In Barack Obama’s presidential election, Robert Wexler was one of those linchpins. As an early supporter, he convinced a great many wary Jewish voters in South Florida that Obama would be a friend of Israel, as Obama himself promised. It was crucial to winning Florida.But since Obama won election, he’s…
The headlines in South Florida this Wednesday:The latest on the Michael Brewer story is that one of his attackers was angry about a videogame the 15-year-old had borrowed. Just sickening. [CBS4]U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler is leaving Congress. [Miami Herald] Stacy Ritter is contemplating a run for Wexler’s seat. Is this…
I don’t know. I just don’t know anymore. A reliable source told me last night that it was a done deal that Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter — who is embroiled in a major political scandal with her lobbyist husband, Russell Klenet, and last week was menaced with a gun…
Boca Raton’s Robert Wexler is expected to resign today after seven terms in Congress to join a Middle East think tank, and the group that will miss him the most is TV news producers. That’s because Wexler has always found a way to say something so fiery, so lefty that…
Well, I finally rousted out Stephanie Kraft. Over the weekend, I wrote that if her husband, Mitch Kraft, received a dime from Neil Sterling, it was illegal. Today I sent her a pointed email demanding answers. She wrote me back saying she would answer the questions after a board workshop…
In addition to the three teenagers who appeared in court today on charges they set fire to Michael Brewer of Deerfield Beach, the Broward Sheriff’s Office is now reporting the arrest of two more juveniles: Steven Shelton and Jesus Mendez, both of whom are also 15 years old, like the…
Lobbyist Neil Sterling was more than just the guy whom construction companies went to when they wanted a multimillion-dollar contract with the Broward County School Board. He was also behind an incredibly lucrative contract last year to make another of his clients, Vista Healthplan Inc., the sole provider of health insurance to School Board employees…
If the leprechaun and the tooth fairy ever mated, their children would probably have committed acts like the one that occurred August 11 in Boynton Beach. That’s when a 54-year-old man named Miguel Tomas Jan Pascual was attacked by three boyish but vicious creatures. According to the police report, the…
Police have been looking for Rodney Ragbirsingh since July, when witnesses said the 27-year-old man chased his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Greyssel Gomez, through Brooklyn’s streets before gunning her down inside an auto repair shop. Last week, investigators tracked him to Lauderhill, where he was arrested by deputies of the Broward Sheriff’s…
God knows the island of Palm Beach doesn’t hold grudges against greedy attorneys, but Brad Edwards, you’re pushing your luck. The attorney from Fort Lauderdale’s Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler represents a gaggle of Jane Does who say they were solicited and/or fondled by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach resident. The…
A bomb threat has led officials to evacuate Citrus Cove Elementary School on Lawrence Avenue in Boynton Beach. Police are on the scene. More information as it becomes available.UPDATE: School has been cleared…
The private, Fort Lauderdale-base consulting firm Calvin, Giordano & Associates plays a big role in providing essential government services in Broward County. As the Juice has reported, the firm has a monopoly in the City of West Park — doing everything from planning and engineering to running the city website…
Count Patrick Neptune among the droves of Broward residents who think they’re getting a raw deal from county judges. Neptune says he was recently ordered to pay child support for a 26-year-old daughter, even though that daughter had long since been adopted by the current husband of Neptune’s ex-wife. Mistakes…
“We’d love it if the world turned vegan tomorrow,” Dan Mathews says breathlessly. Mathews is senior vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the controversial animal rights group founded by Ingrid Newkirk in 1980. When I spoke to Mathews by phone Friday, he had to raise…
In March 2008, the Forlini family launched their 42-foot catamaran from Fort Lauderdale. Mike Forlini; his wife, Sotiria Klironomos; and their two grade-school-aged children, Dantes and Matteo, cruised the Caribbean for the next year and a half, making stops at a host of islands. They didn’t return to their native…
— Whoever doused the 15-year-old kid with gasoline and lit him on fire should be charged as an adult. I don’t care how old he is; the person who did this shouldn’t get out of prison until he’s 40. This just in: The three kids charged are Denver Colorado Jarvis, 15, Michael Bent, 15,…
Your Tuesday morning in Broward and Palm Beach:The Wildcat is alive! Chad Henne can throw! Ronnie and Ricky can run! The Fins beat the Jets in dramatic fashion. [NFL.com]The state’s investigation of improper communication between the Public Service Commission the utility it regulates, Florida Power & Light, hasn’t found squat…
The Philadelphia Flyers just arrived in town to play our Panthers — on Friday night. That means the team has four days and three nights to kill before they suit up in the BankAtlantic. That is, a couple dozen mostly twentysomething multi-millionaires who play a sport known for hard hits…
I’m not going to wax poetic about the best game of the football season so far, but here’s a few thoughts. — This may be the rare team with a harder-hitting offense than defense. It had Jon Gruden all giddy. I do love, and always have loved, Ricky Williams. With his…
Horrific story coming out of Deerfield Beach. The Broward Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a 15-year-old boy named Michael Brewer was attacked at a pool within an apartment complex, then deliberately burned. Here’s the BSO news release: At 3:14 pm BSO deputies were dispatched to the Lime Tree apartments in…
