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Info: arshtcenter.org/parking 305.949.6722 • arshtcenter.org DINING HOT SPOT! May 2010 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 3 Contents COVER STORY 1 As the Market Turns COMMENTARY 6 Feedback: Letters 10 Miami’s King: Jack King 12 Word on the Street OUR SPONSORS 33 8 BizBuzz NEIGHBORHOOD CORRESPONDENTS 24 Jen Karetnick: Teachers in the Crosshairs 26 Frank Rollason: Trust Our County Commissioners! 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Restaurants! 4 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com May 2010 May 2010 Biscayne Times • www.BiscayneTimes.com 5 Commentary: FeedbaCk Letters to the Editor The View from My Desk off on a bicycle that was left outdoors, Many thanks for Erik Bojnansky’s excel- and having a few things stolen out of my lent article on the decay of the Little car when I forgot to lock it. But those Farm Trailer Park (“From Lovely to crimes occur in every neighborhood, and Lousy to Lost,” April 2009). I am living quite frankly, they were my own fault. next to the trailer park in an apartment Frank Rollason’s need to be armed building. I agree with the author’s main when doing yard work seems quite arguments on why the trailer park suf- extreme to me, but his home is much fers.