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Public Finance

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    West Palm Beach Cracks Down on Food Trucks

    ​It seems that the honeymoon phase between the City of West Palm Beach and food trucks is coming to an end. Palm Beach County is behind Miami in food trucks, but certain owners, most notably the Fire Within and Curbside Gourmet, have risen to the challenge of bringing the mobile eateries to the no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Broward Inspector General Report Slams Lauderdale Lakes Administration

    ​Lauderdale Lakes is in some hot water, and not all of it is old news.A preliminary report dated yesterday outlines the findings of the Broward Office of the Inspector General regarding the "gross mismanagement of public funds" in Lauderdale Lakes. The OIG says preliminary reports aren't public re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Mandy Dawson to Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion as Soon as She Figures Out How Much She Evaded

    ​Former Fort Lauderdale state Sen. Mandy Dawson will plead guilty to two counts of tax evasion and three counts of failure to file a tax return, according to documents filed yesterday in federal court. She faces up to 13 years in prison.Dawson was indicted last year after authorities say she faile ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Seven People Charged in Tax Fraud Case Based on Secret Bank-Account Conspiracy Theory

    ambienceofmedia.com​Get this: The government creates a secret bank account for every person issued a birth certificate in the United States -- and has been doing so since the enactment of the 1936 Social Security Act -- that holds $630,000. Through a series of IRS filings, people can become entitl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Florida Power & Light Rebukes Report on "Corporate Tax Dodgers"

    ​NextEra Energy -- which owns Florida Power & Light Co. -- ain't too happy about being placed on a list of "corporate tax dodgers," which we wrote about earlier today.A group that calls itself Citizens for Tax Justice issued the report evaluating 280 companies nationwide, and named 78 of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    GOP Intentionally Sabotaging Economy to Boot Obama? Only 39 Percent of Floridians Say No

    wildmanhangout.com​Old news: Floridians think Gov. Rick Scott sucks. New news: Nearly half of Florida thinks Republicans are intentionally sabotaging the economy to prevent the reelection of President Obama.It's not just those damned liberals either -- 24 percent of Republicans agree, according to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Allen West Back to Insults and Ignoring Facts About the Economy

    Rep. Allen West, who thinks Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a refrigerator.​Rep. Allen West seems to be the gift that keeps on giving to the world of misinformation.West went on Fox & Friends this morning, and let everyone know that he was still playing the blame game and made it clear he h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Rick Scott Approval Rating Climbing Out of the Toilet; Voters Don't Know if He Raised Taxes

    ​Gov. Rick Scott received his highest approval rating and lowest disapproval since April, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.The new survey shows 35 percent of respondents approved of the way the governor is handling his job, compared to 52 percent who said they disapproved." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Rick Scott Gets Told on CNN -- Again (Video)

    ​Gov. Rick Scott took his armchair president skills to CNN this morning as part of his belief that he has a say in federal government, and the CNN anchors made him look like a fool -- again.In early June, the governor went on CNN to defend his advocacy of drug-testing welfare recipients. He was as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Allen West on NPR: Do We Really Need the Justice Department?

    How important is the Justice Department, really?​Yesterday, NPR host Robert Siegel interviewed U.S. Rep. Allen West about the federal debt fight. West, a member of the House Tea Party caucus, is adamantly opposed to raising the debt limit. He doesn't want the U.S. government to borrow any more mon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Palm Beach County Housing Authority Workers Arrested, Assistant Director Charged Eightfold

    PBSOKechevella Wallace​Kechevella Wallace, assistant director of the Palm Beach County Housing Authority, has been arrested along with three other housing authority employees on fraud-related charges in an alleged apartment-renting scheme, the Palm Beach Post reports.Wallace, 26, was supposed to m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2011

    Lauderdale Lakes City Manager Fired -- With Attitude (Video Included)

    lauderdalelakes.orgGloria Lewis had a thing or two to say about City Manager Anita Fain Taylor​Lauderdale Lakes City Commissioner Gloria Lewis had some attitude to give before ousting City Manager Anita Fain Taylor last week -- including a rip on Ray Charles and blind three-legged dogs.Apparen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Florida is a Great Place For a Walk -- If You Want to End Up Dead

    nj.com​Fact of the day: You're more likely to wind up dead while on a walk in Florida than in any other state.That's according to what an advocacy group called Transportation for America released Tuesday, with Florida taking the cake for the highest "Pedestrian Danger Index" rank in the nation, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Tax Day Deals

