WATCHDOG REPORT Vol.25 No.38: March 1, 2026: EST:05.05.00: free A community education resource for 25 weekly years
WATCHDOG REPORT
Miami-Dade County Fla.
Vol. 25 No. 38, March 1, 2026, Celebrating May 5th, 2000: 25-years of free weekly publishing! www.watchdogreport.net & Daniel A. Ricker: Editor-in Chief: Former Miami Herald featured columnist, news reporter & free: 25-years weekly community education resource & news service, without the attitude,
I will return next week, trying to raise money, through the webpage with past reports since 2010, online for another year of south Florida news events, after losing the Knight Foundations founding support, under new management, and unfamiliar with what I contribute to community knowledge. Still Barking: A Watchdog at 25 – Coconut Grove Spotlight
>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles 430 BC
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Miami residents have a variety of cultural institutions including a private collection open to the public and for more on the Warehouse go to: https://www.margulieswarehouse.com/
ARGUS REPORT: Heard Seen on the Street
>>> With FIFA coming to Miami in 190 days security costs are one big issue along with the human trafficking of women in Miami, a problem with past high-profile events. The issue came up at the Coral Gables commission meeting Tuesday, when chief Ed Hudack made a presentation on the subject.
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Jackson Health System under great financial pressure trust board met Wednesday Carlos Migoya, told trustees, that the anticipated $100 million hit if reduced property tax legislation passes will “create dire consequences,” said Migoya, to trustees. He said ‘continuation of direct payments,” helps fund the Medicaid shortfall, that is pending, and it was important for everyone to speak up because it affects all aspects of the hospitals mission including trauma, and medical education costs.
What about pensions at JHS?
The pension committee met and ten years ago the balance was $550 million, but thanks to wise investments it has grown to $1.5 billion, the financial advisor Peter Bermont, now retired quidded this investment increase.
What about pensions at the city of Miami?
Miami employees are getting decent compensation and the city historically has had problems with pensions and the double dipping of some employees’ salary.
Further the city’s finance committee has not been meeting and the one I tried to attend was cancelled at the last minute.
I went to see the city’s finances after the administrative change, because past administrations have bled the city’s finances dry as they left, leaving the city scrambling for new revenue.
And when it comes to salaries Coconut Grove Spotlight, did a great analysis: go toohttps://coconutgrovespotlight.com/2025/12/11/as-city-spending-soars-top-administrator-rakes-it-in/ https://coconutgrovespotlight.com/2025/12/11/as-city-spending-soars-top-administrator-rakes-it-in/ and it’s the pensions at these salary levels that is the real problem, and had the city bankrupt in1990s.
>>> WDR; on line for another year, after this housing crisis I am having and for first time, question why I decided to step up, and try to help the community be more honest and transparent in public institutions, and not benefit from having such early knowledge, as so many have.
In retrospect a big mistake as so many have benefitted on inside information, but I gave a pass to doing such insider activity. I used some $350,000. Of my own money to finance the report, in retrospect a major mistake not believing I would live this long after all the threats, I received when I first started in 2000.
And with no money coming in my situation is once again very tenuous, and no one has more historical knowledge that I do.
Further the denudement of tree canopy in Coconut Grove continues with 3047 El Prado Ave about to lose some treasured tree canopy for a double lot structure, of large size, and it is the tree canopy that makes the area a desirable place to live. Further if you look at near bye Coral Gables you can see what hyper development will mean in traffic, and is rendering the idea of the city beautiful a long-ago lost concept with major projects diminishing the previous tony cities beauty thank you mayor Vince Lago, and his compatriot Francis Suarez, in Miami, who has financially benefited by his time in office, becoming a millionaire many times over, and the city becoming for billionaires only as real estate prices boom.
Development will always happen but planned and in size development is the preferred goal, sometimes elusive, since it increases the municipal and county tax base, and the increasing high employee costs and worse pension obligations that are soaring especially in Miami.
>>> I found an apartment but not cheap and stress is a major issue after having to stay in motels tough during all the holidays, and almost slept in my car, one night. And I am in an apartment only because I was accepted given my circumstances, as a free Watchdog, rather than with a normal job.
And did not get the help I hoped from some government staffers, in finding a new apt., and got lectured that as a grown man it was my responsibility to find a place, a cold response to a senior person, trying to find new housing, in this tight market.
Further, seniors seeking rent help, are flocking to Miami city hall daily, and many are from around the county and not Miami, and suggests a need for seniors to get some attention, who are most vulnerable.
Further this stress allowed me to fall for a scam that cost me a substantial amount of money from a long-time supporter, who understood the need to keep an eye on public institutions in a non-partisan way.
Seniors are in for a surprise when their SS payments are reduced after losing Medicare federal subsidies, and this issue will be a hot button in the midterms.
Further, Neuropathy is a major problem and the internet is full of supposed cures, states HHS Sec RFK, Jr., on the internet but without an answer, and the problem is striking a large number of Americans and the pills only mask the progressive problem.
Since the past profile of me trying to keep the community informed, my curse of these profile stories has never changed and almost nothing but bad things have happened since then, sadly though some supporters have stepped up and helped thank you very much!! Still Barking: A Watchdog at 25 – Coconut Grove Spotlight
>>> With the retirement of CEO Carlos Migoya. June 1, and David Zambrana, with two doctorates, after being a trauma nurse 35-years and he is expected to follow in the success of the largest public hospital in the NW United States. Migoya brought credibility to the institution almost in bankruptcy and needing hundreds of millions in upgrades that had the institution struggling to survive and only 7 days of cash on hand when he took over. The man a former banker worked with the unions and has made the facilities some of the best of any public institutions in the nation partially because of ending county commissioners meddling in its operation. He successful got countywide approval for a $840 million GOB, that expanded the health facilities throughout the county with projects on time and on budget.
