Broward County’s Sheriff Al Lamberti and Mayor Stacy Ritter have been waging a high-profile public fight over who wastes the most taxpayer money. Maybe both should be paying more attention to their own campaign finances, though. Lamberti and Ritter, it turns out, are being investigated by the state for how…
Why do our politicians suck so bad? John de Groot doesn’t always try to answer that question, but he’s usually digging up evidence to prove the premise. What follows is his take on the a recent political trip to Haiti by some of our fearless leaders. You know, I always thought Lincoln Diaz-Balart…
[jump] Sossen says he thought this must have been some mistake, some technical glitch. “I didn’t even enter any kind of PIN number or anything.” Still curious, he found an old Wachovia deposit slip from another friend with whom he shares a safety deposit box (so he has her social…
So now that you Juice readers know how Feline Friends was deprived of some $11,000 by an opportunistic former treasurer, maybe you’ve been softened up enough to think seriously about adopting a cat.In reporting the two-part story of Feline Friends (Friday’s is here; Monday’s here), I paid a visit to…
Tension nearly boiled over at this morning’s meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s Board as commissioners broached the touchy topic of the district’s next general counsel. The seven-member panel appears divided over whether to speed that process or slow it down, given the flux at the position over the…
Rob Kornahrens, the fellow with that big swinging patrol car for Sheriff Al Lamberti, is a major GOP donor, an ally of Gov. Charlie Crist, and apparently the favorite roofer of business mogul H. Wayne Huizenga. Kornahrens and interests related to his Advanced Roofing firm in Fort Lauderdale have contributed more than $75,000 to…
Matthew Mitcham, the reigning Olympic champion diver with the highest-scoring dive in the sport’s history, told an Australian newspaper today that he’s terrified of diving in Fort Lauderdale. “Petrified,” actually. My own theory is that it’s because Mitcham’s coach seems prone to vivid descriptions of the worst-case scenario. Here’s what…
Well, it had all the makings of a political hit. The special meeting. The late-arriving addendum to the agenda. Deerfield Beach City Manager Mike Mahaney had two commissioners who support him, two who did not. Then a swing vote in Vice Mayor Sylivia Ferguson (formerly Poitier), who some said was…
You’re right about one thing, Joyce Kaufman: The mainstream media are not likely to take the congressional candidacy of Dennis Lamb seriously. Here’s my best effort: Dennis Lamb? Seriously?This Hollywood man — who either has no political experience or simply forgot to mention it on his new website — is…
Mike Mahaney, the Deerfield Beach city manager who has been straddling a political fault line since the March 10 municipal election, is in danger of being fired at tonight’s special meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, according to a source.There’s no mention of Mahaney on the agenda released in…
Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter isn’t the only official facing a state campaign investigation; so is her WWF-lik archrival on the budget front, Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti. Remember the patrol car that hung from a tall crane off Interstate 95 during the sheriff’s race? It was an eye-catching endorsement for Lamberti in his…
The Champaign, Illinois, Daily Illini newspaper has a report on the Fins’ first-round round pick:Former Illini football player Vontae Davis was arrested (Or was he? See update below.) on June 9 in Champaign for unnecessary vehicular noise and driving without a valid license.There you have it. In central Illinois, you…
A woman from a small town in northern Kentucky claims that the law firm of Wasserman Riley & Associates, with an office in Boca Raton, embellished her heart injuries in order to win a class-action suit against the makers of the diet drug fen-phen. Patricia Fulkerson, of Coxs Creek, Kentucky,…
Did anyone else get déjà vu reading the front page of the Miami Herald yesterday? Its feature story, “Condo Caverns,” was strikingly similar to New Times’ cover story last week, “Postcards From the Bust,” written by yours truly. My story looked at life inside some of the ghostly high-rise condos…
Before he became the assistant athletic director of Nova Southeastern, Larry Starr spent 30 years working as a trainer in clubhouses for the Cincinnati Reds and Florida Marlins. In a Chicago Sun-Times article published Sunday, he paints a ghoulish picture of the behind-scenes baseball culture that preceded the recent scandals…
For a teen-aged immigrant from Brazil, I’m sure it’s mighty tough to acclimate to America, let alone a city with Weston’s wide boulevards and tranquil pace. So maybe it’s best that transfer rules prevented young Fabrecio de Melo from suiting up this past year for the Sagemont School basketball team…
I’m on the beach this week and have Comcast instead of my usual satellite and have been exposed to BECON-TV, the Broward School Board’s channel. It stands for Broward Education Communications Network, and it’s bad education programming combined with county and School Board public relations tripe. It reeks of state-sponsored media (which it is,…
Deerfield Beach’s vice mayor, formerly known as Sylvia Poitier, is now going with her maiden name, Ferguson. The move, which she mentioned in her remarks at last week’s meeting, as seen above, comes amid her claiming to have been “defamed” by Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens, who yesterday filed…
When you fill out a deposit slip these days, it’s hard to know whether you’ll get the money back or if you’re throwing it into a bottomless pit. So it should come as an enormous relief that a bank-rating firm, Bauer Financial, has given passing grades to banks and credit…
One of the best parts of being Florida governor is access to a jet with which to indulge your most sudden, insatiable geographical impulses.For example, New Times’ eagerly anticipated Best Of Broward/Palm Beach issue hit this website on June 11. (Memorize that date — we’ll get back to it.) The…
In a post Friday, we described the “Houdini-esque predicament” of Charles Saltzman, a former treasurer of the Deerfield Beach cat shelter, Feline Friends. Three years after leaving that position, he’d seemingly been caught red-handed, raiding a Feline Friends-controlled bank account of more than $11,000.The funds had been willed to Feline…
The Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors Saturday night had everything you could want from a festival: civic leaders waving from slow-moving vehicles, a float featuring The Wizard of Oz characters in drag, and plenty of strapping young men in bikinis. The only thing missing was a horde of awkward,…
