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Watchdog Report Vol.23 No.1 EST: 05.05.00 – Major computer problem & lost much work I apologize – I watch when you cannot

WATCHDOG REPORT

DRicker

Miami-Dade, Fla.

Vol.23 No 51, January 22, 2023, Celebrating 23 -years of free weekly publishing! www.watchdogreport.net  & Former Miami Herald news & editorial columnist. 05.05.00, I go when you cannot, for almost 22-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.)

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ARGUS REPORT: HEARD SEEN ON THE STREET

 

>>> The Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust is bursting at the seams, said staff Friday and with two cold weather events The Chapman Partnership is full and Camillus House has had to put clients in the boardroom, said CEO Hilda Hernandez.

 

The trust is being hammered by recent immigration issues. Further, the second gentleman Douglas Emhoff toured Chapman and said it should be a national model with its continuum of care. Also, housing costs are rising as families are becoming more often with immigrants.

 

OBITUARY

 

>>> First African America U.S. Circuit Court Judge Cooke, passes at 68, she kept Miami commissioners Gort & Regalado in line, “don’t go there,” she would say as city coming out of bankruptcy.

 

With great sadness I read U.S. District Court Judge Marcia Cooke,68 passed, I knew her from the county and Miami’s state financial oversight board, and she was Chief I.G,.  under Gov.Jeb Bush and she was a imposing women known for justice and humor in the court room(unfortunately I lost a longer obit but the woman made her mark in so many ways.) God Bless you Marcia, you will be missed. 

>>> And having a member of the press at public meetings gives teeth to the Florida Sunshine Law (and why you get a Flu Shot) and open meetings tape recorded keeps good governance in place and reduces waste fraud and abuse, and public corruption, and is why you don’t speed in front of a state trooper for example. And hope you can support the WDR efforts to have informed residents to public institutions issues, in our community.

>>> 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., 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.  

 

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

 

Daniel A. Ricker

Publisher & Editor

Watchdog Report 

Est. 05.05.00

Copyright © of original material, 2022, Daniel A. Ricker

 

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. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html 

 

>>> 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 

 

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 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. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html 

>>>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 

 

>>> Winner takes all in Miami District 2 seat race, Now 13 challengers, money PACs media should do background checks on all candidates, Sarnoff working behind scenes to get disgraced judge Martin Zilber, has Hispanic women knocking on doors, who I called Citizen Lite for his behavior and dress at the prestigious Public Health Trust, that oversees JHS the community health jewel, How low will race go with special interests fueling campaigns

 

the mayors muse Leal,( who left the mayor’s office )And he did many proclamations for the mayor. The attorney paid $90,000 is an advisor to Suarez in his national political ambitions and had the mayor on FOX Thursday, carping about the federal response in helping Miami deal with all the refugees and homeless students in the city l taxing the system.

 

Winner takes all in Miami Commission Special Election Feb.27,behind the scenes highlights the sad state of our local government where corruption to general public is just, the way it is after numerous commissioners were removed from office after being indicted, years ago. With so many candidates someone getting 50 votes could become commissioner and that is scary since a television campaign could be used to achieve that candidate. There is the  one Miami PAC Yes for our downtown Miami. with $1.1 million and another has $565,000

 

The WDR has been critical of Zilber’s temperament and work ethic over the years,(net worth $13 million and years ago and a god father said he has been “oblivious,” all his life) and I  know him from the Public Health Trust where one time I got up at 5:30 a.m. to do attendance at the trust and Zilber was chair of purchasing and he strolled in late, a persistent problem that had county commissioner Sally Heyman a family friend criticizing Zilber’s attendance record at the trust. Further, when you apply to the trust you sign a notarized application stating you must resign from being on any county boards. Zilber never did that and stayed on the Cultural Affair board where he reviewed grants to organizations and gave him influence. For more go to: . https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/us/miami-judge-zilber-resigns-trnd/index.html https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-dade-judge-martin-zilber-facing-discipline-accusations-misconduct-resigned/ https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-dade-judge-martin-zilber-facing-discipline-accusations-misconduct-resigned/  

Further, His latest misuse of staff for personal items(including his bailiff going to the DMV is shocking). Zilber a republican and had a letter recommendation to the trust from past Gov. Jeb Bush where he told the nominating council “he had the 30-hours of time to commit being a trustee,” which turned out to be untrue.