However, on Sunday I am homeless and will be in a low-cost hotel, while trying to find an affordable apartment. I have been looking diligently
When I came in 1975, to Miami with pacemaker Cordis Corp, with 3,800 employees many Cuban workers. Pacemakers were the size of a hockey puck, with a three-year life, and there was even a nuclear pacemaker (mostly sold in Palm Springs, Ca.), but kept patients’ hearts beating and pacemakers, were considered one of, the great medical inventions of the 20th Century, versus physicians telling patients “It’s your ticker, get your affairs in order,” and the patients would die in their sleep from a complete heart block, or bradycardia.
Further, my parents sponsored some Cubans they met on a family trip to Varadero Beach in 1957, and one was a physician Dr. Martinez, that county Commissioner Javier Souto knew after he bought me lunch at government center, when I was hungry and just starting in 2000.
Former Mayor Francis Suarez, giving Rolex’s to his past sergeant of arms, is consistent to his two terms as mayor. He has never followed the ethics rules in his two terms as mayor. The man made a fortune as mayor with many undisclosed clients including Fischer Island, and the watch gifts are consistent, with someone, who wants to keep his past actions under the radar, during his term. The question with the watches did the taxpayers pay for the expensive pieces, which given Suarez’s history is probable the case.
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Miami residents have a variety of cultural institutions including a private collection open to the public and for more on the Warehouse go to: https://www.margulieswarehouse.com/
>>> Mayor Higgins will find out soon managing the city and commission is not for the faint of heart, and getting better city projects done on time and with quality product many times elusive as lobbyist Christian Ulvert rules the roost as her campaign chair and manager Jamie Reyye’s run for county sheriff that he lost but campaigned sometimes in his uniform, as public safety director for the county. Pushing the envelope is a long time Miami tradition, with many employees saying “what’s the issue, everyone is doing it?”
Miami Mayor Eileen Higgins is basking in the glow of her election, but will find the future will bring big challenges, given the five commissioners with Miguel Gabela, being the first.
She has to find a way to coordinate numerous different agencies to have higher degree of quality in joint projects with Grand Ave.in Coconut Grove a prime example of shoddy workmanship after the road was torn up for infrastructure work and left with a poor road surface, that looks incomplete after the road was closed for weeks.
She had a dust up Thursday regarding the police chief being accused of campaigning and his future replacement in the future, not because of performance but potentially campaigning, and this is small, compared to how city employees drive their vehicles in the public, and has Miami cars driving out of speed control, where stopping at a stop sign is an aspirational act, especially with Tesla drivers, and Land Rovers acting like the kings of the roads.
The WDR has seen this glow all before given some of the past mayors and with salaries rising way above public servants’ levels pensions will be a future nightmare given the high salaries at both the city and Miami-Dade County.
I found a small apt., but motels were not cheap and many are booked and at one point I was almost homeless, but thankfully a room opened up and. I even contacted the chair of the homeless trust rather than sleep in my car, and people don’t realize the mental toll of such circumstances and no new money came in and renting in Miami is like a mortgage application tough when you are living in a cold motel room with the computer on a bed writing.
There is no one in Miami with the WDR, historical knowledge, and the abuse keeps on going with even the county’s inspector general office under attack, after the first Christopher Mazzella, setting the gold standard for the office and was left alone to do his job that now includes the 3rd largest public school district, and needs the oversight. Further, while things are difficult PayPal is an easy way to support keeping the WDR out there
>>> The Warehouse in Miami is a real art lovers treat: https://www.margulieswarehouse.com/attachment/en/5e14ec99a5aa2c4d308b4567/News/6734bcf5b7d31c21460df697
>>> Quality Control in government is a non-existent sight with the roadways the glaring example, throughout Miami-Dade. Residents wonder why road repair jobs make the roads worse than they were before, and shoddy work doesn’t have any ramifications, for the contractors.
One company decades ago Church &Tower, (now MasTec, and brothers building new Freedom Park stadium) was disbarred, for shoddy work. For more go to: https://progresoweekly.us/blackballed-mastec-still-does-plenty-of-business-with-county/
And the community memory fades way to fast, as the many scandals go away in years ahead and a weaker IG and weaker ethics commission.
Drivers pay a lot of taxes, and these companies if dealing with county a little slack is allowed and many times built in. However, the roads are a giant blinking light of discontent, of the county Not delivering excellence every day, its tag line almost humorous, excluding police & fire men all dangerous jobs.
What about county mayor Levine Cava, but her close lobbyist’s, connections, bothered me. For with ethics, actions are perception, and you can’t be a little bit pregnant, in the public’s eyes.
The WDR originally supporter Cava but the use of her campaign manager Christian Ulvert, a lobbyist who happened to be in Japan and Qatar, when the mayor delegation was there, was over the top and Cava doesn’t see this as a problem. Further, as a strong mayor form of government Jimmy Morales a well-paid executive seems to run the government rather than the mayor risking a recall, likely unsuccessful, but expensive management, thought ended by voters.
Further she is seeing a recall petition, that likely will go nowhere versus the one used to recall county mayor Carlos Alvarez, in 2011 but that was after the Great Recession, and a different time after Alvarez gave staffers raises. That intensity is not the same she was just reelected against a weak municipal mayor she hired as a staffer later.
