When someone cheap-shotted Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein in a comment on this story, he sent this “take-down” letter alleging the comments were defamatory and written by an imposter pretending to be Ron Cacciatore. You’ll remember that Rothstein’s political partner, dirty trickster Roger Stone, had designed a negative ad campaign…
A source at the Sun-Sentinel tells me that the newspaper’s Palm Beach County office in Delray Beach is closing up this week. The bureau, which had 27 people last year but has surely shrunk a bit during recent staff cuts, is moving down to the newspaper’s existing Deerfield Beach office…
Famed street fighter Kimbo Slice yesterday gave his first interview after his 14-second loss to Seth Petruzelli and he’s apparently ready for his next bout. And now I’ll tell you, with voice only slightly aquiver, that it appears he wants it to be with the Pulp himself. The monstrous Kimbo,…
On Election Day, under a somber gray sky in Pembroke Pines, a line of voters snaked from the entrance of the Pembroke Shores Park gymnasium to the parking lot. A six-foot-four, paunchy, hazel-eyed Cuban-American walked the line, shaking hands as a cameraman from América TeVé recorded the scene. Dressed in…
It was a momentous occasion for Fort Lauderdale Commissioner Carlton Moore: his last commission meeting after two decades of service. Moore, whose district includes Sistrunk Boulevard and other economically depressed portions of the city’s northwest corner, is known for championing affordable housing and commercial development for his constituents. The sometimes-abrasive…
American presidential elections never really end anymore. Over in Tampa, they were still hand-feeding ballots into some resistant optical scanners late last week. In Manatee County, voting machines spit out 50,000 ballots, refusing to count them. Poll watchers complained about incorrectly programmed voting machines in Kansas that flipped candidates. Wrongly…
It’s halfway through the first period of the Florida Panthers’ game against the Minnesota Wild. Panthers goaltender Tomas Vokoun skates behind the goal to retrieve a puck. He whacks at it, trying to send it around the boards. But his fat goaltender’s stick misses the puck. No time to swing…
Fishy Green The Republicans should have quit while they were ahead (“Outing the Trojan Horse,” Eric Barton, November 6). It’s bad enough they got George W. Bush elected. Now they’re exploiting the system to get their cronies elected to lower-level offices. Somebody’s gotta stop this! Josie Fort Lauderdale Broke and…
If there was one place where disappointed Broward Republicans might expect to find a little solace the day after Election Day, it should have been at an invitation-only performance by comedian Dennis Miller. The short, graying comic with the sniggering, spit-flecked delivery is an avowed conservative, though he bridles at…
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Newly elected state Sen. Chris Smith always gets a visit from his Aunt Bertha before major elections. She likes to look at his voter’s guide to get the lowdown on the issues. Smith, a former Democratic House leader who was elected to the Senate on the same ballot as Barack…
The latest think piece from Tribune Co. Innovation Chief Lee Abrams. He’s gone gaga for the election (the collector’s item status of the election edition has “spurred a lot of thinking and action across the Tribune Nation”) and he wants to capitalize on it. “This idea is all about DRIVING…
The Palm Beach Post, Sun-Sentinel, and Miami Herald are sharing stories in the printed publication as well as online, I’ve been noticing. This morning the Sentinel ran a story by the Miami Herald’s Dan Christensen in the local section. I’ve noticed the practice a couple of times before and note…
Veteran Sun-Sentinel reporter Mark Hollis is leaving the newspaper at the end of the month to take a job as communications director for the Florida House Democratic Office. Before being transferred to the Sentinel’s Palm Beach County office last year, Hollis had covered state politics in Tallahassee since 1994. He…
The following is from Gail Shepherd, NT’s food writer, on the passage of Amendment 2, which she calls mean-spirited and wicked. I’ll add strategic. As West Palm Beach activist-attorney Rand Hoch told me this morning, the anti-gay amendment was added in part to bring conservatives out to the polls (it…
The Sun-Sentinel’s front page is a giant picture of the scene at Grant Park in Chicago during Barack Obama’s election night speech. The headline: “Great expectations.” Maybe, maybe not. Only the GOP/Fox News cronies are trying to create this kind of Obama-Messiah comparison, as if he’s going to do miracles…
Michael Wilbon, a sports commentator with ESPN and the Washington Post, has recently and repeatedly declared that South Florida native Kimbo Slice took a dive October 4 in his much-publicized mixed martial arts fight at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. A little-known challenger named Seth Petruzelli decked Slice in a…
Alex Larson has many endearing qualities — but tactfulness isn’t one of them. “Knowing me is bad,” the roly-poly, middle-aged environmental activist concedes in a scruffy smoker’s voice. “Real painful.” When her friend got pregnant, for instance, Larson pointed out that because of the recent national bank bailout, the child…
Finally, we’re not the laughingstock of the nation. First came 2000, when the world blamed us for W. Then came ’04, when the nation wondered why South Florida can’t seem to run an election better than, say, Iraq. But now the votes have been counted, and aside from a few…
People feared riots if Barack Obama somehow lost; instead we got an explosion of love. They were dancing on Sistrunk Boulevard last night. Exuberant black men and women waving at and high-fiving white motorists, giddy with victory. No wonder. Let’s put this in some type of perspective. The Emancipation Proclamation…
In early voting, Obama is crushing in Broward County (and they just called Pennsylvania for him, so this baby is just about done). He’s pulling more than 70 percent of the vote so far. On CNN all the pundits have already said it’s over and that this could turn into…
Wearing his “Team Lamberti” golf shirt and manning the polling places, Benjamin Bennett looks like a kindly old man. But he’s a stickler for rules. His apparent love of order didn’t stop the former cop from dealing drugs to children from his patrol car, though. Bennett was sentenced to 15…