June Savage could be an interesting candidate knows Miami all her life and is a real estate agent and lives in a condo in District 2,semi grassroot campaign

I also have been in cell contact with June Savage another candidate and she is hitting the streets knocking on doors and I got a campaign piece and is not supported by special interests like Zilber. Uther, here is a national story on the WDR early days:

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html

 

>>> Past WDR: Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday, after Bills player cardiac arrest should ACDs? be included on the field?

Student Athletes dying from sudden cardiac death, was highlighted at Wednesday’s school board meeting. Sudden death is common with athletes and the need for a EKG screening is important. And advocates say screening should be mandatory. And Florida has nine districts that have this screening requirement before entering school. Further, some parents are hesitant to screen, and just have to be notified, said advocates including a girl with an implantable defibrillator. For more go to: A national story on early years of WDR https: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html  

 

EDITORIAL

 

>>> MAJOR IT CATASTROPHE HOPING I AM BACK, THIS IS A SECOND TEST, COMPUTER WIPED OUT MANY NEW STORIES I APOLOGIZE.

 

Just before Christmas I had a potential catastrophic IT failure and thankfully it has been repaired and this report is a test. Further, the stress of that has made me sick and hope to be back next week after weeks of wondering after 22-years if that was it. And some emails were damaged, and I am trying to reconstruct.

 

>>> Nine Florida Residents Arrested for Orchestrating $37 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme, South Florida has two FBI Medicare fraud units, because of all the fraud that we sometimes export to other states, Tupperware parties for patient file info, the fraud gold standard, former U.S. Atty., Acosta called Miami “graduate school of fraud.”

>>> Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday.

FLORIDA: The Florida Ethics Commission has $799,569.in ethics fines unpaid and the list is a cross section of people on state boards.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY: Will Home Rule Charter & Septic to Sewer? Be top legislative county lobbying issues in Tallahassee. 

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Charter schools have expanded to 155 schools and receive $797 million from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The schools do not have to follow the same procedures as public districts, and many are managed by private for-profit companies. The district does audits of these schools. Sometime using related properties improvements using public funds– The board’s student advisor Ms. Cori Anna White with a unique perspective made some saliant comments recently when the schools code of conduct was being discussed. With all the mass shootings she noted “student safety was paramount regardless of zip codes. She inquired about the role of “threat assessment teams,” and “reporting lines,” and their role “in identifying patterns of behavior,’ of students.-  Chair Hantman & Perez saying sayonara, after decades helped to stabilize rocky public district plagued by scandals

PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST: Oct. JHS financial dashboard: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/jacksonhealth/b071ed27-6113-11ed-95a3-0050569183fa-6872cee3-98a7-4865-85f1-4b68344022ed-1669154377.pdf

CITY OF MIAMI: 

COMMUNITY EVENTS: Culture Fest 305 is at History Miami

https://historymiami.org/ 

 

EDITORIAL

 

>>>10 county commissioners indicted &removed over the years new commissioners don’t add to that.

 

With new county commissioners and school board members. These new public figures should remember the voters have put their sacred trust in them, and that should not be betrayed and what they do in public is a reflection on them and in Miami if you want to stay out of the limelight don’t embarrass your parents with questionable actions.

 

Further, the Miami-Dade County Commission has had 10 commissioners arrested and removed over the years. Not a resume builder so flies right in public office.

 

>>> Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday

Student Athletes dying from sudden cardiac death, was highlighted at Wednesday’s school board meeting. Sudden death is common with athletes and the need for a EKG screening is important. And advocates say screening should be mandatory. And Florida has nine districts that have this screening requirement before entering school. Further, some parents are hesitant to screen, and just have to be notified, said advocates including a girl with an implantable defibrillator. For more go to: https://nzdsos.com/2022/09/09/unexplained-coincidental-collateral-damage/ 

 

FLORIDA

 

>>> Is Florida changing its political stripes, Christ was a flawed candidate with too much political luggage & chameleon

 

With governor Ron De Santos easily defeating Charlie Crist a democrat and Sen. Marco Rubio defeating Val Demings. Florida is no longer a swing state that even touched normally Democratic Miami-Dade County and the election over here in Miami-Dade candidates will emerge to run for all the new state voters approved creating a sheriff, tax collector. 

 

>>> The Florida Ethics Commission has $799,569.in ethics fines unpaid and the list is a cross section of people on state boards and to see the list go to:

https://www.ethics.state.fl.us/Documents/Ethics/FinancialDisclosure/Fines%20placed%20with%20Collections.pdf?cp=20221116 

 

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

 

>>> Will Home Rule Charter & Septic to Sewer? Be top legislative county lobbying issues in Tallahassee, Regalado asks. 

