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  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Satellite Images Show First Glimpse of Cuba's Offshore Drilling Rig in Florida Straits

    Earlier this year, Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF announced that a massive drilling rig had started operating  in "ultra-deep water" in the Straits of Florida, somewhere between Cuba and the Keys. One of the more problematic aspects of the operation is the dearth of information about where the ri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    EPA Makes Toxic Releases In Broward Easier To Find Than Ever

    ​Copper in Coral Springs. Lead in Deerfield. Styrene in Dania Beach. These are just a few of the cases that turn up with a quick search of the Environmental Protection Agency's new Toxic Release Inventory database.The database, consisting of toxic disposals from 2010, allows users to search by zip ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 1, 2011

    "Song of the Living Dead" at the Promethean Theatre: Raising the Bar for Zombie Comedy

    ​Copper in Coral Springs. Lead in Deerfield. Styrene in Dania Beach. These are just a few of the cases that turn up with a quick search of the Environmental Protection Agency's new Toxic Release Inventory database.The database, consisting of toxic disposals from 2010, allows users to search by zip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Man Killed by Police During Miami's Urban Beach Week ID'ed in Boynton Beach Shooting

    Palm Beach County Sheriff's OfficeRaymond Herisse, in February 2010​Raymond Herisse -- the 22-year-old Boynton Beach man shot and killed over Memorial Day weekend on the streets of Miami Beach -- has been identified by Boynton Beach police as the gunman in a November shooting at a BP gas station.P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Tuesday Morning Bytes

    It just keeps happening to Gov Rick Scott. He makes a decision from his evil alien gut -- you know, like slashing funding for the developmentally disabled -- and then when masses of bona fide Earth-born human beings rise up to oppose it, he reverses course. Model Citizen​(Rick Scott is h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2011

    The Incredible Mr. Rand

    There is no bigger believer in the power of activists in Broward County than the Pulp. When watchdogs in the media fail (which happens more frequently than you can imagine), their hard work and perseverance have helped to bring one scandal after another to light. Russell Rand speaks at a recent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Rick Scott Isn't a Wingnut; He's Just Nutty

    ​On Tuesday, Rick Scott, the guy who sent his mom to replace him in a debate, got the green light to grab Floridians by their purse strings. Scott won by a small margin over Alex Sink, who conceded before the final results were in.Well, it seems that even thedailybeast.com has no faith in Rick Sco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Sen. Dan Gelber Dogged by Connection to BP

    Photo by the Coast Guard​These days, politicians are probably better off in a sex scandal than tied to BP. That's why state Sen. Dan Gelber, who's running for attorney general, just can't seem to shake his connection to the company responsible for wrecking the Gulf.Gelber, a Democrat from Miami Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Florida Democrats Want Apology From Allen West for Taking Money From Texas Congressman Who Apologized for Apologizing to BP

    Flickr: tdmyersSay Sorry! (Or you lose.)​It's like a circular firing squad, but with apologies. Let's break this down in chronological order.1. During a congressional hearing, Texas Rep. Joe Barton apologized to BP executives for what he said was a "shakedown" by the Obama administration to force ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Will BP Pay Psychiatric Bill for Gulf Spill?

    Here's a story that's on its way to Florida at approximately the same rate as the Sea of Oil. It's about the depression and chemical addiction spreading through the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico among people who owe their livelihood to the ocean. From Nola.com:Psychiatrists who treated peopl ... More >>

  • Music

    June 24, 2010

    Surfer Blood Tops Oil.Spill.Benefit Lineup at Propaganda

    Here's a story that's on its way to Florida at approximately the same rate as the Sea of Oil. It's about the depression and chemical addiction spreading through the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico among people who owe their livelihood to the ocean. From Nola.com:Psychiatrists who treated peopl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Morning Juice: Florida Desperate for Skimmers; Judge Seidlin the Author?

