Email Author Stefan Kamph

Awards

• 2012 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published June 23, 2011

  "My Father's Bones"

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2011 Stories by Stefan Kamph

• Pembroke Pines Commission Punts on ICE Prison Vote That May Not Matter Anyway

  published Nov 17, 2011

  A couple of weeks ago, Pembroke Pines Commissioner Iris Siple got up in public and promised to try to cancel an agreement that said Pembroke Pines would provide fire, medical, water, and sewer service... More >>

• New OxyContin Pills Are Cheaper on the Street, but Good Luck Getting Them Up Your Nose

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Florida residents probably know there are plenty of ways to buy prescription OxyContin over a counter. But for those bent on acquiring pills in the most shady way possible, they're still availabl... More >>

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  Selling a Private Prison to Lawmakers: A Primer in Three Acts, by Southwest Ranches and CCA

  published Nov 14, 2011

  Oh, what fun it must be to be a congressional representative, traveling your home territory in search of causes to support, being bombarded at every turn by lobbyists and carefully crafted P.R. Balanc... More >>

• PolitiFact Rates Pembroke Pines Mayor's Claim of Hands Being Tied on ICE Jail "Mostly False"

  published Nov 11, 2011

  We've just discovered the austere yet intriguing Twitter account of Southwest Ranches Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff -- perhaps the perfect 140-character medium for the man who stated, "the less we say... More >>

• Opponents of ICE Jail Have New Tactic: Questioning Environmental Review Process

  published Nov 11, 2011

  Start inking up a big government contract with a for-profit company and you can bet your sweet tax dollars that things won't stay transparent for long.Which gives a nice boost of high ground to the pe... More >>

• Who's Proposing New Broward County Commission Districtsr

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Tuesday saw the first of two public hearings at the Broward County Commission about redistricting in the wake of the 2010 Census -- deciding how the county's nine commissioners will split up their con... More >>

• South Florida Environmental Groups Join Lawsuit Against National Park Service

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Several environmental groups, led by the Washington-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed a lawsuit last week against the National Park Service, Secretary of the Interior Ken ... More >>

• Hallandale Beach Government Pays Millions to U.S. Post Office in Yet Another Land Deal

  published Nov 07, 2011

  Once again, Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London found himself the lone dissenter on a vote in which the gung-ho City Commission voted, under the leadership of Mayor Joy Cooper, to spend million... More >>

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  Southwest Ranches Mayor, CCA, and ICE Honchos Dodge Accusations at Public Meeting; Pembroke Pines Officials Stage a Revolt

  published Nov 05, 2011

  Mike Machak, who has the unenviable job of public affairs manager for prison contractor CCA, stood at the door of the Southwest Regional Library in Pembroke Pines, looking at the line of opponents gat... More >>

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  CCA Robocall in Southwest Ranches (AUDIO)

  published Nov 03, 2011

  Yesterday we reported that Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches were getting phone calls from the Corrections Corporation of America asking whether they support a proposed immigrant jail detention cen... More >>

• CCA Reportedly Drumming Up Support for Immigrant Pen Through Robocall "Survey"

  published Nov 02, 2011

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office has confirmed that it received 40 to 50 phone calls yesterday from Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches-area residents who were automatically forwarded from a "roboc... More >>

• Forget the Pepper Spray: West Palm Beach Welcomes Occupy Movement

  published Nov 01, 2011

  Late on Saturday night, after the Moonfest revelers had started to disband from Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach, a very drunk man and woman walked around a parking garage at Banyan Bouleva... More >>

• History Repeats Itself in Southwest Ranches, NIMBY Capital of Broward County

  published Oct 31, 2011

  "The new jail planned for southwest Broward County will go in a barren area where the county puts things that nobody wants," wrote David Fleshler and John Maines at the beginning of a story in the Sun... More >>

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  We Made Disney Fans Say Incredibly Mean, Angry Things

  published Oct 28, 2011

  They are faithful to a huge organization, led by the vision of one man, claiming to find love, happiness, and redemption in allegiance to its symbols and lore. It makes them sing, cry, and make pilgri... More >>

• Southwest Ranches Town Council Promises Meeting for Feedback on ICE Detention Center

  published Oct 28, 2011

  The Southwest Ranches Town Council has announced the time of a proposed meeting between local residents and officials from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to discuss a controversial new imm... More >>

• Occupy Palm Beach Moves Into "Permanent" Location, With City's Blessing (Plus OFL Video)

  published Oct 27, 2011

  The Occupy Palm Beach movement, currently consisting of around a dozen people camping out full-time, has moved into what it's calling a "permanent" occupation site at Banyan Boulevard and Flagler Driv... More >>

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  Disney Fan Culture as Academic Study: "There's Something More Here Than Just Nerds"

  published Oct 26, 2011

  Well, that was interesting. Two and a half months of research into the teeming underworld of Disney superfans yielded a rather unusual cover story this week, "The Mouse Who Loved Me." We traveled to A... More >>

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  Hard-Core Disney Fans Can't Be Corralled by the Corporate-Approved Fan Club, D23

  published October 27, 2011

  Pete Werner had been clean and sober for nearly a year. He'd attended his third treatment program, moved in with his parents in Ocean Grove,... More >>

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  Occupy Palm Beach Expecting Showdown With Police After Park Closure (Updated, Photos)

  published Oct 23, 2011

  Update 10/23: Police allowed the protesters to stay the night on Saturday. Occupiers say that when the police department's night shift arrived at the park, they said they couldn't enforce a curfew if ... More >>

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  Occupy Fort Lauderdale: Will It Floatr (Or, When the 1 Percent Makes You Become a Pirate)

  published Oct 21, 2011

  Some organizers with Occupy Fort Lauderdale are debating whether to hold a demonstration at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show next weekend, possibly by banding together a flotilla of small boats and kayak... More >>

• Broward Mayor Sue Gunzburger Proclaims October 22 "Occupy Fort Lauderdale Day"

  published Oct 21, 2011

  Broward County Mayor Sue Gunzburger -- without any great objection from her fellow commissioners -- has issued a proclamation declaring this Saturday "Occupy Fort Lauderdale Day" and "encourag[ing] al... More >>

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  Southwest Ranches Town Attorney on ICE Jail: "The Less We Say the Better Off We Will Be"

  published Oct 19, 2011

  On June 7, Southwest Ranches Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff sent an email to (now deceased) Town Administrator Charlie Lynn, town staffers, and his consulting and lobbying colleagues. The email urged t... More >>

• Occupy Fort Lauderdale Told to Leave Bubier Park

  published Oct 17, 2011

  After their demonstration on Saturday, protesters with the Occupy Fort Lauderdale movement decided to do just that: occupy. The site they chose was Bubier Park, at Las Olas Boulevard and Andrews Avenu... More >>

• Debbie Wasserman Schultz Calls Out Southwest Ranches Mayor for Silence on Detention Center

  published Oct 17, 2011

  We reported last week from the scene of a Southwest Ranches town hall meeting where so many people showed up to protest a proposed immigrant detention pen that BSO deputies just started blocking peopl... More >>

• "Occupy Fort Lauderdale" Movement Holds First Demonstration (PHOTOS)

  published Oct 15, 2011

  They started outside the federal courthouse and marched -- on the sidewalk, escorted by police -- to the front steps of Scott Rothstein's old digs on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale. Outside the... More >>