 

The county’s legislative agenda was the talk of the commission body with commissioner Raquel Regalado leading the challenge on using ballots to determine what they will be. Protecting Home Rule Charter, she recommended should be number one, along with septic to sewer given the 120,000 septic systems polluting Biscayne Bay.

 

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 

Charter schools have expanded to 155 schools and receive $797 million from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The schools do not have to follow the same procedures as public districts, and many are managed by private for-profit companies. The district does audits of these schools.

 

What about students’ threat assessment teams?

 

The board’s student advisor Ms. Cori Anna White with a unique perspective made some saliant comments recently when the schools code of conduct was being discussed. With all the mass shootings she noted “student safety was paramount regardless of zip codes. She inquired about the role of “threat assessment teams,” and “reporting lines,” and their role “in identifying patterns of behavior,’ of students.

 

Dr.Steven Gallon, III, a former principal overseeing 3,200 students said the goal was not “to suffer situations that take away opportunities to educate. He said, “parents send the best students they have, and the district policy was going to be applied with “firmness and equity.” Noting a large public school “is one of the most challenging education jobs there is said the veteran teacher

 

>>> The Miami-Dade County Homeless trust is bursting at the seams with the Chapman Partnership is full  & Camillus House putting overflow clients in their board room after two Cold weather events over holidays at Friday’s trust meeting, said Camillus CEO Hilda Fernandez, a long-time homeless advocate, second husband Douglas Emhoff toured Chapman & thought program should be model for nation

 

>>> 13 candidates vie, Two caught my eye, disgraced county circuit court judge Martin Zilber and Eddy Leal mayor’s muse dodges the press. City clerk’s webpage difficult to find candidates.

 

The mayors muse Leal and he does many proclamations for the mayor. The attorney paid $90,000 is an advisor to Suarez in his national political ambitions that had the mayor on FOX last Thursday, carping about the federal response in helping Miami deal with all the refugees and homeless refugees and students in the city l taxing the system.

 

The WDR has been critical of Zilber,(net worth $13 million years ago) and I  know him from the Public Health Trust where one time I got up at 5:30 a.m. to do attendance at the trust and Zilber was chair of purchasing and he strolled in late, a persistent problem that had county commissioner Sally Heyman a family friend criticizing Zilber’s attendance record at the trust. Further, when you apply to the trust you sign a notarized application stating you must resign from being on any county boards. Zilber never did that and stayed on the Cultural Affair board. And friends have been covering for his subpar performance over the years culminating in resigning his circuit court judge position after a scathing investigation and abuse of employees for private matters and a scrapbook of his achievements by his judicial assistant. This says Zilber as a commissioner will love the benefits but he has a different moral and ethical compass than I do and I  returned his support check years ago because I could see he was going to be a problem.

Further, His latest misuse of staff for personal items(including his bailiff going to the DMV is shocking). Zilber a republican and had a letter recommendation to the trust from past Gov. Jeb Bush where he told the nominating council “he had the 30-hours of time to commit being a trustee,” which turned out to be untrue.

 

>>> Past WDR: Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday, after Bills player cardiac arrest should ACDs? be included on the field?

Student Athletes dying from sudden cardiac death, was highlighted at Wednesday’s school board meeting. Sudden death is common with athletes and the need for a EKG screening is important. And advocates say screening should be mandatory. And Florida has nine districts that have this screening requirement before entering school. Further, some parents are hesitant to screen, and just have to be notified, said advocates including a girl with an implantable defibrillator. For more go to: https://nzdsos.com/2022/09/09/unexplained-coincidental-collateral-damage/ 

 

EDITORIAL

 

>>>MAJOR IT CATASTROPHY HOPING I AM BACK, THIS IS A SECOND TEST

 

Just before Christmas I had a potential catastrophic IT failure and thankfully it has been repaired and this report is a test. Further, the stress of that has made me sick and hope to be back next week after weeks of wondering after 22-years if that was it.

>>>Nine Florida Residents Arrested for Orchestrating $37 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme, South Florida has two FBI Medicare fraud units, because of all the fraud that we sometimes export to other states, Tupperware parties for patient file info, the fraud gold standard, former U.S. Atty., Acosta called Miami “graduate school of fraud.”

>>> Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday.

FLORIDA: The Florida Ethics Commission has $799,569.in ethics fines unpaid and the list is a cross section of people on state boards.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY: Will Home Rule Charter & Septic to Sewer? Be top legislative county lobbying issues in Tallahassee. 

