For much of the past week since the May 27 meeting of the North Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners, Juice has been trying to reach the doctor who offered that meeting’s most fascinating testimony.Dr. Richard Glick’s remarks seemed to illustrate exactly how entrenched is the local health care system’s…
It’s official: Dave Aronberg is going to run for attorney general. I think the kid’s got a chance (we’re almost the same age, but he just seems so sparklingly fresh, this guy). Someone yesterday actually uttered those fantastical words… could Aronberg become… the first… Jewish governor of Florida? He’s got that…
Maybe there’s method in the seeming madness of Adam Hasner’s right-wing associations. The House majority leader from Boca Raton sparked controversy in late April when he took a break from the state budget to make public appearances with anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Based on exit polls from elections yesterday…
flicker.com Joey Porter and Jason Taylor may karate chop an opposing QB or two. Joey Porter knows a thing or two about fighting. He also knows about carrying a gun in South Florida and getting shot in the ass in Colorado. Now Bill Parcells has called in a team to…
Since the Major League Baseball debut of Fort Lauderdale native Anthony Swarzak, Southport Raw Bar has turned into the best place in South Florida to watch a Minnesota Twins game. At least on every fifth day.On days when Swarzak starts, as he did Wednesday, a banner out front welcomes a…
They say it’s the year of change. But the change you’re not seeing from the bailout-giving government is the kind that jingles in your pocket. That’s where we come in. New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2009 is filled with more than 200 ways to live large on little –…
Hibiscus House501 30th St., West Palm Beach561-863-5633We’re a few hours into a happy hour at this perfect tropical garden when somebody brings up the idea of going someplace else for dinner. Sure, we all probably need something to soak up hours’ worth of alcohol, but nobody likes the idea of…
The Living Room300 SW First Ave., Fort LauderdaleCalling the Living Room a “bar” is like calling a McLaren F1 a “vehicle” or calling Jackson Pollock “messy.” Really, just trying to describe a place this chic and transcendentally futuristic with regular sentences seems inadequate. On a typical Saturday night, you might…
It’s possible that you bought a house from Cezar Mancao, who from the outside seemed a nice, normal Filipino immigrant making a living in real estate in Broward County. Turns out that despite Mancao’s quiet life here — living in a half-million-dollar house in Pembroke Pines with his wife and…
Last year, I wrote a feature story about three little boys who had been horribly abused in the state foster care system. They were eventually placed with an adoptive family — but the Department of Children and Families hid the boys’ case files and backgrounds from the adoptive parents. As…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office has opened a criminal investigation of North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Joseph Cobo, based on allegations he used his public office for advantage in his private firm, Florida Medical Management Consultants.Cobo, of course, was investigated by a former assistant U.S. prosecutor, Martin Goldberg, who found…
Former Palm Beach County Commissioner Mary McCarty showed up for federal court in West Palm this morning dressed as a repentant sinner, in a white jacket and pearls. She choked back tears when she addressed the judge charged with sentencing her for violating public corruption law, telling him and the…
I’m working on so much interesting stuff it’s not even funny, but none of it is just ripe yet, so I’ll just share with you an anecdote from my son’s last school day. The kid is finally leaving Seminole Middle School in Plantation for good today, none too soon. It’s a big,…
Tomorrow is the deadline for applying for the job of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Unfortunately for eager bloggers, not a creature is stirring. Over this past week, Juice has phoned South Florida attorneys thought to be candidates for the nomination. None of them agreed to be…
It remains to be seen whether the serial cat killer grabbing airtime on local television news is the real thing or media-fueled hysteria. Now that a mutilated cat has turned up in Broward County, let’s try to be careful about conflating a serial feline killer with a serial human killer.Here’s…
Few politicians had as much stake during Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo, than Palm Beach County-based U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, an early supporter of the president’s 2008 campaign and whose efforts to convince Jewish voters to cast votes for Obama helped deliver Florida to the Democrats.Wexler has tried to…
It was only a matter of time (seven months, apparently) before Vanity Fair called in its high-society contacts to offer the authoritative account of what Bernard Madoff did to its advertisers, subscribers, and the tradition of American royalty that its pages celebrate each month. Of course, that’s not quite the…
Iron wires dangle from a boat in a cool brown river deep in the Everglades. On this breezy April morning, a few hundred volts crackle through the metal strands into the water. Barron Moody sweeps a net through the murk and pulls up six bass stunned by the electricity. The…
Justice for the Furrys My heart goes out to the Furry family, for all their pain and unanswered questions (“Renegade Road,” Gus Garcia-Roberts, May 14). May they finally feel at peace. A compelling read, well done. To the irresponsible boys of Miccosukee: May justice be served, one way or another, God will…
With less than a month to go before Election Day in 2002, Buddy Dyer was trailing Charlie Crist in the race for Florida attorney general. Dyer, who was then a state senator and is now mayor of Orlando, needed campaign cash to become the state’s top lawman. So he went…
Broward County Sheriff Al Lamberti held a news conference yesterday to show off his department’s newest and trendiest purchase: four tiny Smart cars that will zip around Fort Lauderdale International Airport and Port Everglades. TV stations and the Sun-Sentinel followed the announcement with stories about BSO’s new “European minicars” that…
Notorious con man Joel Steinger, the mastermind of the Mutual Benefits Ponzi scheme, has cooperated with federal agents in an ongoing political corruption investigation, according to sources in the legal and political community. Specifically, Steinger helped the FBI gather evidence on major GOP fundraiser and Charlie Crist political adviser Alan Mendelsohn, the sources say. Mendelsohn, a Hollywood eye doctor…
