The scapegoat of the great 2002 election debacle has been keeping a low profile lately. In fact, since Walter Foeman walked out on a $95,600-a-year job as Broward County’s deputy supervisor of elections September 20, he has been avoiding the media, his former boss, and at least some of his…
Our elected Democrats fell to pieces last week, just as surely as if a Scud missile from Baghdad had by some miracle struck the party’s headquarters. En masse, they accused George W. Bush of wagging the dog by pushing a vote on the war during election season. They were right…
And oh how we hear it: In regard to October 10’s Undercurrents, and in the spirit of journalistic accuracy, I would like to draw your attention to the following paragraph, which the Sun-Sentinel published on September 19, 2002: “In other action, city commissioners on Tuesday: Decided to have a public…
A festive spirit infuses the cast and crew of the film Realms of Blood. After all, there’s a near-decapitation planned for later tonight. The tony Coral Springs home in which they’ve gathered is the location for the final scenes of Painkiller, one of four separate stories that constitute Realms. It’s…
When he’s in the middle of a bamboo forest, Erik Sampson hears music. Today, though, Sampson isn’t in the jungle. He’s standing before a clump of bamboo rooted inside a nine-foot-square planter fashioned from railroad ties, in a sunny part of the back yard of his five-bedroom, three-bath, $232,220 ranch…
A beloved ficus tree that sprouted from the soil back in the 1920s and boasted a 120-foot-wide canopy has fallen to a rich developer’s ax. We blame the Sun-Sentinel. And we’re none too happy with Broward Circuit Court Judge Tom Lynch. Back in July, New Times Music Editor Jeff Stratton…
Editor’s Note: This week, we publish an extended letters section dedicated only to Bob Norman’s September 26 column, “Hawking for Israel.” We received dozens of missives in response to the article, so many that we couldn’t fit them all. We will publish more in upcoming weeks. They feel we are…
“Ladies, we’ve got a special treat for you tonight,” the DJ’s voice bounds over the crowd. “He’s won our Sunday-night amateur strip contest more times than any other contestant. Please welcome… Bernie!” As the first bars of Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On” trumpet through LaBare’s sound system,…
Last week, Nathan Lipschultz sealed a gutter, repaired a screen door, installed a garbage disposal, and then headed to a meeting with two members of the Sun-Sentinel’s editorial board. He made the trek from his home in Boca Raton to the headquarters of a newspaper that he considers a citadel…
It’s official. Broward and Palm Beach counties are 100 percent in support of making war in Iraq. It seems we’re all itching for a bloodbath — or at least for bloody Baaths — in Baghdad. We’re good and snookered by the bait (Osama) and switch (Saddam), and have abandoned any…
Biased? He’s a columnist, for chrissake: I found Bob Norman’s September 26 article, “Hawking for Israel,” totally offensive. I have no problem with Mr. Norman being against the war in Iraq, since I am not convinced that a case has been made by President Bush. However, it is the ultimate…
Carol Roberts still gets THE REACTION, two years after Palm Beach County’s dangling and dimpled chads became world-beamed symbols of the 2000 presidential election morass. While W. Bush does his John Wayne thang in the White House, preparing to finish off his daddy’s business with Saddam, the formerly most-reviled villain…
With a manner strongly reminiscent of fellow Brooklyn native John McEnroe arguing a line call, Robert Wexler has made himself one of the nation’s loudest critics of President Bush. The liberal congressman from Boca Raton has made more than 100 appearances on cable television shows during the past two years,…
Just cuz he deserves it: Thank you for Wyatt Olson’s effort and research in reporting the Bush brothers’ greening of Jeb for his reelection (“Big Cypress Buyout,” September 12). It is more than commendable that Olson spotted and had the guts to report about the monumental overcharging of the public…
It’s rush hour in South Florida, and reports of car accidents, nasty traffic jams, and petty crimes blast at boom-box strength in John Wolmer’s Oakland Park home office. Surrounding him on a u-shaped desk are 40 noisy scanners spitting out police chatter picked up from West Palm Beach to Miami…
“This was worse than the 2000 election,” Cathleen Horton says of the problems she and other poll workers faced September 10. “If they’re gonna use those machines, they should have made sure they was working properly. Somebody should have been there at 6 o’clock to make sure the machines were…
Daily newspapers in America have been hemorrhaging readers for decades — nothin’ new about that. And for just about as long, head honchos have searched for ways to stem the flow and win back subscribers. Take, for example, The Miami Herald. Its weekday circulation of about 326,000 is roughly 100,000…
Cast a ballot, catch anthrax: Kudos on discovering some early Al Qaeda plots to destroy the American way of life (“The Terrorists’ Real Plan,” September 12). However, you forgot the one where they sabotage South Florida ballots and voting machines to create chaos, make us look foolish, and undermine our…
Alvin Keel headed out to a desolate stretch of Singer Island beach at 3 a.m. on May 29, 1998, with a plan to make enough money to feed his crack addiction for a week. The moon had set two hours earlier, leaving clear skies as black as the ocean. The…
Standing in a dark suit during an Oval Office ceremony this past May 29 with his brother Jeb at his side, President George Bush announced that the federal government would rescue Big Cypress National Preserve from ruin by buying private mineral rights for $120 million from the majority owner of…
Tracking new Florida child welfare chief Jerry Regier’s past has led to some pretty disturbing things: radical Christian groups, papers on parental discipline that condone bruises and welts, and a drive to give tax dollars to churches. Now, welcome to the prayer closet. Inside a converted 300-room hotel, the prayer…
By now, you have had enough September 11-inspired drivel. There’ve been too many tributes, too much memoriam, and far too little news, even here in the onetime home of at least 15 of the 19 terrorists. So this week, New Times offers something more. In a Hollywood apartment set for…
