Jack Seiler

Fort Lauderdale Officials' Response to The Onion's Satirical Portrayal Is An Epic Fail

Satirical/fake news website The Onion released a satirical/fake news piece on Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday that is not sitting well with local officials. "Obama Speechwriters Unsure How They'd Praise Fort Lauderdale In Event Of Tragedy," is being met with sour grapes and bad jokes from the likes ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Hen Project Petitions City Commission to Allow Backyard Chickens

Josephine Jones loves chickens. "They're awesome pets," says Jones. "They're friendly. They're not aggressive. I consider them productive pets. They're very sociable - they're just awesome." Jones, along with co-organizer Melissa Melissa Kloepfer and her daughter Lindy Kloepfer, are the forces beh ... More >>

Walmart Might Be Coming to Fort Lauderdale to Spread Its Walmartness Everywhere

Walmart wants to spread its awfulness Walmartness on a seven-acre site on the southwest corner of Andrews Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, according to a Miami Herald report. So now those who live in Fort Lauderdale won't have to travel to Miami anymore when they need to buy a lamp, ... More >>

Edward Crisante Hung Himself in Jail; His Parents Are Suing Sheriff Lamberti

Edward Crisante, Jr. was, by his parents' account, struggling with depression at the age of 32 in July 2010. He was a Fort Lauderdale barber with multiple felony counts in his past, including many drug charges, but it was a traffic ticket that led him to his death. After failing to appear in co ... More >>

One Way Out: Millionaire Guma Aguiar Disappeared Off Fort Lauderdale Beach; Where Could He Have Gone?

Food Not Bombs to Celebrate 32nd Anniversary and a Farewell, Before Embarking on Puppet Show Bus Tour

Every Friday for the past few years, Food Not Bombs has been gathering at Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale to pass out food to the homeless, hungry, or just plain bored. Our cover story on the group last year found the local chapter bracing for a local crackdown on public food sharing. Whi ... More >>

Five Ways Fort Lauderdale Could Spend the $14 Million It Found Lying Around

The Fort Lauderdale city commissioners must be patting themselves on the back right now for hiring Lee Feldman as city manager: Turns out he's a master at rooting around the couch cushions of city budgets for money that's gone missing.Bucking the trend of cities like Lauderdale Lakes and Hollywood t ... More >>

Public Defender, Judge Say Cops Are Avoiding Questions in Depositions; Department Responds

​Last week, Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein sent a letter (thanks, JAABlog) to Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler condemning "offensive, oppressive and highly questionable police tactics in predominately black neighborhoods within your city."That includes arrests for what Finkelstein cal ... More >>

Anti-Earl Rynerson Website Gets an Update After Sun-Sentinel Error

​Welcome to the internet, where misspelling a word by one letter can make you see things that cannot be unseen.As many folks who stay in tune with the political side of Fort Lauderdale would know, mayoral candidate Earl Rynerson keeps his rants against City Hall and Mayor Jack Seiler on his websit ... More >>

Kicked Out but Still Kicking: Five Ways to Keep the Occupy Fort Lauderdale Movement Alive

​Today, about a third of all American adults will go shopping. Many of them lined up in the early-morning hours, breathlessly filling daily-newspaper pages with pictures of their unchecked wanting, pushing and shoving to get their piece of an engineered discount, forking over cash for shit they do ... More >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale Getting Kicked Off of City Hall Property

​According to a communique received from a protester with Occupy Fort Lauderdale, the group will be kicked off of City Hall property (100 N. Andrews Ave.) at 5 p.m. today. The Occupiers find it reprehensible that the city would do such a thing on Thanksgiving Eve, when most people are busy with ho ... More >>

Riverside Market Remains in Limbo

​The fate of Riverside Market remains on hold as to whether it will continue as a restaurant or even as a market, confirms both Julian Siegel and a spokesperson from the city's Planning and Zoning Board. Siegel confirms that his property at 608 SW 12th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale has not had an i ... More >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale Sets Up Shop in Wilton Manors After Being Forced Out of Bubier Park

​Just a few days after officially starting to "occupy" in Fort Lauderdale's Bubier Park, the protesters have already gotten the boot.Although the group says the Downtown Development Authority initially gave it permission to set up camp in the park, the DDA decided to inform the protesters yesterda ... More >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale Told to Leave Bubier Park

