Peter Bober

Murals Are Springing Up on Walls in Downtown Hollywood

Hollywood City Manager Doug Hewett Gets Paid $66,000 For Getting Arrested

Hollywood City Manager Doug Hewett was arrested on DUI charges after a police officer reported Hewett was swerving on the way home from a male strip club on Easter Sunday. A meeting this morning was held to figure out what was going to happen to him after Mayor Peter Bober called for his r ... More >>

State Attorney's Office Drops Investigation of Former Hollywood Manager Cameron Benson

​Chalk one up for former Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson and zero so far for the anonymous citizen who accused him of corruption in two letters sent to city commissioners this spring.The letters accused Benson of accepting a bribe from WastePro, which went on to win the city's waste-hauling ... More >>

Hollywood's Water Tower, Much Like Its Budget Office, Can't Get Its Numbers Straight

​Two construction workers fall into the cavernous metal tank, suffering serious injuries. Five Tongan workers are among the people tasked with a $600,000 restoration and painting project. When the city announces a surprise $10 million budget shortage that it failed to report, people complain about ... More >>

Cameron Benson, Former Hollywood City Manager, Gets $300K Severance Deal

Miami HeraldCameron Benson​Last month, longtime Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson caught heat in public from Mayor Peter Bober, who had made sport of publicly shaming his chief bean counters since a May revelation that the city was millions of dollars further in debt than it had disclosed.Bens ... More >>

Hollywood City Manager, Under Investigation by Feds, Bails Before He Can be Fired

townmapsusa.com​Hollywood City Manager Cameron Benson didn't want last night's commission meeting to be his political funeral, so he made the decision to quit during a meeting recess.Benson was taking a lot of heat from Mayor Peter Bober for a few things yesterday -- a $10.3 million budget defici ... More >>

Hallandale Neighbors in a Schvitz About Proposed New Charter School

Deutsch​Around 100 Hallandale Beach residents who live near the Hallandale Jewish Center have signed a petition opposing the opening of a new K-8 charter school on the site. The school would be run by the Ben Gamla Charter School, which already has locations in Hollywood and Sunrise.Broward Bulldo ... More >>

Is JenJen's School The Whitest In South Broward?

You've probably read about the construction of Broward School Board Member Jennifer Gottlieb's pet school in Hollywood that wasn't needed at all but still cost taxpayers some $25 million and ruined a neighborhood park. Gottlieb​The school, Beachside Montessori Village (which is ne ... More >>

In Hollywood, Politicians' Kids Get a Private School Education on the Public Dime

Activists in South Hollywood recently staged a funeral for their park, part of which was leased for what's become a controversial school project.​Normally, a minority-dominated low-income neighborhood like South Hollywood would have reason to cheer the arrival of a new school, especially one that ... More >>

Food Events on the Radar

​• The old phrase, "Take me out to the ball game" is going to have to be changed to "Take me out of the ball game" after Sunday's Marlins vs. Mets game. That's the Marlins are offering discounted "All You Can Eat Seats" for the throw down. This Club Level section of seats will offer fans complet ... More >>

A Monument to Waste

How the School Board turned a community park into a $25 million black hole.

Cause of Fire That Damaged Hollywood Mayor's Law Office Under Investigation

A street shot of the office building that houses Bober's law officeA fire at the building that houses the law office of Hollywood Mayor Peter Bober is being investigated by police for possible arson.According to a Hollywood Fire Department spokesman, Mark Steele, a fire struck in the upper floors of ... More >>

Hollywood Mayor Bober: Fort Lauderdale, Give Us Our Sand!

Beach erosion has been a problem in South Florida at least since the Army Corps of Engineers created the Intracoastal Waterway last century.  Under natural circumstances, winds and waves push sand down the coast, gently and perpetually southward.  But wherever there's a man-made jetty that ... More >>

Lobbyists a Wedge Issue in Hollywood

O'Sheehan voted to restrict lobbying in Hollywood.Maybe Hollywood Commissioner Beam Furr is right that an ordinance to ban private commissioner meetings with lobbyists is "unconstitutional." But it's still a shrewd move by Mayor Peter Bober and Commissioner Heidi O'Sheehan to champion the legislatio ... More >>

No Drama in Hollywood

After the hero vanquishes the villain, it's usually our cue to leave the theater. And so it is with Hollywood politics. Peter Bober (right), the fresh-faced, sweet-talking protagonist who in lieu of a Bat-mobile drove a Segway, toppled the tyrannical regime of Mara Giulianti a year ago. Say what you ... More >>

Another Newspaper Falls Into Bankruptcy

The Minneapolis Star Tribune followed the Tribune Co. and went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy today. Remember, Miami Herald parent McClatchy, in the only good move it has made in several years, sold the Strib, as it is called, for $530 million back in 2006. The newspaper's story includes some inter ... More >>

The Fourth Estate Sale

Decimated by corporate overlords, the only hope for our local newspapers may be the auction block.

'Tis the Season for A Mara-cle!

During her 20-year reign as the grande dame of Hollywood, Mara Guilianti had many pet projects, but perhaps none that she adored more than the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, a museum that moved from North Miami to downtown Hollywood last year, thanks in large part to Giulianti's hustl ... More >>

Election Post-Mortem

Manee Nanny

Coddle the Cows

Tally Against the Machine

The Holocaust Card

Mara Giulianti's allies don't know when to stop

From The Election Desk

And The Pulp Predicts ...

Hush, Money

Nobody's talking about the Hollywood Beach Resort, but campaign contributions scream Next Big Thing

State Rep. Schwartz Holocaust-Baits For Mayor Mara

Morning Rundown

No Love For Bober

It's All Better Now

Who Killed Kenny's Project?

Heartbreak Hotel

It's the end of an era on Hollywood Beach, where small, cheap motels are all that stand in the way of another playground for the wealthy

Skeletons in Mara's Closet (Or Backyard)

Hooray for Hollywood

Even with a housing bust and bad court verdicts, the show goes on.

Die Bold, Die Wussy

An Invitation to Steal an Election

Turkey for Builders

Hollywood Commission meetings are a dysfunctional family feast for developer pals.

Good Jim Good

Toppling the Tower of Babble

Slush Money

Hollywood sets aside big money for its friends and doesn't want you to know

Access Hollywood

To be a development star in Hollywood, it’s all in who you know, baby

Tailpipe

Crackin' Crack

Letters for September 23-28, 2004

Letters for the issue of Sept 09, 2004

Letters September 2-8, 2004

River of Sludge

Sure, Hollywood's sewage plan is dirty. It pollutes the Everglades too.

Telltale Hearts

To follow the wrongdoing in Hollywood's sewage deal, just watch the drama unfold

Ooh, That Smell

Hollywood commish profits on biowaste

Letters for February 28, 2002

Artistic rumination

Undercurrents

SunCruz’s problems are much deeper than you think they are

Hollywood No!

Hollywood lost last fall's referendum by siphoning cash to political cronies, sending out armed cops, and failing to win over the Broward sheriff

Face Off

John Coleman and his fellow reform candidates in Hollywood face an uphill battle against mayor Mara and Co.