Word: carollo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CAROLLO Shenanigan season's over. Appeals court returns Miami's onetime mayor to office...
...city's financial woes are made worse by recordkeeping so poor that even City Hall can't tell where the red ink is leaking. Mayor Joe Carollo, who took office last July and inherited the current financial mess, concedes that the $68 million deficit figure is little more than a guess, given the state of the city's books. "We know less about our checkbook than the average husband and wife do," says Thomas Tew, a lawyer advising the city...
...Mayor Carollo insists his constituents are not ready to give up on the city. He vows to "rebuild Miami from top to bottom" and says technical support from the state in areas like budgets and capital planning will make a real difference. But the first step is for the city to develop a workable plan for getting expenditures and revenues in balance, and that has not happened yet. What may save Miami in the short run is not so much Carollo's drive for reform but old-fashioned ethnic politics. Latinos have a lock on Miami government; four...
Miami has had more than its share of calamity in the past few years, including Hurricane Andrew, major riots in black neighborhoods and a nasty wave of tourist murders. But with the current fiscal crisis, the stakes are higher than ever. If Carollo can stave off bankruptcy and persuade voters to reject dissolution, he could be remembered as one of Miami's most important mayors. If he fails, he may be remembered as its last...
...Goldsmith Award in Investigative Journalism went to Russell Carollo, Carol Hernandez, Jeff Nesmith and Cheryl Reed of the Dayton Daily News for investigative work on "Military Secrets" and "Prisoners on Payroll...