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Sylvia Poitier

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Steve Gonot, Former Deerfield Beach Commissioner, Denied New Trial

    Steve Gonot​Steve Gonot, the former Deerfield Beach Commissioner convicted in May of stealing campaign funds and misconduct charges, was denied a new trial this morning.Broward County Circuit Judge Barbara McCarthy denied Gonot's request, and maintained the scheduled sentencing for June 20.Gon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Video of Chaz Stevens Announcing Candidacy for Deerfield Commission

    FlickrStevens has earned comparisons to a famous Brando character.​My Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens followed through last night on threats that he would announce his candidacy for the Deerfield Beach Commission, doing so with his usual flair for self-promotion. I've got the video after the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Promoter Talks About What Went Wrong at Mango Festival

    The always excellent Elgin Jones of the South Florida Times landed a video interview of Norris Wiggins, the promoter the ill-fated 2010 Mango Festival, which failed to deliver musical acts or to sell enough tickets to satisfy sponsors and vendors.As you can see, Wiggins ducked the question about wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    A Numbers Game: Did Mango Festival Organizers Inflate Attendance Figures to Sell Vending Booths?

    Promotional photos like this one had Mango Festival sponsors and vendors planning for a big crowd.​Even before last weekend's Deerfield Beach Mango Festival failed, there were signs of a bait-and-switch.Organizers of the festival lured sponsors and vendors on the basis that the event would draw so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Eyewitness Account of Mango Madness

    Photo: Sabine RaymonvilBefore the Mango went bad...​A freelance reporter, Sabine Raymonvil, attended the Deerfield Beach Mango Festival Saturday. She agreed to share her account with Juice readers:At approximately 3:15 p.m., after the first performance was to begin, Harold Cummings, CEO of Drumme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Mango Festival This Weekend Clouded by Questions

    Photo: The Mango Festival​Maybe Deerfield Beach's Mango Festival has learned something from the promoters of Hollywood's major awards shows: that the possibility of a spectacular gaffe or wild, unscripted moment is the key to building suspense and thus, public interest.Because this 25th anniversar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Auditor Unloads on Deerfield Beach Housing Programs; Finds Evidence of Favoritism, Fraud

    Deerfield Beach officials who administer home loans and grants to low-income residents engage in "favoritism" and "suspected fraud," according to statements made at this evening's commission meeting by forensic auditor Michael Kessler."The entire process of awarding funds to deserving individuals sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    HUD Sucker Proxy: Deerfield Officials Reveal Past Violations in Housing Program

    Looks like Deerfield Beach forgot to tell its taxpaying citizens that in early 2009, it paid nearly $100,000 to the feds to make up for its misuse of public housing dollars. In fact, those city officials nearly forgot to mention this to the forensic auditing firm specifically investigating how Deerf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Deerfield Housing Official May Be Relative to Poitiers and Target of Investigation

    The program director of Deerfield Beach's Community Development Block Grant allegedly has family ties to the Poitiers, who run a charity at the center of an investigation for misuse of taxpayer dollars.Wednesday morning that program director, Stephanie McMillian, received an email from the investiga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Audit in Deerfield Reveals Creative Accounting by City Contractor

    ​The graphic on the right comes from an email that Deerfield Beach's forensic auditor sent Monday to the city attorney. It shows the income that Dan Poitier drew over three years of running the Westside Deerfield Beach Businessmen Association, a nonprofit organization that received federal funds t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Deerfield Beach Wants More Records From Charity Linked to Vice Mayor

    FlickrLet's hope the WDBA files don't look like this.​The firm conducting an audit of Deerfield Beach's dealings with nonprofit agencies has taken a keen interest in the Westside Deerfield Businessmen Association, a charity whose executive director chairs the city's planning and zoning board and w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Fate of Deerfield Beach City Manager to Be Decided Tonight

    deerfield-beach.comGanz​In just a few hours, the Deerfield Beach City Commission will hold its special meeting to vote on a motion by Commissioner Bill Ganz to terminate City Manager Mike Mahaney. I reached Ganz by phone a few moments ago to see whether he had been able to work out his difficultie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    Mahaney Fired as Deerfield Beach City Manager

    Commissioner Marty Popelsky broke a 2-2 tie on the Deerfield Beach City Commission this evening, voting in favor of a resolution that terminated Mike Mahaney, the city manager of more than two years.The meeting was civil, by Deerfield Beach standards anyway. Commissioners Joe Miller and Sylvia Poiti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Deerfield Beach Moves to Fire City Manager Mike Mahaney; Predictably, Shouting Ensues

    deerfield-beach.comNoland: took a parting shot from the city manager.​In this evening's meeting of the Deerfield Beach City Commission, officials took an initial step toward terminating Mike Mahaney as their city manager, a post he's held for nearly three years.The motion was made by Commissioner ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Counting the Mango Money: Deerfield Festival's Mysterious 36-Grand

