It was showdown time in Weston. State and federal officials — from the water management district, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Interior Department — faced off last week with Mayor Eric Hersh and education officials about an ill-conceived school site on the edge of the Everglades. Beforehand,…
On February 11, shortly before 6 p.m., a heavy-set African-American man clad in a Department of Juvenile Justice-issue black-and-gray uniform wandered through a near-deserted common room at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in the Florida Panhandle. The bespectacled guard, identified by DJJ as 23-year-old Alvin Speights, shuffled past…
Adios, Absurdo So you’re sick of Fidel, eh? Everyone in South Florida is sick of hearing, reading, and seeing reports about Fidel Castro, Cuba, and Cubans (“Adiós, Fidel,” Amy Guthrie, April 26). So what do you come up with? Four pages of how sick people in South Florida are of…
After retirement from the Sun-Sentinel, Buddy Nevins has foundsomething to do. I just wish it wasn’t suing me. It was filed by his lawyer, Christopher Fertig, and has to do with the Phil Busey blog post and article I did recently. This may get interesting, but there is no joy…
Elgin Jones of the Broward Times has busted another big one that I’ve been meaning to get up here. Click on this to get to the site and check out the scoop he got on a report detailing contamination from a garbage incinerator in the Durrs neighborhood. It’s frightening. Also…
— Stuck on the Palmetto has a great breakdown on the breakdown of former BSO sheriff Nick Navarro’s security company when $1.5 million worth of phones it was supposed to be guarding were stolen from a factory in the middle of the day. The guard instead was washing his car…
Yeah, the Pulp is returning to its roots today with this selection, and it’s definitely worth it. The Palm Beach Post’s Susan Spencer-Wendel gives us a damn good look at what appears to be a damn bad arrest that was based on a damn biased photo lineup. First there was…
In Sunday’s newspaper, Sun-Sentinel Editor Earl Maucker gave us a tutorial on what sells in the business of journalism, or, more precisely, what doesn’t sell. Namely “sensational” news, or at least not in a “meaningful” way. Note to Earl: Sales have nothing to do with meaning — you either get…
Tomorrow, the Society of Professional Journalists will host a discussion on network news featuring appearances by CNN’s Susan Candiotti, NBC’s Mark Potter, and ABC producer Arash Ghadishah. The title: “How to Break Into Network News … AND STAY THERE.” Still not sure if that’s a promo or a threat. Should…
You have your only-in-South Florida stories and your only-in-Miami stories. This is an only-in-Miami story…
What the flying hell is this new company in West Palm Beach called “Smallponds”?…
WPLG political reporter and sunday show host Michael Putney decided not to take that job with the investment bank after all, reports the Miami Herald’s Christina Hoag. Writes Hoag: Putney originally said he did not see a conflict since he has never covered banking, nor did he see a conflict…
The following was sent to me via a third party from Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle. He apparently thinks it’s powerful enough to spur converts to the Republican Party. Father-Daughter Talk A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she…
Maybe the Sun-Sentinel, which is losing circulation like a crack whore loses teeth, has hope after all. In a story on page 2B of today’s edition, Ihosvani Rodriguez writes about Hollywood Mayor Mara Giulianti getting a whopping $22,250 from plumbers around the country associated with the United Association of Journeymen…
So when Fidel Castro dies, the party in Miami was supposed to be so big that the city would have to open the Orange Bowl. Everyone was going to jam in, waving flags and posters, parading triumphantly around the arena. They were going to bring salsa bands on the backs…
Eva Wynne-Warren says she can teach anyone to twirl tassels from her nipples. Or, should the opportunity arise, his nipples. There’s that tantalizing hook. As with much of what Wynne-Warren — AKA Torchy Taboo — says and does, it comes with a tease. Want to know how to twirl tassels?…
Last week, New Times writer Ashley Harrell turned out a spellbinding cover story on Miami Heat benchwarmer Dorell Wright. The 21-year-old straight-from-high-school phenom — an amiable California youngster with big ambitions and a yearning for more playing time — seemed to come to life on the page because of Harrell’s…
In this odd, burbling crowd of alien species, I felt as if I’d stepped into the cantina in the original Star Wars. But wait. I was in Fort Lauderdale at the Inverrary Resort, surrounded by hordes of spastically enthused teenagers dressed in costume for the Anime Super Con. Thankfully, as…
Go Where the Kids Are A new high school needs a better plan: I want thank you for having the courage to work for the people (“River of Greed,” Bob Norman, April 19). I am a parent of a young girl who goes to Cypress Bay High School. When many…
This just in from the Miami Herald website: Channel 10’s Michael Putney has accepted a job as a media consultant for Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, an investment bank. The kicker: He’s keeping his job at Channel 10 and op-ed column for the Herald while he works to promote Ladenburg Thalmann…
Below is the YouTube of Alec Baldwin’s speech in Glengarry Glen Ross. The reason I posted the little homage yesterday is that if you listen to the phone message, it’s like he’s channeling this character. Little known fact about Glengarry Glen Ross: The Baldwin role and speech, probably the most…
No, that headline isn’t fair, but it’s about as balanced as the front-page Sun-Sentinel obituary on the Deerfield Beach billionaire. The article almost completely avoided the darker side of Moran, who died Tuesday at the age of 88. It mentioned briefly that he pleaded guilty in 1984 to evading income…