With Mental Health a national problem: One reader pointed out
This is a huge problem today. 2 key points made in the article: Insurance companies pay psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health counselor less than other doctors—so few signs up. It’s cheaper to break the law than follow the law. Here’s the WSJ article on subject https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/health-insurance-lawsuit-network-provider-list-4ab84fbd?st=1LDeji&reflink=article_email_share
Miami has no accountability in employees’ actions, and this along with disgraced county judge Martin Zilber who used a bailiff for personal uses, and resigned before any real punishment, and this just continues the abuse.
Further, no funding during this precarious time and my curse of profiles has really kicked in since the article, that I wished I, never gave, as renting a apt., in Miami has the same documentation as buying a house and landlords are not checked, for fear of declining a renter, but with scams everywhere in all forms, and
I will lose power on Jan1, said a new landlord. A recent featured story on the WDR publisher, not …Still Barking: A Watchdog at 25 – Coconut Grove Spotlight
From a citizen journalist trying to stop corruption, waste, fraud abuse, and personally stopped almost $40 million in bad deals over the past 25-weekly years. Sadly, after a recent profile things have gotten only worse, and could lose phone, internet all terrifying. I live in a community where couples can have matching Ferraris’, and someone I respect but help is needed, and praying.
>>>There will never be another WDR, because certain circumstances made me or someone have to do it since the corruption was so blatant, if you knew the players like I did,
And I want to thank again all those people that have supported my efforts over all those 25-years, to keep the community informed using the internet, free of charge.
You would have never known the WDR if a political operative Phil Hammersmith, hadn’t said to me in 1999, “You F…king little people were going to crush you,” he said to me, he would later die of a heart issue, soon after. That was a defining factor, after I thought there were a lot of things to say to me but that was over the top, he would say, I get them elected and then tell them what to do.
>>>Public school board member Joe Geller and peer Dr. Stephen Gallon, III, both decried the horror of hate spewed when people “say Global Intifada,” and Geller Jewish said it made violence open season for Jews. Here is one explanation: https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/12/14/australia-discovers-what-it-means-to-globalize-the-intifada-n4947062
Gallon, black agreed, that “all forms of hatred or antisemitism must be condemned,” said Gallon there is no place for this hate, and fears for Jews, is known “as the oldest hate,” said Doug Emhoff, the past second husband.
I know this is a deeply sensitive subject, but Gellers tone and concern after the Bondi Beach killings during a Hanukkah Celebration was just one of many examples of violence against the Jews. With peace an elusive currency this holiday season, sadly. Australia, having lived there for 5 years has a mixed bag when it comes to racism with the Aboriginals, a prime example.
What about outgoing mayor Francis Suarez?
Young Suarez, first came in as a commissioner, in 2013, with a $800,000 or so net worth, and he’s leaving roughly $7 million richer with a tony home in South Grove, and included police security while mayor. The family man bristles when challenged, any ethics conflicts and given past mayors he was at least sane, but greedy, in the course of his time in office. For mor go to:https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-mayor-francis-suarez-made-nearly-5-million-while-in-office-40506745/
>>>Suarez, during his time in office has become a millionaire, and was loose re freebees, and ethics conflicts etc., forget his running for the presidency, that crashed shortly after his announcement.
>>> The Coconut Grove Sailing Club’s lease with the city, is being discussed and the great organization has taught some 20,000, county public school students, in sailing program as well as Shake-A-Leg, and a love and respect for the water: The Miami Rowing Club, lease is also a gift to the community.
>>> Public schools audit committee, reviews 160 charters, 18 flagged, at Tuesday’s meeting
The MDC Schools, audit committee is meeting Tuesday and tax attorneys, and the board made up of CPAs, is the community firewall for responsible oversite, of the billions in public tax dollars. Sadly, decades ago the members were political appointees, and scandals were the order of the day. The districts 160 charter schools were examined and 18 were deemed to be of concern: and for more go: http://api.dadeschools.net/WMSFiles/23/pdfs/25-26/AC_December_9_2025/Agenda.pdf
Here’s the complete agenda.
http://api.dadeschools.net/WMSFiles/23/pdfs/25-26/AC_December_9_2025/Agenda.pdf
>>> Saying R.N., nurses are not professional and skilled nursing, is absurd and they fulfill a key role in the outstanding American medicine, and the federal Department of Education status change comes as a great nursing shortage is facing America, and is an insane change ask surgeons about their open heart “scrub nurse,” in the sterile field, being not professionals. Further, the FDA change of the Hep-b. Vaccination recommendations is shocking the medical world, with its lack of scientific basis and a real crisis at the federal agency, led sadly by RFK, Jr, with no medical training.
>>After all I wanted to do was create a public nervous system via the internet, for more informed public institutions. And learned if you have good people on boards, trusts or commissions, you have a chance for better government so elusive in colorful Miami, that tantalizes the nation with Stone Crab’s The Size of small children, great weather beaches etc.
>>> Further Baptist Health, and the health system is part of the healthcare constellation available to Miami residents and Baptist saved my life so I have a special interest in helping Baptist & Public JHS: for more go to https://baptisthealth.net/baptist-health-foundation And given the amount of medical research Miami, is a strong medical destination, now, most communities would beg for.
>> To contribute to the WDR send and make it payable to Daniel A. Ricker, I can now transfer the PayPal money. Hopefully some $ help will come in.
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A recent featured story on the WDR publisher, not …Still Barking: A Watchdog at 25 – Coconut Grove Spotlight
Further, to have reached 25-years of WDR, not planned, but kept getting more popular, and established being called a “institution,” by CBS4 reporter Joan Murray, years ago, but the newsletter was becoming a trusted entity through the Knight Foundation for 25-years.