    Grab a bite before Uncle Sam bites you!​The IRS was nice enough to give us a whopping two-day extention on filing our taxes. That's all well and good, but you still might come out feeling a little poorer if you have to write a check to Uncle Sam today. Fret not, because there are a lot of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Rick Scott Takes Credit For Solving Budget Crisis By Rejecting High-Speed Rail

    Thanks, Governor, for saving us all from helpful public transport.​Remember that high-speed rail project that Governor Rick Scott rejected? The bullet train between Tampa and Orlando would've been the first of its kind in the country, made possible by $2.4 million in federal funds.But Scott return ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Reader Rails Against "Virtual Black Baby Genocide"

    West is offended by Planned Parenthood clinics in black neighborhoods.​The federal budget deal congressional leaders inked late Friday avoided funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, but a future Senate floor vote on the issue still looms. The Juice has given you U.S. Rep. Allen West's views on the or ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Rick Scott Goes Straight Up George Bush On Pill Mills: Launches 'Strike Force'

    Will Gov. Scott's strike force take down pill mills like Sosa's hit squad took out Tony Montana? ​These pill mill doctors may have misunderestimated Gov. Rick Scott but he's gon smoke em out. And he doesn't need no Office of Drug Control or a geeky little database to track dealers of mass destruct ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Broward County Will Reopen Four Parks After $100,000 Analysis Found That Closures Didn't Save Taxpayers Anything

    ​Broward County's ill-fated attempt to save money by closing parks midweek actually cost taxpayers $98,961, plus a year and a half of potential revenue that the parks could have brought in.  Next Tuesday, four county parks will reopen seven days a week, according to the Broward County Parks a ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    ​Broward County's ill-fated attempt to save money by closing parks midweek actually cost taxpayers $98,961, plus a year and a half of potential revenue that the parks could have brought in.  Next Tuesday, four county parks will reopen seven days a week, according to the Broward County Parks a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    FEMA Bombshell: School Board Can't Account For $15 million In Post-Wilma Spending

    FEMA conducted an audit of Broward School Board spending of federal funds after hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and found the school board may have squandered millions of dollars, according to a report issued by the Department of Homeland Security this week.. "The School Board did not account for FEMA ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Broward Health Commissioner Says System Will Be Less Political as a Nonprofit

    browardhealth.orgCommissioner Richard Paul-Hus​If the North Broward Hospital District follows through on plans to lease its assets to a nonprofit organization, then it will "take the politics out" of managing that public hospital district, according to Commissioner Richard Paul-Hus, who responded ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    South Hollywood Floods Have Neighborhood Activist Plotting Regime Change

    There were puddles all over Broward County on Monday, thanks to the steady rain over the weekend, but in Hollywood, there were lakes, as you can see in the video above.The worst of it is in South Hollywood, where activists have long complained about poor drainage, among other infrastructure problem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    [UPDATED] Charity Linked to Deerfield Commissioner Took Out 10 Percent Loan With Relative

    deerfield-beach.comSylvia Poitier​A charity under investigation by Deerfield Beach took out a high-interest loan from a brother of Commissioner Sylvia Poitier in hopes of paying taxes on property it owned in the city. The charity then listed that liability in a financial statement to the city, rai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2010

    LeMieux to President: Cut Federal Spending! (Except on Businesses That Paid Me as a Lobbyist)

    It's surreal to hear a conservative like LeMieux campaigning for mass transportation, typically a crusade for liberals. But when it comes to the railroad industry, to which LeMieux has deep ties from his halcyon days as a lobbyist, LeMieux turns liberal.As we've mentioned on Juice this month, LeMieu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Boynton's Own Ghost Tower: An Empty Promenade

