Subject: Tallahassee

• Hardballed

  October 31, 2006

• Hollis Coming Home?

  May 15, 2007

• Post Pulls Reporter Off Crist Beat -- UPDATED

  September 21, 2007

• Concert Review: Blitzen Trapper at Langerado

  March 10, 2008

• Massive Job Cuts Coming At Sun-Sentinel, Tally Chief Volunteers

  June 19, 2008

• PB Post Links Porn, Thinks Better Of It

  July 15, 2008

• D-Day At The Sun-Sentinel -- UPDATED

  July 24, 2008

• Video: Dead Prez at Rock the Bells 2008

  August 6, 2008

• RIP Fred Pettijohn

  October 2, 2008

• Another Newspaper Mini-Merger

  November 4, 2008

• Sentinel Reporter Hollis Taking Job With State Democrats

  November 7, 2008

• Waste-Case Scenario

  March 12, 1998

• Undercurrents

  March 19, 1998

• Morning Juice: DCF Protects Children with Racists, State Beats Legion of Doom for Most Corrupt

  The children of DCF.DCF Managers Use Racial Slurs That You'll Need to Look UpEmployees at the Department of Children and Families office in Tallahassee apparently like to throw around racial insults. An internal DCF audit found that six employees, even supervisors, were throwing around words, like "the word 'N  - - - -,' Niggardly, Niggets or Niggy's during a managers' meeting held in May 2008." We can all learn a lot from this DCF audit, including that Nigget is not, as I thought, a mini c

  December 22, 2008

• Letters

  July 9, 1998

• Undercurrents

  December 14, 2000

• Move Over Madoff, Here Come the Marching Trojans

  I, for one, feel duped. This morning I received the itinerary for the J.P. Taravella High School Marching Band's trip to Washington DC, where they are to perform in president-elect Barack Obama's inuguration parade. Band director Neil Jenkins had told me that the youngsters would be doing some sightseeing, but three whole days of it? C'mon! The Marching Trojans have made public appeals for donations to cover the cost of the $150,000 trip. So far, the 173-member band has raise

  January 14, 2009

• Earache

  July 8, 2004

• The Ink-Stained Unemployed

  Newspapers will shrink as veterans are forced out the door

  June 26, 2008

• Last Night: Adult Swim Presents Tim and Eric Live, at Revolution

  Ian WitlenTim and Eric backstage at Revolution Sunday night. Click here to view the full slideshow.It takes an, um, special sensibility to really get into the Cartoon Network's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, which airs on the network's Adult Swim block of late-night programming. Pretty much the channel's only live-action series, each episode clocks in at a mere 15 minutes. But in that short time, the show manages to chew, swallow, and regurgitate pop culture's lowest frequencies at a head

  February 9, 2009

• DeGroot Picks Apart Ron Book, Lobby Racket

  The legislative session, marking the real advent of springtime in Florida, begins in Tallahassee this week. And the busiest bees working the capital are the lobbyists, who are buzzing about, putting their noses in everything they can, spreading their demon seed far and wide.  If you don't care, you should. You're paying for the all that pollination, after all.   John deGroot, bloggerOn his new blog, John deGroot did some digging and found that Broward County and

  March 3, 2009

• Senate Dem From Weston Lands Gig for 2010

  flsenate.govSen. Nan RichThere has never been a female leader of the Florida Senate's Democratic Caucus -- and there won't be till 2010, when Sen. Nan Rich, the Weston Democrat, assumes the role. She will get the formal designation at a press conference in Tallahassee at 10:30 this morning."It's long overdue," said Rich of the milestone. "But I also think it's important because it's another indication of women's voices growing in the legislature and taking positions that haven't been afforded to

  March 4, 2009

• It's the Battle of Tattooing!

  (Sadly, only the biggest of my fellow Star Wars dorks will catch the pun in that headline. Anyway...)On one side of this intergalactic conflict, the Florida Professional  Tattoo Artists Guild. The nonprofit corporation has been active in legislative issues that affect the state's tattoo industry since the early 1990s. More recently, it drafted a bill that's being sponsored by Hallandale Beach Sen. Eleanor Sobel. It would provide a framework for the licensure of tattooists. But the guild con

  March 16, 2009

• Immature Teachers Unable to Secure Raises

  A reenactment of the Broward teacher rally.Teachers flooded a School Board meeting last night in an attempt to ask for bigger raises. However, the teachers were unsuccessful in their attempt to sway the officials using their overwhelming immaturity.The room full of teachers -- the same ones who send students to detention for such infractions as chewing gum -- disrupted a presentation by the superintendent by coughing loudly in unison. That's right: As their boss spoke, they hoped that their disr

  March 25, 2009

• At Last, Peace Reigns in Tattooland

  The bill that would have overhauled tattoo regulation in Florida is dead. The two factions of state tattooists, who had earlier this month waged an epic, expletive-laden battle in the comments thread of this Juice post, are now on the same team, or soon to be. And together, they will work toward a bill that all tattooists can agree will improve their industry. Bill Hannong, president of the Florida Professional Tattoo Artists Guild, had been the most frequent target of tirades because his guild

  March 27, 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 jointly by two Tallahassee heavyweights: Lobbyist David Ericks and star Republican budgetmeister Donna Arduin. The one-time couple bought the house on a canal with ocean access in the Gill Isle

  April 3, 2009

• Breaking With Boredom

  April 9, 2009

• State Rep. Adam Hasner: Supporting "Anti-Muslim Hate Fest"?

