Several sources have informed the Pulp that Pirtle Construction — one of the largest builders of schools in Broward County with hundreds of millions in current public contracts — has fired lobbyist Neil Sterling as its lobbyist. Why should you care? Well, first of all, Sterling is one of the most…
The media klieg lights are always on, but they dim just a tad around the close of the business day Friday. Everybody’s off to happy hour, or making the week’s last commute home. Media consumers take a break to spend time with friends and family, and it may be late…
In a conversation that seems to have been recorded at the cafeteria lunch table where the in crowd sits, Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter and Commissioner Ken Keechl decided that fellow Commissioner John Rodstrom is not in-crowd material. That’s because Rodstrom’s pushing a bill that would bar commissioners from calling upon…
Deputy Superintendent Michael Garretson has written a memo regarding last week’s column to Superintendent Jim Notter assuring him that the payment of $1 million to an unlicensed firm represented by lobbyist Ron Book was all above board. Hey, I’m going to let Garretson speak for himself and urge you to read the…
Currently, it’s called “A Child Is Missing,” but the Fort Lauderdale organization founded to quickly circulate reports of missing children to Florida law enforcement may soon name itself after Caylee Anthony. It’s not even the organization’s idea. Rather, it’s the brainstorm of Orlando-area U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, who told the…
Nancy Pelosi will appear at a news conference Monday with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to announce $1.5 million in funding for Broward Community & Family Health Centers. That money’s a tiny chunk of the nearly $800 billion federal stimulus package that passed in February. With a policy that huge, Democrats…
Celebrities — they’re just like us! If you’ve recently had your home foreclosed upon, then you now have something in common with Big Pussy. You remember him:Vincent Pastore, the actor who played the famous and tragically named Sopranos character, has a Coral Springs condo in limbo. And that’s not the…
In the Hollywood-produced movie about the Chinese drywall controversy, I’m guessing the story will be broken wide open by Zac Efron as ace reporter Carl Bernstein Jr. That would be supercool for me and all the other Efron fans. But in real life, a lawyer in Boca broke the story,…
Last week, the nation was captivated by the unfolding story of the M/V Maersk Alabama and the Somali pirates that held the ship’s captain, Richard Phillips, hostage until the U.S. Navy took action four days later. It sounds like something straight out of a movie (come on: distant lands, pirates,…
>>> Thomas Francis 4/15/2009 4:36 PM >>>Hi Whittney,Let me start by saying that you’re doing a terrific job as the Beerfrau of Beerfest. Not an official title, I know; but certainly more fun than “Marketing Manager.” I am excited about Saturday night’s soiree, and I think Juice readers should be,…
We didn’t set out to make this Pick on Adam Hasner Week here at the Juice, but after Monday’s heads-up that the Jewish state representative from Delray Beach was supporting a controversial anti-Islam conference, we stumbled across this item from the St. Pete Times showing that Hasner introduced an amendment…
You don’t have to tell me that a blog is a beast with a bottomless appetite. I do sympathize with other local bloggers procrastinating their next post. But only to a point. Remember: There’s a fine line between a blog and a time capsule. In this era of crumbling daily…
Hey, remember that delightful Coral Springs lady who took a shine to Sarah Palin, launched a blog for her, and — perhaps because this was so patently absurd — received some media coverage for it? And then some media coverage about that media coverage? Well, you won’t believe this, but…
John Madden, an old man who spends half the year tooling around America in an enormous, obnoxious, pimped-out house on wheels, stopping only to watch the week’s best football game while muttering semi-coherently, is retiring from that job, according to news reports.Asked for their reaction, everyone among a generation of…
Palm Beach County is running so smoothly these days, what it really needs is a taste of Iraqi-style contracting. Private companies rake in billions of dollars supporting the military operations in that stunningly successful war, so why shouldn’t they also earn a buck or two at home? That’s where Kellogg,…
All this talk on the news about the right-wing “teabagging” protests is cracking me up. In fact I’m starting to think that the evil liberal media talked the national frustrati into taking on that moniker for their movement as a juvenile prank. (Locally, our own Michael Mooney mixed it up with these…
They should have seen this coming. Last year, when the Sunrise City Commission chose as its new city attorney, Stuart Michelson, it guaranteed itself a future full of ethical quandaries. The latest one is whether it’s ethically appropriate for Michelson to advise a charter review board whose decisions will influence…
Who would have guessed that witnessing a tea bagging would be so hard to swallow? Honestly, I thought yesterday afternoon was going to be funny. I figured I’d stroll a few blocks from the New Times the Juice office down to the federal courthouse at Broward and NE Third Avenue…
Last week, newspaper headlines abounded about a lawsuit alleging that the Broward County Courthouse is so full of dangerous mold that it needs to be shut down. One of the companies named in the lawsuit is Texas-based C&B Services, which did cleanup work at the courthouse in the wake of…
Around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17, life hummed along normally for residents of the Waverly Las Olas condominium at the corner of Broward Boulevard and U.S. 1 in Fort Lauderdale. For the holiday season, some residents of the luxury high rise had decorated their balconies with twinkling lights. A…
This time of year, the nation’s college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey — a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz…