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Charter schools have expanded to 155 schools and receive $797 million from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The schools do not have to follow the same procedures as public districts, and many are managed by private for-profit companies. The district does audits of these schools. Sometime using related properties improvements using public funds– The board’s student advisor Ms. Cori Anna White with a unique perspective made some saliant comments recently when the schools code of conduct was being discussed. With all the mass shootings she noted “student safety was paramount regardless of zip codes. She inquired about the role of “threat assessment teams,” and “reporting lines,” and their role “in identifying patterns of behavior,’ of students.-  Chair Hantman & Perez saying sayonara, after decades helped to stabilize rocky public district plagued by scandals

PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST: Oct. JHS financial dashboard: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/jacksonhealth/b071ed27-6113-11ed-95a3-0050569183fa-6872cee3-98a7-4865-85f1-4b68344022ed-1669154377.pdf

CITY OF MIAMI: 

COMMUNITY EVENTS: Culture Fest 305 is at History Miami

https://historymiami.org/ The ART Warehouse https://www.margulieswarehouse.com/ 

 

EDITORIAL

 

>>>10 county commissioners indicted &removed over the years new commissioners don’t add to that

 

With new county commissioners and school board members. These new public figures should remember the voters have put their sacred trust in them, and that should not be betrayed and what they do in public is a reflection on them and in Miami if you want to stay out of the limelight don’t embarrass your parents with questionable actions.

 

Further, the Miami-Dade County Commission has had 10 commissioners arrested and removed over the years. Not a resume builder so flies right in public office.

 

>>> Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday, maybe defibrillators should be on sports fields.



Student Athletes dying from sudden cardiac death, was highlighted at Wednesday’s school board meeting. Sudden death is common with athletes and the need for a EKG screening is important. And advocates say screening should be mandatory. And Florida has nine districts that have this screening requirement before entering school. Further, some parents are hesitant to screen, and just have to be notified, said advocates including a girl with an implantable defibrillator. For more go to: https://nzdsos.com/2022/09/09/unexplained-coincidental-collateral-damage/ 

 

FLORIDA

 

>>> Is Florida changing its political stripes, Christ was a flawed candidate with too much political luggage & chameleon

 

With governor Ron De Santos easily defeating Charlie Crist a democrat and Sen. Marco Rubio defeating Val Demings. Florida is no longer a swing state that even touched normally Democratic Miami-Dade County and the election over here in Miami-Dade candidates will emerge to run for all the new state voters approved creating a sheriff, tax collector. 

 

>>> The Florida Ethics Commission has $799,569.in ethics fines unpaid and the list is a cross section of people on state boards and to see the list go to:

https://www.ethics.state.fl.us/Documents/Ethics/FinancialDisclosure/Fines%20placed%20with%20Collections.pdf?cp=20221116 

 

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY

 

>>> Will Home Rule Charter & Septic to Sewer? Be top legislative county lobbying issues in Tallahassee, Regalado asks 

 

The county’s legislative agenda was the talk of the commission body with commissioner Raquel Regalado leading the challenge on using ballots to determine what they will be. Protecting Home Rule Charter, she recommended should be number one, along with septic to sewer given the 120,000 septic systems polluting Biscayne Bay.

 

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 

Charter schools have expanded to 155 schools and receive $797 million from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The schools do not have to follow the same procedures as public districts, and many are managed by private for-profit companies. The district does audits of these schools.

 

What about students’ threat assessment teams?

 

The board’s student advisor Ms. Cori Anna White with a unique perspective made some saliant comments recently when the schools code of conduct was being discussed. With all the mass shootings she noted “student safety was paramount regardless of zip codes. She inquired about the role of “threat assessment teams,” and “reporting lines,” and their role “in identifying patterns of behavior,’ of students.

 

Dr.Steven Gallon, III, a former principal overseeing 3,200 students said the goal was not “to suffer situations that take away opportunities to educate. He said, “parents send the best students they have, and the district policy was going to be applied with “firmness and equity.” Noting a large public school “is one of the most challenging education jobs there is said the veteran teacher

>>> Chair Hantman & Perez saying sayonara, after decades helped to stabilize rocky public district plagued by scandals

 

Two iconic board members are leaving after serving since 1996. Perla Tabares Hantman and Dr. Marta Perez, also an attorney since joining the board and was an advocate for an ethics committee chaired at one time by judge Kogan. She also pushed for the inspector general at the district. Hantman the chair most of her years was calm did things by the book after scandals rocked the district. Further, there was a state oversight board. Both women were very supportive of the WDR over the years, and they will be missed on the nine-member school board.