  Today, the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) pointed out that State Rep. Adam Hasner -- the House Republican leader -- is listed as a "coalition partner" for an upcoming coming "free speech summit" that could be seen as an anti-Muslim event.  The featured speaker will be Geert Wilders, a controversial Dutch politician who faced death threats after making a film about Islam in the Netheralnds. In January, criminal charges were filed against Wilders in Amsterdam for "inciting hatr

  April 13, 2009

• Wait, Let Me Change Hats

  Geller does costly deals but shuns "L" word

  April 10, 2008

• The Talk of the Green Iguana

  Will American voters elect the first gay vice president in November?

  February 28, 2008

• A Quick Lesson in Firearms

  August 16, 2007

• Stephen Marley

  Mind Control (Tuff Gong/Universal)

  April 12, 2007

• The Tightest Slots in Town

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

  November 30, 2006

• If Waldman's a Dem, What's With the GOP Cash?

  Another in the long tradition of Broward elephants posing as donkeys.

  March 30, 2006

• Letters for March 9-15, 2006

  March 9, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 6, 2004

• Passing Gas

  Planned pipelines threaten fragile coral formations

  April 29, 2004

• Dead Prez

  Get Free or Die Tryin': The Mixtape Volume 2 (Landspeed)

  December 4, 2003

• The Last Governor

  February 27, 2003

• Barred For Life

  The process for restoring the civil rights of felons in Florida works perfectly -- if not restoring their rights is the goal

  December 26, 2002

• West Palm's Next Mayor Speaks

  Forget Joel Daves. Lois Frankel rules.

  August 22, 2002

• Acting Out

  Whether or not the state helps out AIDS sufferers, last week's botched protest says much about the HIV community's problem

  March 28, 2002

• Longshot

  Florida House minority leader Lois Frankel is waging an impossible campaign for governor

  November 15, 2001

• Minority Madness

  Wisecracking Democrats in Tallahassee were steamrollered during the presidential contest. But they didn't take it lying down.

  December 28, 2000

• An Education in Double Dipping

  A politico gets a salary from the Broward school board that most teachers would kill for. Why? Because he's a state legislator.

  September 9, 1999

• Boca, Please Rein in Your Race-Baiting Legislator

  Flickr user: Hasner On the MoveHoly warrior: Hasner in a photo op with Israeli troopsAt first, it seemed like Delray Beach Rep. Adam Hasner just had one of those typical, post-9/11 freakouts, panicking at the prospect of a Muslim group's lobbying trip to Tallahassee. Then two weeks ago, we learned that Hasner had agreed to participate in the "Free Speech Summit" headlined by Geert Wilders, the member of Dutch parliament whose rhetoric against radical Islam tends to upset even the religion's most

  April 27, 2009

• Who Is Ari Porth? And Why?*

  -- How do we get all these shameless, grandstanding state reps? Adam Hasner, Nan Rich, it just gets so tiresome. Now listen to this from Rep. Ari Porth, a Democrat from Coral Springs: "I'm ashamed that my county has the unenviable distinction of being the pill-mill capital of the United States. We have the chance to stop the explosive growth of these clinics, to stop these clinics from festering, to send these sleazy, bottom-feeding operators of these death centers back to K

  May 1, 2009

• It's Unanimous: Florida Legislature Flunked

  Flickr User: MonteCristoScene of the crime: the state capitol in TallahasseeSure, it's unfair to focus entirely on what did not happen in a legislative session, and with all the economic troubles, this one was going to be grueling no matter what. But even grading against a curve of extremely low expectations this past session was a disgrace. Again and again, petty politics won out over crisis management. You'd be hard-pressed to find a newspaper in the state that can find a silver lining. The St

  May 6, 2009

• For Local Officials, Skin Condition Means Less-Informed Electorate

   Even when you're in the newspaper business, it's jarring to see someone you know on the front page of the New York Times website. (It's been updated since then, but you can see the screen grab from earlier today.) As a cub reporter ten years ago, I covered politics for a daily newspaper in northern Los Angeles County called the Antelope Valley Press. My most frequent story subject was the powerful and ultra-energetic California Assemblyman George Runner, who's now a state senator slogging

  July 24, 2009

• Morning Juice: Nobody Wants Oil or Feces in Their Backyard

  ​Let's scan the headlines for this Thursday morning:If you challenged Miramar resident Joe Otano to name one exceptional quality of living next door to  Ellie Boudreau, here's what he'd say: "What really makes it stand out is the throwing of feces over into my property -- human feces." [WPLG]The attorney for William Gorzynski, the 15-year-old from Coral Springs, charged with stabbong his 14-year-old brother to death, says it was self-defense. [Miami Herald]In Tallahassee, proponents of dr

  October 29, 2009