People forget Fernandez quite the DeSantis campaign, after hearing derogatory comments on immigrants from his staff. And the treatment of these law-abiding neighbors by ICE, lack of “due process,” is a stain on America, unseen ever before. Further, both have had threats like the WDR, over the years, which is unacceptable to us.
Dunn has been leading, social justice long shots all his life and back in 2014. He talked about the new super criminal devoid of emotion (inmates he had interviewed back then and were becoming a type of new unfeeling man, the phycologist said at the Downtown Bay Forum luncheon, years ago. His fight for transparency in the deal for Trump’s Library, land giveaway, has erupted a firestorm of publicity, and fair market land value would help the school that for decades wanted a half-cent sales tax pushed by Dr. Eduardo Padron, and passed in the county but failed in the statewide vote, and MDC, has had to make due with a lot, of underfunding given its growth for funding, and has impacted so many students goals, at a reasonable price but as the nation’s largest community college. Only votes are needed states the meeting announcement, unusual for such a deal: https://www.local10.com/news/local/2025/10/21/miami-dade-college-president-answers-question-about-activits-dispute-with-trump-presidential-library-land/
Mr. Braman, further, suggested the county use General Elections, dates for sales tax approvals versus in late July one time in late 1990s in a rain storm but was shot down decisively by countywide voters and the auto dealer ran a few critical ads, which killed the measure. https://icamiami.org/
The community leader and I were on WPBT-17, many times, and he is a down-to-earth man, I used to call him “Great One, that wife Irma, “joked don’t call him that.” Miami-Beach recently dedicated 17th street The Norman Braman Way, for his philanthropy and civic engagement, and a well-deserved honor, to the man who helped bring Art Basil to Miami.
I would not go to this extreme first time in 25-years, and hope help or anything if possible is goal?
>>>Further I am available as spokesperson on scams, over the holidays that even took in the skeptical WDR, but time is clicking down for this stupid stressed person.
>>>Further, Braman has an affiliation with the county public schools district offering training and internships for advanced car service for many years now, since I wrote about the program years ago.
>>> At Wednesday’s school board meeting the success of the Parent Academy, created with the help of Adrienne Arsht a very prominent banker, (With a performing arts center named after her, after a huge $30 million donation, and another $10 million to the MMA). people were at first skeptical, of the program but it has been a success, drawing parents’ involvement in their child’s education.
>>>The district’s financial reports: https://pdfs.dadeschools.net/Bdarch/2025/Bd111925/agenda/e1.pdf
>>>My cell is 305 586 8560 for help, and includes 25-years of WDRs on line at www.watchdogreport.net
I know this sounds self-serving but pray someone with little help me keep this going. History Miami losing 25 years of county public documents and files, if you want?
>>> As the WDR sadly predicted two weeks ago state Rep. Vicki Lopez, R-Miami, (net worth $370,551, in May 2025), a former felon no longer after charges vacated by federal judge. The state legislator was picked to fill in the district 5, commission term remaining on the seat after Eileen Higgins (June 25, net worth $2.721million) when she resigned to run for Miami mayor.
However, no one discussed Lopez’s checkered past and vacated federal felony conviction, and: she was later commuted by Clinton, but an eyebrow raises, after “honest services law,” modified. For more on Lopez on this go: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/when-vicki-met-syl-6360715/
Further her conviction was vacated by a federal court judge https://www.miaminewtimes.com/opinion/former-lee-county-commissioner-vicki-lukis-is-no-longer-a-convicted-felon-6539127/
And here is what I wrote 2 weeks ago, in the WDR, Clinton commuted Lopez sentence in federal court after serving 15-months, after charge law modified and vacated the charge, she has Sylvester Lukis connection, major south Florida lobbyist connection Ballard Partners, and eventually married Lukis, for more go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Lopez
>>>Lobbyists Selfies with elected judges, state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle (net worth 2024 $7.017million), makes for just one happy family and these new countywide celebrities should consider how all this social content appears to residents, not in a positive way. This, disregard of who your photographed with condones any of their possible past transgressions. And sullies both people’s reputation.
>>>The Public Health Trust met Friday and, CEO Carlos Migoya, in his report noted “some challenging headwinds,” if the state abolishes property taxes, the impact to JHS, is major, to the tune of $110 million, further if Obama Care is repealed, by congress that’s another $100 million. These, changes will impact all the local hospitals in Miami, adding a further fiscal strain, to not just the county public hospital, but to all health systems, in region. JHS also reported zero infections and ranked top ten hospital in U.S. News Report.
A major change in the past Jackson reputation of where “poor patients went to die,” was the Jackson reputation refrain, that has changed dramatically in healthcare quality, recently. The health “zero infections” over 365days care, and preventative healthcare has been a physician known as Dr. G., has indicated they “are close to a cure sickle cell disease.”
JHS trustee minutes: Infection prevention remained a major success area. The hospital achieved record-low infection rates for central line (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract (CAUTI), and C. difficile infections. Several quarters recorded zero infections, and the hospital maintained 365 consecutive days without a healthcare-associated infection, a milestone reflecting the system’s high reliability and consistent quality standards.
Ms. Ruggiero also previewed plans for the new Emergency Department, with Phase One scheduled to open in April 2026. The first phase will feature 82 exam rooms, triage and fast-track areas, advanced imaging units, a pharmacy, and 50 observation rooms on the second floor.
