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South Florida Bloggers Pick Their Favorite Posts of 2012

As a way of wrapping up 2012, we reached out to the bloggers working the turf in Broward and Palm Beach for their favorite posts from the calendar year. Here is the first installment of what we received. Below you'll find a few lines from the writers themselves about why the posts worked well, a f ... More >>

Top Turkeys of 2012: The South Florida Personalities We Love to Hate

Jennifer Gottlieb, Mother of Young Kids, Stinks. Her Judge/Ex, Ken, Should Resign.

An FDLE report released Friday and detailed by Local 10 describes the sordid sexual escapades of former Broward School Board member Jennifer Gottlieb, who cuckolded her judge/husband, Ken -- twice -- with bankers. Worse, the bankers were doing business with the school board while she was sleepi ... More >>

Broward's School Bus Mess Has Turned Into Finger-Pointing Farce

See also: Broward's School Bus System Is a Mess The Broward school bus mess has officially gone plaid. Broward Schools Superintendent Robert Runcie blamed the whole thing on union sabotage. That's right, the messy school bus problem that has your kids abandoned at bus stops and coming home late ... More >>

Broward County Attorney Is Highest-Paid County Employee in the State (and Other Salary Info)

​No county employee is paid more in the state of Florida than Broward County Attorney Joni Armstrong Coffey, according to information compiled by a new open-government website.FloridaOpenGov.org put together a ton of information regarding state and county spending, as well as payroll and revenue i ... More >>

South Florida's Dirty Dozen: Our Annual List of Our Worst

Broward Teachers Union Protesting Tonight Over 1,400 Teacher Firings, Budget Spending

​The K.C. Wright Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale will play home to a lot of angry teachers tonight.Broward Teachers Union communications director John Ristow tells New Times that tonight's protest -- geared toward teacher layoffs and alleged budget mismanagement by the Broward School Board -- ... More >>

FDA Ban on Gays Donating Blood: Parent Complains, School District Grins and Bears It

Flickr: BWJones​If you've ever donated blood, you've probably noticed a prominent question on a pre-donation questionnaire: Have you had intercourse with someone of the same sex since 1977? If so, yer outta luck, pal. The law, which has been repeatedly challenged and upheld since its imposition in ... More >>

Is School Board Member Ann Murray Targeting Whistleblower for Firing?

Broward School Board member Ann Murray claims she is trying to tighten the district's purse strings by laying off building inspectors. Building inspector Michael Marchetti -- a whistleblower who exposed massive corruption by Murray's board -- told Murray during a meeting last week that she's on ... More >>

School Board Pay Comes Under Attack

Wild Art: A recent photo of disgraced Broward County Commissioner Ilene Lieberman, who continues to represent the county on state and national boards after being implicated as a player in the Chait scandal. This comes from a just-released video from the Florida Association of Counties aimed at prote ... More >>

UPDATED: Superintendent Jim Notter To Step Down

Broward County School Board Jim Notter is finally hitting the road ​ ​ WSVN ​UPDATED: Embattled Broward Schools Supt. Jim Notter announced today at the end of the board meeting that he is retiring from his post at the end of the school year. It's the first s ... More >>

Another Big Law Firm Implodes

Hometown phenom makes Final Four with UK​-- With all state schools now out of March Madness, you must do the right thing: Root for hometown boy and basketball prodigy Brandon Knight. abovethelaw.comAdorno​-- The Daily Business Review has an interesting story about the implosion of another l ... More >>

Is School Board Member Ann Murray Racist? You Be the Judge

When Broward School Board member Ann Murray worked as a school bus terminal supervisor for the district before her election, she oversaw a racially diverse crew of drivers. Murray​​But that didn't stop her from letting racial slurs fly out of her mouth, according to complaints and testimony ... More >>

The Sun-Sentinel's Sobering Centennial

Wild Art: Jennifer Gottlieb, member of the embattled Broward School Board, is hanging in there. ​Slow news day, more reporting to do, but I want to update you on the school board member who allegedly used a racial slur in front of several witnesses (and no, it's not JenJen). I'm getting the ... More >>

The Dirty Dozen: 2010's Most Despicable People

What's Going On

-- Tamarac Mayor Beth Talabisco, a figure in the ongoing State Attorney's Office corruption investigation, was released from Broward General Hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery for a serious medical condition. The Pulp wishes her a speedy recovery to good health. What impact&n ... More >>

