When the Sun-Sentinel announced that Arkansas transplant Lu Hardin would take the helm of Palm Beach Atlantic University July 1, the newspaper quoted R. Marshall Jones, chairman of the presidential search committee, who called Hardin “a person of great character and ability as well as a man of great faith.” …
Once again, there’s a major reorganization happening at the Palm Beach Post. This time, all the editors and managers are being forced to reapply for their positions, and job titles are changing. Among the new titles: “Watchdog Editor,” “Money Editor,” and “Multimedia Editor,” according to a source at the newspaper. A…
If the website NoGovernmentHealthcare.com is any indication, the group of conservative folks who organized the local version of the nationwide “tea parties” have become emboldened by the turnouts they’ve drawn. Now they are fighting Obama’s plan to move toward nationalized health care. If they have their way, they’ll become the…
Pete Dye has modestly dismissed his own career as “digging up other people’s property,” but in truth, he elevated the act of golf course design from a mere landscaping job into an art form. When Dye was inducted into the Golf Hall of Fame in November, Greg Norman introduced him,…
The blog Eye on Miami has this post today about the work Miami-based law firm Greenberg Traurig did for R. Allen Stanford. The blog asks: “why is it always Greenberg Traurig?”The implication there is that Greenberg Traurig, which has an office in Fort Lauderdale with 50 attorneys, isn’t exactly wearing…
Last year, when New Times ran this cover story about spring break in Fort Lauderdale, the president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau, Nicki Grossman, dismissed the idea that there’s still debauchery on the beach. Here’s what she said back then:”It took a long time and a…
Boca Raton publisher Howard Needle says he has filed a defamation lawsuit against a former employee who told The Juice that Needle hasn’t paid her for her work at his magazine.Needle called me this morning to ask for help with his suit — he wanted copies of blog items we’ve…
The Miami Herald discovered Alan Mendelsohn, finally. The Sun-Sentinel still hasn’t caught on. Mendelsohn is the Hollywood ophthalmologist who worked as legislative director and chief fundraiser for the Florida Medical Association. He was also very close to Gov. Charlie Crist, serving as Crist’s health adviser on his transition team. They were…
For many homeowners suffering with Chinese drywall, it’s safe to say they wouldn’t mind a chance to confront the builders who installed the defective walls in their homes. A woman from Coconut Creek did just that when she hurled tough questions at the CEO of Standard Pacific Homes on a…
Sure, this week’s Photo of the Week is actually a video. But since it’s made up of a series of photos — pretty amazing photos, at that — it qualifies. The photographer, Photomike07, has one more video on this YouTube page — a similar time lapse sunset in Jupiter…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office empire may be about to lose control of one of its key turf areas: Pompano Beach. A consulting firm hired by the city met with Pompano commissioners last week and told them that its $80,000 study found that the city could save $3 million a year if it broke away from…
A guess: That’s the first airline safety video you watched voluntarily. To conclusion. (Those who didn’t missed the bare bum!). Ah, so now you have? Such is the power of the prospect of nudity. On this blog, we’ve teased our own local airline, Spirit, for its using sex to get…
The heat index climbed over 110 last month and we’ve had more rain than you could shake a wet cat at — two factors likely to get everybody feeling ornery. Judging from the number of weird animal incidents this week, that includes our furry, feathered, and scaled friends around the…
This morning another inmate died at his own hand at the Broward County Jail. The inmate, 39-year-old Dervis Lawrence (left), hanged himself with a sheet, confirmed Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright. Lawrence was incarcerated on a murder charge, accused of shooting his wife. This is at least the fourth suicide at…
So. United Way has posted the “first ever web-based census and needs assessment” of Broward’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ‘and questioning’ community.” They put a poll up at www.lgbtcensus.com on June 21 that they say takes about 15 minutes to answer, but I’ve completed the survey and I can tell…
Teri Gevinson thinks money grows on trees. That’s why she’s planted 9,500 jatropha trees in Delay Beach, on land where pepper and tomato farmers had long since packed up their hoes and gone home in disgust. The jatropha is the next big thing in agrofuel (switchgrass is so last year),…
The Sun-Sentinel has laid off about half its staff during the past couple of years, leaving a skeleton crew to cover South Florida. But it’s still doing the really important work, like redesigning its website on a semi-annual basis. Punching onto the thing today, I immediately noticed the change. It’s fairly similar, only everything is…
Well, the Pulp has helped bring another public official to justice. Or maybe I should say “justice.” Remember Ron Morgan, the now-former chief building official at the Broward County School Board? I reported back in January that he was unlicensed to do his job. After that, I found that Morgan not only…
Ah, South Florida: Where the women are strong, the men are pretty, and all the foreclosures are “friendly.” Developers of mixed-use, work-live-playgrounds might take a moment to contemplate, as they plan their latest forays into the market for pseudo cities, the fate of the unsellable CityPlace South Tower in West…
A bunch of Palm Beach County employees may be slated to become antiquated relics: Palm Beach County commissioners voted to eliminate the jobs of 141 county workers Monday, hoping what they save on salaries will help offset $133 million in lost property-tax revenue. One of those jobs belonged to “County…
Their bags were packed. Their farewells had been said. Like the rest of the British 38th Regiment Royal Engineers, Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar had shed their jeans and T-shirts for the sand and olive camouflage they’d wear during the next six months in Afghanistan. All around the barracks in…
From Inside the Villa I am writing regarding the article “High-Rise Stakes” (Lisa Rab, June 18). My concern is with the last section, “Crime and Punishment: Villa Medici, Fort Lauderdale.” An eye-catching title, a bit overdone, and in my opinion, it makes Villa Medici sound like a place of constant…
