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Keith London to Challenge Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper in November

​Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Keith London, who just might be Mayor Joy Cooper's least-favorite person in the world political arena, is set to challenge her in the November mayoral election.London has previously called out the mayor for spending wastefully, ignoring residents, and avoiding t ... More >>

Hallandale Beach Government Pays Millions to U.S. Post Office in Yet Another Land Deal

Keith London: Just say no.​Once again, Hallandale Beach Commissioner Keith London found himself the lone dissenter on a vote in which the gung-ho City Commission voted, under the leadership of Mayor Joy Cooper, to spend millions on a real-estate purchase without clear plans for what the property w ... More >>

Hallandale Beach Hides Financial Contributions From Public Record

Below: Is this a legitimate "travel expense"?​Most people are proud of their charitable donations and don't mind publicizing them a bit. But the people who run the city government of Hallandale Beach are not most people.All of the donations that a city makes to charity are supposed to be available ... More >>

Hallandale Beach's North Beach Facility Might Finally Open, After Four Years

Brent Thrasher/Panoramio​Mike Butler is facing an uphill battle. He's the blogger and gadfly of record in Hallandale Beach (the 40,000-citizen heel of the Broward boot), and he's the one who calls out the city for spending through its reserve funds, paying its city manager nearly half a milli ... More >>

Scandalized City Manager of Hallandale Will Run for Cooper City Commission

Mike Good is back on the Broward political scene.​Talk about your unlikely political comebacks. Juice has learned that Mike Good, who left his post as as Hallandale city manager under a cloud of scandal, plans to run for a commission seat in another city that has had its own share of scandal: ... More >>

City, County Attorneys Should Be First Line of Defense Against Corruption -- So Where Are They?

FlickrLegal advisers to Broward governments should have a sharper eye for elected officials' conflicts.​Broward County governments are each supposed to be protected by a single attorney who can advise them on how to steer clear of the kinds of conflicting interests that could land them in jail. So ... More >>

Hallandale City Attorney Signed Off on Controversial Contract to Realtor

Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good has already been shown the door, but the purge of the ethically dubious may have just begun. Now the leading reformer, Commissioner Keith London, is going after Good's enabler, City Attorney David Jove. And he's got ammo.Based on records that London provided t ... More >>

Absentee City Manager Getting Golden Parachute

Mike Good​Hallandale Beach has a tradition of paying a city manager who doesn't show up for work; so now that commissioners have fired Mike Good, it's fitting that they should give him one more giant paycheck on his way out the door.Yesterday, the commission moved to give Good a severance package ... More >>

Hallandale Mayor Hopes a Scandal Hits Commissioner Colleague

Keith London​There's no love loss between Mayor Joy Cooper and rabble-rousing Commissioner Keith London, but it seemed for a moment that there might at least be a period of détente after Cooper finally came around to agreeing with London that the city manager's position needed a change.Judging by ... More >>

If a City Manager Is Hit by Scandal and the Dailies Don't Report It, Did It Really Happen?

Bill Julian​Hallandale Beach Vice Mayor Bill Julian says he was "not concerned" about reports of an ethically dubious contract between City Manager Mike Good and a local real estate agent because those reports did not appear in the Miami Herald or Sun-Sentinel. They appeared here in Juice and in a ... More >>

Handsomely Paid Hallandale City Manager Had 50 Percent Attendance

Photo: Hallandale BeachVice Mayor Bill Julian​During last night's Hallandale Beach Commission meeting, Vice Mayor Bill Julian cited documents indicating that over the past six months, City Manager Mike Good came to city hall on only about half the work days. That spotty attendance record made ... More >>

Hallandale Beach Moves a Step Closer to Terminating City Manager

Flickr: Rob, Rich Time and PaulHallandale Commission to city manager: "You're (almost) fired!"​Hallandale Beach has reached what it appears to be an agreement in principle on the terms of City Manager Mike Good's dismissal. Juice has learned that Good recently responded to a letter by the city att ... More >>

[UPDATED] Good Riddance? Hallandale Beach Moving to Fire City Manager

Photo: Hallandale BeachMike Good​It's a bad day to be Mike Good. The longtime Hallandale Beach city manager is facing termination following a vote this afternoon by city commissioners. At today's meeting, those commissioners complained about his being absent from City Hall and his spotty record fo ... More >>

