Shortly after Elisa Moed moved from Boca Raton to Israel in 2005, she realized that the country could improve the way it markets itself to the droves of Christian tourists in America. That idea grew into Travelujah.com, a site that can help a Christian have an inspiring trip to the…
If this study is true in claiming that there really is a relationship between a nation’s high temperatures and its lack of prosperity, then shouldn’t that apply to American states? If so, that bodes badly for this here peninsula.It’s “a huge effect,” Olken says. The difference between a country that’s…
The number of Jews in Broward County decreased by about 55,000 people during the past decade. The population seems to be quite literally dying off, according to a University of Miami study that I just ran across. The number of Jews in Broward has fallen from 240,000 in 1997 to about 185,800 today,…
Residents of Lake Worth, many of whom have made small but successful careers specializing in complaining about their high utility bills, might not know that the city actually gets the power to turn their fans and nuke their frozen dinners not from the beleaguered Lake Worth Power Plant but from…
They’re coming. In swarms. From north to south. The killer bees, capable of assuming sphere shapes and terminating humans, with extreme prejudice. Yes, before they struck the Broward Correctional Institution yesterday, the little bastards wreaked havoc in St. Lucie County. A few months ago, the TC Palm fielded a report…
But this dude will be able to buy one sweet-ass toupee after he wins his lawsuit against the Age-Defying Surgical Center in Fort Lauderdale, which he claims denied him service based on his medical condition. Maybe even the Sam Donaldson model, seen at left.You can bet the center is gonna…
“I didn’t come here looking for a job,” attorney Sam Goren said May 14 at an emergency meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s Board of Commissioners. In the moments before, commissioners had relied upon Goren’s legal counsel in determining that their general counsel, Marc Goldstone, should be fired. Now…
It could be a well-timed move to make him look like a crime-fighting hero (it comes conveniently at the very same time that he’s running for state attorney general), but regardless, it’s pretty cool that State Sen. Dave Aronberg (D-Greenacres) is taking public officials to task for letting private contractors…
Fort Lauderdale’s WFTL-AM (850) talk-radio host Joyce Kaufman is smelling conspiracy everywhere lately. She has hooked up with those zany folks over at the Florida Security Council and believes that there’s a radical Muslim hiding under every rock. “I am obsessed with exposing radical Islam,” Kaufman told us by phone…
Poor Miriam Oliphant. People always said the former School Board member and elections supervisor wasn’t too bright, and now it looks like she’s going to lose her cushy job at the School Board for failing a math test. Oliphant, after being run out of her elected position as Broward County Supervisor of Elections in…
To piggyback on a Fred Grimm column in the Herald and a Smashed Frog blog post — as well as the article that started it all, in our sister paper — I’ll venture a prediction that recent concerns about draconian laws regulating sex offenders will have the opposite effect on…
The recent arrival of Lu Hardin as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University is yet another instance of a wayward soul landing in South Florida in hopes of escaping an unsavory past. Whether you’re a disgraced college president like Hardin or a disgraced basketball executive like Isiah Thomas or an…
Spent yesterday afternoon at WXEL doing the Florida Forum radio show with former Sun-Sentinel columnist Ralph de la Cruz. We talked about the downward spiral of the newspaper industry. I think I hit most of my talking points: 1. Compare Tribune Co. to the Titanic — check. 2. Try but fail to…
Last month, we introduced you to some of the saddest tales from South Florida’s condo meltdown, including the ghostly Tao Sawgrass towers in Sunrise and the now-foreclosed CityPlace South Tower in West Palm Beach. It would be easy to assume that downtown Delray Beach was immune to such problems, since…
When Carol Anne Burger called Boynton Beach police just before 1 p.m. October 23, 2008, she sounded panicked. “I… I don’t know if this is an emergency, but it could be,” she told the 911 operator. Carol was breathing heavily. “My girlfriend didn’t come home last night.” She immediately rephrased…
After Charlie Crist annihilated Marco Rubio in the most recent round of fundraising for the U.S. Senate campaign, the boyish former House Speaker needs a game-changer. You know, someone who can bolster his maverick persona. Maybe someone who, like Rubio, gives Republicans hope that there’s a younger, more attractive generation…
Don’t kill yourself on Wednesday. Among other things, it’s a total cliche. A recent study finds that that day is the most popular one to kill yourself. Of those who do the deed, 24.6 percent do it on Wednesday. Saturday is a distant second at 14.4 percent, with Monday at…
Documents recently released by the North Broward Hospital District show that its chairman decided his board didn’t have a corruption problem so much as a Martin Goldberg problem. That’s the name of the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district’s Board of Commissioners to investigate allegations that…
West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her personal battle against breast cancer, and in the war against the disease, she just won a purple heart. Last night in Washington, D.C., during a softball game whose proceeds went to breast cancer, Wasserman Schultz fractured her leg and sprained her ankle…
The following email from Palm Beach Post Publisher Alex Taylor was posted by a kindly commenter below. Taylor sent it to the newsroom Tuesday afternoon, and in it he writes that this year is worse than the last and confirms there will be more layoffs. But he doesn’t specify when they’ll come or how many…
While doing web research, I’ve been running across Examiner.Com more and more. Never heard of it? Well, you should, since it’s the self-proclaimed “Insider Source for Everything Local.” Examiner.com is a “citizen journalism” site wherein self-appointed “examiners” write their own articles. And it’s true that they have discovered the “insider source” for local…
On Saturday, nudists around the country set out to establish a Guinness World Record for the number of people simultaneously skinny-dipping. Some locals — 800 alone from a group called South Florida Free Beaches that organized at Haulover Beach (see photo, above), plus 31 participants at the Seminole Health Club…
