The looming job cuts at the Miami Herald — sources expect the number to be about 50 layoff/buyouts in the newsroom — will happen by the end of the week, writes David Landsberg in an email to staff. This follows his February 5 email announcing that job cuts were coming. From: Landsberg, David…
even when you don’t hit the big shot… For his latest piece of history, he gets a historically bad lede from the Sun-Sentinel: MIAMI – Let’s see, Jermaine O’Neal wasn’t rebounding.Daequan Cook wasn’t hitting.And Udonis Haslem remains a shell of himself.But Dwyane Wade? The kid’s got a pretty impressive do-it-yourself…
In light of the reported arrest of Peggy Noland’s 19-year-old firefighter son, Thomas, for stealing campaign signs in the middle of the night, I think it’s time for an investigation of the political activity being done at the fire station. I refer you to Deerfield activist Bett Willett’s blog. Willett is…
— The Deerfield Advocate, which is very quick to post news favorable to disgraced ex-mayor Al Capellini, is reporting that mayoral favorite Peggy Noland’s son, firefighter Thomas Noland, was arrested at 3 a.m. for stealing Capellini’s campaign signs. And you thought Deerfield couldn’t get anymore screwy than it already was?…
The Sun-Sentinel laid off numerous employees on Wednesday — unfortunately nobody seems to know the exact numbers since the newspaper has kept it under a tight lid. Sources have put the number at anywhere from 25 to 85 people who lost their jobs in the operations, sales, and advertising department. At…
The Fort Lauderdale police beating video in the elevator of a office building downtown is a must-see. It shows officers, after breaking up a fight in the lobby, walking into an elevator and breaking the nose of 22-year-old Joshua Ortiz. Ortiz wasn’t involved in the fight but had been yelling at the cops. Police charged Ortiz with…
As he was picking up bagels before a deposition in a divorce case, Russ Klenet got a strange tap on his shoulder. Klenet is the husband of Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter and a lobbyist for a host of cities, including Sunrise, Lauderhill, and Pompano Beach. He turned around in…
Broward County Commissioner Sue Gunzburger paints herself as an up-front ethics guru, but when a well-known activist asked her to incorporate federal standards into our corrupt county’s code, all Gunzburger showed was her backside. It began on February 19, when Charlotte Greenbarg, the president of the Broward Coalition and a key school board watchdog, asked all…
We have the latest on lobbyist Russ Klenet, his wife Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter, his former boss Joel Steinger, and the Mutual Benefits fraud saga. This brand-spanking new article is based largely on a 2007 deposition taken of Klenet during Steinger’s divorce. In it, Miami lawyer Don Hayden, representing Steinger’s…
Yesterday, the Juice blog published one of the deceptive headlines from one of ex-Deerfield Beach Mayor’s Al Capellini’s newest propaganda rag, the Deerfield Beach Dispatch. In huge letters, the headline says, “Capellini Cleared.” In small letters, between those words are the crucial, if equally dubious, “will be.” In addition to shenanigans like…
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…
With his fraudulent viatical company Mutual Benefits coming under fire from state regulators, convicted felon Joel Steinger decided he needed to buy the influence of the state legislature. To do that he first purchased the people who had their ears — the lobbyists. We know that Steinger’s right-hand man in his…
Tribune Co. Chief Innovation Officer Lee Abrams continues on his jihad against “fake and jive” in local TV news. He says he talked to a “voice guy” Tribune stations were using and was given the lowdown. “The copy he receives is often horrible,” Abrams writes. “He sent me a few samples…
Prediction: Judy Paul will win the Davie mayoral election over Tom Truex. This is an almost blind forecast based upon a single quote in Laura Figueroa’s story on the race in Sunday’s Miami Herald. The quote come from the incumbent Truex: “It’s a shame that the mayor’s race is turning into…
I just happened on this classic written by Steve Almond in 1994 about South Florida’s hard-driven, complicated, and sometimes brutal mogul.
The South Broward Drainage District voted yesterday to drop its blood drive and look for a new blood company. Why? Because board members were fed up with the outrageous salaries being paid to top officer at the “non-profit,” monopolistic, and heavily political Community Blood Centers of Lauderhill. “I donate my blood regularly and I…
Jackie Bueno Sousa is the new lying propagandist — oh shit, I mean “conservative voice” — for the Miami Herald and right off the bat some yahoo is claiming she basically committed plagiarism in herer first column . A little-known blog is calling for Sousa to leave journalism after she stole the following line from the…
The Broward Sheriff’s Office steroids case had been sitting in the agency without action for months before a sergeant took it to the State Attorney’s Office, according to a source. The details are sketchy but apparently a sergeant who was about to be transferred took the case to the State Attorney’s…
Amidst news of a steroid scandal at the Broward Sheriff’s Office, JAABlog reports a case of a deputy beatdown on a small (5′-6”, 155 pound) 57-year-old transient named Felipe Alvarez. The deputy found Alvarez sleeping under a tree not far from a Publix shopping cart. Alvarez didn’t want anything to do with the deputy and the…
When Broward County Mayor Stacy Ritter goes out in public, she feels the eyes on her — and they’re telling her she’s on her way to jail. So yesterday afternoon she escaped into the last refuge of any corrupt Broward politician — the retirement condo circuit. There, as the intrepid Thomas…
Michael Putney, one of the most veteran political observers working in South Florida, goes off the usual script in his Miami Herald column this week. He drops the professional and oh-so responsible WPLG-Channel 10 commentator mode and writes like a human being about Florida’s odd governor, Charlie Crist. It’s a soul-searching column — and…
When people talk about where Ponzi schemer and Mutual Benefits czar Joel Steinger might have stashed some of his millions, many point at his son, West Palm Beach lawyer Michael Steinger. Steinger, a founding partner of personal injury (ambulance-chaser) firm Steinger, Iscoe & Greene, was never close to his wayward father,…