Phase Two will expand services to include Corrections Health, Pediatrics, and Behavioral Health. Upon completion, the facility will provide nearly 180,000 square feet of new emergency care space for the community. In closing, members of the Board commended Ms. Ruggiero and the Jackson Memorial Hospital team.
>>> The M-DC Homeless Trust met and federal changes in programs are coming.
The trust’s continuum of care has been a national model, but is requiring some change
Ron Book the longtime chair of the trust said, “it’s a real policy shift, from 35 years ago.” But the organization has faced different challenges during this time,” Book said.
He said it was “important to not skip a beat,” with HUD, that funded a $53 million NOFA contribution and is largest single funding program for the Trust. The leadership later in the day was meeting with providers, and Book, said they “are embracing,” the federal changes, it was also noted 1,517 new beds were coming on line.
What about Chapman’s Alma’s Story?
A woman living with her granddaughter in a car wrote a 4page letter to every person who helped her along the way, “and back on her feet,” and “this Thanksgiving Day, she will be in a home not a vehicle,” and is a testament to the work of the Chapeman partnership. https://chapmanpartnership.org/
>>> For 25-years weekly every Sunday, the WDR after that time was given a “good luck,” from the very supportive and generous Knight Foundation, over those years and the new senior management, is not familiar with the work and nightmare life I drew for myself, but single no family could be threatened, like “your wife have a scar on her face?” was one used and someone had to cover and watch our very wayward politicians. Further, stress of moving with little money is one way to lose it, but I said I would never give in to Miami and its accepted norms.
I am looking for work as a public oracle regarding all the public institutions and considered a “Institution,” said WFOR reporter Joan Murray, years ago, and I can answer a question re public institutions and disclosures call at 305 586 8560.
In a county willing to spend $150,000, for people to learn civics, and for me it took a year before comfortable at public meanings that later felt like a living room over the years, later.
>>> Further, I am eating fast food, and food donations for the first time. So, if you can help plus my having to move is another problem after someone reneged in supporting me in this emergency, of trying to keep the community informed of their public institutions and ICE, treatment of immigrants is stunning Americans who were told “The worst of the worst,” and ICE senior agents say the press doesn’t always get the full story as the department becomes the biggest federal law enforcement agency, and under Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem.
>>>Press release: Lauren’s Kids: You are a friend and have supported the work that Lauren’s Kids does year after year as we work to make our community safer for our most important assets, our young and vulnerable children, and so I and we are again appealing to you to help us continue.
>>> Thank you for caring and for helping us create a world where abuse is never tolerated and every child can live safely, smartly, and without fear. I will send you a link in the days to come. www.lauren’skids.org.
>>> Having lived overseas I always had my passport with me and in Japan I would be asked to see my working visa.
The administration continues flooding the zone, from ballrooms to a Gatsby party at Mar-A. Largo. IF you can, I used $350,000 of my own money, a big mistake, as I got older and thought someone might have taken me out by then.
>>> I also want to thank JoAnn Bass of Joe’s Stone Crab for allowing me to eat free at the corner bar spot, for years, where I saw everyone come in, and could interview them. She was always very kind to me and her support check in 2009, allowed me to leave the hospital, with an external suction device after being septic.
>>> She also had Joe’s the first homeless trust parking meters raising money at the self-park parking lot. IF you can I’m in real trouble and stress is the new disease these days, and why I have written about being homeless in Miami, over the ears.
The WDR was notified today that I do not fit in the plans of the Knight Foundation after 25-years and it has been an honor to have the organizations support and original inspiration by past presidents Hodding Carter, III, and Alberto Ibargüen,(I never embarrassed or had a scandal in that time, no easy task in Miami, strewn with people lionized from the very beginning, but later arrested or plea deal none which applies to me for 25 years, and the Foundation paid for my webpage thank you Knight.
The Knight Foundation with new senior administrative staff sent me this email when I asked after 25-years would Knight Foundation continue to support me? And this is what came back, sadly:
The Knight Foundation will not be able to provide any funding for WDR. We fund specific priorities, and this does not fit into our current priority areas. Our team has emailed you previously letting you know this information to be responsive to your inquiries. Good luck, Amalie Nash, V.P. Journalism wrote.
“I don’t have a phone to God,” I would tell people in my face on some subject, and saved some 40 million in public funds over the years, mostly by killing things like $20 million to a am radio station to do traffic updates. That were already being done for free, as community service.
Mayor Suarez gives $7.5 million in services to FIFA, but venders cannot sell food or merchandise on streets during sporting events. This reduces local business support as the termed-out mayor walks out the door.
With billionaire Ken Griffin, saying “if mayor Suarez said jump.” His response is how high? As man tries to move past Arsht, home Villa Serena (a beautiful home and setting I went to when the school board had a reception their organized by Evelyn Greer) at the home and he is making a $20 million donation to the Trust.
He also wants a new corporate headquarters building in Miami, that the city has to approve. Further after all these years of typing my hands, fingers are deformed and there will never be another WDR again given the circumstances that made it possible, and the road this effort took. Help if you can, for there is more to do…
One “Miami Beach older lady once told me I don’t care were corrupt, what bothered her was how cheap we were. And with all this money being spread around the look is not good
>>> Miami-Dade County civics program off to a mixed start and one the county is farming out to MDC, $150,000. Is slotted for this program. But, like the required ethics training for county employees, this subject should also be included in the ethics training.
