Sure, Charlie Crist landed some big endorsements in his first week as a U.S. Senate candidate — the National Republican Senatorial Committee for one. The Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, for another. And there were reports Crist might get the early endorsement of the Republican Party of Florida, chaired by…
If you haven’t read Judge Ana Gardiner’s transcript, you should. It says more about Broward County corruption than anything I could ever write. And it’s clear that Gardiner has lied under oath and should be investigated and ultimately criminally charged for doing so. The Florida Supreme Court ordered an investigation into Gardiner after…
The Prince Theatre on Main Street in downtown Pahokee. Built in 1940. Closed since 2002. And no hope of renovation since in November the Palm Beach County Commissioners reallocated $100,000 that had been earmarked for improvements. The Miami man who shot this photo last summer wrote this caption: “we didnt…
Initially, we called new Lake Worth city manager Susan Stanton to ask about rumors — reported on LakeWorthMedia.com — that a city engineer named Andres Reyes was forced to resign for insubordination after he tried to save the city $50,000 by doing work in-house rather than pay a contractor. Stanton…
In picking the week’s best quotes for its “Verbatim” page, Time magazine prizes drama (a quote from the co-pilot killed in the plane crash near Buffalo), candor (Jesse Ventura saying what he’d do with a waterboard and Dick Cheney), and gaffes, especially the kind that reveal more truth than they…
One year ago, a study by a national consulting firm found that Broward County’s Animal Care and Regulation Department was woefully short-staffed, making it impossible to guarantee service required by law for control of the local pet population. But this year, the county faces a $165 million budget shortfall –…
It sure is sweet to be a government employee during the Great Recession. Wilton Manors just became the latest local city to announce it will save money by taking Fridays off, following the example of Pembroke Pines and the police departments in Coral Gables and North Miami. Granted, I see…
[Fade in.] Poolside at the “sugar-pink Boca Raton Hotel” in June 1994. A bunch of young, hard-partying but hungover J.P. Morgan traders there for a conference conceive of something called “credit derivatives.” A potent financial product that when mixed with a housing boom would trigger an atomic meltdown in the…
Charles G. Martignette was eccentric even by the standards of kitsch art collectors. The Hallandale man, who died in February 2008 at age 57, started snatching up pin-ups and pulp art in the 1970s, long before the stuff gained credibility as a distinctly American art form. It seems Martignette treated…
On Wednesday Sun-Sentinel weather writer Ken Kaye did a little blog post about Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter’s complaint-fest at some event called the Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference. Apparently former hurricane center director Bill Proenza introduced her as the mayor of Fort Lauderdale. Kaye writes: Ritter, the first speaker during…
UPDATE (6/18/09) The post below was published before Juice had the chance to review documents and interview sources with knowledge of the events related to Goldstone’s firing. Serious questions exist about whether the commissioners really were misled about his credentials. For a fresher, more fully informed treatment of this subject,…
Pete Boinis is the guy who cordoned off his swath of land next to the Deerfield Beach Pier with a bunch of poles and then had “No Trespassing” signs up. This is just rude — a bunch of ugly Keep Out signs sitting next to one of the most popular beach spots in north…
North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Joseph Cobo may have exploited his public position in seeking favorable publicity, a private jet trip, and more generous terms for clients of his private consulting firm in their business dealings with the health care system, according to the investigative report released last week.Despite these…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this story about homeowners who are searching for who’s to blame for the Chinese drywall that’s wrecking their homes. In the article, I referenced this deal being offered by South Florida-based Lennar home builder, which has agreed to fix homes if homeowners won’t…
He’s rich. He’s getting on in years. And he seems to have no idea that The Bachelor thing is sooo 2003.Meet Palm Beach millionaire Tom Feltenstein, the man behind the “Have Maid… Have Money, Would Love a HONEY!” billboard that recently began nauseating drivers on I-95 near the West Palm…
Yesterday morning’s headline on the top of the front page of the Sun-Sentinel was, “5 Guilty in Sears Tower Plot.” This morning’s lead headline is: “Desperation Turns Deadly Off Florida.” They are connected in a way, because both are about Haitians. The first is about the Liberty City defendants who have been…
Accused Boca Raton madam Michelle Braun is pictured with celebrities including Paris Hilton, Mickey Rourke, and Terrence Howard in photos obtained by the Juice Blog. Braun has agreed to plead guilty to charges of money laundering and transporting a prostitute. She agreed to help the feds in its investigation of…
These days, Charlie Crist is surely wanting headlines to mention his Senate bid, not talk about his ex-boyfriends. But all that surfaces on the new movie Outrage, which opens locally tomorrow at Gateway in Fort Lauderdale.Outrage chronicles the many closeted gay Republicans who have surfaced over the years. It details…
The Christian Science Monitor is the latest in a long, distinguished line of national media outlets that have come to South Florida to report on our very busted housing bubble. This story reports on day laborers, who are just about nonexistent at the places where contractors, who are out of…
Niurka Marco is a middle-aged, Havana-born telenovela star and erotic model who is the scourge of the tabloids in her resident Mexico. She’s the Cuban Anna Nicole Smith. The buxom woman with curly, tomato-colored hair could travel anonymously in any American city but Miami — which must be why she…
Near dawn on Wednesday, January 21, Glades airboat captain Jesse Kennon was jolted awake by the whirring of helicopter blades over his roof. His first thought: That sounds like Rescue One. The ruddy-skinned, pony-tailed patriarch of Coopertown had heard Miami-Dade Fire Rescue choppers many times before. He estimates he has…
By now, you’ve probably heard the story about how Craig Newmark started Craigslist.org with a simple email chain between friends. And so by now you probably know that Newmark’s dream has grown largely to be known for ads like this one from Tia in Fort Lauderdale, who describes herself as…