    Lisa Rab The Promenade is begging for residents.​Boynton Beach is now giving Sunrise a run for its money in the competition for ghostly condo buildings. These 14-story cream-colored towers perched on the edge of the Intracoastal Waterway are part of a project known as Promenade, where just four ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Palm Beach Billionaire Koch Likes Tax Subsidies, Too

    Flickr user: andjohan​One of Palm Beach billionaire Bill Koch's main objections to a proposed offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound -- which he has spent millions of dollars fighting -- is that it will require tax breaks to succeed. As the Juice reported earlier today, Koch has claimed that the an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Planned Parenthood Opens Two New Clinics in Broward to Meet Growing Demand

    Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ri ... More >>

  • News

    August 13, 2009

    Crooked Courthouse

    The Broward Commission will build a courthouse, even if voters don't want it and there's no good way to pay for it.

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    Folk You

    The Broward Commission will build a courthouse, even if voters don't want it and there's no good way to pay for it.

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    No More Taxes on (Almost) All Things Fancy

    Photo courtesy Tom Fancy StudiosIf that looks like your shopping list then, well, thank you, good sir, for generous contributions to the State of Florida, but you probably should have waited till after the legislative session. A bill recently passed by the House Finance and Tax Council would remove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    House Owned By Tally Power Players Under Homestead Investigation

    Arduin and Ericks with Jeb BushOne of the GOP's top tax experts is under investigation for her own homestead tax exemption.   The Pulp has learned that the Broward Property Appraisers Office is investigating the homestead exemption on a Fort Lauderdale home owned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Call Centers Overwhelmed With Floridians Needing Public Assistance

    You know things are bad when the people who are paid to help the folks applying for public assistance need help themselves. More than five million Americans are seeking unemployment benefits, the most since records of such things have been kept. Now Florida call centers (not pictured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    West Palm Mayor Forgets to Ask Obama to Fix City; Mice Apparently Do Frankel's Bidding

    Frankel's got moves on the dance floor. In city hall, not so much.West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel met with President Obama to talk about how she'd like to spend the stimulus money. Frankel, if you haven't been following things, is the mayor who broke a bunch of shit, like downtown and city roads ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2009

    State Republican Does Not Want A Billion Dollars

    Rep. Anitere Flores should be grateful that only dorks like me watch Issues, the Sunday political program on our local public television station WPBT. I can't imagine she'd have wanted her constituents in Kendall / University Park / Westwood Lakes to watch her appearance this past Sunday.Here's a li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Beach Bummed: Big Bills Are Sinking Hollywood's Small Hotels

    For decades Hollywood Beach has been the only one in South Florida that could offer tourists an array of small, independent hotels at low nightly rates. That gave the neighborhood a distinct slow-tempo style, and it gave the South Florida's hospitality industry a bit of variety.But the small Hollywo ... More >>

  • News

    March 6, 2008

    Haunted House

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

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Freeloaders Who Don't Freeload

    Can you count to $16 billion, gabacho?

  • News

    November 30, 2006

    The Tightest Slots in Town

    Aren't you happy you get to shovel money into the shiny new machines?

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2006

    Capitol-izing on Ineptitude

    Aren't you happy you get to shovel money into the shiny new machines?

  • News

    May 26, 2005

    Condo Siege

    From peaceful American dreaming comes a rude awakening

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Local Girl Gone Bad

    Elizabeth Fago

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Letters for April 28-May 4, 2005

    Elizabeth Fago

  • Music

    September 23, 2004

    Overheard

    Elizabeth Fago

  • News

    December 5, 2002

    Indian War

    A Hollywood man has spent the past decade trying to pry open the Seminoles' accounting books -- without much success

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    One Strike and You're Out on the Street

    If one family member gets in trouble, the Broward County Housing Authority evicts everyone. That policy forced Dorothy Springer out of her home.

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    Burning Down the House

    After the closing of an apartment building for AIDS victims in Fort Lauderdale, the city's ability to oversee a multimillion-dollar, federally funded program is called into question

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Angel of Mercy

    Gail Norton is a one-woman task force, helping Broward's aged to cope at home

  • Goods and Services

    March 11, 1999

    Best Place to Buy Cigarettes

    Gator Tobacco Outlet

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    The Straight Dope

    Gator Tobacco Outlet

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