COMMUNTY EVENT
New Exhibitions to Open at the Warehouse
November 12, 2025 – April 4, 2026
MIAMI–The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse opens to the public this season with three exhibitions highlighting key moments of 20th Century art and photography history. https://www.margulieswarehouse.com/
Pop Art features sculpture and paintings from the 1960s through 1990s by Johns, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Chamberlain, and Segal. Records of the Past includes 60 photographs from the National Child Labor Committee by Lewis Hine. Additionally, this season we present an exhibition of Italian Art grounded in the 1960s movement Arte Povera where artists subverted traditional ways of making art by using ephemeral and “poor” materials. Our presentation of these art historically relevant exhibitions with contemporary art continues our founding mission to provide visitors with opportunities for active learning and direct engagement with the art.
>>> PAST media on what WDR has gone through: 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 Given having to move and low funding it is difficult for me to write, hope better next week. Losing Knight is a real blow.
>>> Further Baptist Health, and the health system is part of the healthcare constellation available to Miami residents and Baptist saved my life so I have a special interest in helping Baptist & Public JHS: for more go to https://baptisthealth.net/baptist-health-foundation
>>> 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.)
>> To contribute to the WDR send and make it payable to Daniel A. Ricker, I can now transfer the PayPal money. Hopefully some $ help will come in.
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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
>>> Army Corps of Engineers Director Captain Miller here: do you know U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R- Tampa? No, I said in a phone call suggested by Dr. Fran Bohnsack but a few days later.
I was at the Elephant Forum luncheon at the old downtown Sheraton, and Stanley J. Tate, (who would later become a special advisor to President George W. Bush and helped create The Florida College Prepaid program,) and had a black diplomatic passport. Tate, said he was playing golf with Young soon and I told him about the need for funding of the Miami River dredging, and through local U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-lehiten, R-Miami, Young got the funding request inserted and it was “included,” in the federal budget bill. After I saw this go through and it was completed and activated the river in property values to the city,
I did a few more side projects an enclosed dumpster pad at the Elementary school in the Grove with principal Dr. von Bebe, amazed since I took the problem to the Dir. Of construction who said it was wrong and a Ninja team did it in a few weeks, versus the six months Bebe had spent, with no luck.
>>>Miami River Maintenance Dredging: Federal Channel Dredging Project
The Miami River is a federally authorized channel constructed in the 1930s. The width of the channel varies from 150 feet wide at the mouth of the river, to 125 feet wide above the NW 17th Avenue bridge, to 90 feet wide above the NW 27th Avenue bridge. The federally authorized channel depth is –15 feet mean low water (MLW). The river has not been maintained since its construction. The dredging will restore the original constructed channel depths and increase efficiency and safety of port operations. The Miami River dredging project will remove accumulated infill; no blasting or removal of rock is included.
Funding is in place for the federal channel dredging which is scheduled to begin in summer or fall of 2002. The USACE is responsible for approximately 80% of the project costs and Miami-Dade County, as the Local Project Sponsor, is responsible for the remaining 20%. A local funding partnership including Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami, the State of Florida, and the Florida Inland Navigation District has been formed to pay the local dredging share.
>>Lotus House for families, where hope blossoms are in need of food donations https://lotushouse.org/ The vital organization that serves women and children has been a community asset for years under the guidance of Constance Collins. Since I have been food insecure it is a rehabilitating condition.
A Miami-Dade County committee meeting Friday discussed extensively that the county has few records of buried infrastructure, and causes numerous venders change orders. It also has some 90 miles of defective pipes from the mid-1970s, and poor records.
>>> Since my profile in the Coconut Grove Spotlight, my life has only gotten worse since I have to move and am eating at Mc Donalds. Here’s the positive article of my past years work. https://coconutgrovespotlight.com/2025/04/14/still-barking-a-watchdog-at-25/ :
AND Here is a national story that ran in all the Tribune Paper’s and Maya Bell the reporterhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/2003/01/20/i-go-when-you-cannot/ https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2003/01/20/i-go-when-you-cannot/ She spent a lot of time with me back then when the threats were coming in and my house was on police watch, so it would not be a public record, and safer for me as well as a columnist with The Miami Herald. These along with the internet were what I faced trying to bring competent, but good government to Miami public institutions, and JHS, as an uninsured person for five years back then.
This is almost what happened in 2000, after my debit card was scammed which happened Thursday, as well. But back then someone had to be a lobbyist for the citizens and I have never been arrested sued, or anything else and you had to be almost perfect as an Anglo in the changing Miami demographics, since coming in 1975, when I first came to Miami. After 25- weeks of yearly reports I am waiting to hear if support comes in. The things in the world are bad but local high-definition reporting is still important still important to have historical perspective with so many new peoples, here.
www.WHAT ABOUT KEEPING THEM HONEST.com? .https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312682193.html
The congressional delegation from U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Miami (net worth $2.22million /in 2021, and all our delegation members are Cuban’s and refugees themselves and their silence regarding the intimidation tactics used by ICE, is showing their lack of “due process,” and the broad sweep with ICE becoming the largest federal department, in the nation and for many a scary development, via a national federal law enforcement branch https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jul/11/jon-favreau/ICE-FBI-bill-Donald-Trump-largest/
Further, county commissioners be investigated by the independent sheriff’s public corruption division, and not the state FDLE.
>>> JHS, and developer Related Group, got approved by the City of Miami Housing & commercial loan committee Wednesday for a 27 story, 460 workforce housing units on the Jackson main campus. The units are expected to be completed by “November, December,” next year, said Albert Milo, Jr. a senior executive with Related Group, and there is a “30 percent priority,” for Jackson workforce in the Miami tight housing market, he said.
