Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport

Reporter Accused of Stealing Notebook

Judy Stern: All Clear For Profits

The Wrongway Expansion At FLL

Stacy Ritter Gets Her Mouth On

Undercurrents

Planespotting

Letters for November 15, 2001

Crabbing About Jen

The Two-Arena Circus

Two greedy billionaires, two publicly funded arenas, two crappy teams, one burning question — why?

Bus Fuss

No detail is too small to escape the unblinking eye of Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin. Just before the adjournment of today's commission meeting, she spoke of something horrible that she saw recently at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport while waiting for a ride ... More >>

Best Bar for Claustrophobics

Flossie's Bar and Grill

Best Correction Best Journalistic Restraint

The Palm Beach Post, October 3, 2003 Sun-Sentinel Travel editor Thomas Swick

Best Display of Wealth

Design Center of the Americas

Best New Building in Broward

Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport's new parking garage

When a Newspaper Shills

The Sun-Sentinel brass steps over the line on airport expansion

Bro 18F

We Are Airborne Family

Escape From Sterility

It ain't Florence or Oaxaca, but at least Broward has a few eye-catching pieces of public art.

Madonna in Exile

It's a big deal that Broward was chosen to debut Madonna's CD, isn't it?

Obscure Bar Tour

The totally unsolicited Night Court report

On Main Street, Part 1

Griffin Road, one of Broward's oldest byways, has it all

Tailpipe

Energizer Con Man

Justice Grounded

Roddy, baby — you're clean. Honest!

Dirty Dozen

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

Plop Art

When politicians and bureaucrats play curator, the art stinks

Keep on Slicin' and Dicin'

Edison and Bell are alive and well on the direct marketing gadgetry circuit

Picnic Paradise -- If You Own a Boat

Boaters Park

Fort Lauderdale's Post-9/11 Food Conundrum

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.It was 6 p.m. the night before a long weekend, and so far my getaway trip was going smoothly. I'd made it through the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport security screening line with half an hour to spare before boarding time. ... More >>

Airline Chooses Lauderdale Airport Over Miami Because of Superior "Demographics"

Flickr: F18E777​Now there's a word you want to be careful with when explaining an investment in Broward County over one in Miami-Dade. But that's the word that Virgin America CEO David Cush used to justify his airline's decision to make Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport a destination ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Flight Did NOT Crash in Puerto Rico... Or Anywhere for That Matter

BNONews.orgThe explosion in question.​This article on a breaking news website claimed that Spirit Airlines Flight 837 originating in Fort Lauderdale crashed near San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that it was the source of an explosion that firefighters are still putting out.I just got off the phone with ... More >>

Morning Juice: Lantana Police Make a Deposit to Jail

​What's going on in South Florida? Well, this:As Juice insomniacs already know, our local obsession, the so-called Withdrawal Bandit, has finally been caught! Police believe it's Glenn Hooper, a 53-year-old Hollywood man who went to the well one too many times. Lantana police also busted Hooper's ... More >>

Pasha's Comes to FLL

​Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport isn't Las Olas Boulevard or Delray's Atlantic Avenue just yet, but at least there are a couple rays of culinary hopes shining through the clouds of pre-fab sandwiches, microwaved crud and muffins made from the by-products of coal smelting.  Ear ... More >>

Hey, Visitors: Here's Your Broward County Super Bowl Itinerary

​Welcome to South Florida, you delirious pigskin fans, you! Now that you're here, remember not to fixate on Miami pre-gaming: The party has been moving steadily northward for years, and anyway, you'll need to run things on the cheap to afford getting scalped on Super Bowl Sunday. For a complete gu ... More >>

Super Bowl-a-Rama

​Welcome to South Florida, you delirious pigskin fans, you! Now that you're here, remember not to fixate on Miami pre-gaming: The party has been moving steadily northward for years, and anyway, you'll need to run things on the cheap to afford getting scalped on Super Bowl Sunday. For a complete gu ... More >>

Broward Hires Consultant to Fix Airport Food

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.​The lack of decent food at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has been a fact of life in South Florida for years. Some residents avoid the airport altogether, happy to pay more to fly out of Palm Beach International, rathe ... More >>

Space Oddity

Flickr user: DOliphantThis is caviar compared to airport food.​The lack of decent food at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has been a fact of life in South Florida for years. Some residents avoid the airport altogether, happy to pay more to fly out of Palm Beach International, rathe ... More >>

If You're Flying Spirit Air Next Month, Better Get to Flight School

Flickr​Spirit Air pilots are threatening to strike, and so far, Spirit Air executives haven't blinked. The South Florida Business Journal is reporting that the airline gave notice that it's ready to lay off nearly 1,600 employees if the pilots head to the picket line June 12.Those workers would co ... More >>

