Miami Herald Publisher David Landsberg sent a company-wide email this morning announcing that the company is laying off more employees, including some in the newsroom. In the email, Landsberg wrote: To all Herald employees: Today we are announcing reductions affecting 34 positions, part of our ongoing effort to weather the economic uncertainty that…
A Deerfield Beach city employee has been suspended from work for failing to say hello to the mayor. It sounds like a joke but it’s true. On Monday, Deerfield maintenance worker Cassandra Moye was given notice by her supervisor, George Edmunds, the acting Director of the Parks and Recreation Department, that she…
Look, I’m going to admit it right now: I DVR’d Tiger Woods’ fart. I was sitting there watching him about to pick up another Buick Open championship and he let one rip. Or he seemed to have let one rip. These things are often difficult to prove, as we all know, but…
Maybe they can call it the “Stephanie Alma Kraft Media Center.” The Broward County School Board, which is wallowing in debt, has approved plans to build a new $17 million TV studio for BECON, its propaganda cable channel. Readers of this blog have an idea how I feel about that…
Back in 2007, the wizards at the Broward County School District decided to build classroom additions at several schools that clearly didn’t need them. The cost: $18,512,769. And, of course, the elected members of the board approved it without blinking an eye. There was no good reason to build the 66 new classrooms planned. None…
You want health-care reform? You want us to get out from under the tyranny of the health-care and insurance industries? There’s a man at the top of his game, on a serious power trip. He also recounts a call from Jeremy Ring, (at right) quoting the state senator as…
I gave Chris Chiari his say this morning, so state Rep. Evan Jenne gets to use the bully Pulp-it this afternoon. I asked Jenne, a Democrat from Dania Beach, what he thought about the surprise challenge to his House seat from Chiari, and here’s what he said: “I think it’s odd, first of…
In a move bound to shake up the local Democratic machine, two-time Florida House candidate Chris Chiari filed yesterday to run against state Rep. Evan Jenne, who strolled into office in 2006 with the help of his since-disgraced father, former Sheriff Ken Jenne. It’s the first time Chiari, who lost two bids to unseat Republican Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff…
Harley-Davidson dealership owner Bruce Rossmeyer, a familiar face in South Florida, died today in Wyoming — in a motorcycle accident while on his way to the Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota. From the Daytona News-Journal: A family friend said Rossmeyer was riding with several motorcyclists when they pulled out to pass a…
You know, what nobody seems to want to talk about is that their newspapers aren’t just going digital; the companies are gradually transforming into pure internet firms rather than newsgathering operations. The fact is that it’s just a whole lot easier to angle for hits in cheap ways than it is…
This latest Hollywood police scandal is only the most recent black spot on what I believe can now safely be considered the worst police department in America. The Hollywood department has been plagued with scandal for years, so I thought I’d develop a post that links past stories involving the department’s…
For some employees, Gulfstream Park was a hell of a place to work, full of cocaine and free gambling. When the scheme was finally discovered in 2007, hundreds of thousands of dollars had been stolen from the casino and taxpayers, and now the “family friendly” racetrack is left with a potential public-relations…
Anybody else notice how buildings seem to be emptying around here? The following Photobucket slide show was posted on a Yahoo Finance messageboard, and it’s a veritable tour of the desolation row that Federal Highway is becoming. It was shot Monday, and here’s the photographer’s explanation of it: I took a drive…
JAABlog has posted a court transcript of a video that catches Hollywood cops making up a story — or “doing a little Walt Disney,” as one put it — to protect a fellow officer involved in a traffic accident. And the story they made up definitely lived up to their…
You may know that if you have a problem with your Sun-Sentinel and call the “newspaper” about it, you will talk to a guy or girl with a strange accent sitting thousands of miles away in Manila, Philippines. Well, that’s not going to happen anymore. According to a Sentinel memo that…
The Hollywood cop who fabricated a police report and talked on a cruiser’s video about his willingness to “Walt Disney” the facts and make up stories to protect fellow cops played a key — and controversial — role in a racially charged police brutality case. And a defense attorney at the time accused Dewey Pressley, a 21-year veteran of…
Nearly as interesting as the harassment complaint filed against Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg by Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon is the newspaper’s odd response to it. The Herald’s only response to date was a brief written by Senior Editor/Administration Dave Wilson that appeared in Saturday’s newspaper on page B-3. The story wasn’t posted on the internet at the time. Here’s…
Recently I did a post about BSO Lt. Col. Ricky Frey making nearly $320,000 off of a popular state retirement scam for government officials that basically allows triple dipping and opulent take-home pay at the expense of taxpayers. All government officials have to do is pretend to retire, start collecting what amounts…
Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, a Navy spokesman, has written a letter to Herald Editor Anders Gyllenhaal accusing Rosenberg, pictured left, of hurling abusive and sexually charged comments. Gordon went so far as to tell the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, “I’ve been abused worse than detainees have been abused.” In the…
Seems there’s been some serious conflict for the ultrawealthy Wells family empire that owns the historic Riverside Hotel and a good deal of the entire Las Olas shopping district. And the turmoil, according to sources, led this week to the ouster of Irving Bowen, chairman of Wells-owned Las Olas Co. The company confirmed that Bowen is out, and sources say…
Gulfstream Park was a hell of a place to work for some employees, full of cocaine and free gambling. When the scheme was finally discovered, hundreds of thousands of dollars had been stolen from the casino and taxpayers, and the “family-friendly” racetrack was a potential public relations nightmare. A state investigation…
Technical problems shut down this blog all morning, so I’m late with this post. Sorry about that, especially if you took the time to comment and couldn’t get through. The Sun-Sentinel front page is dominated by a picture of a giant Wheel of Fortune slot machine and the headline: “WHO…