>>>In 2000, when I started the WDR, I made it free, rather than a select few many times lobbyists, and after 25 weekly years, and a benevolent landlord I have to move by December 16, and no easy task when not financially able, and frankly I thought I would die here given a variety of challenges over the years, but still ticking after threats, eating at a neighbor’s house and of course eating my way through government meetings.
>>>After 20-years I need community help to keep at this and know you have many demands on your finances but if you can please keep me going when you cannot. Thank you
>>> I was once asked by county commission chair Barbara Carey -Shuler what I thought in the press room in the chamber? I said it was a blend of announcer and umpire occasionally like when MPO was going to give $20 million to an obscure a.m. station to do traffic up-dates that are already being done as a community requirement for free.
The commission shot it down, but it had commissioner Joe Martinez saying to the board member, Ron Korngold on the TPO committee. Martinez said, “you’re on fire, bail out,” and the commission did not pass it, he would later be a partner at Jungle Island.
>>> Further, I write about the homeless since back in 2002. I was one of the people laying on the government center plaza and learned these people were essentially looked on as trash.
Further, for some reason October has traditionally been a tough month when it comes to fundraising. So, if you appreciate what I have done for almost 20-years weekly using thousands of my own money go to: The WDR report will return next week. I need a break thank you for your support over the past 20-years.
>>>Tree canopy on El Prado Blvd. a thing of the past with major lot clearings, canopy becoming thing of past as mega mansions dominate new architecture.
The Coconut Grove tree canopy is being severely reduced on El Prado Blvd., and city staff has a history of fast-tracking tree canopy destruction with only a $500.00 fine for some tree removals, that are heard at the code enforcement appeals board. The tree canopy is what gives the area such a great tax base for the city, that it totally disregards with denuded foliage homes lining the small south grove street.
Customs used to have a storied reputation as the first department created by the new congress in 1789. One longtime friend in custom’s remarked when the department was consolidated with immigration. He joked “everyone knew immigration was screwed up, and customs had one of the largest number of planes all shifted after departments were consolidated after 9/11.
.>>> Willy Bermello on social media is asking his supporters to remember Miami-Dade County, 11th Circuit Court Judge Mavel Ruiz (benign net worth $778,000.), a “Barack Obama,” supporter in 2027, when up for reelection, he posted on Facebook, let the retribution begin locally, sad.
The president of MDC is a political choice, after Dr. Eduardo Pedron, during his tenure built the powerhouse college still rising in rank, and would want the highest value profit, if land was sold. Padron would stand in rain storms talking to voters to get a sales tax passed, but failed at a state level years ago.
Since the judge stopped the transferring a Miami-Dade College parking lot for president Trumps presidential library, for the moment., Roberto Gonzalez (net worth in 2024 $1.7 million), the board’s chair. The man said he was unaware, what the development might be in the media.
Prominent Miami architect, Willy Bermello, on social media has him and Miami Commissioner Ralph Rosado, in the Oval Office with Trump, in a posting Bermello is on many Miami boards. The architect has been a community frontman, and tried to bring a grand Prix race to downtown but failed in 2004. Here are stories of the failed race idea,
Bermello’s company has a school board past member and a senior county employee. Here is more on the failed race: https://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/040115/story5.shtml on the race deal.
>>> Pam Joy Bondi Florida Attorney General (net worth $1.864 million in 2019), for eight years, which included a number years filing financial disclosure forms something the WDR, has thousands of these disclosures.
The general is not wealthy, given her past as a Hillsborough County assistant state attorney, and press spokeswoman, when in 2010 she decided to run at the height of the tea party movement, and a GOP wave back then that catapulted Marco Rubio to the senate seat held by retiring GOP Sen. Mel Martinez. For more on that race go to:https://www.cltampa.com/news/riding-the-republican-wave-tampas-pam-bondi-blows-out-dan-gelber-in-attorney-general-race-12308817/
I could not find the other owner of a one third interest in a condominium valued at $375,000. Bondi married twice has a “partner,” John Wakefield a financier, and she once dressed as a flight attendant on a flight to the Bahamas with other lawmakers and the photo has not been scrubbed but copyright a problem. I have it.
Americas humanity is what made America great, not abusing the weak and vulnerable.
Trump wishing, he was Gen. George Patton, in the movie, standing in front of a huge American flag like in the movie’s introduction. These flag commanders after 18-years of brutal combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, know the horrors of war all too well to be talked down to be a guard major, used to a platoon, to command, and made the stoic silence professional manner a firm rebuke to what theses warriors knew So well and have the battle ribbons to prove it.
The president hinted American “war torn,” cities could be used for urban fighting, by the military contrary to the constitution. A policy clearly https://www.miamidade.gov/charter/library/2025-10-10-agenda.pdfadministration forgets. A very good sign for the nation. The nation needs to stop hating each other, said a senior retired federal special agent to me recently. For more on Trump administration to:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-just-tried-to-rewrite-reality-but-it-can-t-stand-up-in-court-opinion/ar-AA1NTAfu?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=68e2858c14f9400f8b14f3e4f556f693&ei=6
>>> Here is a link to the charter deliberations, which will include the new five constitutional offices, annexation and incorporations, potentially in the potentially charter if the count commission approves it going on a ballot.
>>>>The new Inspector General for Miami is a retired Miami police major Antonio G. Diaz an over 30-year veteran with the force. The five-member selection committee didn’t do what the county did with their first inspector general Christpher Mazzella, a former FBI special agent, and new to Miami.
Diaz has to fight the ubiquitous “Friends and Families Plan,” when people get special favors. The WDR is worried Diaz might not give the independence to develop the community trust like Mazella did over the years, that Diaz has to establish.
