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  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Mitt Romney's Secret Palm Beach Stump Speech: Destroy HUD, Pitch a "Republican DREAM Act"

    It's amazing what a politician will say when he doesn't think the press is around.Mitt Romney, who's the subject of this week's cover story, held a closed-door, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach Sunday night, and, though he has been irritatingly vague in his publicly announced plans for his p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    School Lunch Changes Mean Fewer Animal Crackers and No Canned Fruits

    ​No more animal crackers for iron at your kid's cafeteria. In the first overhaul of school food in 15 years, all schools must be in compliance with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's school food rules by July 1. Florida schools have prepped for the changes by switching control of the school lunc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Mavericks High Charter Schools Make News in New Orleans

    maverickshigh.comMavericks makes news in the Big Easy.​Florida has a habit of exporting its public policies to other states, where they spread like cold sores on a drunken Himmarshee night. Grading schools and teachers based on test scores, expanding vouchers and charters schools -- the nation has ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Ave Maria: A Catholic University Experiment in the Everglades Gone Wrong

    maverickshigh.comMavericks makes news in the Big Easy.​Florida has a habit of exporting its public policies to other states, where they spread like cold sores on a drunken Himmarshee night. Grading schools and teachers based on test scores, expanding vouchers and charters schools -- the nation has ... 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

    February 8, 2011

    Ilene Lieberman Is Back in the Building!

    Lieberman is second from left ​Ilene Lieberman, after months of no-shows and call-ins to Broward County Commission meetings, has finally returned to public service. She's on the dais now -- after fellow Commissioner Chip LaMarca made it an issue last week and m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Teacher Tenure Under Attack From Mother of Autistic Kid Voted Out of Class Survivor-Style

    Alex Barton, circa 2008.​"I am going to war on teacher's tenure," says Melissa Barton, "and I will win. I'm going to eliminate it this year. By this time next year, tenure won't be a word in the teacher union's vocabulary."Yep, Barton is pissed. In 2008, her 5-year-old son, Alex, was voted out of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Villegas Video, Awarding Incompetence, and Judge Lazarus' Latest Stupid Email

    UPDATED: My colleague Lisa Rab obtained this video of Debra Villegas speaking with Plantation police officers about the Melissa Britt Lewis murder. It was taken in December 2009, after the Rothstein Ponzi scheme and the RRA law firm imploded. Make sure and read Rab's post. Villegas d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Fox Meets Henhouse

    MC Model Citizen's Latest: Rick Headroom​So Florida Governor-Elect Rick Scott named his transition team which was stocked with former Jeb Bush staffers, hardcore state Republicans, and even our own U.S. Sen. George "The Maestro" LeMieux.   Mainigi​The transition t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    A Bad Time to Be Charlie's Frat Brother

    Crist and his Delta Lambda brothers.​It used to be the best gravy train on the tracks: If you were a frat brother of Charlie Crist at Florida State, you could practically name your job. Harry Sargeant landed a prestigious gig as the finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Crist appoin ... More >>

  • News

    July 23, 2009

    Broward School Officials Conspired to Build $395 Million in Unnecessary Classrooms

    Crist and his Delta Lambda brothers.​It used to be the best gravy train on the tracks: If you were a frat brother of Charlie Crist at Florida State, you could practically name your job. Harry Sargeant landed a prestigious gig as the finance chairman of the Republican Party of Florida. Crist appoin ... More >>

  • News

    November 8, 2007

    Animal Farm

    At the Broward County School Board, the chickens cry foul

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Gang Tackled

    Football star Jarvis Hicks couldn't resist the undertow of gang violence

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Nova to Workers: Drop Dead

    Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Janitors go jobless for months, and students don't give a damn

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Jeb's Boy

    Frank Brogan, Bush's man in academia, must defuse the FAU scandals. But where is he?

  • News

    January 25, 2001

    Train in Vain

    Millionaire Charles Croffard Dockery dreams of creating a high-speed bullet train in Florida. Sound crazy? Wait until you hear the details.

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