I’m going to start following the Florida Marlins again — and believe it or not my relapse has nothing to do with the fact the team is in first place. It’s all about Hanley. The Marlins just signed Ramirez, a beautiful ballplayer, to a six-year $70 million deal. And it’s…
So I’ll leave this with you on a beautiful Friday afternoon (at the risk of being called anti-Semitic by the mayor of Cooper City). Funniest spoof I’ve ever seen on Hillary Clinton…
It’s official: The Miami Herald’s senior writer, Martin Merzer, has left the building. The 60-year-old Merzer, who began working at the Herald in 1979, accepted a buyout from the McClatchy-owned newspaper and was feted at a farewell get-together yesterday, according to sources. Also confirmed to have taken the buyout in…
Broward Public Defender candidate Gary Ostrow, who was recently charged with cocaine possession, told me this morning he was going to face the charges — and his own personal problems — “like a man.” Ostrow, in his first public statement since the May 2 arrest, also provided some new details…
Some of the South Florida newspaper stuff that caught the Pulp’s eye this morning: — Michael Mayo writes about Alex Arreaza’s campaign to get WSVN-Channel 7 to take Help Me Howard! taken off the air. Why? Because Alex is running for public defender against the show’s star, Howard Finkelstein, and…
A woman is giving away her $1.25 million mansion in Ocala. The house, replete with two 50-foot porches, three crystal chandeliers, and a jacuzzi, sits on two acres lush with oak trees, orange trees, azaleas, and gardenias. She will give it — mortgage-free — to the winner of a “pet…
Here’s the question: Is it safe to fly during times when commercial airlines are under grinding economic stress? American Airlines Flight 48 had just taken off from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport at the start of a nine-hour overnight flight to Paris on April 20 when flight attendants heard an alarming…
Let’s get one thing straight: The protesters who gather outside the El Sol Day Labor Center in Jupiter every Saturday morning don’t hate immigrants. They hate illegal immigration. “America was built by immigrants,” concedes a man who gives his name only as Bob. He is a former Marine, a self-described…
When Alan Levine left his post in late 2006 in then-Gov. Jeb Bush’s administration to take the top job at the North Broward Hospital District, he made sure to get paid. Not only did Levine, a rising star in national GOP circles, negotiate a deal that would pay him a…
The Miami Herald has the audio of Olidia Kerr Day’s call to 911 while she was fleeing her homicidal ex-boyfriend. Day made it to the Plantation police station where she was gunned down in the parking lot. The call is just about as chilling as anything I’ve ever heard; makes…
The Miami Herald’s Fred Grimm writes about the danger of naming streets and parks for active politicians, citing Barry Kutun, Art Teele, William Dandy, Leonel Martinez, Abel Holtz and Jose Canseco. Hopefully this won’t go down in history in the same vein. UPDATED: The wife of the Pulp was on…
The Contra Costa Times’ Chuck Barney hopes the Weston high schoolers on MTV’s “The Paper” will “step it up and inspire a whole new generation of young Woodwards and Bernsteins.” Sorry Barney, but you’re barking up the wrong tree. Have you seen this show? There’s nothing inspiring about these kids…
While airing a Barack Obama speech last night on CNN, former South Florida anchor turned CEO lab rat Rick Sanchez interrupted the proceedings to do what he does best: Pimp the station he works for. As Obama spoke, Sanchez popped up in picture-in-picture and said: You’re watching Barack Obama at…
New Palm Beach Publisher Doug Franklin e-mailed a memo to staff last week indicating that he was going to cut staff — and not in a minor way. From the memo, which was posted on the Pulp in a comment below: We are working on plans now to become a…
When Ron Gunzburger isn’t advising Lori Parrish, he’s digging up political dirt and running his massive Politics1 website. Sometimes he has some interesting stuff, like this post from a while back about the take-down of former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer, which involved locals like “Republican dirty trickster” Roger Stone and…
Cal Deal’s public information request is getting a little more interesting. Quick primer: The city is charging Deal some cash because his request for some Cindi Hutchinson emails would take an IT person — who is paid $57 an hour — a half hour to find them. Deal, who figured…
Racehorse Inc. Dominating the, uh, Market This is at the Palm Meadows thoroughbred training facility in Boynton Beach, early last Thursday. For the past two weeks, the place has clattered with the sounds of an army leaving a battlefield. Stablehands load tack into the trunks of cars and the backs…
On Friday nights, the parking lot of an 18-unit apartment building in Pompano Beach fills with white plastic lawn chairs. The men who gather there seem, at first blush, to have nothing in common, displaying every look possible, from clean-cut preppy to gaunt heroin chic to sunburned construction worker to…
It’s been reported in both the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald unquestioningly as “anti-Semitic.” The Broward Sheriff’s Office agrees and has gone as far as using subpoena power to investigate what it says may be a hate crime. What is it? A Hitler mustache and the words “Nazi bitch.” The offending…
— You got the FAU shooting, or grazing, in both the Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel. Interesting, but the must-read is the Sun-Sentinel comment board, which is so full of abject racism that the newspaper should delete the whole mess. Are these idiots organized or do they all just congregate…
Local governments spend a lot of money to get out the information they want you to hear about (aka propaganda). But what about when you try to utilize the state’s vaunted public information laws (aka Sunshine Law) to get the stuff they don’t necessarily want out there? Well, that’s when…
Things seem mighty boring around this burg lately. It’s got me in a foul mood, to tell you the truth. You’d think with all the journalists working in South Florida (600 or so?) there’d be a lot more interesting stuff to read. Seriously, what do you people do with your…
