Shared Items - February 20, 2009

• Ocean Drive Magazine founder moves on (Miami Herald)

February 19, 2009 - Jerry Powers, who founded Ocean Drive Magazine in 1991, and stayed on after selling the business in late 2007, has resigned, with plans to launch a new venture.
• Homicides are on the rise in Miami-Dade County (Miami Herald)

February 19, 2009 - The number of homicides in unincorporated Miami-Dade County rose significantly in 2008, but robberies and burglaries were down, county officials said Wednesday.
• Models to pick up portfolios at shuttered Irene Marie agency (Miami Herald)

February 19, 2009 - The owner of a top modeling agency in South Beach that closed its doors last week due to a downturn in advertising was in her office on Thursday.
• Miami Beach mayor's Colombian remark prompts calls for resignation (Miami Herald)

February 19, 2009 - Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower -- the city's first Cuban-American mayor -- has been called out by Miami Republican State Rep. Juan Zapata for a comment she made at a city commission meeting last month referring to Colombians as drug dealers.