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Fifteen Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and one civilian employee have been taken off the road on suspicion that they are using steroids. The sixteen BSO employees were rounded up Friday and ordered to take a drug test, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Leljedal told me this afternoon. They were placed on administrative assignment until the results of those tests…

Here’s the latest piece from Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams. It jumps. ————————————————  February 18, 2009 THINK PIECE: NINE EASY PIECES Time for a deep breath and a few thoughts about the dynamics of evolving and positioning ourselves for the new levels of success we can and will reach: QUALITY…

The staff of The Onion might have had a good laugh about this fake story about lice infecting the U.S. Senate, but Lice Solutions Resource Network Inc. of West Palm Beach says the article makes light of a very serious problem. Katie Shepherd, the resource network’s executive director, says she…

Maybe trusting somebody based on ethnic and religious associations ain’t such a swell idea. I’m not even talking about what Madoff did to his friends in the South Florida Jewish community. The South Florida Catholic community has a fraudster of its own — the Rev. Francis Guinan, who this afternoon…

Here’s part one from Friday’s ABC News series on Bernard Madoff, the Palm Beach playboy-turned-Hiroshima of the financial world. It opens with a rather creepy sniper’s view of Madoff working on a computer and fluffing his pillow in his Manhattan penthouse. (Not to defend Bernie, but so what if he’s…

Let’s pop a thermometer into the Florida health care industry, shall we? For starters, here’s a recent study that finds that nearly half of the Floridians surveyed admitted to at least one recession-related health care cutback. The most common: putting off a health care visit, skipping medical treatment, and not…

Dreams — we’ve all got ’em.  Some of us want to be rich and famous; others of us just want Jon Bon Jovi to divorce his wife and come on over. Local writer / open-mic event host Renda Writer has made no secret of his fantasy: getting on the Ellen…

Gail Posner, a Miami resident, is said to have inherited $100 million from her late father’s estate. She was a generous supporter of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But she may be best-known as mom to a famous chihuahua, Conchita. The posh pup likes to model her $20,000 wardrobe (including a…

In the lead story on this morning’s local section, the Sun-Sentinel took off its little white glove and slapped Mutual Benefits’ mastermind in the face with it. The newspaper reports that the Ponzi scheme called Mutual Benefits poured $1.4 million into political coffers to help keep state regulators from knocking down its…

West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel met with President Obama to talk about how she’d like to spend the stimulus money. Frankel, if you haven’t been following things, is the mayor who broke a bunch of shit, like downtown and city roads and the local economy. So this meeting was…

[jump] Today, I was having sex with a girl I really like for the first time. After a while I told her I was about to come. Her response: “Lucky you.” FML Today, was the first time I had sex with a guy I really like. I took off my…

But the doctor was linked to more than just powerful politicians — Mendelsohn also served as a lobbyist and fundraising bag man for fraud artist Joel Steinger, the convicted felon behind the billion-dollar Mutual Benefits Ponzi scheme, according to sources and court records. It’s yet another example of how Steinger exploited the easily…