A garbage executive named James Feeley wants to build a giant garbage transfer station in Sunrise that the people don’t want and the city doesn’t need. It’s so unpopular that neighboring Tamarac is sending busloads of angry residents to protest it tonight. But Feeley, who has had extensive business ties with Wayne Huizenga, might…
Since October, Greater Fort Lauderdale has been enjoying the tourist revenue that comes with being a destination for transvestite folk dancers (from Canada). It’s all thanks to this article, which appeared that month in the Toronto Star, Canada’s most widely circulated daily paper.But this past weekend, the newspaper posted a…
At least two major construction contracts doled out by the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority in the past year were supposed to be advertised for competitive bids but were not. It begs the question of whether the recipients of those no-bid contracts received favors from city officials. And it comes while…
Slow news day, working on a couple things that aren’t ripe yet. One thing: Just got George Levin, Scott Rothstein’s largest investor, on the phone. I told him I thought it would be great for everyone if he told me his story. “I don’t have a problem with that,” he…
Well, congressional candidate Allen West had to do something to stand out at last week’s CPAC. That’s newly posted video of his speech. At 3:35, he says:A nation goes to war against an ideology. We are against something that is a totalitarian, theocratic, political ideology, and it is called Islam…
The 16th-annual Lake Worth Street Painting Festival took over downtown this weekend, filling the streets with dust-smudged artists, busy coaxing masterpieces out of chalk and pavement. There were belly-dancing hippies, unwashed anarchists, kids in Statue of Liberty hats, and a musician playing a hand saw. Welcome to the glory that…
While the National Hockey League takes a break for the Winter Olympics, fans are keeping themselves busy with trade talk, and one of the hottest pieces of gossip involves a cornerstone of the Florida Panthers franchise: goaltender Tomas Vokoun.During these Olympics, Vokoun’s been terrific in net for a surprising Czech…
Larry Deetjen, the longtime city manager of Deerfield Beach now working in the Midwest, has landed his new city in legal trouble. The landlords of a minority-dominated housing complex in Oak Lawn, Ilinois, say that Deetjen, as village manager, made racially insensitive remarks about the building’s tenants. Last week, those…
The local headlines this Monday morning:Hollywood’s charter review committee has drafted a list of ethics reforms that would try to prevent incidents like the one that got former commissioner Keith Wasserstrom thrown in jail. But those reforms still need the support of the city seven commissioners. [Miami Herald]Broward State Attorney…
The following is an email that Broward Mayor Ken Keechl sent Friday to a constituent who had inquired about his Scott Rothstein contributions and was “dismayed” over his campaign spending. In it, he seems to have provided corruption investigators a motive for why he’s paying himself so much money in…
The former treasurer and vice president of the Deerfield Beach nonprofit group Arlington Park Family left that position after misgivings about the way the charity was spending the $30,000 it was given by the city.Archie McKeithen, 80, remembers attending a meeting in 2007, shortly after Arlington Park Family won the…
Guess the Christian Defense Coalition hasn’t been reading the Juice lately.If it had, it would have figured out that the fatal shooting of Tite Sufra and Stephen Ocean in Boynton Beach on January 30 probably had exactly nothing to do with the fact that it was evangelizing. But the Rev…
Wealthy Palm Beach polo patron John Goodman has a history of cocaine abuse and was accused this past April of dodging divorce-court-ordered drug screenings, according to records in his divorce court. Goodman, who is under investigation for his high-speed stop-sign-running Bentley crash that killed 23-year-old Scott Wilson in Wellington last week, was accused last year in…
The black Mercedes that smashed through the front door of Windsor Diamonds in Fort Lauderdale this afternoon did not have a political motive. I say this because after yesterday’s kamikaze attack on the IRS building in Texas, we’re all a bit jumpy about people driving things into buildings where they…
Broward Health Commissioner Mike Fernandez is being investigated by the Broward State Attorney’s Office for criminal corruption. The investigation was launched after Juice reported potential conflicts of interest between Fernandez’s public office and his private work as a salesman for SonoSite, an ultrasound manufacturer that services the hospital district.He is…
The Pembroke Pines city commissioners are debating whether to hire an internal auditor. In these cash-strapped times, they’re looking for someone who will monitor the Broward suburb’s spending habits and report on them truthfully, without feeling beholden to the city manager.Not surprisingly, City Manager Charlie Dodge isn’t keen on the…
A reporter for CNN’s Campbell Brown came to South Florida to hear Scott Rothstein’s Ponzi story from the man who’s been telling it better than anyone: New Times columnist Bob Norman. He appears at the one-minute mark of the video below. At the three-minute mark, Norman shows the reporter Rothstein’s…
We’re going to have some real federal drama in town next month, and it’s not going to have a thing to do with Scott Rothstein. I’m talking about former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman’s criminal trial, where we’re going to learn more details than ever before about the FBI sting operation that netted…
They all hate taxes, so why can’t all tea partiers love one another? This week has revealed divisions within the tea party activist community of South Florida, and in Central Florida the infighting has spilled into the courts, where an Orlando radio host is being accused of “hijacking” the tea…
This South Florida winter has been the coldest since… I think the Ice Age, actually. Even we native Midwesterners are bitching. At the moment, it’s a chilly 50 degrees in Fort Lauderdale — the last bleak day before a warm-up, our local forecasters promise. Meanwhile, in Lauderdale, Minnesota, it’s currently…
