The Florida Panthers people are trying to get new breaks from the county in the form of a loan and debt restructuring. The parent company, Sunrise Sports & Entertainment, is also asking commissioners to approve the giant pie-in-the-sky development it calls Oz (an apt name, really, because it seems to be all…
Today everybody will be talking about 9/11 — because we haven’t talked about it enough these past eight years. Screw that. Let’s talk about the local news.Congratulations to Sen. George LeMieux, a lesson to all you Broward schoolchildren that sometimes you only need one vote to win a major political…
This past weekend, the major newspapers in the Tribune company chain, including the Sun-Sentinel, ran this article, originally from the Los Angeles Times, about how Obama is “fast losing white voters’ support.”And judging by the mostly white tea party types who’ve been heckling Democrats at health care town halls and…
In a region of the country that’s home to Bang Brothers and other amateur pornographers, the only shocking part of this story is that it hasn’t happened yet in South Florida.But if a fake Big Brother could happen in Turkey, it could happen here. So watch out, ladies.Then again… Reading…
Pack City Hall with more than 150 angry citizens and any governing body would get a bit anxious. But at Wednesday night’s budget hearing, the Pembroke Pines city commissioners appeared to be auditioning for Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? And it wasn’t going well.First, they faced the small…
When I saw this headline — “Partners Bring Boca to Middlesex County” — I feared the worst. Because let’s face it: Lately, when you hear about a Boca business model being applied somewhere else in America, it’s because it ended in a lawsuit, if not a criminal conviction.And yet despite…
Congressman Kendrick Meek just posted the above video from CBS 4’s Tuesday newscast to his campaign’s YouTube account, and you can see why. It shows Charlie Crist playing dumb about the role that George LeMieux’s law firm, Gunster Yoakley, played in getting visas for the immigrant workers who were hired…
One thing we never hear about when journalists get laid off is what happens to their work after they are led out of the building. The leftover work — notes, databases, even finished stories — obviously belongs to the newspaper, but when it is published, what is the newspaper’s responsibility to the…
Broward Circuit Court Judge Dale Cohen has dismissed a motion by former Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini to dismiss the felony corruption charges against him, a spokesman for the prosecutor told Juice a moment ago.We reported on Cohen’s order yesterday, based on hearing of it from a source with knowledge…
Many people who packed the Pembroke Pines City Commission chambers for a budget hearing last night were angry at political leaders they believed had failed them. Despite laying off 84 employees and outsourcing major city services, the city still faces a $27 million budget shortfall, and commissioners are considering raising…
Yes, you heard right. In the closing moments of that Capital News Service video, the reporter says that Broward County trailblazer George LeMieux “is leaving open the possibility that he’ll run for U.S. Senate in 2012,” when that darned Democrat Bill Nelson is up for reelection. Which means if his…
Though last night’s Planting Peace fundraiser at the Bubble was canceled due to last-second scheduling conflicts, the charity’s founder, Aaron Jackson, was in town from Haiti (where Planting Peace has several orphanages), and that gave me the opportunity to ask him about this week’s big feature spread in the Sunday edition of the…
For Bernie Madoff, the bulls never shat. And no bull ever failed to float. We’re speaking literally, of course. Figuratively, the bullshit was mountainous and doomed to sink him. But we learned this week that his Palm Beach mansion and Manhattan penthouse were festooned with bronze bulls and that in…
It seems only fitting that the man who tried to turn last night’s presidential address into an angry tea-bagging town hall comes from the dead center of South Carolina and learned at the knee of Strom Thurmond. What’s ironic is that Joe Wilson was lying (to put it in his blunt terms) when…
Here’s what’s going on this morning in Broward and Palm Beach counties:A 33-year-old woman from Palm Beach County has died from H1N1, despite having none of the conditions that suggest she should have been at greater risk. So doctors are warning the public to get treatment in cases in which…
Fred and Ceil Feldman sat down for coffee and toast inside their snug beachside condo just before 8 one morning. From their kitchen table, on the sixth floor, the elderly couple gazed in comfortable silence at the ocean. Life hadn’t yet begun to buzz at Sands Pointe Condominium. Only white…
Mega-wealthy lawyer, businessman, and political backer Scott Rothstein called me recently and told me he was the “Jewish Avenger” and was out to destroy me. Rothstein wasn’t joking during the August 25 phone call; he was seething. He told me he was going to sue me and my wife and bankrupt our household. Rothstein, managing partner of…
Seriously, that classic SNL sketch above is only slightly more absurd than the kind that is being circulated by Boca Raton’s state legislator and House leader, Adam Hasner. In tonight’s speech, Obama took on the “death panel” myth and the socialism myth and remembered to shave the Hitler mustache that…
In this week’s New Times feature, Natalie O’Neill and Lisa Rab team up for a haunting portrait of South Floridians who during the past two years have leaped to their deaths from the region’s high-rises. The deceased range from a beautiful and popular sorority girl to a lonely rich man…
When I wrote last week about some phone calls with aspiring mogul Scott Rothstein, his mostly nameless detractors came out of the woodwork. And Rothstein says one of them went way too far. Last Thursday morning, Rothstein called me and claimed that he received a threatening phone call Thursday morning from a Pulp “follower.” He said…
