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When Animal Activists Attack

Bitten on the set of a Rick Ross video, Mark McCarthy now squares off against animal activists.

By Amy Guthrie
Feb 26, 2009

Rapper Rick Ross was not on the set of the Miami music video shoot in May 2008 when Mark McCarthy led his 400-pound white tiger out of her crate. The producers had offered McCarthy $5,000 to use the big cat as a prop at a mansion on Star Island. They'd...
Housewife-for-TV Sizes Up Real Housewives of Boca Raton

By Amy Guthrie
Feb 20, 2009

Bethenny Frankel is the token single working gal on the Bravo reality TV show The Real Housewives of New York City. She's also a Pinecrest Prep alum and onetime resident of Boca Raton. Today, Frankel will rub elbows with some of the real housewives of Boca Raton. Frankel, a natural-foods chef, is...
[UPDATED] Janitors' Union to Protest at Broward County Courthouse

By Amy Guthrie
Feb 19, 2009

SEIU Protestors That will be the view outside the Broward County Courthouse this afternoon. Close to 100 members and sympathizers of the Service Employees International Union plan to protest the county's negotiations with janitorial services provider TCB Systems, Inc. of Miami. TCB Systems is on the shortlist of bidders seeking to clean...
Local Financial Analyst Packages Stanford Case for SEC

By Amy Guthrie
Feb 17, 2009

As we reported on this blog Friday, speculation has been flying through the financial community that Stanford et al could be operating an enormous Ponzi scheme a la Bernie Madoff. Now it's official: The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in Dallas Monday against Stanford Group Co., seeking to halt what...
Confessions of a Shopaholic as Metaphor for Our Current Economic Meltdown

By Amy Guthrie
Feb 17, 2009

I confess to having watched "Confessions of a Shopaholic" last weekend at a movie theater in Boca Raton. And, I confess to hating it. Full disclosure: Like the movie's protagonist, I was once a financial journalist who lived in Manhattan. But that's not why I subjected myself to this flick. My sister --...

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