 

Retired Florida Supreme Court Judge Gerald Kogan was honored posthumously by the school board Wednesday. The jurist was the point of the spear after the Miami-Dade Chamber created the Alliance for ethical government after scandals and arrests at the county and bogus land deals at the public district, where matchbox degrees were prevalent, and the community outrage was palpable and confidence in government was abysmal. Editor’s note: I was at many meetings with Kogan, and he helped convince me that I should keep at my efforts and had a card, which read “Citizen Advocate for Ethical Government.”

 

PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST

 

>>> Oct financial dashboard: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/jacksonhealth/b071ed27-6113-11ed-95a3-0050569183fa-6872cee3-98a7-4865-85f1-4b68344022ed-1669154377.pdf

 

CITY OF MIAMI 

 

>>> No commission meeting dec.8, as Dist.1 commissioner Ken Russell is denied his last commission meeting in office and could not get the support of two commissioners Joe Carollo and Alex Diaz de la Portilla, both republicans and have opposed Russell a democrat at every turn. I asked the commissioner why no meeting and he said, “petty politics.” The commissioner who ran for various offices from the senate  and house has been vulnerable to Miami politics and he must resign Jan.3., please don’t replace with disgraced former judge Zilber, abused judicial staff personal errands

 

Could the commission appoint his seat? done many times in the past and saving some $350,000 in election costs with the county?

 

Yes, and many names are mentioned but one scares me former county judge Martin Zilber, who is a republican and lives in the south Grove. He resigned in disgraced after abusing a employee and having them do personnel errands. I knew the Republican justice from the public health trust, where he was always late and dressed like just off the beach, forget socks. At the time I dubbed him ‘citizen lite.’ And his mother Linda Zilber is a solid transportation maven on many boards. Attorney Zilber is known to the commissioners since he submitted a letter from former Gov. Jeb Bush supporting his ppointment to the Jackson Trust. However, his appointment would be a real mistake since he doesn’t work hard but would enjoy having a police officer watching over him.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/18/us/miami-judge-zilber-resigns-trnd/index.html 

 

>>> Will Commissioner Ken Russell, be allowed to have last meeting in December as two commissioners say no? clerk working to get it on, Reyes in, Chair King unknown

 

The cancellation of Decembers commission meeting had leaving commissioner Ken Russell walk off the dais since his last meeting in December was being cancelled because commissioners Joe Carollo, and Alex Diaz de la Portilla, wanted to spend time with family over the holidays a first. Russell is trying to get three commissioners to agree to have the December meeting that commissioner Manolo Reyes has agreed to and just chair Christine King must agree. Russell has projects he wants to finish before leaving the body and the commissioners who often take shots at Russell 

 

SPONSERS:

 

>>> And to support the WDR go to my Pay Pal account that is easy to use and right now would be a great time: http://paypal.me/WatchdogReport    

Further, if you would rather send a check send it made out to Daniel Ricker and mail it to 3109 Grand Ave., #125 Miami, Fla. 33133.  Thank you, Dan  

>>>And having a member of the press at public meetings gives teeth to the Florida Sunshine Law (and why you get a Flu Shot) and open meetings tape recorded keeps good governance in place and reduces waste fraud and abuse, and public corruption, and is why you don’t speed in front of a state trooper for example. And hope you can support the WDR efforts to have informed residents to public institutions issues, in our community.

>>> 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., 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.  

 

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

 

Daniel A. Ricker

Publisher & Editor

Watchdog Report 

Est. 05.05.00

Copyright © of original material, 2023, Daniel A. Ricker

 

>>> The Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel & Sun-Sentinel articles on the Watchdog Report publisher over the years. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html 

 

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. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html 

 

>>>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 

 

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 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. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html 

>>>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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Daniel A. Ricker

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Miami,Fla.33133

 

>>> And to support the WDR go to my Pay Pal account that is easy to use and right now would be a great time: http://paypal.me/WatchdogReport    

Further, if you would rather send a check send it made out to Daniel Ricker and mail it to 3109 Grand Ave., #125 Miami, Fla. 33133.  Thank you, Dan  

>>>And having a member of the press at public meetings gives teeth to the Florida Sunshine Law (and why you get a Flu Shot) and open meetings tape recorded keeps good governance in place and reduces waste fraud and abuse, and public corruption, and is why you don’t speed in front of a state trooper for example. And hope you can support the WDR efforts to have informed residents to public institutions issues, in our community.

>>> 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., 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.  

 

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>>> The Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel & Sun-Sentinel articles on the Watchdog Report publisher over the years. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html 

 

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. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html 

 

>>>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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>>> 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. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190045-story.html 

>>>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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