Hey, Democratic donors of Florida! Guess how your political party has decided to spend some of your hard-earned donations? If you guessed “Buy a Florida billboard with which to cast aspersions at Rush Limbaugh,” then you are psychic, or merely a reader of Wonkette.Here is the Democratic Party web page…
We have never seen Earl Rynerson shoot a moose from a helicopter or put lipstick on a pig, but the local businessman reminds us of deposed veep candidate Sarah Palin if only because he simply won’t leave the limelight. He may have lost the election for Fort Lauderdale mayor in…
The Sun-Sentinel laid off numerous employees on Wednesday — unfortunately nobody seems to know the exact numbers since the newspaper has kept it under a tight lid. Sources have put the number at anywhere from 25 to 85 people who lost their jobs in the operations, sales, and advertising department. At…
Yes, as a matter of fact, it does. That’s according to a fun web site created by Virgil Griffith, a 25-year-old CalTech grad student. He created the site (which has since gone down from too much traffic) to compare the kinds of music Facebook users list as their favorite with the…
Like a wise-cracking, slam-dunking movie monster (not to be confused with Kazaam), Shaquille O’Neal has returned to South Florida. And like Godzilla, he is doing his share of crushing — even if it’s not on the basketball court. Last night, Shaq made the Miami stop on what he’s calling his…
The Fort Lauderdale police beating video in the elevator of a office building downtown is a must-see. It shows officers, after breaking up a fight in the lobby, walking into an elevator and breaking the nose of 22-year-old Joshua Ortiz. Ortiz wasn’t involved in the fight but had been yelling at the cops. Police charged Ortiz with…
Prosecutors have dropped battery charges against a guy after watching a surveillance video showing that cops bum-rushed the shit out of him. The tape, which shows officers grabbing and punching Josh Ortiz, reinforces the idea that I’d better say some really nice things about Fort Lauderdale cops right now or…
As he was picking up bagels before a deposition in a divorce case, Russ Klenet got a strange tap on his shoulder. Klenet is the husband of Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter and a lobbyist for a host of cities, including Sunrise, Lauderhill, and Pompano Beach. He turned around in…
Donnie Hendrix was sick of waiting. Dolled-up like a Southern beauty queen, she wore Barbie-blond hair and a pink collagen pout as she sat in the parking lot of a Miramar condo. The five-foot-ten, 32-year-old eyed the clock from the passenger seat of a rented green Chevy van just after…
South Florida has recently welcomed a visitor from a more advanced civilization: the American Northeast. Mind you, this one wasn’t captured by one of our tribes and dragged here for interrogation. His spaceship did not crash-land here. Rather, William Haseltine, a “scientist, businessman and philanthropist,” came to South Florida of…
That is the implicit message from our new president to our new director of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, W. Craig Fugate, whose appointment was announced today by the Obama White House. In his eighth year as the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, Fugate was a Jeb Bush…
A display case at a Barnes & Noble in Coral Gables. If you don’t know the answer, you’re a racist. Barnes and Noble corporate has issued an apology, though it sounds like the local store management is blaming a customer.From time to time customers will move titles from one area…
Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger paints herself as an up-front ethics guru, but when a well-known activist asked her to incorporate federal standards into our corrupt county’s code, all Gunzburger showed was her backside. It began on February 19, when Charlotte Greenbarg, the president of the Broward Coalition and a key school board watchdog, asked all…
Fort Lauderdale Police have released the search warrant in connection with the deaths of two British tourists last month, struck by a white Porsche that was drag-racing on Seabreeze Boulevard. It appears that LeVin and his friend, Derek Cook of Tamarac, switched cars before the accident, the Sun-Sentinel is reporting.According…
We have the latest on lobbyist Russ Klenet, his wife Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter, his former boss Joel Steinger, and the Mutual Benefits fraud saga. This brand-spanking new article is based largely on a 2007 deposition taken of Klenet during Steinger’s divorce. In it, Miami lawyer Don Hayden, representing Steinger’s…
The state is expected to sign a contract within a week to hire ACS Group of Spain to completely re-do Interstate 595. What this means is that state officials are putting the future of a major Broward County artery in the hands of a nation not known for construction prowess…
There has never been a female leader of the Florida Senate’s Democratic Caucus — and there won’t be till 2010, when Sen. Nan Rich, the Weston Democrat, assumes the role. She will get the formal designation at a press conference in Tallahassee at 10:30 this morning.”It’s long overdue,” said Rich…
Yesterday, the Juice blog published one of the deceptive headlines from one of ex-Deerfield Beach Mayor’s Al Capellini’s newest propaganda rag, the Deerfield Beach Dispatch. In huge letters, the headline says, “Capellini Cleared.” In small letters, between those words are the crucial, if equally dubious, “will be.” In addition to shenanigans like…
OK, they cook up some zany ideas over there at the Florida Progressive Coalition Blog, but this one takes the cake: To challenge the otherwise-inevitable Charlie Crist victory in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, blogger Mark Weaver is casting Miami Beach resident celebrity Matt Damon in the role of Democratic…
A month ago this blog reported that Fort Lauderdale Police officers who worked security for City Link’s Beerfest had their checks bounce — a consequence related to Sun-Sentinel parent Tribune Company’s bankruptcy proceedings.Now Lt. Mitch Vansant, who retired from the force Jan. 31, tells Juice that, “My personnel received their…
The legislative session, marking the real advent of springtime in Florida, begins in Tallahassee this week. And the busiest bees working the capital are the lobbyists, who are buzzing about, putting their noses in everything they can, spreading their demon seed far and wide. If you don’t care, you should. You’re paying…
Not exactly vindication, but ole Fitzroy S. can give this a positive spin in advance of the March 10 election. The suspended Miramar commissioner is facing a felony charge of aggravated assault with a firearm after he whipped out a pistol in a Winn Dixie checkout line.This week a juror…
