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BOUND>>

Hood chats it up with Shawn C. Bean, author of The First Hollywood, a book about the early years of silent movie making in Florida’s very own movie mecca — Jacksonville?

THE 411>>

Yeah, there were more stars out during Miami’s New Year celebrations than you could shake a stick at, but the big news was that the gold laden, skimpy speedo sportin’ Michael Phelps was spotted swimming in the rooftop pool at the Gansevoort…

FILM>>

Go ahead punk, make our day and watch the latest flick from the greatest, oldest tough guy left in the effete world of movie making. Yup, Clint Eastwood is back baby and although he’s an old coot, he’s an asskickin’ one and that’s all that counts. Oh, and Hudak actually liked Gran Torino.

FILM CAPSULES>>

MUSIC>>

Real Animal is the strongest album that Alejandro Escovedo has ever made. Well, at least that’s what he tells Alan Sculley. But, who cares about that, this guys band Nuns was the opening act for the infamous last ever show by the Sex Pistols. And, that rocks!

THE 2008 SUNPOST YEAR IN REVIEW>>

The 2008 [Somewhat Accurate and Mostly Sarcastic, or Perhaps the Other Way Around ] Year in Review

The 2008 SunPost 50

April 24, 08

George M. Burgess

The Manager

George Burgess has served as Miami-Dade county manager since June 2003. Together with Mayor Carlos Alvarez, he leads the day-to-day shenanigans of a government with more than 30,000 employees and a $6.9 billion budget.

Burgess has been the name at the front of many controversial Miami-Dade community initiatives during the past few years, including the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (formerly the Carnival Center) in downtown Miami.

It has been noted that Burgess has brought a corporate (for profit?) management style to county government, instituting a nationally recognized model to guide the operations of the county’s 60 or so departments and agencies.

Burgess graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public administration from the University of Maine before beginning his 20-year career with Miami-Dade County as a management trainee in 1982. He has held senior roles with both the county and Miami-Dade Public Schools and was responsible for all budgetary and related functions when he served as chief financial officer for the school system from 2002-2003.

Burgess also served four years as an assistant county manager, which is pretty much the county bean counter who gets to time how long government employees take in the bathroom, or whatever it is that managing performance and efficiency activities entails Furthemore, Burgess served the county as director of the Office of Management and Budget, deputy budget director and capital budget coordinator.

The Southeast Conference on Public Administration honored George Burgess as its Public Administrator of the Year in 2007, which is cool if you like that sort of thing.


Armando Aguilar	Lin Arison	Ricky Arriola	Adrienne Arsht	Marleine Bastien	Peter Bober	Matti Herrera Bower	Norman Braman

George M. Burgess	Charles W. Burkett	Donald Carlin	Charlie Cinnamon	Mary Conway	David Custin	Alex Daoud	Brett David

Jim DeFede	Frank Del Vecchio	Edward DeValle II	Lucia Dougherty & Carter McDowell	Peter Ehrlich	Gary Farmer	Jorge Fernandez & Julie O. Bru	Matthew B. Gorson

Andi Greenwald	Julie Greiner	Alan Lieberman	Keith London	Martin Z. Margulies	Keith Menin	Dana Nottingham	Tommy Pooch & Alan Roth

Gerald Posner	Manuel Prieguez Jr.	Louis Puig	Terry Riley	Luiz Rodrigues	Blanka A. Rosenstiel	Hiram Ruiz	Joe Sanchez

Don Slesnick	Nicola Siervo	Javier Souto	Ike Starkman	Michael Stern	David Sugarman	Michael Tilson Thomas	Gillian Thomas
		2008 SunPost 50 Credits Editor: Rachael Lee Coleman Writers: Cynthia Archbold, Angie Hargot, Lee Molloy and Ben Torter Copy Editors: Mary Louise English and Ken Rivadeneira Web Editor: Angie Hargot Illustrator: Christian Meesey Page Designer: Michael Menchero
John Timoney	Larry Wilker		Special Honors: George Berlin

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