Oh no! We’ve been dissed by a Forbes list! The magazine popular among rich old people is saying that South Florida is lousy place to be a rich old person. It ranked the Miami – Fort Lauderdale area 29th as a region to retire, blaming the “battered real estate and…
Richard “Rick” Lemack was this close (642 votes) to becoming the Democratic nominee for Broward Sheriff. In August 2008, the ex-assistant police chief and assistant city manager of Hollywood, Lemack lost to Scott Israel, who then lost to Al Lamberti. We told you last month that Lemack was a finalist…
It’s that time a year again. All week, WLRN-FM (91.3) has been filled with the guilt-inducing sounds of yet another NPR fund drive. It’s oppressive and embarrassing for everyone involved. Today on Morning Edition, Bonnie Berman cut to the chase: “By giving now, you’ll help keep WLRN’s fund drive short,”…
After a short ad, that’s the trailer for “The Oxycontin Express,” the first episode of this season’s Vanguard. That’s correspondent Mariana van Zeller boldly reporting from within Broward County, pain pill capital of the world. Aren’t we just beaming with pride?The show airs on Current TV, the diy network launched…
Whatever you may think of Ronald Earl Murphy, who in 1996 beat a woman and forced her to have sex, the guy deserves a place to live. The question is where. I posted yesterday about how Murphy, a registered sex offender, has claimed a permanent residence as a transient in…
Florida Fish and Wildlife has yet to respond to a July 30th letter from Lori Kettler, senior counsel for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), concerning humane death for Florida’s thousands of Burmese pythons. Tori Perry, senior cruelty caseworker at PETA, told the Juice today that the guidelines…
In the Sun-Sentinel story this morning about School Board lobbyist Neil Sterling, there are a couple of pieces of interesting information. One is that Stephanie Kraft — whose husband, Mitch, was secretly on the payroll of one of Sterling’s companies — has apparently managed to find one vote where she went against…
In advance of world leaders’ December meeting in Copenhagen for a new climate treaty, Palm Beach County residents are heading to Atlantic Dunes Beach Park, where on Saturday October 24, they’ll participate in a demonstration that’s gone global.That day marks the International Day of Climate Action, in which activists in…
Let’s look at what’s in the news this morning:Big, big trouble for Broward County School Board member Stephanie Kraft. New Times’ Bob Norman has confirmed that Kraft’s husband, Mitch, took payments from Prestige Homes to negotiate a deal with the district for the mitigation fees associated with that company’s development…
Sheree Silver is the psychic who, for an episode of the TV series “Wife Swap” left Florida for a week to live with the Heene family in Colorado earlier this year. In that episode, which originally aired in the spring, Silver remarks on camera that the show will be her…
Audiences were riveted to TV yesterday as authorities tracked a homemade flying saucer across Colorado, believing that a six-year-old boy, Falcoln Heene, may be trapped inside the wayward flying vessel. Later in the day, after the boy was found safely at home, speculation grew that the incident was a hoax…
Since the 2002 death of the last great Godfather, John Gotti, the Italian underworld has been resting in peace — until its resurrection… now. A tell-all book, a Gotti Jr. trial, and Bonanno crime family members in a South Florida courtroom. Mafia madness is in the air, and I smell…
With a $735,000 annual salary for his private consulting firm, plus city-funded health insurance, office space, and a staff at City Hall, Pembroke Pines City Manager Charlie Dodge has one of the sweetest gigs in local government.But here’s the icing on the cake: He also collects a city-funded pension. For…
It’s official: The Krafts — Broward School Board member Stephanie and her lawyer husband, Mitch — have been cashing in big-time on her elected office. And they picked a terrible time to do it — right when federal investigators are zeroing in on the School Board. I will be surprised if they don’t…
In this week’s installment of Panning for Gold, we’ll return to Fort Walton Beach to check in on Susan “Mimi” Brown, a 55-year-old woman who was an exotic dancer, at least as recently as the Reagan administration. The Northwest Florida Daily News reports that Okaloosa County Sheriffs deputies responded to…
And that’s bad for Ben Graber, the former Broward mayor and county commissioner who tried to make hay with Robert Wexler’s cocaine joke on The Colbert Report and who has a nasty batch of ads that he ran during a bitter primary campaign in 2008. Ads like the one below…
With Broward politicians and contractors in hot water over bribery allegations today, it’s not surprising that Governor Crist has called for a statewide corruption Grand Jury. According to the Sun-Sentinel: Citing an apparent “culture of corruption” taking root in South Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday called for a statewide…
The uproar over Rush Limbaugh’s bungled bid to buy the St. Louis Rams wouldn’t be complete without a mention of his membership in Palm Beach’s oldest and most exclusive country club, the Everglades Club.Palm Beach’s infamous bloviater was kicked out of a group trying to buy the Rams after several…
“The Kid” will coach the kids at Palm Beach Atlantic University, which makes a good excuse to post this totally 1980s Newsday promo from Gary Carter’s days with the Amazin’ Mets.After the jump, the other video Carter made in 1986, warning kids about the dangers of drugs at a time…
What is it about Pembroke Pines that makes retired athletes flock there? We’ve told you about Kenny Anderson, the former New Jersey Nets star who recently invited a slew of his illegitimate children to the city, as well as Deon Thomas, the University of Illinois great who became a star…
In what appears to be a form-letter notice, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office yesterday announced that “a declared sexual predator, Ronald Earl Murphy… is now residing at Transient, Delray Beach, FL.” Transient is not the name of a hip new boutique hotel on Atlantic Avenue. It’s more of a…