    ​A quick check of what's happening in Broward and Palm Beach this morning:There are 20 offshore skimmers off the Panhandle coast, but the marine biologist overseeing Florida's oil spill mitigation effort wants 100 more. Charlie Crist's administration says BP is moving too slowly to get them. [Palm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Florida Politicians Scrambling to Take Credit for BP Cleanup Escrow Account Idea

    McCollum claims Obama's stealing his material.​It's not often that Republicans pounce on a Barack Obama idea to claim it as their own, but this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has a way of creating strange bed partners. After reports surfaced Sunday that Barack Obama was preparing to demand t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Health Secretary Critiques Obama Before Oval Office Address

    Flickr: Pan-African News Wire​The blame game started about a second after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon opened a geyser of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's too late to stop the game now. So we may as well try to at least separate fact from fiction, starting with the POTUS.With that in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Former CEO of Broward Health Now Managing Louisiana's Health Response to Spill

    Flickr: anslataadams​Maybe managing the massive, notoriously incestuous North Broward Hospital District wasn't enough of a challenge for Alan Levine. He left that post in December 2007 to become secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In a little more than two years, he's ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Does George LeMieux Think Obama Is Moses?

    Sen. George LeMieux is beginning to doubt whether this Barack Obama fellow really is the Chosen One. Because if he were, Obama would be standing on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, parting the sea. Oil to the left. Saltwater to the right. And his people (Americans) would be free.Seriously, what's w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 3, 2010

    Godzilla and Family

    Sen. George LeMieux is beginning to doubt whether this Barack Obama fellow really is the Chosen One. Because if he were, Obama would be standing on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, parting the sea. Oil to the left. Saltwater to the right. And his people (Americans) would be free.Seriously, what's w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Oil Spill an Occasion for a Political Game of Twister

    Sen. George LeMieux loves to invoke the future of his children among his reasons for wanting to slow down federal spending and shrink government. But if that really is what drives his political actions, doesn't the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico pose a far greater risk to his children's future? And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Allen West Has Solution to Oil Spill: Ask an "Average American"

    Congressional candidate Allen West gave what might be his most absurd speech yet Friday at a meeting for a local chapter of Glenn Beck's 912 Project. Jump ahead to about the 3:30 mark. This is what you'll hear:The American way is that if you challenge us, we'll figure it out. I was flippi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Oil-induced Tourism Slump: No Match for our Pun-tastic Slogans

    Flickr: [ jeremy ]Yes, yes. Love that beautiful Florida beach.​As a general rule, people like going to the beach and splashing around in the ocean, but they tend to get fussy when they emerge covered in toxic tar sludge from an exploded BP oil rig. Strange, I know--but decidedly true.Although the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Water… Sans Tar Balls!

    Flickr: [ jeremy ]Yes, yes. Love that beautiful Florida beach.​As a general rule, people like going to the beach and splashing around in the ocean, but they tend to get fussy when they emerge covered in toxic tar sludge from an exploded BP oil rig. Strange, I know--but decidedly true.Although the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    South Florida Entrepreneurs See Opportunity in Oil Spill

    Flickr: Deepwater Horizon Response​The same technology that keeps a kid -- or a drunk -- from ruining a mattress might be able to clean up this big mess in the Gulf of Mexico. It's called the Ocean Mop, and it's the brainchild of a mattress pad salesman named Skip Leiblein from Boca Raton. Incredi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Morning Juice: Couple Arrested in Davie Woman's Murder; School District Asks for Tax Hike

    ​Your daily tour of the local news:Davie police have arrested two homeless women after they confessed to the murder of  Jill Dornbush, who worked at a local McDonald's. The 62-year-old allowed Delia Padron and Lazard Falcon to stay at her home but wouldn't let them use the shower, which led t ... More >>

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Pickpocketing the Public: Part 1

    The "renewable energy" program you're chipping in for spews the same old pollutants

  • News

    July 15, 2004

    Bombs for Babies

    Stephen Jordi planned to blow up abortion clinics. Does that make him a terrorist?

  • Goods and Services

    May 13, 2004

    Best Car Wash

    Woody's Wash & Wax

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    Career Punks

    Quiet down, Mom. These boys have jobs.

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    A Family Affair

    Wackenhut Corp.'s days as a South Florida firm are over, but its legacy lives on

  • Best of BPB

    May 17, 2001

    Best Gas Station to Hang Out In

    Amoco

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Paying the Price

    Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    The Great Barrier Beef

    With crime on the wane, Lake Ridge residents love their new roadblocks. But business owners beg to differ.

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