After losing a corporate job in the computer industry last year, Julie Murphy realized that the tanking economy gave her more time for loftier causes.The native South African, who now lives in Gulf Stream, discovered a business venture close to her heart: Jewelry that fights poverty, unemployment, and HIV/AIDS in…
Here’s a phenomenon that seems to run contrary to popular concepts of how markets work: As the economy falters, the jobless droves have pawned their gold; and yet that seeming flood in the market has done nothing to reduce the value of gold. On the contrary, gold has increased from…
Last week the National Council of La Raza, the Hispanic civil rights organization, announced a stunning trend in immigration: In just one year, applications for U.S. citizenship dropped 62 percent.That figure may be a tad misleading — there were a surge of applications in 2007 to beat increases in application…
The Miami Herald is reporting that Beverly Gallagher is taking six weeks off from the Broward County School Board for an “undisclosed illness.” “I’ve been in some pretty good pain,” Gallagher told the newspaper. Interesting timing, huh? And she must have come down with this awful serious illness in the past week or so. A…
As reported below, Freda Stevens’ District 100 State House campaign has filed a criminal complaint against state Rep. Evan Jenne, claiming that Jenne, through veteran political operative Barry Harris, promised to help finance her campaign if she didn’t run against him. Harris Jenne vehemently denies the allegation, and…
Spirit, the airline based in Miramar that has a frat boy’s sense of humor and a loves to brag about its low fares has committed some low-down tricks, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, which today announced a $375,000 fine. That’s a record!But is it enough to knock the…
Those are four photos of the man who the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Sheriff’s Office believes is behind a string of bank robberies. They’ve got a description match on at least eight of them, starting in May with most recent one last Friday, when he must have forgotten to wear his…
I can admit it: I really don’t know that much about training circus elephants. And I dare say most Juice readers don’t either. But there is still something unsettling about seeing videos in which these magnificent beasts are slapped with sticks, shocked with prods, and left with deep gashes from training hooks…
Stories in the New York Post and today’s Palm Beach Post confirm that the tan, leggy hooker in the ACORN hoax videos is in fact an FIU student. Hannah Giles, one of two college kids who traveled around the country on a $1,300 budget shooting videos of ACORN workers making…
En garde! In downtown Hollywood, swordplay is no longer just for transients. In two weeks, the Hollywood Sabres Fencing Club will open its doors at 2000 Harrison St., near Young Circle, to go along with the glass-blowing, jewelry-making, and sculpting that happens in the ArtsPark. But those latter three all…
Exactly one month ago, in the fifth inning of a minor-league baseball game in Birmingham, Alabama, former Broward Community College star Christian Marrero stepped into the batters box and looked to the mound, where lefty Darin Downs was getting the signals from his catcher. Downs played at Santaluces High School…
The headlines for this Thursday:Is the Florida Department of Education cooking the books to make it appear that there’s a decline in violence at South Florida schools? [CBS4 special investigation]Is the Florida Division of Alcohol, Bureau and Tobacco trying to cover up allegations of prostitution at Cheetah, a strip club…
On the night of February 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. The respected 44-year-old sergeant was checking results from the recent union elections in which he was running for station representative. Steady…
Just So You Know, Depeche Mode Rules I seriously am not trying to be a jerk, but I thought I would correct a few statements from your article about Depeche Mode (“Synth Saviors,” Arielle Castillo, September 10): Dave Gahan has been clean since the release of Ultra in 1997. People…
Bill Ayers and other members of the Weather Underground may have thought that after the Obama presidential campaign they had debunked the notion that they were true terrorists. But in this week’s feature Peter Jamison rebunks that theory, offering previously undisclosed details of the investigation into whether the organization orchestrated…
I’m not necessarily saying the two things are related. But with Florida Power & Light, you never know. The utility has ingratiated itself with its state regulators at the Public Service Commission, prompting a corruption investigation at a time when it is also asking for a rate hike and permission…
A Boca Raton man has entered a guilty plea in a Kansas court to charges that he was part of a conspiracy to defraud investors across North America. The case against John Persaud started the moment that one of his firm’s junk faxes arrived in the Wichita, Kansas, office of…
Looks like America’s most handsome mustache has been having a bit of trouble kicking a habit for the pain pills, and now Burt Reynolds is coming to West Palm Beach for treatment.How come South Florida only gets a visit from a celebrity after he or she has hit the skids?…
The president of Calvin, Giordano & Associates, a private firm that provides building inspection, engineering, code enforcement, and other services to local cities, says his company pioneered local government outsourcing, and performs its work ethically.”We’re very careful not to have a conflict,” Dennis Giordano says. “We never do any work…
