Palm Beach County Commission

Will Roxanna Trinka Be Ousted from Research Park at FAU Board? County Commission to Review Her Anti-Muslim, Anti-Gay Remarks

The governing body of the Research Park at FAU will refer the matter of its board member Roxanna Trinka's anti-Muslim and anti-gay Facebook posts to the Palm Beach County Commission, which appointed her to the board. See also: - Facebook Page Reveals FAU Adviser Fears Muslim Law, Gay Rights - FAU R ... More >>

Jupiter Bioscience Land Deal: Epic Fail?

Trying to find out what's going on in the Town of Jupiter's quest to purchase land owned by Development Board of Palm Beach County CEO Kelly Smallridge's husband, Mark Smallridge, is like playing Whac-A-Mole: Nail down the answer to one question and another pops up to take its place. See Also:- ... More >>

Obama Wins; Local Power Brokers Back to Business as Usual

It's over -- the election, that is -- and we're already back to business as usual in Palm Beach County: favorable official treatment of questionable businesses, hypocritical maneuvering by powerful lawyers, and rampant dissembling by deep-pocketed merchants of crap.What's that you say? Election Day ... More >>

Belle Glade Homicides Nearly Tripled Last Year

​Palm Beach County's first murder of 2012 broke Belle Glade's heart. Jimmy McMillan, 49, was gunned down in the grocery store his family had owned for seven decades. He was a generous man and champion fisherman, known for giving away food and letting longtime customers buy on credit. His death mad ... More >>

Rick Scott's Vacation to Canada Gets Even More Bogus

​Here's the new number of jobs Gov. Rick Scott actually brought to Florida during his "trade mission" to Canada last week: zero.That's right, not a single one.Over two statements from Canada last week, the governor announced that 210 new jobs were coming to Florida from our neighbors to the north ... More >>

Gov. Rick Scott Pretends His Vacation To Canada Brought A Company To Boca Raton

Rick Scott, out doing Canada stuff​For Gov. Rick Scott's charade of the day, he's championing the move of a Canadian company's U.S. headquarters to Boca Raton -- a move that was nearly cemented before the governor even took office.While the foundation for the deal was set before Scott became gover ... More >>

KBR Subsidiary Wins Contract to Build Trash Burner in Palm Beach

Flickr user: U.S. ArmyKBR has a horrific track record in Iraq.​Despite protests by union workers, environmentalists, and competitors, the Palm Beach County Commission yesterday handed one of its largest public works contracts to a company owned by controversial war contractor KBR.Acting as the Sol ... More >>

[UPDATED] Haitian Presidential Candidate Charles-Henri Baker: "The Crooks Don't Want Me in Power"

Hours before flying back to Haiti to begin a marathon final month of his campaign, Haitian presidential hopeful Charles-Henri Baker sat in an unmarked studio at the back of a Boca Raton office park, getting makeup dabbed on his face, reading lines from a TelePrompter in Creole. He was recording tele ... More >>

Pompano City Manager Making Changes Following Corruption Charge Against City Official

Photo: City of Pompano BeachDennis Beach​Dennis Beach, city manager of Pompano Beach, wants to put prospective volunteers through a more rigorous training course before allowing them to volunteer on city committees. He hopes that it will help to prevent arrests like the one that occurred Monday, w ... More >>

Harvey Oyer, the Lawyer Who Inked Deals That Put a Politician in Prison, Still Walks Free

Morning Juice: Federal Prosecutors Now Camping in Broward; Ethics Reform in Palm Beach County

​Let's look at the news on this Wednesday morningA terrifying number of references to "unidentified co-conspirators" in the information filed yesterday by the U.S. Attorney's office against Scott Rothstein. There's little question that he and his friends in the political, banking and legal communi ... More >>

Morning Juice: Rothstein to Be Charged at Last; Fresh Scandal at Broward School District

​Tuesday is shaping up to be a big news day in Broward County.Scott Rothstein is finally going to be charged for his roughly $1 billion Ponzi scheme. But no, we still don't know the juiciest details. [Miami Herald]The trial for Teah Wimberly, the 16-year-old girl who killed a teenaged friend at Di ... More >>

The Rise and Fall of South Florida's Daily Newspapers

Searching for Democrats to Run Corruption County

Any Dems want to run against Steven Abrams?​After watching three Republicans on the Palm Beach County Commission head to prison on corruption charges, one might imagine local Democratic operatives corking champagne bottles in anticipation of next year's battle to fill the seat held by Republican C ... More >>

Tree-huggers mobilize to stop FPL from building Everglades power plant

Targeting Citizen Lozman

Riviera Beach officials plot a strategy of intimidation — and leave a paper trail

The Next Ex-Mayor

After two years in office, West Palm Beach Mayor Frankel has little to show except blocked streets

Best New Building in Palm Beach

The 1916 Courthouse

Scripps...Shut Up!

Why don't Jeb Bush's men want us to know about Scripps?

Letters for the issue of Sept 09, 2004

Bitter Sugar

Forget the awful past, Palm Beach's sugar barons say. It's time to make nicey-nicey and go into real estate.

Peddling the Park

You can beat City Hall. Just make friends with the mayor.

Hustling the Hood

Does it matter to blacks which wealthy, middle-aged white guy is Florida's next governor?

Queen of the Recount

Carol Roberts may not beat Clay Shaw, but don't count her out

Displaced from CityPlace

The folks who run the West Palm marketplace chase away black kids

An Unpleasant Development

The plan to build Merry Place could rekindle an inner-city dream

Surfin' DOA

Dania Beach cramps the style of its board-riding bunch

Blowing Smoke

Andre Fladell doesn't change his clothes much, but he's made quite a splash in the national media

Politics as Blood Sport

Need to oust a school superintendent or get your favorite Democratic candidate elected? Just call Andre Fladell. But don't ever cross him.

Bow Woe Woe

Rescue groups in Palm Beach County believe Animal Care & Control is killing dogs that could be adopted

My Son, the Porn Advocate

Puritanical Palm Beach County Commissioner Burt Aaronson has a son who defends adult entertainment venues oh, the horror!

Undercurrents

It Takes a Village to Raise a Ruckus

One man's dream of creating South Florida's first "co-housing" project has his neighbors raising the roof