, The third president of the United States
Will Blechman, M.D.
Miami, Fla.
>>> The Watchdog Report publisher would like to thank the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation www.knightfoundation.org for funding by the Knight Foundation with technical support from the Knight Center www.knightfoundation.org to maintain my webpage. The Watchdog Report webpage is free, has no pops-up and is just the news in a mainstream reporting manner.
>>>> The Watchdog Report publisher for 16 years now, has reported back weekly on how your billions of public dollars in local government are being spent. And how to help support me providing this information is at the end of the WDR. And I hope you will consider supporting keeping an independent news service out in our community, where what is going on with all our government entities is of critical benefit for both the public institutions but voters as well l. Thank You.
And to my Supporters I pledge to keep ‘going when you cannot.’ And we have about $9 billion in GOB funds being spent through a variety of public institutions and that is no small number and in the past I have broken the story on Cuban refugees coming in droves and also the Oriental fruit fly quarantine and its huge economic impact to name just a few of the more recent stories in past WDR’s.And I also keep watch for the all-important tourism industry and with the Zika Virus people are starting to understand how vital these tourists are for a host of amenities like culture and the arts, Jackson health System and transportation dollars all entities that benefit from tourism sales tax dollars.
>>> And while the Watchdog Report has reached16 years of using my own money to survive in the costlier Miami community. And while I have cut expenses I need my readers help. In this fast changing world and with Pay Pal now you can easily use a credit card to contribute and I hope you will consider helping keeping someone out in the field. And I have not wanted to be a lobbyist but rather a lobbyist for everyone and is why I use the tag line ‘I go when you cannot’. But things were made worse after spending 18 days in the hospital with a badly infected finger. And is why I am behind sending my traditional thank you letter to any supporters contributing and hop to catch up in the near future. And I thank these people from the bottom of my heart for the past financial help.
>>> I just ask any reader, once a year who thinks this community resource is valuable to contribute via my Pay Pal account for the fiscal issues sometimes keeps me from going to a meeting sometimes, and the stress also affects my health and only with my readers support can “I go when you cannot,” thank you and hope you will help so the WDR can celebrate 17 years on May 5th.
>>> And to support the WDR go to my Pay Pal account at https://paypal.me/WatchdogReport
>>>And you can now easily support the Watchdog Report by going to my new PayPal Button account, you know you want to do it at https://paypal.me/WatchdogReport for as media resources contract residents still need to know that someone is also watching out for their interests. Because government watched is a better governing experience for voters and their local quality of life?
However, it is no easy task to do the WDR weekly. And years ago the county Ethics Commission did a report that suggested over the past decade some $50 million had been spent fighting waste fraud abuse and public corruption and having the press at public meetings (some very obscure) changes the tone of the meeting (and is why you don’t speed past a state trooper, if you’re smart) Further, I have tried to be an information electrolyte available to all free between these large public institutions when I first started back in 1997. And many public meetings back then were not being recorded except by me and that is no longer the case.
For an accurate public record is key and diminishes future legal action. For you either have an accurate public record or you don’t. And I hope you will consider helping me in this effort to keep the community informed and saving taxpayer monies in the process. And I thank my supporters over the last 17 years. And to read a national story and profile of the WDR publisher in the early years and background back in 2003 go to: http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190341_1_ricker-school-board-president-miami-s-first-cuban-american
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>>> Publisher’s Statement on the mission of the Watchdog Report and the special people and organizations that make it possible: Government Subscribers/Corporate Subscribers/Sustaining Sponsors/Supporting Sponsors the Watchdog Report covers a few of the meetings attended weekly. It remains my belief that an informed public will make better decisions. Therefore, I go to meetings, make the presence of an informed citizen known, and bring the information to you. The Watchdog Report is in the fourth year of publication and it has been an honor to be able to send this information to you. It is sent to readers in Miami-Dade, Florida, the U.S. and the world. The Watchdog Report is sent to thousands free and while readers have been prodded to subscribe the results have been mixed. Over 250 reports and Extras have been sent since May 5, 2000 and over one million words have been written on our community’s governments and events. The report is an original work based on information gathered at public meetings, interviews and from documents in the public domain. I welcome letters via e-mail. Letters may be edited for length or clarity and must refer to material published in the Watchdog Report. Please see address and contact information. Please send any additions and corrections by e-mail, fax or snail mail. All corrections will be published in the next Watchdog Report. If you or your organization would like to publish the contents of this newsletter, please contact me. Please send your request to watchdogreport1@earthlink.net
Daniel A. Ricker
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Watchdog Report
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>>> The Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel & Sun-Sentinel articles on the Watchdog Report publisher over the years.
Published on September 9, 1999, Page 1EA, Miami Herald, the (FL)
CITIZEN ADVOCATE’ KEEPS TABS ON POLITICIANS
Published on January 3, 2000, Page 1B, Miami Herald, the (FL)
MIAMI-DADE WATCHDOG WILL BE MISSED
Published on January 20, 2003, Page 1E, Orlando Sentinel, PAPERWORK TIGER, Miami’s citizen watchdog piles up government files in his quest to keep the “little people” informed. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190045_1_ricker-miami-watchdog
>>>Watchdog Report publisher named ‘Best Citizen’ 2003 by the Miami New Times
The publisher would like to thank the weekly alternative paper Miami New Times for bestowing their 2003 Best of Miami, ‘Best Citizen’ award to me and I am honored. Thank you. To read the full story go to http://www.miaminewtimes.com/best-of/2003/people-and-places/best-citizen-6399517
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