A tour of today’s Dailies:The dangers of opening a joint checking account with Paul Francois, the local Lothario who allegedly stole more than his wives’ hearts. The Miami Herald’s David Smiley reports. Prosecutors have identified 118 cases in the law enforcement oeuvre of Jonathan Bleiweiss, the Broward Sheriff’s deputy who allegedly…
Thanking the Gays Instead of your columnist Gail Shepherd being concerned about grants to the gay and lesbian community, Ms. Shepherd should be down on all fours kissing our royal asses (“Tides Foundation Funds Florida Culture War,” July 24, TheJuiceBlog.com). She should be thanking God that Florida has such a…
What do you do when the public overwhelmingly votes down an idea to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new courthouse? If you’re the Broward County Commission, you ignore the people and ram it down their throats anyway. After voters roundly rejected a referendum to fund a $450…
Even after the accident had torn their lives apart, Chuck and Sharon Brody still saw themselves as an average couple, nice people living what should have been an unremarkable existence. Chuck and Sharon had met at the basketball court in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, where neighborhood kids played…
This blog is merely the loose wingnut on an otherwise well-oiled media machine. Remember to pick up its ink-based big sister at a newsrack near you. Or at least click over to to the web version of these articles:During a period when the news has been filled with fibbing cops,…
That’s an actual advertisement from Spirit Airlines, the pride of Miramar. Clearly a shot across the bow at Virgin America, which is coming soon to the FLL…
— Barbra Stern, Dame Judith’s daughter, made it official: She’s running for the District 91 state house seat being vacated by Ellyn Bogdanoff. Thirty-six-year-old Barbra (is Judy a Streisand fan?) can at least be sure that she won’t be slimed too bad. Her mother, after all, is the dirtiest campaigner…
Rick Lemack, who finished a close second one year ago in the Democratic Primary for Broward Sheriff, is now one of five candidates to be police chief of Gainseville. Lemack was previously an assistant chief in the Hollywood Police Department and an assistant city manager.But in the year since that…
A just-posted video of a turtle gliding through the water off Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, to soothe the conscience of those still feeling guilty about the bear who was slain for trying to make friends with people…
Harness-racing fans in Canada adored track announcer Frank Salive, but he’s had a lifelong love of Pompano Park, where he’ll begin as announcer and publicist next month. From the London (Ontario) Free Press:”I remember going down there in 1976 when I was just 21 years old,” Salive said. “It was…
Governments all over the country are slashing their budgets to survive the New Depression. Last month, the city of Pembroke Pines took the drastic step of axing its entire building department — laying off at least 33 employees, and outsourcing building inspection duties to a private firm. City leaders said…
Barbra Stern, the daughter of Democrat strategist Judy Stern, today followed through on her long-rumored campaign for Florida House district in Fort Lauderdale vacated by Ellyn Bodganoff, who’s running for Florida Senate. Barbra Stern was originally a Democrat but she had a fling with the Republican Party that ended just…
Shortly before Westley the Bear succumbed to the gunshot wounds in southeast Georgia Saturday, he was heard to curse the name of the bear that apparently inspired his bold efforts at assimilation: Paddington.You can see a video of Paddington above. That bear, it is said, traveled from “the darkest Peru”…
Driving a cab is hard enough work without your fare knifing you after he arrives at his destination. So let’s all help Hollywood Police get the guy in the picture. Squint if you have to.Judging by the news release, it doesn’t seem that the stabber made off with any money,…
What’s with Boynton Beach suddenly becoming a hot spot for South Florida crime? Early yesterday, a couple of exhausted Canadian tourists trying to drive through the night to South Beach, pulled off on I-95 at Boynton Beach Boulevard, then parked at a closed gas station so they could switch drivers,…
Nothing secedes like excess. We here at the Juice thinks it makes sense: Palm Beach town councilman William Diamond urged his fellow confederates at yesterday’s council meeting to consider seceding from Palm Beach County and forming a new county of its very own. Diamond argued that the playground of the…
This is a board of nine elected politicians whose campaigns have been largely financed by the construction industry and its lobbyists. During the past several years, they’ve wasted hundreds of millions of dollars to allow those same contractors to overbuild the district by 35,000 classroom seats, leaving the board broke and billions in debt in the process. It’s a disaster that will have…
Bob Smith, that is, the former U.S. Senator from new Hampshire. Publicly, Charlie Crist’s campaign could explain that Smith, who has been living in Sarasota, brings a wealth of experience to the job — six years in the House and 12 in the Senate. That’s more than anyone else being…
Fourteen-year-old Sachia Vickery and 13-year-old Victoria Duval, from Miramar and Delray Beach, respectively, spent this past weekend in the Czech Republic, giving that nation’s tennis fans a show they won’t soon forget. The ITF World Junior Tennis Championships is a match-up of national teams, based on single matches, but the…
Happened to catch HBO’s documentary film, The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, last night. I thought it might be mildly interesting, but it was transfixing. Following then-Washington D.C. Mayor Barry’s descent into alcholism, drug abuse, and womanizing is a wild journey. And every rung lower he stooped he took his city right along with him…
If you’ve got world-class athletic talent and a full ride at a top school like the University of Michigan, you probably want to avoid friends from South Florida who answer to the name, “Tragic.”That’s the nickname of the drug dealer to whom former Deerfield Beach football star Justin Feagin allegedly…
The government of the United Arab Emirates was circling Herve Jaubert, growing increasingly certain that he was one among a cast of unscrupulous businessmen from the West whose collective greed brought an end to the economic boom in Dubai.But before Jaubert could be arrested, he abandoned his villa and fleet…
