Liguori's Fired Up Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting

Yesterday I joined a large group from the Davie-Cooper City Chamber of Commerce at the grand opening and ribbon cutting at Liguori's Fired Up! This business is a wood oven pizzeria. Wood is actually used to fire the pizza ovens. I have eaten a lot of pizza in my life--some of it quite good. But I don't think I've ever tasted better pizza than at Liguori's Fired Up. Highly recommended, and well worth the drive from all points in Broward, Dade, Palm Beach, Monroe, Collier, Martin counties, and beyond. Fortunately, it's close to my house, so we'll be back soon to try some of the other items on their menu.

Located at 5810 S. University Drive, Davie, FL; which is the Northeast Corner of University Drive & Stirling Rd. (the Target shopping center--located on east side of Plaza near Office Max ).

Photo: Liguori's Fired Up Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting [*click* photo to enlarge]

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Problems with the election count in Broward County (again)???

• Fact # 1: Almost any method of counting votes is adequate in a landslide election.
• Fact # 2: No method of counting votes is completely accurate in an extremely close and big turnout election.

I participated in the recount of the presidential election in 2000. A few years later I was an official observer of the recount of a local election with the "touch screen" voting system. The "new" technology now implemented by the Supervisor of Elections is no better than the previous methods--and probably worse. I don't blame the Broward County Supervisor of Elections, Brenda Snipes. She didn't have much to do with selecting the technology or buying the equipment.

Based on the primary election on August 26, 2008, I'm smelling the potential for a meltdown at the elections office next November. For one thing, it took hours after the polls closed for the returns to start being posted by the Supervisor of Elections. For another thing, as I write this note late in the morning the day following the election, there are still a number of precincts listed on the Supervisor of Elections web site as "not reporting."

• Possibility #1: All precincts have reported, but someone forgot to update the web site. Lack of attention to detail is never a good sign.
• Possibility #2: All precincts really have not been tallied. In an election with about a 10% turnout, not having the votes counted by the next day is not a good sign either.

Graphic: Map of precinct activity the morning after the primary election. Note the light gray areas which represent precincts "not reporting." [*click* photo to enlarge; or look at the other screen saved from the Supervisor of Elections web site the day after the primary, showing only 725 out of 779 precincts reporting. That's 7% still missing! ]

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Broward County Commission Moves Forward With Airport Plans

The Broward County Commission is marching forward with plans to expand the Airport--ignoring all indications that costs will top a billion dollars, and will seriously impair the quality of life for many thousands of Broward County residents. Follow the money. I've linked a slightly edited Memo from the Town of Davie, summarizing the latest County Workshop; and link to the County's Powerpoint presentation (4.9 MB).

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