    Flickr: foXXtailDeerfield's Mango Festival has been a financial juggling act​I've been stymied in my efforts to get an answer to the question I put at the bottom of this mammoth post from yesterday, about the Deerfield Beach's Mango Festival. Namely, why did the city cut the Mango Festival a check ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Something Smells Rotten at Deerfield Beach's Mango Festival

    Photo: themangofestival.comOne of the photos that Mango Festival organizers did not want you to see.​The Mango Festival of Deerfield Beach has a math problem: Its most recent festival, in June 2008, attracted a lot of people. But for some reason, it didn't make a lot of money. And for the city, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Bomb-Hurling Blogger Calls It Quits

    Flickr: J.DoyonPhotography​The first time I heard Chaz Stevens' name, it was preceded by the words "Stay away from." I was talking to a person involved in Deerfield Beach politics, and that person was concerned that my interest in the subject would lead to an encounter with the man behind the curt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Deerfield Beach Commissioner Plans to "Beg" Colleagues Not to Repeal Ethics Code

    deerfield-beach.comBill Ganz​Deerfield Beach Commissioner Bill Ganz is entering his sixth month in office, and he still finds his colleagues unpredictable. He thought the city's ethics code was safe. "I was as surprised and dismayed as anybody to find out it was on the agenda to be repealed," he s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    On Repeal of Ethics Code, One Deerfield Commissioner Holds Swing Vote

    deerfield-beach.comJoe Miller​On the day before the Deerfield Beach Commission will vote on whether to repeal its ethics code, Commissioner Joe Miller is the one wildcard.Past remarks make it possible to predict how the four other members of the commission will vote. Check out the minutes of the M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Ferguson to Be Investigated for Ethics No-No

    A law firm retained by Deerfield Beach to evaluate reports of ethics violations has opened an investigation into the conduct of the city's vice mayor, Sylvia Ferguson -- formerly Sylvia Poitier. But the same firm dismissed three other ethics complaints against Ferguson, saying they failed the "prima ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Deerfield Beach Vice Mayor Ditches Name, Still Can't Shake Blogger

    Deerfield Beach's vice mayor, formerly known as Sylvia Poitier, is now going with her maiden name, Ferguson. The move, which she mentioned in her remarks at last week's meeting, as seen above, comes amid her claiming to have been "defamed" by Acts of Sedition blogger Chaz Stevens, who yesterday file ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Pete Boinis: Asshole Of The Week

        BoinisThe Pulp's Asshole of the Week (so I stole an idea from Larry Flynt, what are you gonna do, shoot me?) is Pete Boinis. He's the guy that cordoned off his swath of land next to the Deerfield Beach Pier with a bunch of poles and then had "No Trespassing" sign ... More >>

  • News

    February 15, 2007

    Dead End

    Bullets are flying and young men are dying in Deerfield's street war between Haitians and African-Americans

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    Letters for June 15-21, 2006

    Bullets are flying and young men are dying in Deerfield's street war between Haitians and African-Americans

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2006

    Pulp Brings Down City Manager

    Bullets are flying and young men are dying in Deerfield's street war between Haitians and African-Americans

  • Subtropical Life

    May 12, 2005

    Best Political Comeback

    Sylvia Poitier

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Dirty George and the War Pigs

    The president's war, his brother's fib, a black man's past, and Mayor Griffin's demise

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Swimming in Trouble

    Pompano Beach Mayor Bill Griffin is, well, conflicted over the Swimming Hall of Fame deal

  • News

    December 27, 2001

    A Handy Dandy

    Jeff Wright brings out the best in people

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Her Word Is Not Her Bond

    Former Broward County financial adviser Teressa Cawley had a bright career… until the SEC passed judgment on her

  • Best of BPB

    March 11, 1999

    Best Local Politician/Broward

    Kristin Jacobs

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    At-Large Ignorance

    The plan to elect county commissioners from single-member districts could revolutionize Broward politics. So why don't voters care?

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    A Dream Deferred

    After a decade in office, Carlton Moore hasn't done much for Fort Lauderdale's poorest residents. But he has helped himself.

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Trinchi Warfare

    Despite ailing health, a dying constituency, and a shaky season for Democrats, politico Trinchi Trinchitella appears undiminished

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Undercurrents

    Despite ailing health, a dying constituency, and a shaky season for Democrats, politico Trinchi Trinchitella appears undiminished

  • News

    December 25, 1997

    The Killing Fields

    For 24 years toxic soot from the Wingate dump rained down on Leola McCoy and her neighbors. She calls it environmental racism.

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