When Staples announced that it intended to buy Boca Raton-based Office Depot in February, it was déjà vu all over again.
The Framingham, Massachusetts-based firm, No. 1 in the world for office supplies, aimed to join with its smaller competitor to cut costs, just like Office Depot did with OfficeMax in 2013.
Starboard Value LP, a New York-based activist investor with majority interests in both Staples and Office Depot, seemed to again play a large role in the acquisition. The company urged the…
Finally, an investigative report that penetrates the hard but brittle shell of Jeb Bush. Read Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker on Jeb and his failed Everglades experiments. For all Jeb did for Big Sugar, it is ironic the Fanjuls have thrown all their weight behind Marco Rubio, Jeb's former legislative whip on all things pro-sugar.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/04/swamped-the-political-scene-dexter-filkins New Yorker
Pepe Diaz the puppet. You always know what he will say...what ever the developer said. He is arguing about the size of our wellfield protection zone that it should have been made smaller to not to interfere with this property.
Juan Zapata (the commissioner of the district) made a motion to transmit and deny. He doesn't believe the covenant means anything that the developer offered to put on. Only Barbara Jordan believed the covenant and SHE was one of the Commissioners that lifted it on the Brown application. What a creepy thing to do...to act like it has meaning when Barbara Jordan knows she helped make it meaningless by lifting the covenant against residential on the last application that moved the line. At least Juan Zapata wasn't fooled by the covenants.
He made the same motion for Green City that failed. Zapata had Souto, Jordan, Bovo, Barreiro (will someone run against him), and of course Pepe Diaz. The developer begged that someone locate Monestime.
It is a 6 to 5 vote in favor to transmit and deny. Monestime not there. It needed 7. Absent Districts 4 and 2 districts. No: Districts 3, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Zapata made a motion to deny, that passed.
A woman from Catalyst Miami with Miguel DeGrandy in the background.
Drew Martin from the Sierra Club Everglades Committee with that Dick Rep. Erik Fresen sitting behind Martin. (This "DICK" reference is not to be confused with Julie Dick). Erik is working for the developer
When Staples announced that it intended to buy Boca Raton-based Office Depot in February, it was déjà vu all over again.
The Framingham, Massachusetts-based firm, No. 1 in the world for office supplies, aimed to join with its smaller competitor to cut costs, just like Office Depot did with OfficeMax in 2013.
Starboard Value LP, a New York-based activist investor with majority interests in both Staples and Office Depot, seemed to again play a large role in the acquisition. The company urged the…
