The Miami Herald broke the story this morning about an allegation that the man recently selected to become superintendent of Miami-Dade schools had an adulterous relationship with former Herald education reporter Tania deLuzuriaga (now with Boston Globe). But the new supe, Alberto Carvhallo, claims a string of emails that serves…
Ira Jultak, a veteran Broward County assistant state attorney whose claim to fame is defending serial killer David Berkowitz, was suspended from his job Tuesday after he was caught with a gun at a local store impersonating a sheriff’s deputy, according to a BSO report. BSO’s Office of Homeland Security…
Just for a little Friday entertainment, this is possibly my favorite video from Jon Stewart of all time. It nails Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly, Dick Morris (yes, that vile pile of pus), Sean Hannity, et al, on their hypocrisy regarding Sarah Palin. This may be comedy, but more than that…
State Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, who was skewered by Cal Deal below, is going over the top in her defense of Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. As the Sun-Sentinel’s Anthony Man reports today, Bogdanoff, a Republican hack, expressed “shock” over Barack Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment — which was…
The One-Out-of-Ten Result Hmmm. Scott Israel will win in November despite the facts that he has been less-than-honest about his partisan leanings, has a record of troubled arrests, and has blown his résumé item of police chief of North Bay Village (36 employees) into the equivalent of running a major…
Anyone with an internet connection nowadays can go online and find a house party where like-minded political junkies are gathering to watch their favorite party luminaries in action. For example, Ann Calhoun and her husband, Roger, invited strangers to their Fort Lauderdale home to watch Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. A…
In South Florida’s very midst lives a transplant who hails from the celebrated town of Wasilla, Alaska. A second-year medical student at Nova Southeastern University, his name is Harry A. Schultz IV, but he goes by “Buck.” (Judging by the Palin clan, they’re very big on colorful, one-syllable names up…
The men crouch behind a pine log bunker in the middle of a large wooded lot. Ready to roll. They’re in camouflage fatigues, ammunition vests, and goggles. Some have Glock handguns strapped to their thighs. Battlefield helmets on their heads give them a menacing, robotic appearance. They’re carrying what looks…
To fellow reformers across the nation, Miami Mayor Manny Diaz touted it as one of his “best practices”: teaching young children life-saving techniques such as CPR and the Heimlich maneuver. It seemed like a great idea. There are thousands of latchkey kids in poor neighborhoods, and quite a few care…
Hey, the ethically challenged Ritter, now a Broward County commissioner, has more serious governing experience than Sarah Palin. So why not? Just throw another lipsticked face in the race and see what happens … it’s working for the GOP so far. Following is an e-mail from Fort Lauderdale activist (and…
— So the Sun-Sentinel comes out with a new column called “Living With Rules,” by Daniel Vasquez. The maiden headline: “Rules can be a burden, but they may be sorely needed.” How can you not read that? Talk about deep and provocative! It looks like an extension of good ol’…
The people at Google have fleshed out the chain of events that led to the crashing of United Airlines stock yesterday — and, again, they seem to line up (mostly) in the Sun-Sentinel’s favor. And it all started with a Tribune Co. story from 2002 about UAL’s bankruptcy at that…
More and more this looks like some stupid Internet games by some financial types cause the United Airlines stock to plunge, not — I repeat not — due to any Sun-Sentinel error in posting an old bankruptcy story. This from a story in the International Herald Tribune: The trouble started…
From the Chicago Tribune: United Airlines’ stock fell more than 75 percent Monday morning after a nearly six-year-old Chicago Tribune news report was posted on Bloomberg News Service. The stock, which had closed Friday at $12.30 a share, hit a low of $3 a share before the confusion was cleared…
A reader pointed the Pulp to a Wall Street Journal story this morning on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac takeover. Here’s a passage from the leading financial newspaper’s story on the background of one of the most significant bailouts in American history: The decision was hashed out over weeks of meetings…
A warehouse worker named David Kalb got a chance to play Lebron James in a game of horse on Wednesday after winning a contest. Here’s the way Kalb promo’d the event: Kalb routed James in two games. I love this stuff. The shot in the warehouse might be most uncanny…
… Give a speech. I’m actually stunned. This is, without a doubt, the worst convention speech by a nominee I have ever seen. McCain is obviously reading from the teleprompter which helps give him that deer-in-the-headlights look, he’s off balance, off key, flubbing lines and words, no flow, no timing,…
Here’s what the Sun-Sentinel reduces the election to in its poll question: What did you think of vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech at the RNC? It was fantastic, she hit it out of the park and showed that she would make a wonderful VP (1115 responses) 52.0% It was…
Once an active skier and runner, U.S. Magistrate Theodore Klein could hardly breathe. His face was swollen from steroids. And he had to wheel around a portable oxygen canister. He knew his killer long before he perished in September 2006. “Ted strongly believed it was the mold in the courthouse…
Egad, it’s happening again. Tailpipe feels an evil current drawing him back… back to Lost River Lake. There’s Dr. Hoak, the bristly mad scientist, and his lethal little meat-eaters. The government abandoned his project, of course, the controversial Operation Razorteeth. Hoak’s baby. Pulled the funds back. Tried to call Hoak…
Don’t make like this is Beverly Hills. This is the real goddamned hood. The motherfuckin’ hood.” So warns the gentleman watching workers set up lights and cameras in front of a graffiti-strewn, one-story yellow house just off Sistrunk Boulevard — in Fort Lauderdale’s most notorious neighborhood. The man’s name is…
The assault on Scott Israel, a man who very well might be Broward County’s next sheriff, came fast and furious a week before Election Day. First came mailers comparing Israel to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for changing his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat before filing to run…
