Based on Tim Elfrink’s feature story in this week’s issue of New Times, it’s evident that Chinese drywall is anepic American disaster. He explains how greed and recklessness tripped a row of dominoes : from the Chinese manufacturers to the home builders to the developers, and finally the politicians. The…
You saw “RRA” all over Miami Dolphins games, Heat games, Panthers games, last year’s BCS National Championship game at the Orange Bowl, a Don King-promoted boxing match, even the Super Bowl. The Ponzi schemer was also in regular contact with football stars like Channing Crowder, Ronnie Brown, and Jay Fiedler…
On January 15, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will have a special session to vote on whether to fire its city manager of three years, Mike Mahaney. That motion was brought at Tuesday’s raucous meeting (video here). This afternoon, I spoke with the maker of the motion, Commissioner Bill Ganz.”If…
Slice Pizzeria in downtown Fort Lauderdale has sold a piece of its pie to Aaron Carter. The pop star showed up yesterday afternoon at the restaurant, on SE First Street, to sign autographs for fans. But, um, I’m not sure they did a terrific job promoting it. “We didn’t notice…
Thomas Jones, an officer with the Boynton Beach Police Department, has been fired following his arrest for domestic battery in January of last year. Jones was acquitted in a jury trial in April, but in a memo released today, Boynton Beach City Manager Kurt Bressner explained that the “legal standard…
When his wife was arrested for allegedly plotting to have him killed last August, Boynton Beach resident Michael Dippolito said he was shocked. He told police that he and Dalia Dippolito were on a “fast-track” relationship and got along so well that “we were together 24/7,” he told Matt Lauer…
Broward Circuit Judge John “Jay” Hurley called me last night to offer his take on numerous issues that have been written about on the blog. Suffice it to say it was a productive and insightful conversation on a few fronts, the first of which was any influence Ponzi schemer Scott…
Technically, Andre Dawson is the first Florida Marlin to be inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. But that’s merely a trivia question: Dawson retired as a Marlin in 1996 after having arrived here the previous year. We’re still waiting for the first player to be inducted into…
Discovery documents released in the case of Brandon Deyo, the 23-year-old Jupiter man arrested in December on charges of transmitting child pornography, reveal that Deyo had been downloading the porn in large batches overnight at the house of a friend’s parents in Jupiter. The predilection for young children seems to…
Citing “unnamed sources” in the North Broward Hospital District, Commissioner Robert Bernstein has told Juice that two of his colleagues — Commissioners Joseph Cobo and Mike Fernandez — will not attend the district’s January 27 meeting and that their likely motive is to avoid a vote on Bernstein’s motion to…
A few weeks ago, we announced that we’d be going glossy. Well, that day has arrived. Newsstands today will carry our first glossy issue, which is also nicely trimmed and stapled.The premiere glossy issue features Tim Elfrink’s story “Homesick,” which delves into the Chinese drywall issue affecting South Florida homeowners…
There are dozens of reasons South Floridians should be cheering for the University of Texas in tonight’s BCS National Championship game. Now, I’ll admit I’m not completely objective on the subject, but I want to convince you, South Florida, that you should be rooting for Texas tonight and not the…
Every single South Florida television newscast now agrees: It’s cold. You could step outside of your home to confirm this yourself, but better to crank up the heat, turn on the tube, and enjoy our region’s nonstop, wall-to-wall coverage of this historic event. Fortunately, there is also slightly less obvious…
Liao leans back in his insulated guard booth in front of a massive factory 69 miles southeast of Beijing. It’s November 30, and a cold front has blown in off the Bohai Gulf. Liao lights a cheap cigarette and stares for a minute at the buildings. Bulky columns of pale…
Mayor Peggy Noland is walking around Deerfield Beach today, chances are she’s got a big grin on her face. That’s because she’s close to finishing a task she’s been working on for nearly a year: the termination of City Manager Mike Mahaney. (Video here, on Chaz Stevens’ Acts of Sedition.]”In…
The 60 Minutes segment was called “A Crack in the Vault.” That “vault” contained all the billions and billions that wealthy Americans stowed in Swiss bank accounts, with the assistance of UBS, in order to cheat on taxes. And the person who cracked the vault was Bradley Birkenfeld, who gave…
The name of Ted Morse simply isn’t being raised enough in the Scott Rothstein saga. Ted wasn’t just his best friend, his fly buddy, his enabler, one of his earliest investors, and the guy who bought Rothstein the Ricky Williams house on Castilla Isle. It goes deeper, according to a…
So whether you’re a Geekus of a Suavicorn, you’ve likely made some New Year’s resolutions already. Well, dump ’em, because this is a much better and more fitting list.”Lose weight?” “Eat better?” “Give more to charity?” Blah, those are so cliche. You’re a damned tech nerd, for cripes’ sake. Act…
… then either your Cobra’s already been swiped or this pack of thieves is working on it. From the press release:It’s unclear why the thieves are choosing the souped-up Mustangs and how they located four of them in the same upscale neighborhood in southeast Pompano Beach. Some of the four…
A news release that sounds like the opening scene from a movie inspired by a Marvel Comics series, from Boynton Beach Police:Police have responded to a bomb threat at Winn Dixie at 1620 S. Federal Highway. A man called the store to say he was going to blow up the…
That headline provides the basic news of the federal court hearing this morning. Scott Rothstein was in court but was undemonstrative and quiet, according to other press members. The hearing in U.S. District Judge James Cohn’s courtroom was already over before 9.a.m. when I arrived, so I didn’t get a chance to see…
