Yeah, all the Florida football teams are done for the year, and when you watch the big game this weekend you’ll probably care more about the commercials than either team (unless you’re a gambler, like me, and the commercials just delay the inevitable sobbing and cursing and swearing never to…
Barabaro’s brother, Nicanor (above), will make his racing debut tomorrow at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, exactly two years after the death of the horse that won the hearts of a nation. Or at least the sentimental half.It’s a good thing horses can’t understand the pressure of expectations… Can they?After the…
House Speaker Ray Sansom stepped down today. He’s the one who lobbied to win state funds for a college, which then gave him a $110,000 job — a chain of events that Sansom would have us believe were unrelated. Sansom has said he “welcomed” an investigation, which is good, because…
So I got a call out of the blue from Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom yesterday. “So you’ve resorted to name calling?” he asked me. He wasn’t mad. Rodstrom, think of him what you will, is usually pretty cool. “Yes,” I answered. “Yes, I have.” “Whores?” he asked. “And scurrilous…
Bal Harbour-based real estate consultancy Condo Vultures has crunched the numbers on 2008 sales of distressed housing stock in South Florida and — surprise, surprise — the picture is ugly. The average homeowner in the tri-county area had to slash their sale price by 43%, or $323,784, to unload a property. Here’s the lowdown for…
OK, I’m exaggerating a little. But are you telling me this team couldn’t have scored a couple touchdowns against the Detroit Lions? Next Wednesday is National Signing Day, which is to college football fans what Christmas is to 8-year-olds. It’s the day when high school seniors sign a letter of…
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper became a familiar sight on TV after the death of Anna Nicole Smith two years ago, when he was the man overseeing her autopsy. These days, he’s been popping up regularly on Nancy Grace to talk about the death of toddler Caylee Anthony,…
I’m on deadline and going to be giving some kind of talk about blogging this morning at Broward Community College’s “journalism bootcamp,” so I have little time for the Pulp. So I’ll link you to Scott Wyman’s latest on Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter. It’s a good one. Basically he found…
Not that it matters for another 22 months, but a recent in-depth state-by-state analysis of party affiliation by Gallup says Florida “leans Democrat.” The study included more than 18,000 interviews with Floridians and ultimately says that since 2002, the country has gone from mostly Republican to mostly Democrat. In fact, according…
The mystery of who toiled papered Bernie Madoff’s Palm Beach home has been solved. Two teenagers from Michigan have been fingered as the TP culprits. The kids apparently bragged to their friends after they got back from vacation, which then tipped off the Palm Beach police, according to this story…
This week Pope Benedict XVI reinstated Bishop Richard Williamson after 20 years of excommunication from the Catholic Church. Williamson’ excommunicable offense was being consecrated without the Vatican’s consent (which sounds like some hardcore Da Vinci Code shit, right?) but the offense that’s caused an international uproar is Williamson’s denial that…
Jason Soldini has been working in Animal Control for the city of Pompano Beach since 1996. On an average day he might pick up dogs, put down a raccoon, and scrape some roadkill off the street. In 2005 he recalls hearing the city’s meter readers routinely being attacked by giant…
We all have a co-worker and/or family member who hits “forward” on all those inspirational blurbs, collections of cute-and-cuddly photos, and supposedly humorous cartoons. Next time you receive one of these notes, hit “reply” and attach a link to this blog post, which tells the cautionary tale of Patricia Daniels…
In the past couple of years, boat owners Erick Kelesceny, John Egizi, and Todd Jessup kept on filling up their boats’ gas tanks like they always had, with unleaded fuel. What they didn’t realize was that, since at least 2006, the big oil companies had been taking a chemical called…
So Fort Lauderdale lawyer Jim Lewis, who is running commission, contacted the Pulp about the post below wherein I criticize him for his role in the Gina Marie Marks saga. “A lot of people read this and man, it’s like you’re trying to kill my campaign,” he said. “I’m one of the…
A civil suit that goes to trial in Fort Lauderdale today is expected to be the first of a wave of lawsuits against Big Tobacco in Florida courts. The widow of Stuart Hess, a locksmith from Cooper City, sued Phillip Morris after his death in 1997, claiming the cigarettes he…
I’ve decided to go with more blunt and truthful headlines … can you tell? The inspiration for this one is the passing of lobbyist Ron Book’s initiative to bring more money to the county’s bail bondsmen at the expense of our tax dollars. Book, who represents the bondsmen, has been working on the…
Man, I turn my head for one day (to work on some print edition goodies) and all hell breaks loose in that 2010 Senate race. Democratic Rep. Allen Boyd is out. Democratic State Sen. Dan Gelber is in. Attorney General Bill McCollum is out. It’s such a free-for-all that even…
His thin, 81-year-old frame draped in a tan suit, his sharp eyes shaded by wraparound sunglasses, Tibor Hollo stands before a rusted fence bearing a spray-painted “No Trespassing” sign. Beyond the chainlink, strewn with weed-choked bottles and crushed cans, two of the finest acres in Miami stretch to the edge…
Former state Sen. Steve Geller says he thought they were the “good guys with the white hats.” But he really should have known better. In 2003, then-Sen. Geller embraced controversial Fort Lauderdale-based Mutual Benefits Corp., a company that brokered so-called viatical contracts, or life insurance policies at cut-rate prices, often…
Stacy Ritter was interviewed on WFTL 850-AM this morning about the Mutual Benefits scandal — and she took the time to take a shot at the Pulp host. (Quotes were typed fast, so forgive a typo or two). “The newspapers are in business to sell ink and if they don’t have anything…
Today’s Herald quotes Broward school officials who say that in this year’s budget talks, “everything is on the table.” That might mean fewer high school sporting events or no more bus rides to magnet schools. Or even cutting one class out of the students’ daily schedule. Desperate measures for desperate…
