In an era of Ponzi schemes and collapsing markets, let’s be sensitive to the greedy ultra-rich and the big businesses who, to their credit, have learned to become budget conscious. They got burned; they’re humbled. But they’re still proud — and still pretty damn rich. So for the record, they…
Here’s what’s brewing in Broward and Palm Beach this Wednesday morning:The Broward County Commission finally passed its budget, but not without ransacking some of the major arts and culture events. [Sun-Sentinel]Hollywood managed to pass a budget that called for just 13 layoffs and a tax hike that was smaller than…
South Floridians reside in one of the nation’s most expensive health-care markets, in a state rated among the nation’s worst for uninsured patients. Yet the North Broward Hospital District is the picture of financial health — at least judging by the presentation made by accountants for the $1 billion health-care…
In case you missed the 28 billion pounds of ink that have been spilled on the topic, daily newspapers are dying. And as they gasp and sputter on their breathing tubes, many are reaching desperately for something, anything that will allow them to live another day. The results are often…
The blue van above is thought to have been used in the robbery of a Brink’s Security office in Dania Beach this afternoon. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office, a Brink’s employee sustained a gunshot wound in the robbery, which occurred at the Merrill Industrial Center. The thieves must have had…
Dozens of teachers have been laid off, the capital budget is in shambles, parents and teachers are being asked to subsidize educational materials, and school repair work is being neglected because there’s no money. But thank goodness there’s money to renovate a high school football stadium for about $7 million. The…
[jump] In this video, Anderson Cooper examines Browne’s claims about kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck. Browne told Hornbeck’s parents that their son was dead, and his body would be found “in a wooded area.” Hornbeck was found alive, living with his kidnapper in the opposite direction from where Sylvia indicated. Randi…
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is the latest victim in the government’s campaign to lock up successful Floridians. Today the Lighthouse Point resident began serving a two-year prison sentence for shooting himself in the thigh at a New York City club. The incident occurred in November 2008,…
It’s been one of the talking points in the battle for major health-care reform — for all our medical technology, Americans have a lower life expectancy than that of other developed countries. Like Europe, where people smoke like chimneys. Far more than Americans do. So what gives?Today’s New York Times…
Nobody’s missed the news about the 91-year-old man in Lake Worth, Robert Thompson, who jumped out of bed naked and held an “intruder” at gunpoint until the cops arrived, right? But what’s missing from the Fox, Associated Press, and Sun-Sentinel reports is one crucial piece of information: In Lake Worth,…
The bodies of all four passengers thought to be aboard the plane that crashed Sunday in the Everglades have been recovered, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office release.BSO still isn’t identifying the victims of the crash, though it’s evident that it’s a Fort Lauderdale money manager and his wife, son,…
Never has there been a bank robber so mild-mannered, so sloppy about revealing his face, and so strangely uncatchable. And he just struck again in Boca Raton, where the camera caught his face square. How is it that we’ve not caught this guy yet?…
Just posted to Youtube, that’s the first of a six-part History Channel Gangland episode that aired in July about Top 6, the gang-slash-record label thought to have a role in violent clashes in Lake Worth and Boynton Beach, where its conflict with gang rivals has been the bloodiest. It’s a…
Count Lantana Mayor David Stewart among the growing number of longtime Palm Beach Post readers who have seriously questioned why they should subscribe to the newspaper anymore. Stewart says that when his subscription rate was jacked up from $120 to $200 a year, he contacted the newspaper and asked the Big Question:…
Let me explain. Surveys show that Charlie Crist is one of the nation’s most popular governors. Polls show that he has a huge, possibly insurmountable lead in the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Yet straw polls show that Republican activists prefer underdog Marco Rubio. And some of…
Leonard Cohen has to do everything the hard way. The singer and songwriter collapsed on stage Friday in Valencia, Spain. He still performed in Barcelona last night, on his 75th birthday. He also had plans for a bold twofer in Israel — scheduling shows in Tel Aviv and the West…
A stroll through South Florida news on this Tuesday morning:The mentally challenged man who was convicted of murder and served 22 years in prison before being freed by DNA evidence was paid $2 million by the Broward Sheriff’s Office for its deputies’ role in badgering him into a confession and…
All we know about the stabbing that happened early Saturday morning in Lake Worth was that it involved rival rappers — and that the victims were so hardcore that they didn’t even want to press charges against their attackers. In the search for a hip-hop artist in Palm Beach County…
UPDATE / CORRECTION The post below was based in part on conversations with the Fort Lauderdale City Clerk’s office, which now says that members of the advisory board were obligated to file financial disclosure forms because that board did not have financial responsibilities. As such, LeMieux was not required to…
A writer at American Chronicle, Virgil Hervey, offers a personal story about the health-care status quo that Glenn Beck’s disciples are working arduously to protect. It begins with Hervey’s receiving a call about his parents, who lived in Hollywood and were in a car accident in Italy. Hervey’s father died…