UPDATED: Audit Questions $15 million in FEMA Funds Fort Lauderdale Spent After Hurricanes

Flickr user: Gary...Feds question Hurricane Wilma cleanup costs.​The Broward School Board is not alone in facing scrutiny for the millions of dollars in federal disaster funding it received after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma. Federal auditors have also questioned $15.1 million in Federal Emergency ... More >>

FEMA Bombshell: School Board Can't Account For $15 million In Post-Wilma Spending

FEMA conducted an audit of Broward School Board spending of federal funds after hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and found the school board may have squandered millions of dollars, according to a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security this week.. "The School Board did not account for FEMA ... More >>

UPDATED: Leaked Confidential School Board Document Used in Campaign Smear

[UPDATED: Just received word from Broward School Board governmental affairs specialist Requel Bell that the sensitive school board background check document being used in the smear campaign against School Board Member Phyllis Hope is indeed exempt from public record disclosure. That means ... More >>

Diana Wasserman-Rubin Indictment Due to the Reporting From Our Own Bob Norman

Wasserman-Rubin's mug shot.​Prosecutors typically don't cite reporters as a source when they've built a criminal case, and today's indictment of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin is no different. So here's a little footnote.Today's charges would likely have never happened if not fo ... More >>

Morning Juice: Ryan LeVin Surrenders to Police; Gallagher to Plead to Bribery Charge

​While you enjoy your Irish coffee, a few local headlines:Accused hit-and-run driver Ryan LeVin was arrested last night by Fort Lauderdale police. He's been charged with vehicular homicide in the February 13, 2009, deaths of Kenneth Watkinson and Craig Elford, two British tourists. [Sun-Sentinel]A ... More >>

Broward County Commissioners Face Questions About Shady Deals

Merry Christmas, Broward School Board. Here's Some Coal.

Courtesy of Broward Teachers Union​ In the spirit of holiday giving, about 6,000 postcards from Broward Teachers Union members are expected to begin arriving at the homes of Broward School Board members today. The cards, featuring lumps of coal and some adorably angry-looking children, are not ex ... More >>

Morning Juice: One School Board Wrestles With Corruption; the Other With Curriculum

​The headlines in Broward and Palm Beach:Investigators are circling Bruce Chait of Prestige Homes -- and not just for the developer's hiring of Broward School Board member Stephanie Kraft's husband. Tamarac Mayor Joe Schreiber has alleged that Chait offered a $200,000 bribe in exchange for Mae Sch ... More >>

A Monument to Waste

How the School Board turned a community park into a $25 million black hole.

A Deputy Left Eric Brody Brain-Damaged, and His Family Still Hasn't Received a Penny

This Blog Will Now Save Broward Schools a Few Million Bucks

Today's Herald quotes Broward school officials who say that in this year's budget talks, "everything is on the table." That might mean fewer high school sporting events or no more bus rides to magnet schools. Or even cutting one class out of the students' daily schedule. Desperate measures for despe ... More >>

Breaking: Broward School Buildings Chief Misled Public About License

It sounded pretty cut and dried at the Broward School Board's December 11 audit committee meeting. Audit committee member and veteran activist Charlotte Greenbarg asked the board's chief building officer, Ronald Morgan, about the status of his state license.Morgan, who oversees a $3 billion construc ... More >>

Terrible Trio

The Wasserstrom conviction should have at least a few pols shaking in fear — but, hey, this is Broward

Spider Bites Crist

River of Greed, Part 2

When it comes to the Broward School Board, bad plans never really die

Who's Messing With Jason Wetherington?

School Board Bans Trans Fats

Old Schooled

A new bar with a dated lesson plan

Heckuva Job

Yo, Bat Mitzvah Sweetie

Letters for March 31-April 6, 2005

Dirty Dozen

Here are the 12 Broward-Palm Beach newsmakers who will make you blush

Steal from the Kiddies, Spoil the Rich

Hollywood schools its citizens, young and old, in stupidity

Letters for November 21, 2002

A left-wing zealot

Swimming Against the Tide

Hallandale Beach's black community, ignored for years, loses another round

Hollywood's True Colors

Districting in Hollywood was supposed to ensure at least one minority candidate on the commission. Think again.