Meeting on Hallandale City Manager's Fate Canceled After Mayoral No-Show

Photo: Hallandale BeachCommissioner Dotty Ross was M.I.A. when the time came to vote.​Just 24 hours after calling a special meeting to discuss the employment of the city manager, Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper helped cause the cancellation of that meeting by failing to attend.The special meetin ... More >>

Hallandale Mayor Calls Special Meeting to Discuss "City Manager's Employment"

Photo: Hallandale BeachMike Good​Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good might be in hot water with his most important political ally. The Juice has learned that Mayor Joy Cooper has called a special meeting for Friday morning with the expressed purpose of discussing the "city manager's employment ... More >>

In the People's Republic of Hallandale Beach, Juice Is Banned

Flickr: murkyMichelangelo's David. (Stay tuned to see if this image sets off the censor alarms in Hallandale City Hall.)​If you're reading this right now from a computer in Hallandale Beach, watch your ass. The mayor and city manager believe Juice's political coverage is unpatriotic, maybe treason ... More >>

Hallandale Contract With Realtor May Have Violated City Law

Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good gave a consultant agreement to a local real estate agent, Joe Kessel, worth up to $36,000. But a city ordinance indicates Good was forbidden to do so without first getting commission approval.A 2006 ordinance describes exactly what contracts and purchases the ... More >>

Hallandale Mayor Still Tiptoeing Around Controversial Consultant's Deal

Photo: City of Hallandale BeachMayor Cooper says Kessel played a role in the city's purchase of land at Sunset Park.​It's been awfully hard to get Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper to talk about the consulting contract that her city manager gave to real estate agent Joe Kessel in 2008. When I reac ... More >>

Realtor Being Paid by Hallandale May Have Had Role in Controversial Loan to Pornographer

Flickr: rajkulA man who made a fortune off Jenna Jameson is now making money in Hallandale.​Who played matchmaker between the City of Hallandale Beach and a businessman with a porn-filled portfolio? Whomever it was, he did a whale of a job. Back in March, the city's Community Redevelopment Agency ... More >>

Hallandale Mayor Knew of City's Controversial Contract With Real Estate Agent

FlickrJoy Cooper​Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper says she was aware that a real estate agent, Joe Kessel, had been contracted by the city manager as a consultant, but Cooper refused to answer a question about whether that consultant should have disclosed his contract before testifying in support ... More >>

Hallandale City Manager Under Fire for Payments to Real Estate Agent

Photo: hallandalebeachfl.comMike Good​What does a real estate agent like Joe Kessel know about managing city government? Whatever it is, it's worth at least $36,000 per year based on a consulting agreement that Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good forged with Kessel in July 2008.Kessel, a forme ... More >>

Wasting Away in Hallandale

As Hallandale Beach inches closer to cutting a big check to build its own wastewater treatment plant, Commissioner Keith London asks that his objections be duly noted in the historical record. hallandalebeach.orgKeith LondonFor starters, London objects to a $150,000 study that tells the commission w ... More >>

Hallandale Beach Commissioners Have Extraordinary Powers of Memory

Hallandale Beach has a fairly quirk-tastic government. Remember the one about the city manager to whom it paid nearly a half-million last year? Good stuff. Another quirk: the commissioners habit of waiting several months, even years, to approve the minutes of past meetings. At this Wednesday's meeti ... More >>

Hallandale Mayor Responds to Criticism of City Manager's Big Pay Day

Last year, Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good officially, and briefly, retired -- a move that allowed him to cash in some 25 years of accumulated sick and vacation time. This, according to Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, is how in 2008 Good's gross income reached the astonishingly high figur ... More >>

It's Great to Be Good: Hallandale Beach City Manager Has Sweatheart Deal

hallandalebeach.orgMike GoodWell, it sure looks like a sweetheart deal. In 2008, Mike Good, city manager of Hallandale Beach, collected a gross income of $422,000 and change.I say "looks" only because thus far, neither Good nor Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who signs Good's contracts, has retur ... More >>

Keep Camels Off Sand

Hallandale Wants to Kick Our Butts Off the Beach

  The Hallandale Beach City Commission is contemplating an ordinance that would make smoking illegal on the city's public beaches. "There are obviously anti-littering laws, but it's easy to just stick a cigarette in the sand," says Commissioner Keith London, who proposed a feasibility st ... More >>

Mayor Joy Cooper Blows Up

Political Pa-a-a-rty!

But what does it mean?

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