Mayor Sally Philips suspects the vandalism is linked to a recent ordinance that criminalizes panhandling.

The welcome sign at the entrance to the City of South Miami touts the Miami-Dade suburb as “The City of Pleasant Living.” But in a recent instance of either cosmic irony or cynical vandalism shared on social media by Islandia Journal publisher Jason Katz, the letter L on the sign has gone missing, and the municipality’s motto now reads: “The City of Peasant Living.”…