North Broward Hospital District

Streetcar a Terrible Idea, Expert Says

If You Didn't Think The Broward League Of Cities Was Evil ...

Commissioner Aaronson at the Broward League of Cities​Back in the heyday​UPDATE: Former Scott Rothstein partner Stuart Rosenfeldt has settled his $9 million clawback suit with the bankruptcy trustee for $1.6 million, according to the Sentinel. It's a convoluted situation. Apparently Rosenfeldt i ... More >>

Three Questions for Your Local, Scandal-Plagued Public Hospital District

Broward General Medical Center: Scene of the crime?​It's time to start paying attention to what's happening at the North Broward Hospital District (AKA Broward Health). Or rather, it was time back in January, when Gov. Charlie Crist removed two commissioners who were going to reform the district f ... More >>

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 >>

Exclusive Tower Club Teases Us With Offer, Then Rescinds

Photo by Flickr user hanneorlaThe Tower Club remains hidden atop One Financial Plaza.​This blog was supposed to be a food review about eating lunch at the Tower Club. The plan was to go as guests to Broward County's high-rollers club, have a two martini lunch, and file a piece on our Clean Plate C ... More >>

Governor's Office in No Hurry to Replenish Scandal-Plagued Hospital Board

Flickr​Among the many problems at the North Broward Hospital District (a pending criminal corruption investigation, a pending internal investigation for fraud, to name a couple), the district's board currently has an attendance problem. The kind that only Gov. Charlie Crist can fix.The governor ap ... More >>

Broward Health CEO Frank Nask's Job in Jeopardy

browardhealth.orgNask​Commissioner Robert Bernstein has asked that the North Broward Hospital District's board consider removing the public hospital's CEO, Frank Nask, after a year when the district was hit by a barrage of scandals.The item will be placed on the board's January 27 agenda. District ... More >>

So Many Seats to Fill; So Few Republicans Without Baggage

plantation.orgPetrocelli​That's the only explanation I can offer for Charlie Crist's appointment of Rico Petrocelli to the Broward County Housing Authority, which Buddy Nevins is reporting on Broward Beat. Petrocelli, of course, was defeated in his bid for the Plantation City Commission. His campa ... More >>

Records Suggest Broward Health Investigating Itself for Fraud

Flickr: titanium-whiteDo Broward Health's dealings with its physicians constitute fraud? It appears a national law firm is the case.​The North Broward Hospital District has hired a national law firm to conduct what appears to be a wide-ranging investigation of whether the district has violated fed ... More >>

Puppet Master at Hospital District: George LeMieux

lemieux.senate.govGeorge LeMieux​Long before George LeMieux was selected by Charlie Crist to be the state's newest U.S. Senator, he was the most powerful figure in the North Broward Hospital District. An episode from this past March illustrates LeMieux's godfather-like role. That month Marc Goldst ... More >>

In the Clutch, Republican Activist Shows a Bit of Class

Flickr: eric.slausonLive by the gun... resign by the gun.​One of Broward County's leading Republican activists, Ed Napolitano, is resigning from his leadership positions with the party, two weeks after leading a controversial trip with fellow Republicans to a gun range in Hallandale Beach. The Sun ... More >>

Conflict of Interest? Scandal-Plagued Goren Sees No Evil in Pembroke Pines

Flickr user: clar@bellConflict? What conflict?​This summer, the Juice raised ethical questions about the City of Pembroke Pines' decision to outsource its building department to a private, Fort Lauderdale-based company, Calvin, Giordano & Associates. Because the firm also handles multimillion- ... More >>

Double Trouble: Hospital District's New Attorney Is Twice the Price

Flickr: mu_ri_loThe meter is running while Broward Health looks for its fifth general counsel since 2008.​Sam Goren, the attorney hired in May by the North Broward Hospital District to fill the general counsel's role, is racking up legal bills at a rate more than double the combined salaries of th ... More >>

[UPDATED] Email Gives Behind-Scenes Peek at Conflicts Over Hospital District's Museum Sponsorship

browardhealth.orgBernstein​Just two business days before the North Broward Hospital District board was to consider spending $2 million to sponsor an exhibit at Fort Lauderdale's Museum of Discovery and Science, one commissioner was vowing to embarrass museum staff. This based on his obligation to ... More >>

Jaeger Bomb: Broward Health Commissioner Accused of Using Office for "Personal Agenda"

browardhealth.orgMaureen Jaeger​In a memo she wrote in April 2008, three weeks before resigning as general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, Laura Seidman alleged that Commissioner Maureen Jaeger "misused her public office for her personal agenda."Jaeger, Rebecca Stoll and Joseph Cob ... More >>

Embattled Hospital Commissioner Considering Legal Defense Fund

browardhealth.orgCobo​ North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Joseph Cobo, the subject of a pending criminal investigation for allegedly using his public position to help business in his private consulting firm, has asked the district's legal department for permission to establish a legal de ... More >>

Ex-Governor Has Spooky Story About Challenger Explosion

Flickr User: ejames1964Bob MartinezWith the news full of moon landings, former Florida Gov. Bob Martinez recalls a far-less-triumphant moment in the American space program. In this month's Florida Trend, Martinez describes how he was on the campaign trail, hustling for votes in South Florida on the ... More >>

Hospital District: Why Wrestle a White Elephant When You Can Tackle a Red Herring?

