Email Author Stefan Kamph

Awards

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

  "My Father's Bones"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 8, 2011

  "The Case of the Missing Pen"

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2011 Stories by Stefan Kamph

• Southwest Ranches, Pines Residents Rally Against Immigrant Pen and "Cone of Silence"

  published Oct 14, 2011

  The Pulp tried to attend last night's meeting of the Southwest Ranches town council, but BSO Deputy Lee Roselli and Cmdr. Wallace Haywood wouldn't let us inside the council chambers. So we remained ou... More >>

• Herman Cain "Won" the Debate, Sure -- but How Does His Pizza Taster

  published Oct 13, 2011

  Former Godfather's Pizza CEO and current Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has been hailed in the media as the winner of Tuesday night's debate -- and as a likely frontrunner for the candi... More >>

• Private Prison Contractor, Homeland Security "Asked" Southwest Ranches Council Not to Talk

  published Oct 11, 2011

  Here in Florida, we have a broad array of sunshine laws designed to promote open government. Local governments routinely have to disclose information simply because citizens ask for it. But apparently... More >>

• Gov. Scott Presents Plan for Everglades Restoration -- Meaning More Engineering

  published Oct 07, 2011

  The Everglades is too far gone for anyone to let it take its natural course. South Florida's entire inland economy depends on a water system that stays around the same level all year long, avoids floo... More >>

• Food Not Bombs Founder Keith McHenry Tours "Occupy Wall Street" Protests (VIDEO)

  published Oct 05, 2011

  Keith McHenry, founder of Food Not Bombs, who started off our cover story about the movement last month, has spent 30 years traveling around and serving free food at protests and uprisings. So it's on... More >>

• Cameron Benson Went to His Best Legacy, ArtsPark, to Discuss Corruption Allegations

  published Oct 05, 2011

  When the former Hollywood city manager found out he was under investigation for possible shady dealings involving the delivery of a city-owned generator to his dad after Hurricane Wilma, he went to di... More >>

• Are You a Lobbyistr Maybe, According to New Broward County Ethics Ordinance

  published Oct 05, 2011

  A town council member in Southwest Ranches has refused to talk to his constituents about town matters, citing a new ethics ordinance that was approved last Tuesday night by the Broward County Commissi... More >>

• State Attorney's Office Drops Investigation of Former Hollywood Manager Cameron Benson

  published Sep 29, 2011

  Chalk one up for former Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson and zero so far for the anonymous citizen who accused him of corruption in two letters sent to city commissioners this spring.The letters ... More >>

• Former Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Tim Smith Meets a Black Male Hooker

  published Sep 29, 2011

  Tim Smith, the former city commissioner who once ran for mayor against Jim Naugle and is a frequent jogging buddy of Mayor Jack Seiler, runs a blog in which he sounds off on local issues. He blogged e... More >>

• ICE Chief Anthony Mangione Indicted in Federal Court on Kiddie-Porn Charges

  published Sep 28, 2011

  Update: Mangione pleaded not guilty to all counts. He "showed no emotion" in court, according to the Miami Herald. The head law enforcement official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ... More >>

• Anthony Mangione, ICE Chief in South Florida, Arrested After Kiddie-Porn Investigation

  published Sep 27, 2011

  Anthony Mangione, head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's South Florida Office since 2007, was arrested today and is being held at the Broward County main jail at the behest of the U.S. Mar... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Vodka Through a Brita Filter: Tasting Notes (Not Quite What You'd Expect)

  published Sep 26, 2011

  Sometimes, here at New Times headquarters, when we're not breaking stories or fielding calls from sexy admirers, we like to conduct experiments and gather a little data. Being compulsive, fire-breathi... More >>

• New Southwest Ranches Admin Will Need to Tackle Deal for ICE Detention Facility

  published Sep 25, 2011

  It always sucks to inherit a mess when you take office -- just ask Barack Obama. The new town administrator of Southwest Ranches, whoever he or she may be, won't be inheriting two wars and a failed ec... More >>

• Broward County Commission to Oppose Everglades Drilling (Which Already Exists)

  published Sep 23, 2011

  In next Wednesday's meeting, the Broward County Commission will move to adopt language in its state and federal legislative programs "opposing any oil drilling or exploration in or around the Everglad... More >>

• New Park Being Constructed Across Street From Stranahan Park Downtown

  published Sep 22, 2011

  Every Friday, volunteers with Food Not Bombs lug food over to Stranahan Park, where dozens of homeless people while away the day to the chagrin of police, local businesses, and (we're told but haven't... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  At the Beach With Arnold Abbott, Fort Lauderdale's Homeless-Feeding Advocate

  published Sep 22, 2011

  When we were reporting last week's cover story on Food Not Bombs, one name came up again and again as the man who had started the slow avalanche of legal decisions that made Fort Lauderdale think long... More >>

• Sheriff Al Lamberti Uses Facebook to Catch Coupon Thieves; Sun-Sentinel Has the Scoop

  published Sep 17, 2011

  When the Pulp tried to ask Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti a question about campaign donations on his Facebook page last month, the sheriff responded sternly, unfriended our editor, and removed the post. ... More >>

• Food Not Bombs: What the Mayor Thinks

  published Sep 14, 2011

  Last week, as we were talking to Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler about sea turtles, we were also finishing up this week's cover story, Food Fight. The story chronicles the ongoing struggle of Food N... More >>

• TSA Agent Accused of Stealing Rick Case's Pen Wants a Trial

  published Sep 13, 2011

  "I don't feel like I did anything wrong," maintains Toussain Puddie, the 30-year-old former TSA screener who took home Rick Case's pen and now faces grand-theft charges at the behest of Case and his f... More >>

• How Broward Bulldog's Dan Christensen Broke a 9/11 Conspiracy That's Actually True

  published Sep 13, 2011

  Dan Christensen lost his job in the Miami Herald's Broward bureau in 2009, a casualty of rampant cost-cutting in daily journalism. Rather than throw in the towel, Christensen started his own local new... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  As Demand for Food Grows, "Food Not Bombs" Is There – Causing a Ruckus

  published September 15, 2011

  Late one afternoon this summer in Lake Eola Park, Keith McHenry got arrested — again — for trying to serve free food in public.... More >>

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  Mayor Jack Seiler Responds to Sea Turtle Activists Clamoring for His Attention

  published Sep 12, 2011

  Activists protesting the death of baby sea turtles because of Fort Lauderdale's flawed beach lighting know how to get Mayor Jack Seiler's attention: holding signs up against the windows of City Hall d... More >>

• Mayor Jack Seiler's Curt Email Response to Sea-Turtle Activists: "Your Facts Are Wrong"

  published Sep 08, 2011

  "MAYOR SEILER HATES BABY TURTLES!" That's a popular refrain these days among advocates for sea turtles on Fort Lauderdale's beaches. Around this time of year, eggs buried by mother turtles on the beac... More >>

• Florida Panther Population Up to a Whopping 160; Everything Is Wonderful Now

  published Sep 08, 2011

  Hunters and environmentalists are clashing over a plan that would open the last unhunted section of Big Cypress National Preserve in the Everglades to hunting. Opponents argue that a man-made reductio... More >>

• Southwest Ranches Has Pretty Parks and Horses; How About 1,800 Jailed Immigrantsr

  published Sep 02, 2011

  For a while, there wasn't much public outcry about Southwest Ranches' proposal to woo the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), a for-profit prison contractor, to build an 1,800-bed immigrant dete... More >>