Stefan KamphAdam Salater (left) and other organizers handle communications on Monday afternoon.​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 Avenue. ... More >>

More School Board Investigation? Bring It On

Well, the state's Education Commissioner is sending an inspector general down to Broward County to look at the dysfunctional and corrupt embattled school board. Let's hope they find a way to clean house. Notter and JenJen bask in all their success​The state is involved thanks to the grand ... More >>

The Many Faces of "Pill Mill Vinny"

​The many faces of Vincent Colangelo, the convicted heroin and cocaine trafficker who decided he could make more money in the pill mill business, where authorities say he unloaded some 770,000 high-powered pain pills in a single year. Fort Lauderdale activist Cal Deal put together ... More >>

What Else Is Going On

-- If you're tired of being mad Sunrise, how about Hollywood? The Balance Sheet, a Hollywood political sheet, has looked into the city's efforts to get Wifi and it appears to be another multi-million-dollar government boondoggle. This one involves a hefty Bank of A ... More >>

Who's Behind Anonymous Comments Supporting Judge Hurley? Perhaps His Campaign

Judge Jay Hurley, second from right, with Gov. Charlie Crist and other fraternity brothers.​Lately, somebody has been posting comments about Broward County Judge Jonathan "Jay" Hurley on this blog and others, whether the items have anything to do with the judge or not. They claim what a great guy ... More >>

Deerfield Beach Calls Special Commission Meeting to Deal With Motion to Fire City Manager

deerfield-beach.comBill Ganz​On January 15 the Deerfield Beach City Commission will have a special session to vote on whether to fire its city manager of three years, Mike Mahaney. That motion was brought at Tuesday's raucous meeting (video here). This afternoon I spoke with the maker of the motio ... More >>

City Manager Gretsas = Hitler?

Rynerson: gunning for Gretsas ​Anyone who paid attention to Fort Lauderdale's most recent mayoral elections may remember Earl Rynerson, a local businessman (he owns a tile company) who ran unsuccessfully for the seat now occupied by Jack Seiler. Despite losing the election, Rynerson hasn't stopped ... More >>

Kendrick Meek Coming to Broward Tomorrow to Collect a New Endorsement

U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Kendrick Meek of Miami will be coming to Pompano Beach tomorrow morning to snag another labor endorsement.The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, with offices on South Andrews Boulevard, will officially back Meek's bid for the Democratic nomi ... More >>

Karen Thurman Talks About Gubernatorial Race

The St. Pete Times political blog, The Buzz, just posted this interview with Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman: At about the 90-second mark, Thurman responds to criticism that the party lacks a "bench" by touting Jack Seiler's victory in the Fort Lauderdale mayoral race. If a Democrat win ... More >>

UPDATED: Herald's McClatchy To Cut 15 Percent, Candidate's Son Arrested For Stealing Capellini Signs

-- The Deerfield Advocate, which is very quick to post news favorable to disgraced ex-mayor Al Capellini, is reporting that mayoral favorite Peggy Noland's son, firefighter Thomas Noland, was arrested at 3 a.m. for stealing Capellini's campaign signs. And you thought Deerfield couldn't get anymore ... More >>

Earl Rynerson's Persistence Palin-esque

We have never seen Earl Rynerson shoot a moose from a helicopter or put lipstick on a pig, but the local businessman reminds us of deposed veep candidate Sarah Palin if only because he simply won't leave the limelight. He may have lost the election for Fort Lauderdale mayor in February (to longtime ... More >>

Fox News Piles on Rynerson

I will venture a guess that Jack Seiler, Dean Trantalis, and Steve Rossi all have some familiarity with porn. The difference between those three candidates and the fourth candidate for Fort Lauderdale mayor is a paper trail: Earl Rynerson's credit card statements contain charges that can be traced b ... More >>

Haunted House

A priceless Fort Lauderdale property is sold on the cheap, and it's not the economy, stupid

For Love of God

On her radio show and in her personal life, Beverly Kennedy spreads her gospel across Broward

We're Full of Crap -- Film at 11!

Fake News on UPN 33

Too Dumb to Die

Kevin Moore's case raises questions about executing the mentally disabled

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