Flickr User: FrogMillerMidway through this morning's meeting of the North Broward Hospital District's board, Commissioner Robert Bernstein decided it was time to acknowledge the "white elephant in the room."A tantalizing prospect, because this room was positively teeming with white elephants. There ... More >>

Bless This Mess: Is Miami-Dade Really Desperate Enough to Copy Broward Health?

As the bearer of so much bad news for the North Broward Hospital District, we should acknowledge its recent note of favorable publicity. Despite recent scandals about the commissioners' ethics, their district is in far better financial shape than the public health care district in Miami-Dade, Jackso ... More >>

Will Crist Respond to Scandal in Broward Hospital District?

We should know the answer to that question in about an hour. Yesterday I sent an email to the governor's press secretary with a link to the post I made Wednesday. That post told of how the North Broward Hospital District Chairman Mike Fernandez demanded that an ethics investigation be cut short, des ... More >>

Governor's Office: We're on the Lookout for Dirty Hospital Commissioners

Flickr User: Monte MendozaSterling Ivey, press secretary for Gov. Charlie Crist, responded to Juice coverage of the scandals at the North Broward Hospital District with a short statement indicating the governor's office was keeping tabs on the case but wasn't ready to act. Said Ivey in a short email ... More >>

Former Attorneys for Hospital District Now Under Criminal Investigation

Marc Goldstone and Joe Truhe, formerly the two lead attorneys for the North Broward Hospital District, are being investigated for possible criminal charges of practicing law without a license, according to a source with knowledge of the case.The attorneys were fired in mid-May amid allegations by th ... More >>

Emergency Room: Hospital District Calls for (Another?!?) "Emergency" Meeting

Tomorrow at 2 p.m., the North Broward Hospital District will have an "emergency" meeting. According to the announcement the purpose is for "discussion and possible action regarding the report of Martin Goldberg," the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district to investigate possibl ... More >>

Cobo Report Sent to Governor

During a lengthy meeting this morning that saw roughly 40 speakers testify in favor of embattled Broward Health Commissioner Joseph Cobo, his fellow commissioners voted unanimously to send the investigative report alleging potential ethics violations to Gov. Charlie Crist. The Florida governor appoi ... More >>

May Day: Hospital District to Rid Self of All Sordid Business This Month

Last week, when it came out that North Broward Hospital District General Counsel Marc Goldstone was allegedly practicing law without a Florida license, it seems commissioners had a good excuse (shock, to name one) to procrastinate dealing with the scandal of the previous week: an investigator's find ... More >>

Investigator's Report: Commissioner Cobo Bent Law Nearly to Breaking Point

browardhealth.orgCommissioner Joseph CoboJudging by the report delivered yesterday to the North Broward Hospital District commissioners by an investigator, Commissioner Joseph Cobo is in deep trouble. Attorney Martin Goldberg, a former assistant U.S. Attorney, found five instances of possible miscon ... More >>

The Man Beneath Charlie Crist's Wings

The Sun-Sentinel's report on Charlie Crist's air travel (along with a parallel investigation by the Times/Herald Tally bureau) supports my image of the man who is our governor. He's a politician who wants to hobnob with the elite while trying keep his own hands cle ... More >>

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Bad Week For Boat Captains

Letters for June 21 to 27, 2007

Blood Work

If you´re a medically uninsured North Broward resident, stay healthy -- or else

Notter's Fans

A Meager Friday Offering

City Bites Dog

How to deal with a man holding up $2.4 billion in development: Kick his pooch.

Letters for April 7-13, 2005

Letters for November 11-17, 2004

Be Very Afraid

Broward's elections office has been hijacked by Republican activists. Blame local Democrats.

Letters for September 30-October 6, 2004

Loribiquity

Swamp Gas Speaks

Minority Report II

Dorsey Miller's at it again

Best Political Activist

Jane Kreimer

Letters for April 1, 2004

Criminals: We Love 'em

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Justice of the Church:

Letters for March 11, 2004

Cut the costs:

A Screw Loose

Sein Lwin is a political expert. Medicine? Well, that's something else altogether.

Letters for , March 4, 2004

Saint Mel

Letters for February 12, 2004

We Double Dare Ya!

Letters for November 20, 2003

Caribbean Sounds Great

Best Local Boy Gone Bad

William Scherer