[Developer Bruce Chait’s response has been added at the end of this post] Former Tamarac Mayor Joe Schreiber told the Pulp today that Prestige Homes — which is embroiled in a scandal involving Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion — offered him $200,000 cash if he would agree to remove his wife, Mae…
Big Love for our hometown this week. Not only did Sherman’s Travel name Fort Liquordale one of the top 10 most underrated cities in the nation last week, second only to, well, to Baltimumble, but Carmen Electra has announced to the world that she was just simply taken aback by…
Palm Beach Post Publisher Alex Taylor explains what customer care is all about in an email sent out today staffwide. My favorite part is reminiscent of Taylor’s “elevator speech” memo: If someone says to you “I hear things down at the Post are tough. How are you doing?” You could say, “Yeah it…
Miles Brannan and his wife are feeling the crunch just like everybody else. The Brannans are both South Florida realtors, and when their income dipped with the economy they put their $3 million Fort Lauderdale waterfront house on the market, only to watch it sit there idling. The Brannans had…
Used to be the big celebrities sold mink. Then it was milk. Now it’s perfume. Parlux Fragrances of Fort Lauderdale, whose corporate offices are on North Andrews Avenue, had revenues of $153 million in 2008. The company has fashioned itself into one of the fragrance market’s top contenders, churning out…
Ever since West Palm Beach was designated the second most “technologically advanced” city of its size in the U.S. by a Digital Communities survey last year, we’ve been waiting to see if Mayor Lois Frankel was going to start jetting around to commission meetings in a flying saucer. It didn’t…
The permitting system also got a little easier for Florida’s gopher tortoises this week. Lauderdale-based AAJ Technologies has invented an on-line permit system for Florida Fish and Wildlife which allows developers to certify the site as either a short-term or long-term protected site and apply for faster approvals to move…
Delray Beach City Commissioners took an heroic stance Tuesday when they voted into law a packet of ordinances designed to curb nuisance rentals in single family neighborhoods. Or not. “They’re basically political cowards pandering to the bigoted, stereotypical sentiments of certain vocal constituents,” West Palm attorney Jim Green said of…
With talk of 177 layoffs and the closing of the Stockade at the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, upset deputies are fixing their eyes on the waste in Sheriff Al Lamberti’s command staff and political coterie. They glare at Lt. Col. Ricky Frey, for instance. He’s making almost $320,000 a year,…
Between bites of braised lamb shank, Richard von Houtman — or, as his black American Express card reads, Baron Richard von Houtman — holds his iPhone sideways to display a recent call. It’s a Chicago number alongside the name “Siohvaughn.” As in Siohvaughn Wade, the ex-wife of 27-year-old Miami Heat…
In Democratic Party circles in Broward County, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Ask Norma Goldstein, a local Democratic Party official who works as a county-paid aide for scandal-ridden Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter. “I’m not involved with them, and I don’t want to be involved in them,” Goldstein…
With news that a consulting firm has found that the City of Pompano Beach can save millions of dollars by dropping the Broward Sheriff’s Office and reinstituting its own police force, a Broward sheriff’s spokesman says city officials should think twice before dropping BSO. “We don’t think anybody can do it better,” BSO…
This week, New Times publishes “Dwyane’s Disaster,” a cover story about Dwyane Wade’s catastrophic partnership with Richard von Houtman, a British baron with a sordid past. Von Houtman has been making wild allegations about the Heat superstar’s personal life since their business relationship dissolved. Two weeks after Wade responded by…
flickr.com Madison Keys, 14, of Boca Raton Sports Illustrated has an interesting piece this week on 14 American teenagers who have “already found their places in the sun” but have promise to become the next generation of superstar athletes. Two of those teens are 14-year-olds from South Florida: Tennis phenom…
via Flagler County Sheriff’s OfficeThe male-to-female transsexual sent to jail after a client’s botched cosmetic procedure ended in death was arrested again this morning. Flagler County cops and Florida Department of Health raided the quiet, two-story home of Donnie Hendrix at 8 a.m. They collared her for operating medicine without…
The NFL has a lot of hate-able wide receivers. Liberty City product, Chad Ochocinco (former Chad Johnson) is not one of them. A brief background: Three years ago, as Chad Johnson, he declared a new nickname for himself, based on his Cincinnati Bengals jersey number: Ocho Cinco (no, that isn’t…
Having romantic problems? A Pompano Beach man has just what you’ve been looking for… That is, if you’ve been looking for “easy girls” or “live ass hoes” or women he says he and his friends have hooked up with recently. The video above, posted to YouTube by J’Quan Kabal, shows…
The metropolitan daily papers in South Florida continue to awkwardly avoid mentioning race when describing criminal suspects on the loose, seemingly without consideration for whether doing so might actually aid in apprehending some of them. I wrote about a few examples of this two weeks ago, but the practice continues. In a…
This is a sentence I hope never to have to write again: I owe Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter an apology. This week, I wrote about the “Mitch Ceasar Mob,” the unofficial name for the cabal of Democratic Party officials who peddle their influence with candidates to make pretty good money…
Approximately two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed an amendment, introduced by Congressman Alcee Hastings, that would prohibit people affiliated with hate groups from joining the military. The amendment is one of dozens tacked on to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 — the bill that OKs money…
The following was posted on the Miami Herald internal messageboard, Readme, by columnist and critic Glenn Garvin. It’s about the newspaper’s lack of coverage on the passing of Herald veteran Margaret Carroll. Garvin’s words speak for themselves (powerfully). But the issue does have some personal relevance for me. Put it this way: I’m glad the Courier-Journal gave my…
