Now that suspended Broward School Board Member Beverly Gallagher has hired high-profile attorney David Bogenschutz to defend her against corruption charges, her future is looking brighter.This summer, Bogenschutz helped soften the blow of charges against another ethically-challenged female politician, former Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty.McCarty, who got nabbed for…
Kiwanis Board Member Richard Entin is balking at a scheduled hearing to expel city commission candidate Patti Lynn from the Tamarac club on dubious anti-Semitism charges. Entin, an attorney, wrote in an email he sent last night to other board members that the timing of the actions being taken against Lynn “could…
For news junkies needing Vitamin C, here’s your pitcher full of South Florida bloggy bits, all fresh squeezed this week. Usually you hear of docs leaving gauze or the occasional sponge in their victims — I mean patients — but Dr. Bernard Zaragoza of Coral Springs took out the completely…
Considering we sent our own Sheriff to prison a few years ago, we Broward folks probably shouldn’t snicker to loud about the scandal that’s swallowed a law enforcement community in the Florida Panhandle. Then again…oh…what the hell? Okaloosa County, you’ve baked a dish we just can’t resist.Sheriff Charlie Morris was…
One of Broward County’s leading Republican activists, Ed Napolitano, is resigning from his leadership positions with the party, two weeks after leading a controversial trip with fellow Republicans to a gun range in Hallandale Beach. The Sun-Sentinel broke the story and has a copy of the letter that Napolitano sent…
Clark McMillan was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl in Memphis in 1979, then sentenced to 119 years in prison, only to have that conviction overturned in 2002, with the help of the Innocence Project, which found that his DNA did not match the rapists. In the years since he…
Don’t be deceived by news of layoffs, foreclosures, bank failures, and tax hikes. South Florida’s economy isn’t suffering too badly. Take Calvin, Giordano & Associates, the Fort Lauderdale consulting firm that’s on track to break its own record with $25 million in revenue this year.President Dennis Giordano says the company…
The Kiwanis Club in Tamarac is holding a hearing on Monday to kick out a City Commission candidate whom the club is accusing of anti-Semitism. But while the accusation is highly questionable, there’s concrete evidence that secretive and cutthroat politics are at play. Club President Joel Davidson informed longtime city activist Patti Lynn…
That’s a video you won’t soon be finding at the Hollywood tourism website. Youtube poster “madcowlobster,” the apparent alter ego of Courtney Mitchell, started her recent downtown tour on Harrison Street, then paid a visit to Young Circle, where a flutist on the stage serenaded transients. The video ends mysteriously,…
This article on a breaking news website claimed that Spirit Airlines Flight 837 originating in Fort Lauderdale crashed near San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that it was the source of an explosion that firefighters are still putting out.I just got off the phone with Greg Meyer, a spokesman for Fort…
As parents in the Palm Beach County School District tries to roll back Jeb Bush’s shameful legacy of FCAT drilling, the former Florida governor is roaming around, looking to get his voice heard, apparently to gauge interest in a 2012 run for president (though he’d never admit that).Bush made a…
It’s a small email, but it looms large in the federal investigation of Broward County School Board Member Stephanie Kraft. The email comes from Kraft to Broward School Board Deputy Superintendent Michael Garretson regarding a $507,000 reduction in mitigation fees owed the district by developer Prestige Homes. Kraft was pushing behind the…
A tour of South Florida headlines on this Friday morning:The state appears to be question the finances of the state’s blood banks, including the local Community Blood Centers, where disgraced Broward County School Board member Beverly Gallagher landed work with the help of a lobbyist. [Sun-Sentinel]Gallagher is due in federal…
Boynton Beach is now giving Sunrise a run for its money in the competition for ghostly condo buildings. These 14-story cream-colored towers perched on the edge of the Intracoastal Waterway are part of a project known as Promenade, where just four years ago buyers camped out overnight to snatch units…
Dr. Sanford Siegal, the so-called “cookie doctor” from Kendall and partner-turned-rival Dr. Sasson Moulavi of Boca Raton have taken their diet war into the pages of the New York Times. Siegal gets more ink, but he also gets the biggest share of skepticism. From the article, headlined “Skin Deep” in…
The Riviera Beach Council once again couldn’t stand to listen to activist Fane Lozman, but this time while police arrest him he ends up on the ground. Lozman says the officer yanked his hand, which was clutching the podium, in a way that caused his hip — which is full of plates and…
Nikki, the Doberman Pinscher-turned-spokesdog, did not die in vain. The dog whose rescue five years ago was featured on Animal Planet’s Miami Police series, died of cancer Sunday. But in the five days since, 270 people from around the world have signed this online petition in support of anti-chaining laws.That…
Two months after “the world’s preeminent canine painter,” a Jack Russell terrier named Tillamook Cheddar, wrapped up his exhibition at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, it’s only a matter of time till the next paintbrush-wielding mutt comes along: Meet Sam the painting hound mix. He just sold a painting…
Hot off the wire from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office: There have been several suspicious incidents in the area of Osceola Creek Middle School, Loxahatchee in the last week or so. We have two vehicles that have tried to stop and talk to middle school children.Talking cars, eh? Are we…
If you happened to be a highly prominent person of color visiting West Palm Beach in the first half of this century, chances are you would have stayed at Haley Mickens’s house at 801 4th Street. Mickens and his wife Dr. Alice Frederick Mickens, a well known civil rights activist,…
Sure, he may have a gun and be speaking into a shoulder-mounted radio but the man in the sketch is most definitely not a deputy with the Broward Sheriff’s Office, as he claimed during a Tuesday evening visit to 62-year-old Roland Mozard’s Pompano Beach apartment.From the BSO release:Mozard told BSO…
