County Commissioner Katy Sorenson
This dinner is for you!
Orchid and Onions Award Dinner
The Urban Environment League is hosting our Annual Award Dinner/Annual Meeting
in honor of:
County Commissioner Katy Sorenson
Masters of Ceremony:
Jim DeFede and UEL President Fran Bohnsack
Commissioner Sorenson will be leaving office this [...]
This is a follow-up to our May 6th article on LED Billboards proposed for the Arsht Center Area.
Towers of Babel: visual pollution in the downtown
By DANIEL ROTH SHOER (Google Translation of article written in Spanish)
Be careful, monsters coming to devour electronic urban aesthetics of Miami.
They come dressed as cherubs and [...]
Columnist Jackie Bueno Sousa said in the Miami Herald that the Jackson Health System Board should not be politicized. She takes issue with putting, for example, union representatives on the board:
Putting labor in the boardroom only worsens the accountability problem and muddies the issue of financial responsibility.
She instead recommends that the Board [...]
This dinner is shaping up to be a fascinating experience. We now have 8 candidates in the race as Rabbi Marmorstein just submitted paperwork this week and he has confirmed he will be coming. It should be interesting to hear the views of the candidates on countywide issues. (Hit on [...]
The UEL has been opposed to the visual blight caused by the already existing billboards – legal and illegal ones now standing.
To allow a 220 ft. lit billboard is opening the door for a new type of outdoor sign element that will proliferate. When Siffen got approval [...]
(hit on image to enlarge it).
RSVP:
Natalia Villegas, natalia_villagas@wpbt.org or
Danielle Thomas, thomasda@wpbt.org
305-424-4190
Complimentary Valet Parking
May 5th at 6:00 pm there will be a meeting at the Arsht Center (free parking) about 200 feet tall LED Billboards proposed for downtown. They will have 4 faces: Two Facing SW and SE and two will face SE towards Venetian Causeway. The signs will be placed on [...]
The UEL had taken a position against offshore drilling off Florida’s Coast in a resolution previously published in April 2009.
Kendrick Meek has started a petition demanding A Moratorium on New Offshore Drilling in the Gulf!
Meek said: “The disaster in the Gulf just underscores the need for a moratorium on any new [...]
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