I’ve been meaning to post the edited Miami Herald letter below for a couple of days. It was first dug up by Herald Watch and posted on Critical Miami. The letter regards the arrest of Herald reporter Oscar Corral and was written by Paul Crespo, a journalist who has written…
Michael Mayo writes this morning about the arrest and jailing of Pompano Beach activist Joyce Tarnow at a Publix supermarket. Her crime: Trying to gather signatures for a petition to give voters direct power over development. I’ve met Tarnow and sat down in her living room. She’s a unique American…
Local true crime author Arthur Jay Harris tells me that ABC Primetime is going to break “amazing” new information about the Hollywood murder of little Adam Walsh tomorrow night, with the prime source being Harris, who has painstakingly been investigating the famous murder for years. While Adam’s famous father, America’s…
I was just thinking the other day that Dave Hyde hadn’t seemed to have written anything monumentally soppy or boneheaded in a good long while. Was he getting better or did I just not give a damn anymore? I didn’t know until now, the beginning of the football preseason. He’s…
Broward County sheriff’s deputy Chris Reyka was killed while on duty in Pompano Beach early this morning. Reyka, father of four, was shot behind a Walgreens store when he went back there to check out a suspicious vehicle. It makes two deputies shot in the head in Broward County in…
John DeGroot offers his take on Mayor Mouth: I enoyed the Sun-Sentinel’s 1-A Sunday profile on Fort Lauderdale’s who clearly fears both his God and Homos with Biblical fervor. However… It’s time the gay community faced the sordid truth about Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle and his latest cruel and…
The Sameness of It All Where do you find the real Internet deal? What a great article (“Outgrowing Tom,” John Elmwood, August 2). I do love MySpace, and it has gotten a lot larger. But it was started with musicians and artists in mind. You gotta use your own judgment…
The Marlin Hotel’s dimly lit lobby is quieter than usual. A tall, bearded man wearing a checkered paperboy cap points to a raggedy basketball jersey hung on an easel; its bottom is tattered, seams are busted, and the bright-red color has faded to gray-maroon. It appears to have been used…
“Well-behaved women seldom make history,” Harvard history professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said. And that’s why I say, “Get down with your cross-dressing, military self, Joan of Arc! Thanks for going to jail for my birth control, Margaret Sanger! Play that piano with your ginormous jugs, Candye Kane!” OK, I’m a…
It isn’t so much a how-to on influencing the Broward County Commission as it is a who-to. As in, who do you have to pay to sway the commissioners’ votes? Anybody who keeps up with Broward’s power crowd knows the inordinate sway that lobbyists hold over its elected officials. But…
Those mourners at Graceland sure looked dumb for crying over Elvis Presley’s death. Elvis lived! Weekly World News had pictures to prove it. For 28 years now, WWN has set us straight on issues of national importance. While other media outlets obsessed over Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, WWN…
I had to show y’all this photograph from Gov. Charlie Crist’s old frat days at FSU. In case you’re not sure, that’s him in the center. The grin. The mustache. The exposed midriff. Oh yeah, that’s Charlie, baby. For more, including a shot of Crist throwing a football in short-shorts,…
This new corruption angle regarding Sheriff Ken Jenne was made understandable by Wanda J. DeMarzo this morning in the Miami Herald. Basically King Ken was given $10,000 to help his developer Phil Procacci get his money back from a failed business venture. The implication is that Jenne was using his…
Ethically challenged Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter is debuting her new Saturday radio show on WFTL this weekend. She is quoted in the press release: “I want people to be informed about local Broward County issues. Syndicated talk show hosts know nothing about us. They don’t live in Broward County;…
When Rebecca Wakefield recently interviewed the Miami Herald’s Cuban beat writer Oscar Corral for a story in the SunPost, she led it this way. “Some days, it ain’t easy being Oscar Corral.” Today is one of those days. To wit: A Miami Herald reporter was arrested late Friday on charges…
This is the only picture I could find of Tom Wheeler (see comments in post below). He’s in the back row, second from left, just above Bobby Bowden. The picture comes from the archives of the FSU chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (I should have figured Crist for…
Welcome to Monday, the last one where “Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne” won’t be preceded by the word “former.” That’s my prediction anyway, based on both sources and about three Sun-Sentinel “End Is Near” stories. Who’s Gov. Charlie Crist going to pick to succeed King Ken? Names I’ve heard floating…
This morning the Miami Herald has at least two offbeat stories worth reading, one on the death (and life) of an erudite Tobacco Road character named Conrad Wayne Lamm who “looked like a cross between Burl Ives and Truman Capote and sounded like a character penned by Tennessee Williams (who…
John DeGroot, who used to work as a top aide for Sheriff Ken Jenne, provides the following piece to the Pulp on the federal investigation that is expected to end within a week. While I’m hearing from sources that King Ken is destined for an indictment, DeGroot doesn’t see justice…
His name is Cristóbal Herrera Ulashkevich and he freelanced for the Associated Press. After taking pictures of Fidel fainting and falling, he says he’sliving in forced exile in Miami after a stint in Costa Rica, according to Wilfredo Cancio Isla of El Nuevo Herald. One morning in December 2004, two…
Think I’ll just talk baseball today, but first I want to point out an article I should have linked yesterday, Scott Wyman’s story in the Sun-Sentinel about the firing of two airport managers for accepting money from a baggage handling business called Bags to Go. This is an indication of…
Downtown Lake Worth is doing fine. East of Federal Highway near the beach, life is splendid. But walk down South N Street and things get a lot grittier. There’s Adrianne, the neighborhood prostitute. And those gangbangers over there are getting ready to offer you crack cocaine. Don’t walk close to…
