Hallandale Beach has a tradition of paying a city manager who doesn’t show up for work; so now that commissioners have fired Mike Good, it’s fitting that they should give him one more giant paycheck on his way out the door.Yesterday, the commission moved to give Good a severance package…
There’s nothing particularly dynamic about the U.S. Senate campaign being run by Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene — except when you compare it to the one by Miami Congressman Kendrick Meek. Greene doesn’t really have a message, unless you count his constant bellyaching about “career politicians.” This is a guy…
A rundown of what’s news in South Florida:A day after Scott Rothstein was sentenced to 50 years in prison, the speculation begins about which of his associates will be charged next. Two prime candidates: his law partners Russ Adler and Stuart Rosenfeldt. [Sun-Sentinel]Loan modification programs must not be working –…
One of the things that best defines the disjointed urban sprawl of Broward and Palm Beach counties is food. Food comforts and satiates — it makes our daily commute down I-95 bearable, and it helps us look past our differences and come together. As a run-up to our Best Of…
Sue Krentz answered the phone about 6 p.m. It was March 27, a Saturday, and she was in Phoenix, tending to her aged parents as a sister attended a conference. Sue usually doesn’t stray from her family’s venerable cattle ranch in Cochise County for too long at a stretch. But…
Above is the video I shot of Kim Rothstein leaving the courthouse. I had a great start because I was separated from the pack of photogs, who weren’t even allowed to cross the sidewalk. It goes downhill from there; I could have gotten great video of the car entry, but I held the…
With all the money Broward Health spends on lawyers, you’d think it would be able to cut down on its legal blunders. The district, it seems, has a tendency to pay its lawyers excessively — and to continue paying long after those lawyers have left.The latest example is Joe Truhe,…
Hyman Taylor, the star center for the 2005 Cardinal Gibbons High School basketball team, was murdered Tuesday evening outside an Ikea store in Emeryville, California, on the outskirts of Oakland. Taylor attended the University of San Francisco on a basketball scholarship.According to this report in the San Francisco Chronicle, police…
Now that Scott Rothstein has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for his billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the question is whether he’ll actually serve all of it. The answer is likely no, but his best-case scenario still may not save him from dying in prison. Legal experts say Rothstein has…
As union reps work feverishly to prevent 200 jobs in the City of Pembroke Pines from being outsourced to a private firm, that firm has fallen under close scrutiny. Facility Contract Services, the St. Augustine-based company chosen to take over the task of providing city services ranging from auditing to zoning,…
Jozy Altidore, the Boca Raton-born forward for the United States World Cup team, survived his first full practice since an ankle sprain and now will be available Saturday when the Americans open tournament play with a match against England.He’s one of two key players with health concerns — the other…
Scott Rothstein will spend 50 years in prison, a federal judge decided this morning. The sentence ends a seven-month saga since Rothstein’s empire crumbled. Once one of South Florida’s most politically connected lawyers, he swindled more than a billion dollars in perhaps the biggest fraud case in Florida history. Below…
Scott Rothstein was sentenced this morning to five decades in prison by U.S. District Court Judge James Cohn. The judge was vocal not only about the $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme in which investors lost an estimated $429 million but also about Rothstein’s forgery of federal officers and bogus court papers,…
A bill that would require women in Florida to pay for an ultrasound before getting an abortion will tell us much about whether Charlie Crist the Republican has had major philosophical shifts since he became Charlie Crist the independent.If he vetoes it, Marco Rubio will brand Crist a hypocrite and…
Just another Wednesday morning for most of us; but then, most of us aren’t Scott Rothstein:Broward County’s most colorful criminal will finally be sentenced to prison in connection with his $1.4 billion Ponzi scheme. Updates and analysis here and on Bob Norman’s blog. [Daily Pulp]After 16 months of haggling, the…
Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition for Three Remaining SubscribersGood idea, Onion. But the Sun-Sentinel has already tried this strategy. It was called “The Help Team.”…
I know that looks like a prematurely published headline, but it’s just in anticipation of tomorrow’s news. I’ll be there to faithfully report on the proceedings, and we should have some good coverage overall. As soon as we get the sentence, those x’s above will be filled in with the real numbers. I’m sticking…
Mitch Ceasar, clown dictator of the Broward County Democratic Party, has lent his not-considerable wit to a column for today’s edition of the Huffington Post. Since your time is valuable (and mine is only slightly less valuable!), I will cut straight to his lounge-act punch lines. For optimal effect, you’ll…
Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale-based yacht captain was boating about 12.5 miles offshore from Port Everglades when he and his passengers noticed the oil slick pictured above. According to the captain, the slick was about a half-mile long. It was unlike anything he had seen in years on the water. He…
It’s the second day of the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, which must bring a wave of nostalgia for a Weston retiree named Jeffrey Hammonds. Eighteen years ago, he was the Stanford University outfielder selected as the fourth pick in the draft. Two picks later, the New York Yankees picked…
