The Broward School District admits it’s overbuilt classrooms, but oops! It overbuilt in the wrong areas. So some are jam-packed while others are desolated. And yet as the Sun-Sentinel’s Kathy Bushouse reports, the state isn’t eager to help the district go on another building binge. Maybe if it’s on a…
They’re still working on destroying Obama’s health-care plan, but in the opening moments of this New York Times video, Sunrise seniors dealt a death blow to hip-hop. Chilling video here.The accompanying article is set in the massive Sunrise Lakes retirement community, and the writer remarks at how that area voted…
“Dear Media Friends,” the email read. “The Wexler ‘town hall’ meeting is a sham. Tickets. Reserved seating. Written questions. In other words, NO DISSENT INSIDE.”To speak to real, independent thinking citizens, be in the South County Civic Center Parking Lot at NOON.”The email was signed “Sid.”The Juice knew that “Sid”…
Frederick Sancilio’s streak of bad luck looks like it’s about to change. A founder of a Wilmington, North Carolina, company called aaiPharma, Sancilio watched from his seat on the board of directors as his company’s chief operating officer was busted for fraud in 2004. And even after Sancilio assumed his…
Hey, times are tough. Jobs are scarce. So I guess it’s understandable that Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin has hired someone inside her extended political family to take a key paid role in her 2010 campaign. Wasserman-Rubin, who has been hit with ethical violations in the past, hired Ann Gallagher as…
A bicyclist sustained life-threatening injuries this morning in an accident that occurred on West Davie Boulevard. A Fort Lauderdale Police news release says that a Toyota Scion involved in the accident was driven by Taisha Gonzalez from Coconut Creek.According to police, Gonzalez was driving north on SW 27th Avenue, turning…
Just in from Broward Sheriff’s Office: A masked man brandishing a handgun threw a store clerk over a counter during a robbery Monday night as the criminal demanded cash from the register. The clerk was not seriously injured, but detectives are anxious to catch the suspect before he hurts someone.Detectives…
More details are emerging about the agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and UBS, the Swiss bank accused of helping wealthy Americans evade taxes — a case that’s been bandied about in South Florida’s U.S. District Court and that has attracted the two nations’ top diplomats. USA Today reports that…
OK, so maybe it’s not the most riveting video of this month’s clashes between congressional Democrats and health-care reform opponents, but this is a perfect illustration of the media echo chamber we’ve entered. Below, a woman shooting a video after yesterday’s Ron Klein forum in Boynton Beach. And judging by the…
This comes from an unimpeachable source: New Jersey’s Star Ledger, which not only reports the existence of this luxury hotel but says that it’s festooned with a sculpture by famous artist Jon Krawcyzk, who’s just revealed his latest work, a towering hockey player. (Remember, this is Jersey.) From the article.The…
Incredible. After the Broward County School Board goes on an unnecessary building frenzy to pad the wallets of its campaign donors and puts us $2 billion in debt, it wants to hit taxpayers up for more money. They are thinking of putting it up for a vote next year. Any voter who would authorize this…
That’s the first name that popped into my head when I heard that Crist was serious about tapping his former chief of staff, George LeMieux, Broward County’s most connected political player, to serve the remainder of Mel Martinez’s term in the U.S. Senate.Harriet Miers, of course, was White House counsel…
In a clip that has been making the rounds on blogs as well as on cable news networks, this week Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank responded to a protester who, carrying an Obama-as-Nazi poster, likened the president’s health-care reform to Nazi policy. Besides failing to mention that Frank is Jewish, leave it to our…
Here’s a rundown of the hot topics in Broward and Palm Beach this Thursday morning:WPLG-10’s Rob Schmitt reports that Broward Sheriff’s deputies are close to charging a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Melissa Karp seven years ago. Here’s the video. Karp’s father told Schmitt there’s a DNA match.A possible…
An item we posted August 13 on TheJuiceBlog.com about Broward Hospital District Commissioner Rebecca Stoll garnered dozens of comments (read the item reprinted on page 4). The item referenced a memo written by the district’s former attorney Laura Seidman claiming commissioners were “using their public offices and powers improperly and…
If you’re really paying attention to the Broward County School Board, you’re mad as hell. This is a board of nine elected politicians whose campaigns have been largely financed by the construction industry and its lobbyists. During the past several years, they’ve wasted hundreds of millions of dollars to allow…
During his sophomore year in high school, Cody Beck finally got fed up with hearing homophobic cracks. If his classmates thought being gay was weird (Beck was openly bisexual), he had a confession that would blow their minds. He told them he is sexually attracted to dogs and horses. “I…
Here’s what we’ve got in the print edition, hot off the press:This week’s feature story, subtly rendered to your right, is about zoophiles — people who love and are sexually attracted to animals. Some among them claim a new frontier for sexual civil rights. Others are resigned to another century…
A few minutes past midnight today, August 19, and the crisis begins. The clock starts. An excerpt from the first bulletin by the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office:Dawn Roberts and her roommate decided to go fishing at Phil Foster Park. As soon as they arrived at the park, Dawn decided to…