R & R With DJ Sensitive Side

Flickr​Spirit Air pilots are threatening to strike, and so far, Spirit Air executives haven't blinked. The South Florida Business Journal is reporting that the airline gave notice that it's ready to lay off nearly 1,600 employees if the pilots head to the picket line June 12.Those workers would co ... More >>

Honey, I Rigged the Vote (Part II): With Wasserman-Rubin Charged, Time to Revisit the Juice's Corrupt Couples Watch-List

​Way back in October, this blog used the Tom Ridge terrorist threat chart to rank Broward County's power couples according to the threat they posed to the integrity of local government. The duo of Richard Rubin and Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin posed an "elevated" risk of committing corruptio ... More >>

Demonize Yourself

​Way back in October, this blog used the Tom Ridge terrorist threat chart to rank Broward County's power couples according to the threat they posed to the integrity of local government. The duo of Richard Rubin and Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin posed an "elevated" risk of committing corruptio ... More >>

UPDATE: Radio Host Meg McLain's Hellish Experience With the Body Scanners At Fort Lauderdale Airport Security

This could be you.​If you're not a fan of powerful, liberty-stomping bureaucratic assclowns walking all over basic civil rights, this story might bother you.Now, the new full-body scanners used by airports have already caused quite a bit of controversy. But Meg McLain, New Hampshire-based marijuan ... More >>

R & R With DJ Sensitive Side

This could be you.​If you're not a fan of powerful, liberty-stomping bureaucratic assclowns walking all over basic civil rights, this story might bother you.Now, the new full-body scanners used by airports have already caused quite a bit of controversy. But Meg McLain, New Hampshire-based marijuan ... More >>

$610,000 for Courthouse Art? Better Be Good

An example of public art at the Broward County Jail on the New River. It's a 32-foot high coral circle (or rice cake, as some call it). Cost to taxpayers: $480,000. ​So the Broward County Commission is going to discuss putting $610,000 worth of public art  ... More >>

Birthday Party at the “Czar of All Dive Bars”

An example of public art at the Broward County Jail on the New River. It's a 32-foot high coral circle (or rice cake, as some call it). Cost to taxpayers: $480,000. ​So the Broward County Commission is going to discuss putting $610,000 worth of public art  ... More >>

Worst Spring Break Hordes Found Here

Photo by Ian WitlenYeah, it's fun here. Now leave!​Maybe it's me, but spring break seems to be lasting an inordinately long time this year. Just when you think it's safe to walk around the block for a slice of pizza, you run smack into some spray-tanned co-ed in a wife beater, drinking green beer. ... More >>

Coral Ridge Ministries, Sodomy, and Death

​Imagine you are Jesus Christ and you're scuba diving. Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, you come upon a submarine. With your famed omniscience, you divine its nature, its contents, and its capabilities. This is the USS Florida, an Ohio-class vessel, fresh from the Libyan coast. It's almost 600 feet ... More >>

Google Maps Now Covers the Inside of the Fort Lauderdale Airport -- Why?

GoogleNavigating the Fort Lauderdale airport. For some reason, there's an app for that.​Why you would need a map from Google of the inside of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is beyond us, but it now exists.The airport is one of a handful of locations now mapped on the indoo ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Airport Has the Third-Cheapest Average Airfare in the Country

airplanepicture.org​Hey, Spirit Airlines is good for something (probably) -- making the average airfare from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the third-lowest in the country, at $266.The ranking was done by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which found that only the a ... More >>

Broward Commissioner Stacy Ritter Gets the Lew Rockwell Treatment

​The Broward Commission voted yesterday to go through with its complaint to the Transportation Security Administration against the body scanners at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, but the conversation that took place before the vote apparently didn't quite satisfy some of ... More >>

Broward Crime Stories of the Year: From Dog Molestation to TSA Agents' Theft Habits

keywordy.net​Crime in Broward -- sometimes it's hilarious, sometimes it's depressing, and sometimes it's just downright freaky. From a guy getting busted while fingering a Chihuahua to a TSA agent getting caught stuffing a passenger's iPad down his pants, crimes in Broward were anything but ta ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Sky-High Runway: Looks Like They're Actually Going to Build This Thing

Welcome back to "Holy Crap, That's Big," our blog series in which we look at humongous things going up in South Florida and the people behind them. Let this blog post serve as official notice that we are going to spend a lot of time puzzling over this huge pile of dirt for planes to drive on that al ... More >>

Negotiations Are Under Way for Expansion of Fort Lauderdale Airport's Terminal 4

We told you last week that Broward County has broken ground on a $791 million runway expansion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International that will send planes up a six-story ramp over Federal Highway and the FEC tracks.Broward County Aviation Department​In tandem with that project, Terminal 4 (ho ... More >>