>>> RFK, Jr. as Secretory of health &Human services, is a bridge to far. He may have a point re color additives but, he is not a scientist, engineer, or physician, and America better not have another outbreak like Covid, and his lack of knowledge, could hamper generations in the future. A man who had a brain worm removed has benefited from medical advances. But he is not a scientist or physicians and his refusal to listen to the scientific community, is dangerous to public health. (Don’t dare watch shows of his life the bear body in a park and whale incident, are just crazy entitled preppy behavior, given family tragedy), but concerning in this new role.
>>> I emphasize this because it is such a tragedy for America and our children, as he continues to make medical blunders, re autism & circumcision.
Americas medical advancements from stents to pacemakers, cutting edge, and his crusade on vaccines and incidents of smallpox rising a (highly contagious disease) once thought eradicated plus hepatitis B vaccination saving 20,000 patients said one US senator physician, in a hearing.
The attorney changing western medicine will go down in history as the destroyer of public health through acronyms. His role at the CDC with many scientists leaving after his odd wake-up call and shake-up. The man from a famous family has decided he’s a physician and God help the nation. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/covid-vaccine-costs-just-spiked-for-millions-thanks-to-rfk-jr/ar-AA1Lv007?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=0ddd9c0047a14bdd8dd4527847e5d628&ei=12
Further, having worked in the cardiac pacing world so advanced now knowing one of the driving forces Dr. Michel Mirowski, of the implantable defibrillator team at Johns Hopkins University, and driving a force in the team when other physicians laughed at the idea of shocking the heart, and the physician is a Holocaust survivor. Kennedy” questioning at the Senate makes him seem nuts, and disrespectable to the questioning senators.
>>> The Jackson Health System, Christine E. Lynn, rehabilitation center was ranked “#48 in the country,” and one of the best, after only three years in the nation by News & World Report rankings said CEO Migoya at Wednesday’s PHT board meeting.
Migoya, told of a young stroke bleed recovery, that was remarkable, and is: the highest distinction for the new facility after a countywide bond was passed replacing an old appalling decrepit rehab facility, highly criticized. Migoya noted new wellness, sites for yoga, aroma, and a puppy.
What about the decertification of The Miami Transplant Program?
Migoya, Wednesday, said it would “have no impact, on patients at Jackson. And the usual lifesaving [operations as] previous,” are being done, the CEO said.
>>> What about the new PHT trustee Abigail Price-Williams, Esq., a highly respected attorney, and longtime trustee Laurie Nuell Weiss, is leaving and her father Jay Weiss was a major benefactor to JHS, and has a statue in his honor. His daughter Laurie also a past trustee of the Children’s Trust as well and twice on the PHT board serving as Trust Secretary. She was a good model as trustee, and the WDR thanks her for community service over almost 25-years when I first met her at the trust board meeting.
>>> I should be dead if it were not for the surgical skill of Dr. Jorge Rabaza and technology, at South Miami hospital to heal me after becoming septic having waited too long since no health insurance.
Kennedy’s role at the CDC is almost a Dark Ages, philosophy from the past heroin addict that claims faith God has filled the tragic family’s history void he felt when using the narcotic now in charge of the nation’s health, for a change has physicians clamoring, for new scientific research before America gets in serious health problem after the big announcement about Tylenol and Autism….
However, medical advances like the COVID vaccination Operation Warp Speed, saved thousands of lives. Politics is one thing but science and medicine is based on validated research not wild rumors. And the CDC role globally cannot be underestimated. Having sold pacemakers in Japan because the Japanese medical industry wanted to take risk of Sony pacemaker killing a grandmother in a Japan, I am a Constitutionalist but this CDC issue is a disaster waiting to happen and physicians nationwide are calling for his resignation.
>>> Further, no help from my readers has come in. I know times are tough for all of us but if you can Thank you, I had to forgo a number of meals recently. Thankfully, I was able to transfer from my PayPal act. Another miracle keeps me going thank you readers Dan.
>>> ‘Full Force,’ instructions to troops being sent to Portland is being a crossing of the Rubicon for the American Constitution, many are saying, with a compliant congress. Trump’s push of presidential powers is a work in progress, with the hollowing out of federal institutions, ongoing, with a budget showdown looming in the coming days.
America and Miami are reeling from the local firing of three Assistant U.S. Attorneys, in The Southern District of Florida, and across the nation and throw in the indictment of James Comey, and potentially Christopher Wray.
“Miami is the graduate school for fraud.” said Alex Acosta, while Miami U.S. Attorney, but we are losing some of our top fraud prosecutors.
>>> Miguel “mike” Fernandez, a veteran penned another letter in the Miami Herald calling out the hypocrisy of the Trump Library being next to the historic Freedom Tower Miami’s Statue of Liberty, to many Cuban Americans. And the man has been criticized by many for speaking out over what’s happening in America and the rough immigration policies.
>>>And I am surprised more leaders are not sticking their neck out, like Fernandez about the rough treatment of immigrants and not the bad people, drug dealers, rapists they are claiming in a recruitment ad ICE is interested in, says the hiring COMMERCIAL, given how many Cuban immigrants have come to Miami I am surprised, how alone and vilified Fernandez has become, from his letters decrying harsh treatment.
The County Charter Review Task Force met last Wednesday, and during the discussion on increasing commissioners’ salaries like San Antonio Texas was able to do. One board member suggested “giving cover,” for the salary imitative with the public he suggested and is fine, just poor choice of words, in Miami, said Mike Redondo a task force member.
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>>>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
>>> 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 3692 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 of 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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