Via the Village Voice Media wire, here’s Ed Muscare, aka “Uncle Ed,” who according to our friends in Kansas City is a former children’s show host and current registered sex offender in Florida (correction: see update below). Where, exactly, in Florida? Well, God, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it?…
[Well, it’s official: Roger Wishner is a man-whore. As predicted below, Roger Wishner and his do-boy Rosen voted tonight for the zoning change to allow Everglades Corporate Park to build a bigger development on the Everglades west of the Sawgrass. The stinking thing was passed 4-1, with only Sheila Alu dissenting. Sunrise…
Former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman was acquitted this afternoon by a Broward County jury of aggravated assault, a felony charge that would have meant a minimum three years in prison. He was convicted on the misdemeanor charge of improperly displaying a firearm.Tastes bittersweet to me. As I said yesterday, following…
Poor George Orwell, dying before blogs were born. He’d have had a field day with the folks behind the Free Speech Summit, who have proven themselves adept at silencing debate. That summit was staged last night, not at the Delray Beach Marriott as originally planned but at an undisclosed location…
Among the many and varied indulgences that South Floridians must forgo in this era of financial dieting, the least of them, I would guess, is junk mail. Like the piece pictured at the left from Congressman Ron Klein, the Fort Lauderdale Democrat.Not that people in Klein’s district aren’t interested in…
Sun-Sentinel senior vice president Jeff Levine, who oversaw both marketing and online content, is leaving the newspaper to become the “Director of Content” at the Hartford Courant, a sister Tribune publication. Publisher Howard Greenberg, whose memo on the matter is reproduced in full after the jump, also promoted Julie Anderson from “VP of…
With a few days left before the state legislative session goes into OT, we are almost ready to pronounce its legacy: This year, 2009, was the one in which Florida slipped off an economic cliff, but not before saving us from our oversexed selves. Sunrise Sen. Nan Rich would slip…
That’s video from the scene of the worst police shooting in Florida this year. Now the governor-appointed Okaloosa County sheriff, Edward Spooner, is trying to defend his department’s decision to arrest a wife-beating weapons expert at a gun range. In an incident that appeared entirely avoidable, two deputies were killed…
It’s so rare for people to get together and protest in Broward County for anything that isn’t tied to some union and pay. That’s why I’m heartened by the protest that’s going to take place at the Sunrise City Commission at tonight’s meeting. A slew of environmentalists are going to rail against the building of the Corporate…
The last time the Atlanta Hawks had won a playoff game on the road, Dwyane Wade was 15 years old. He hadn’t thought about Marquette, the Final Four, the NBA Finals, MVPs, or STDs. But last night, Miami was about as intimidating as Jeff Goldblum was in the 1997 smash…
This morning, I swung by the trial of ex-Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman. Based on what I’ve read about the guy, he sounds like a pretty lousy citizen. Drunk driving down the wrong side of the street, then asking the city to pay his legal bill. Before that, substitute teaching in…
At first, it seemed like Delray Beach Rep. Adam Hasner just had one of those typical, post-9/11 freakouts, panicking at the prospect of a Muslim group’s lobbying trip to Tallahassee. Then two weeks ago, we learned that Hasner had agreed to participate in the “Free Speech Summit” headlined by Geert…
Now that Gov. Crist has signed a bill removing the term “shylock” from Florida’s law books, he’s opened the door to a host of other possibilities. “Shylock” had to go because it was offensive to Jewish people. It dates all the way back to Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, in which…
Like any place else, Broward County has its share of conventional junkies, but our real addiction, it seems, is to the profits of the pain pill industry. If you have trouble wrangling a prescription in your home county or home state, Broward’s the place to go.The first article in the…
Well, the new circulation numbers are out and the Miami Herald took it on the chin in a rather stunning way. While the average circulation at the nation’s daily newspapers (with 50,000-plus subscribers) was down an average of 7 percent, the Miami Herald more than doubled that decline, falling 15.8 percent to 202,122…
Halfway through this past week’s episode of NBC’s The Office, while the Michael Scott Paper Co.’s three employees sit on the floor of their closet turned headquarters, swapping stories of personal failure, the character Ryan offers:”I never went to Thailand.”It’s a reference to an earlier episode in which, during a…
The latest from John de Groot, the king of interesting statistics. Here you have a lifetime’s supply of information about trash. No wonder the mafia loves the carting business so much. And you thought that smell was coming only from our politicians? It jumps. ——————————————————– Serious Shit In Earth Day…
Last month, when Florida Sen. Gary Siplin of Orlando proposed the “Trinity” automobile license plate to be draped with the crucified torso of Jesus Christ, it seemed worth filing in the old “Crazy Shit That Could Never Happen” file. After all, as FlaBlog points out, this idea never caught on…
Heads up, Broward County: Your ex-sheriff ex-con gave an interview to former Sun-Sentinel columnist Buddy Nevins that was posted on Broward Beat over the weekend. It’s a cream-puff interview, but whatever. Ken Jenne was convicted, served his time, and no one can doubt his regret is genuine. Besides, there’s enough…
That’s the just-released trailer for Outrage, by provocative documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick, which debuted this past week at the Tribeca Film Festival. We told you how outed Palm Beach Congressman Mark Foley was going to be a character in the film and hypothesized (without consulting Bob Norman, I swear) that…
When a crime happens, best to make a beeline for the motive. Who profited from the crime? Which is why, I fear, the Great Maracas Caper of 2009 may never be solved. It was a crime — fraud, I think — that seems to have had no motive. Maracas, the…
