Famed street fighter Kimbo Slice yesterday gave his first interview after his 14-second loss to Seth Petruzelli and he’s apparently ready for his next bout. And now I’ll tell you, with voice only slightly aquiver, that it appears he wants it to be with the Pulp himself. The monstrous Kimbo,…
Newly elected state Sen. Chris Smith always gets a visit from his Aunt Bertha before major elections. She likes to look at his voter’s guide to get the lowdown on the issues. Smith, a former Democratic House leader who was elected to the Senate on the same ballot as Barack…
The latest think piece from Tribune Co. Innovation Chief Lee Abrams. He’s gone gaga for the election (the collector’s item status of the election edition has “spurred a lot of thinking and action across the Tribune Nation”) and he wants to capitalize on it. “This idea is all about DRIVING…
The Palm Beach Post, Sun-Sentinel, and Miami Herald are sharing stories in the printed publication as well as online, I’ve been noticing. This morning the Sentinel ran a story by the Miami Herald’s Dan Christensen in the local section. I’ve noticed the practice a couple of times before and note…
Veteran Sun-Sentinel reporter Mark Hollis is leaving the newspaper at the end of the month to take a job as communications director for the Florida House Democratic Office. Before being transferred to the Sentinel’s Palm Beach County office last year, Hollis had covered state politics in Tallahassee since 1994. He…
The following is from Gail Shepherd, NT’s food writer, on the passage of Amendment 2, which she calls mean-spirited and wicked. I’ll add strategic. As West Palm Beach activist-attorney Rand Hoch told me this morning, the anti-gay amendment was added in part to bring conservatives out to the polls (it…
The Sun-Sentinel’s front page is a giant picture of the scene at Grant Park in Chicago during Barack Obama’s election night speech. The headline: “Great expectations.” Maybe, maybe not. Only the GOP/Fox News cronies are trying to create this kind of Obama-Messiah comparison, as if he’s going to do miracles…
Michael Wilbon, a sports commentator with ESPN and the Washington Post, has recently and repeatedly declared that South Florida native Kimbo Slice took a dive October 4 in his much-publicized mixed martial arts fight at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. A little-known challenger named Seth Petruzelli decked Slice in a…
People feared riots if Barack Obama somehow lost; instead we got an explosion of love. They were dancing on Sistrunk Boulevard last night. Exuberant black men and women waving at and high-fiving white motorists, giddy with victory. No wonder. Let’s put this in some type of perspective. The Emancipation Proclamation…
In early voting, Obama is crushing in Broward County (and they just called Pennsylvania for him, so this baby is just about done). He’s pulling more than 70 percent of the vote so far. On CNN all the pundits have already said it’s over and that this could turn into…
Wearing his “Team Lamberti” golf shirt and manning the polling places, Benjamin Bennett looks like a kindly old man. But he’s a stickler for rules. His apparent love of order didn’t stop the former cop from dealing drugs to children from his patrol car, though. Bennett was sentenced to 15…
So the Miami Herald and St. Pete Times have officially combined their Tallahassee bureaus, a move that has been rumored for months. It follows a whole lot of other strange combinations of the daily newspapers. The consolidation is a way to cut costs and, ultimately, jobs (not that any of…
Understand that this is primarily a form of delayed self-flagellation, as I know full-well that these prognostications will most likely make me look foolish tomorrow morning. But here’s what I’m thinking: — Scott Israel will be the new Broward County sheriff, but he’s only barely going to squeak by appointed…
Alu quits State Attorney’s Office I’m hearing that Sunrise City Commissioner Sheila Alu abruptly quit her job as prosecutor at the State Attorney’s Office today. Alu, who blew the whistle on Judge Ana Gardiner, isn’t talking about it, but she has complained in the past about what she claimed were…
A “Ren Giovanni” just put this comment on a (very) old blog post: Our absentee ballots had our party affiliation written on the mailing envelope. Isn’t this an invitation to electoral fraud? What’s to keep some mailhandler from the opposite party from chucking our ballots? Short answer: yes. Read this…
Below is one of the toughest mind teasers I’ve seen in some time. Check it out. On the link, you’ll find two pictures that are exactly the same — or so they seem. There are actually three differences and if you can find all three then you’re lucky; a group…
A memorial service will be held for Fred Pettijohn at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Pettijohn, who died on October 1 at the age of 91, was the former editor for the Fort Lauderdale News and the Sun-Sentinel at the time of its founding…
The loss of news is almost imperceptible; there’s really no way to know what stories we might be missing when there’s no one there to report it. It’s clear, though, that one story South Florida’s three big dailies — the Palm Beach Post, Sun-Sentinel, and Miami Herald — have largely…
The Supervisor of Elections Office has been falsely telling newly registered voters with clerical errors involving their drivers licenses that they aren’t allowed to vote in the presidential election. It’s some of the first negative fallout from the controversial “No match, no vote” law passed by the Republican Florida Legislature…
A friend mentioned that FoxNews.com had devolved during these last days before the election into the purest form of itself: unadulterated propaganda. So I took a look at the home page and this is what I found last night and this morning: — “What’s LA Times hiding? Newspaper refuses to…
The Sun-Sentinel’s front page story this morning is both important and provocative. Reporter Jennifer Gollan found that Broward’s cities face a $1.1 billion shortfall in their pension programs. The in-depth story’s headline: “Were City Workers Nest Eggs Too Generous?” Leading the Metro section is a story by Jon Burstein and…
Just wanted to catch you up with some reading, in case you’re not busy enough: — Wayne Huizenga is banking on an Obama victory in the sale of the Miami Dolphins, according to the Sun-Sentinel’s Sarah Talalay. And man does that filthy rich SOB hate paying taxes. — JAABlog’s take…
