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  • Sports and Recreation

    May 16, 2002

    Best Trainspotting

    West of the Pompano State Farmer's Market

  • Arts and Entertainment

    May 16, 2002

    Best Anarchy in Action

    Unarmed Underground Art Center and Flamingo Art Studios

  • Goods and Services

    May 13, 2004

    Best Bellicose Game Store

    Dragon's Lair Games

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Dr. Strange Train

    Or: How I learned to start worrying and hate the bullet train

  • News

    July 19, 2001

    Train Dreck

    Railroad noise and bureaucracy can't stymie a hearty bunch from Pompano Beach

  • 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

    September 30, 2010

    Ron Klein Wants to Ban French Company From Rail Project for Holocaust Involvement

    ​If Allen "Higher Security Clearance Than the President" West wasn't formidable enough, Ron Klein has a new enemy in his sights: the French national railway company. And now Klein, like West, is talking about Nazis.Société Nationale des Chemins de fer, or SNCF, is basically France's version of A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    French Railway Launches Sensitive Website to Address Its Nazi Past

    Before and after.​The state-owned French railway company that hopes to supply Florida with high-speed trains launched a publicity campaign recently to help combat criticisms of its Nazi past. The campaign includes a web page titled "Heritage" that claims to detail the Societe Nationale des Chamins ... More >>

  • Music

    November 25, 2010

    Electronic Artist-Producer Amtrac Adds Local Flavor to the Dancegiving Music Festival

    Before and after.​The state-owned French railway company that hopes to supply Florida with high-speed trains launched a publicity campaign recently to help combat criticisms of its Nazi past. The campaign includes a web page titled "Heritage" that claims to detail the Societe Nationale des Chamins ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2011

    Trak Marks

    Before and after.​The state-owned French railway company that hopes to supply Florida with high-speed trains launched a publicity campaign recently to help combat criticisms of its Nazi past. The campaign includes a web page titled "Heritage" that claims to detail the Societe Nationale des Chamins ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    The Sun Sentinel Gets Raw, Forgets Math

    This fruit fly wants a train, and he wants it now.​You know, Sun Sentinel, there's a certain art to these things.I thought it was cute-bordering-on-precious when, a couple of weeks ago, you tried to emulate the cattier elements of the big media by having dueling columnists thrash it out over the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Rick Scott, Nixing High-Speed Rail, Cedes Talent and Economic Benefit to the Muslim World

    ​"I didn't fight to become Gov. of the greatest state in nation to settle for a status quo that doesn't promote the potential of our people," tweeted Rick Scott in a typical bout of unsubstantiated braggadocio. See also: "Florida can become the most innovative and effective place in the country to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2011

    Tea Party? Try Tea Puppets

    I wonder if the nonsense-spewing Tea Partiers are really paying attention -- because if they are they'll know they're just puppets for war profiteers and the oil industry, which are one and the same. ​Case in point: A federal audit just found that former Florida Republican Party fin ... 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 17, 2011

    Rick Scott's Legal Defense of High-Speed Rail Rejection Was Based on a Lie

    Charles Trippe, Scott's fact-fudging lawyer​Incredible news came out of Tallahassee last week: Rick Scott's general counsel admitted that he had misled the Florida Supreme Court about the amount of money that had already been spent on the proposed high-speed rail corridor, making the remaining fun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    High-Speed Rail Money Rick Scott Rejected Goes to Other States

    Our friends in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and California are now benefiting from the questionable fiscal decisions of Florida's Tea Party governor. Thanks, Governor, for sending money to our friends up north.​They're receiving a large portion of the $2.4 billion in federal funds for a high-speed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Holocaust Rail Car Restoration is Another Train Project that Rick Scott Won't Fund

    A rail car used in the Holocaust​The whole country knows that Governor Rick Scott turned down $2.4 billion in federal stimulus money for a high-speed train between Tampa and Orlando (and many are blaming that move for his current dismal 29 percent approval rating). But another train project, this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Rick Scott Finds a Train He Likes: $1.2 Billion SunRail

    blogomatic3000.com​He didn't like the idea of an almost-free high-speed train, and he vetoed plans to restore a Holocaust rail car, but Gov. Rick Scott finally found a train he likes -- the SunRail, with a price tag of $1.2 billion, including a cost of more than a half-billion dollars to the state ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Passenger Rail Coming to Downtown Fort Lauderdale and Its Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Bridge

    Eric Barton​As long as we're talking ferries and bikes, we may as well point your attention to another exciting mode of alternative transportation that's making its way to South Florida's urban centers.That's right -- the people who dream up such things say that passenger rail is on its way. That ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Michael McAuliffe Leaves Top Prosecutor Job to Work for Bill Koch, Litigious Billionaire

    Kim SargentBill Koch helps keep lawyers employed.​Only in Palm Beach is such a pairing possible. State Attorney Michael McAuliffe is abandoning his bid for a second term as the county's top prosecutor in order to work for Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire.According to the Palm Beach Post, McAu ... More >>

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