— If you’re tired of being mad, Sunrise, how about Hollywood? The Balance Sheet, a Hollywood political sheet, has looked into the city’s efforts to get wi-fi, and it appears to be another multimillion-dollar government boondoggle. This one involves a hefty Bank of America loan and the company Johnson Controls. — The Fort Lauderdale mayor,…
Last week, former Chicago Blackhawks General Manager Dale Tallon was hired for the same position by our humble Florida Panthers. Tallon’s stock is high, if only because the Hawks team he assembled is now on its way to the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, having completed a sweep Sunday of the…
The Danes love them some Allen West. Or at least one influential Dane does. Listen to Morten U. Jensen, writing last week in the nation’s largest daily paper:Skulle man være så heldig at være amerikansk statsborger og samtidig bosiddende i det toogtyvende valgdistrikt i Florida, så har man ved midtvejsvalget…
Two teachers at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach are in danger of losing their jobs after a March incident in which they allegedly doused an atheist teacher with holy water, the South Florida Times reports.From today’s article:Along with teacher Djuna Robinson, (fellow teacher Leslie) Rainer is accused of sprinkling…
When you watch the BP oil lap up onto shore and decimate fragile ecosystems, don’t ever forget why that oil rig was ever allowed to be built: cold cash. BP and other oil companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars greasing the political wheels with campaign contributions and have…
Except for a glimpse of cleavage on page 7, there isn’t much in the Summer 2010 print issue of Florida Atlantic University’s student paper, the University Press, that you’d think would ruffle many administrative feathers. Student reviews of teachers. Profiles of student orientation leaders. A bit about a parent-student association…
Here’s what’s happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:A nonprofit environmental firm says that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf is similar to the one that occurred more than 30 years ago in Mexico’s Bay of Cempeche. Those experts have faith that advances in technology will make…
The hatch, the polar bear, the glowing cave, the smoke monster, the eternal battle for the soul of man, the perpetual five-o’clock shadows. It all ends tonight. Unless you’ve been (John) locked in a closet for the better part of the decade, this cryptic, enigmatic television show turned cultural phenomenon…
So how does it happen? How does a giant ugly giant Marriott Hotel-anchored development get built west of the Sawgrass Expressway on a part of the Everglades that was meant to be an open space park and is now popular with hikers and boaters? It’s done in secret. It’s done with lobbyists…
This blog was supposed to be a food review about eating lunch at the Tower Club. The plan was to go as guests to Broward County’s high-rollers club, have a two-martini lunch, and file a piece on our Clean Plate Charlie food blog offering a critical analysis of the place…
Few activists in South Florida have had as much fun attacking public officials as Chaz Stevens. But now that he’s become a public official himself, Stevens has come under attack.At Wednesday evening’s meeting of the Deerfield Beach Housing Authority — Stevens’ second since being appointed to the board last month…
You can’t be a sleazy lobbyist on the national scale of Jack Abramoff without doing some dirty deeds in Broward County. That’s the setting for an opening scene in a just-released documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that the…
Dalia Dippolito, South Florida’s most infamous escort, has already been accused of hiring an undercover Boynton Beach police officer to kill her husband.But a newly released police report alleges that she also offered to pay a Palm Beach Gardens cop to investigate Michael Dippolito.In March 2009, Officer R.L. Wilson got…
Very busy this morning, but here’s a videotape of former Broward GOP Chief Chip LaMarca’s speech declaring his candidacy against Broward County Mayor Ken Keechl. I’ll come back with commentary a little later. LaMarca is striking a populist tone — and it has resonance: “If you’re… tired of reading the…
Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian says he was “not concerned” about reports of an ethically dubious contract between City Manager Mike Good and a local real estate agent because those reports did not appear in the Miami Herald or Sun-Sentinel. They appeared here in Juice and in a print…
It’s Friday. Here’s what’s happening in the local news:Prosecutors have released 18 minutes of video from Wayne Treacy’s interview, recorded hours after he beat 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley nearly to death at a Deerfield Beach bus stop. [WPLG-10]As Broward County workshops a reorganization of its government, the idea of a…
John Tanton’s name is getting a lot of play. Depending on who you talk to, Tanton is either a raging pro-eugenics racist with a deep-seated animosity toward brown people — or — a beaming, professorial Renaissance man with an insatiable curiosity and an infallible moral compass. Why should you care?…
As a general rule, people like going to the beach and splashing around in the ocean, but they tend to get fussy when they emerge covered in toxic tar sludge from an exploded BP oil rig. Strange, I know–but decidedly true.Although the April 20 catastrophe has already released 6 million…
Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian says that he considers Mike Good a “friend” but that the city manager’s absenteeism made it necessary for the commission to find another person for the job.At the meeting yesterday, Julian pointed to documents that showed that in 2010, Good only made it to…
It’s been hard to conjure sympathy for Hanley Ramirez, what with his reputation for being stingy with apologies. Even after he finally said he was sorry for “dogging it” on that pop fly he kicked against the Dbacks, this article came out, with details of Ramirez getting a locker room…
