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Deerfield Beach Commissioner Plans to “Beg” Colleagues Not to Repeal Ethics Code
Deerfield Beach Commissioner Bill Ganz is entering his sixth month in office, and he still finds his colleagues unpredictable. He thought the city’s ethics code was safe. “I was as surprised and dismayed as anybody to find out it was on the agenda to be repealed,” he said this afternoon,…
Grocery Shopping With Mayor Noland
A few hours before she takes her place at the dais and asks commissioners to strike down the Deerfield Beach ethics code, Mayor Peggy Noland rolled a shopping cart through the aisles of Winn-Dixie and spoke with Juice about why the code has to go. In short, because it’s a…
Budget-Cutting Sheriff to Free Criminally Insane
Amid a renewed budget battle with the County Commission, Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti has said he has nixed his plan to shut down the stockade and instead will loose upon society the jail’s “criminally insane” population, a purge he promised would include “rapists, murderers, and other ne’er-do-wells.” “These inmates not only require incarceration…
Candidate’s Wife Gets DUI in Boca
She’s young, beautiful, and married to a rich heir destined for a career in politics, but if Anna Pettersson-Loeb’s friends were jealous of her before, they’re not today. By virtue of her husband’s high profile as a candidate for Florida Senate, Pettersson-Loeb’s arrest on DUI charges is newsworthy. Buddy Nevins…
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Palm Beach Legislator’s Slimy Tastes in Video
So what kind of right-wing wacko would endorse the amateur propagandists who produced the advertisement above? Adam Hasner, of course.According to Aaron Deslatte’s column in the Orlando Sentinel, the Boca Raton-based legislator and House majority leader was spotted peddling this material:Last weekend, at the Republican Party of Florida’s quarterly business…
Bike Fatality on A1A in Fort Lauderdale
A 59-year-old man was struck and killed by a car just after midnight today on A1A in Fort Lauderdale, according to a police department news release.Daniel Colotte was riding a bicycle north at the 1100 block of A1A near the Bahia Cabana and Yankee Clipper hotel at around 12:17. The…
As Ethics Code Hangs in Balance, Deerfield Beach Activists Arm for Battle
The statement below arrives courtesy Deerfield Beach blogger Bett Willett, a co-president of the Original Save Our Beach Committee, which has closed ranks to oppose the city commissioners’ apparent back-sliding on ethics reform. Willett asks other supporters to attend tonight’s meeting with paper plates that say “Ethics YES.”Although, let’s hope…
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Fished In? Disciple of St. Pete Faith Healer Tells of Rescue by Lauderdale Fish
Bruce Watters is a jeweler and “pillar of the community” during the week and a faith healer on the weekend. That’s right — the kind who summon the Holy Spirit, lay their blessed hands upon the lame and command, “Stand up in the name of Jesus!”His story, which appeared in…
LA Fitness: Full of Cut Abs and Smashed Car Windows
corporate homepage, the compandy says “LA Fitness: Where Fitness is a Way of Life.” At the Fort Lauderdale location, a block north of the intersection of Oakland Park Blvd and Federal Highway, apparently tiny bits of shattered glass from car windows is also a way of life. After a break-in there this weekend, the…
An August Month at the Pulp
In case you missed them, here are the Top Ten most popular posts on the Daily Pulp during August: 10. Banned by the PGA: Tiger Woods Fart 9. The South Florida Herald-Post-Sentinel 8. Broward School Board Versus the Pulp 7. Alex Taylor Timeline 6. Jason Wetherington Steals Pastor’s Daughter’s Rings…
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In Final (?) Installment of the Lemieux Report, Broward Senator-to-Be Pooh-Poohs Elections
There’s your new, unelected U.S. senator, Florida, in his former role as pseudojournalist. I don’t throw that term around lightly. It’s just that in “Topic One” and “Topic Four,” our Broward-based correspondent George LeMieux has sources that can give us a huge helping of inside dirt — namely, himself and…
Morning Juice: Reservations on Seminole Deal; Kissing Bandit Seeks Love and Money
Your Tuesday in South Florida news:Police questioned Bruce Strachan, the suspect in a triple homicide in Lake Worth, through the night, and we can expect an update this morning on that case. [WPBF]In a period of agonizing service cuts, a consultant says West Palm Beach can cut 52 jobs in…
Suspect in Triple Murder Arrested
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of Bruce Strachan, the ex-con wanted in connection with a triple murder this past weekend in Lake Worth. He was arrested less than an hour ago in Delray Beach without incident.Strachan, 25, will be charged with first degree murder in the…
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Editorials Lambaste LeMieux, a Week Too Late
The editorial sections of major Florida newspapers are furious about Crist’s pick of George LeMieux for U.S. Senate. But in their rage — or maybe it’s modesty — they forgot to mention how complicit their papers are in LeMieux’s selection.After all, Crist’s office was playing by the book, releasing LeMieux’s…
On Repeal of Ethics Code, One Deerfield Commissioner Holds Swing Vote
On the day before the Deerfield Beach Commission will vote on whether to repeal its ethics code, Commissioner Joe Miller is the one wildcard.Past remarks make it possible to predict how the four other members of the commission will vote. Check out the minutes of the March 3 commission meeting,…
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Venus Williams Sidelined With Writer’s Block
Venus and Serena Williams have been either training for tennis championships or winning them since they were old enough to walk. Nearing 30 years old, they still live with their dad in the family’s estate in Palm Beach Gardens. This makes their life stories fascinating — but it also makes…
$150 for a Mop Bucket? AshBritt Accused of Overcharging County Too
You know that AshBritt audit that showed the Broward County School Distrist was overcharged some $765,000 after Hurricane Wilma? You know, the one that Supt. Jim Notter and the board members were outraged about because it told the truth about what was happening? Well, a very similar circumstance with AshBritt…
Hell Gets Hotter in Line to Register Cars in Delray Beach
“Anne M. Gannon, Tax Collector, Palm Beach County, Welcomes you to the Un-Government Experience,” read the numbered ticket I received at the beginning of my car-registration ordeal this morning. Oh, the irony.I was standing in line with at least 50 other beleaguered citizens, all sweltering in the packed Delray branch…
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Was Ethics Fad a Mere Summer Fling for Deerfield Beach Commission?
Judging by this agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting, Deerfield Beach commissioners are ready to fling their ethics code out the window after just two and a half months. The idea belongs to Mayor Peggy Noland, who needs an ethics code worse than Michael Beasley needs a Twitter editor.The paper-thin excuse…