The road leading to Bagram Air Base is a mess. Car-sized craters dot the lane, interspersed with ruts deep enough to get lost in. For stretches, it’s hard even to know where the road is as it peters out into expanses of dusty scrubland stretching for miles. Every few hundred…
The cover-up was the crime in Plantation last week. Police Chief Larry Massey blatantly broke state open-record statutes, commonly called the Sunshine Law, which is essential in keeping an eye on what our public officials are doing. And Plantation City Attorney Donald Lunny Jr.. sat by and apparently approved. The…
An anonymous source supplied three names that I won’t repeat until further word, but they are all three very high-profile journalists. The faces of the newspaper, in fact. I’m afraid tomorrow is going to be Black Thursday. UPDATED: Okay, this is now from multiple sources (including a comment below): Yesterday…
A source close to the Porsche hit-and-run investigation suggests that a Sun-Sentinel story may have hindered police efforts to make an arrest in the case.Locals were shocked when two British businessmen were killed in the early-morning hours of February 13. Craig Elford, 39, and Kenneth Watkinson, 48, were hit by…
Well, it sure looks like a sweetheart deal. In 2008, Mike Good, city manager of Hallandale Beach, collected a gross income of $422,000 and change.I say “looks” only because thus far, neither Good nor Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who signs Good’s contracts, has returned phone messages. Maybe there’s a…
The Florida House and Senate have both drafted legislation that would dramatically alter the games at Seminole casinos. Either the Tribe’s profits will take a huge leap back or huge leap forward.The House version scales back the games that the Tribe can offer, eliminating card games so that the casino’s…
Teachers flooded a School Board meeting last night in an attempt to ask for bigger raises. However, the teachers were unsuccessful in their attempt to sway the officials using their overwhelming immaturity.The room full of teachers — the same ones who send students to detention for such infractions as chewing…
The Sun-Sentinel’s report on Charlie Crist’s air travel (along with a parallel investigation by the Times/Herald Tally bureau) supports my image of the man who is our governor. He’s a politician who wants to hobnob with the elite while trying keep his own hands clean. A man who believes his destiny is to be a benevolent king. A…
West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared this evening on Hardball, the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC. She was a Matthews favorite even before she revealed this weekend that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer more than a year ago and underwent a double mastectomy as well as an operation…
The Sun-Sentinel’s lead story was reprinted from the Miami Herald and written by a staff reporter who was recently announced to have been laid off and won’t be working for either newspaper. And it’s about Miss Cleo coming out as a lesbian. A story broken by the Advocate in 2006. Two years ago you would…
Last night, Fox News hot-air balloon complete asshole Bill O’Reilly aired a segment about the controversy over his speech at a benefit in Manalapan. He framed it as a battle between good and evil. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the possible conflict of interest O’Reilly might have speaking…
Here’s one I haven’t heard before: Palm Beach County Commissioner Jess Santamaria told the Palm Beach Post that he’s so frustrated by apathy among residents that he’s thinking of walking away from public service at the end of his four-year term.”The only thing that would make me run again is…
First, the problem was that Florida tattooists didn’t have a good way to communicate with each other. That’s how hundreds of them were caught by surprise when they learned that Hallandale Beach Sen. Eleanor Sobel had introduced a bill that would overhaul regulation of the state’s tattoo industry. Now, it…
The Heat crushed the Grizzlies at home last night, 94-82. And Dwyane Wade dropped 27 to break his own franchise single-season scoring record. The Heat started on an 11-0 run and never trailed O.J. Mayo and his Memphis crew. The real excitement came after the game though, when D-Wade gave…
The Marlins finally got the new stadium the team has sought for a decade, meaning the team will now depart the State of Florida for Little Havana. The team will leave Dolphin Stadium, with its proximity to Broward and Palm Beach counties, in 2012. And with the stadium approval, the…
Catherine Maus is the chairwoman of Fort Lauderdale’s Planning & Zoning Board. And that isn’t right. Maus is perfectly smart enough and certainly seems of fine enough character to serve in such a capacity. In fact, I’m sure that she, as a lawyer, is a very valuable member and a conscientious one. The problem is…
Amanda Terkel is the winner in the Blogger-Baiting-O’Reilly Sweepstakes, and she didn’t even seem to try. The Think Progress blogger wrote this post after it was announced that Fox News idiot charmer Bill O’Reilly would be the guest speaker at a fundraiser in Manalapan for the It Happened to Alexa…
This weekend, the Associated Press confirmed a story first reported by Juice: that a search dog and handler were headed to Aruba in hopes of finally identifying the location of Natalee Holloway’s remains.The AP’s story did not, however, reflect the same note of optimism that our source reported to us…
A subsidiary of West Palm-based Oxbow Corporation is facing $75,600 in fines after an accident in September at an industrial plant in Kremlin, Okla., killed one worker and left two more with severe injuries.The workers were employed with a subcontractor called Geo. P. Reintjes Co., which was also cited. The…
Besides gnashing one’s teeth or making fun of Timothy Geithner’s dweebiness, there is little frustrated taxpayers can do about the spiraling-out-of-control federal deficit. To channel their rage, fed-up conservatives have been organizing “tea parties” around the country, mimicking the Boston Tea Party cry of “no taxation without representation.” Event organizers…
Around this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until this weekend that at the same…
[jump] The Heat won the game 101-96. In the first quarter, Wade hit a basket that put him over 2,000 points for the season. That makes him only the fifth player in NBA history to notch 2,000 points, 500 assists, and 150 steals in a single season. Miami also inched…
