Some weeks ago, heart surgeon Don Williams wrote a letter to the chairman of the board of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, complaining about the institution where he's worked for almost 20 years, much of that time as head of the department of surgery:
Members of an organization nearly as old as the city of Miami think it's time to save their decaying bayfront home.
This week's cover story profile of Mount Sinai Medical Center by John Dorschner is a reminder of how important real estate is to all of South Florida. The venerable institution has been hampered by a land purchase it made at the dawn of this decade.
One of Andrew Goodyear's clients, a recent amputee, didn't want to leave the house because of the stress of having to maneuver out of a wheelchair and into a car.
MY VIEW
More competition is better for consumers, and airlines are better, healthier and can offer more choices when their networks are bigger. Recently, American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia announced plans to work closer together on transatlantic flights in a way that will strengthen worldwide competition through improved service we offer to our customers. To make this happen, our three airlines -- along with oneworld Alliance members that fly transatlantic routes, Finnair and Royal Jordanian...
How poor is poor enough for adequate food stamps? On Aug. 18, in the Letters to the Editor, Don Blackburn exposed the Food Stamps program and its inequities regarding the determination as to how and who gets to qualify for food stamps.
AUTOMOTIVE Craig Pollock has been promoted to group vice president and assistant general manager of Southeast Toyota Distributors, a subsidiary of JM Family Enterprises. Pollock was most recently vice president of field sales operations for JM&A Group, another JM Family company.
Q: I am a store manager in a fast-growing retail company. A few months ago, a new CEO was brought in to run our business. Since his arrival, the company seems to be headed in the wrong direction. However, the CEO apparently believes that everything is fine and no mistakes are being made.
Filings for the Southern District of Florida: Universal Security Group, P.O. Box 770310, Miami. Chapter 7. James A. Poe, 305-670-3950.
Editor's note: The following listing was first published in Business Monday on Aug. 11, but did not include the residence. Although county records and other sources showed the sale and the property as unimproved, the property is, in fact, improved with a single family residence.
BUSINESS BOOKS
Repeat after me: ``There is no job security.'' Even if you're the most competent person in the company -- or the world -- sundry circumstances affect your tenure. Dealing with these uncertainties is now part of every employee's responsibilities, though the basics of ''doing your job'' and being mindful of your actions and how you are perceived by your boss and your co-workers still apply.
The fruits of Spain's economic transformation found their way to María Dolores Barroso's cafe. Fueled in large part by a massive building boom, the Spanish ''miracle'' brought new jobs to legions of construction industry workers -- many of whom would pack her cafe at sundown, dropping their euros on beer and savory tapas well into the madrileño night.
From the golden earth of Castile-La Mancha, the stomping grounds of Don Quixote just south of Madrid, came the building blocks of Spain's economic miracle. Over the past 15 years, construction companies mined the soil here to churn out bricks, tiles and cement 24 hours a day, feeding the great Spanish housing boom.
5 QUESTIONS WITH RICK BEASLEY
The economic downturn is putting a new spotlight on South Florida Workforce, one of 24 employment agencies that receives state and federal funding for training and placing workers. The agency covers Miami-Dade and Monroe counties with an operating budget of $60 million.
MONDAY Business Opportunity Presentations: Learn how to start travel business and earn money with Your Travel Biz in Spanish every Monday and Tuesday; 7 p.m., Doral Chamber of Commerce, 8181 NW 36th St., Doral; free, advance registration required. 305-477-7600 or DoralChamberofCommerce.org.
THE FORECLOSURE ECONOMY
In South Florida's real-estate gold rush, the promise of instant wealth drew thousands of players into the local housing market. Cheap money flowed from lenders' coffers lubricating a vast matrix of builders, sellers and buyers. No credit, bad credit, no problem.
MANUFACTURING
Few companies in recent years have endured the turmoil of Pompano Beach body-armor producer Point Blank Solutions: The arrests of former top executives on charges of looting the company;
5 QUESTIONS WITH JEFF OLSON
On Friday mornings, Chief Executive Jeff Olson and his team at Equity One sit down and go through every vacancy in the 145 shopping centers spread largely across Florida and the Southeast.
SMALL BUSINESS
Usually it's the children who join the parents' company, but at Allied Kitchen & Bath in Fort Lauderdale it was just the opposite.
MONEY TALKS
Years ago, when I worked in Louisville, Ky., I went to a going-away party for a copy editor who was moving to another paper. I noticed everyone greeted the honoree with ''30.'' That's the symbol that was used to show that a story had ended back when they were typed on paper before being printed.
