You know, the funny thing is I agree with him — it’s a point I made in my original post on the Robert Wexler residency mess. What about the Pulp, Bill? Was it professional? (Seriously, hope there’s no hard feelings about the “oozing sore on the butt crack of America”…
— So what would you do if some anonymous blog commenter called you an eye-rapist? A fellow, who I won’t name for obvious reasons, was recently deemed just that on this very blog. The fellow then wrote me an email with the subject line “Besmirched” asking that I exercise my…
Well, URS is no longer the king of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Lucky the San Francisco-based firm got out without criminal charges. Commissioner Stacy Ritter and her lobbyist husband Russ Klenet are fortunate on the same score. The husband-and-wife team’s underhanded and secret lobbying/governing connection marks one of the…
Gail Gedan-Spencer was a part-time copy editor at the Sun-Sentinel best known for co-writing one of the newspaper’s more popular blogs, The Skinny. Then she was axed by the newspaper during the recent bloodletting. Now she’s started her own blog, The Laid-Off Gourmet. Let’s show some Pulp support over there,…
Florida is shifting to Obama — and that means John McCain might be shifting to Charlie Crist as his running mate. Or at least that’s what writer Tom Bevan on the Wall Street Journal’s political blog thinks McCain will (or should) do. There’s no doubt that with Obama leading in…
Another voice has emerged in the slowly growing movement to figure out what in the hell is really going on with Charlie Crist’s $1.75 billion buyout of U.S. Sugar. The media coverage of this secretive and misguided deal so far has been laughable. I’m no big fan of lawyer Dexter…
Somebody stop Charlie Crist. Stop the Florida governor from hawking Alligator Alley to foreign companies. Stop him from leasing the 78 miles of fenced and flat highway stretching across the Everglades to investors who will bleed motorists dry with higher tolls and no accountability to the people. Stop him from…
Tributes are popping up about Sun-Sentinel managing editor Sharon Rosenhause, who is departing the newspaper today. Sentinel reporter Gregory Lewis calls her the “diversity queen” in his paean on his blog and Unity News, connected to the recent Unity/National Association of Black Journalists conference, described her as a champion for…
Two more job losses to report, one at the Sun-Sentinel, the other at the North Broward Hospital District. We’ll start with Thomas Swick, the Sun-Sentinel’s travel writer, who is among the recent cut of 50-plus newsroom staffers. He was apparently out of the country on Friday, so he learned about…
Charlie Crist had a great chance to bring some diversity to the Broward County bench when he replaced County Court Judge Jay Spechler, but instead went with one of his old fraternity brothers at Florida State. Instead of going with one of three black applicants in a county where there…
It’s been an historically bad month for South Florida newspapers. Hundreds of jobs lost, lots of tears, existential fear, lost hope, and teeth-gnashing. Most of those who have left the newspapers will be busy trying to find new jobs and build new lives. But what of those who remain? One…
The Sun-Sentinel is laying off numerous staffers today and by the time its over 20 percent of the newsroom will be gone. That amounts to about 55 employees. About half have either already taken the buyout voluntarily or been laid off. The remainder will be informed today that they are…
Remember when the news hit that Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom was laid off from Wachovia? He gave up some big income — nearly $900,000 last year alone. But don’t feel too sorry for Rodstrom: He made $58,900 this morning alone. No, he didn’t hit a lottery ticket at the…
The sheriff’s candidate called “Shak” says he wants to bring everyone closer together in Broward County. But so far, Shahruck Dhanji, the first Muslim to run for the office, hasn’t even been able to keep together his own political machine, which recently broke down into a sea of allegations that…
When Atlanta Constitution-Journal reporters take the buyout, they have to agree not to “disparage” the newspaper after they go. I wonder if the Herald, Post, or Sentinel have such a clause. Here’s the story from Creative Loafing in Atlanta. While I’m on the layoffs, need to mention an upcoming Society…
Bill O’Reilly did a good number on “local” Congressman Robert Wexler tonight. And I think Wexler is in a bit of trouble. You see, the longtime Democratic rep says he lives in Delray Beach and he’s required to maintain a residence in his district. But he really lives in Potomac…
The winners of the Green Eyeshade Awards, the 11-state south regional Society of Professional Journalism competition, are listed after the jump. Congratulations to the local winners in the 11-state competition, including my own pub’s Thomas Francis and Brandon K. Thorp. Of particular note is that the top award in the…
This morning Joe Strupp at Editor & Publisher calls out the Sun-Sentinel on failing to report what’s been reported here for weeks: that the newspaper is getting rid of at least 50 employees in the newsroom. Editor Earl Maucker tells Strupp that he intends to have the layoffs “wrapped up”…
The leading newspaper in Southwest Florida isn’t being spared the hatchet. Carol Hudler, the publisher and president of The News-Press in Fort Myers, announced in a memo on Friday that the company was laying off 36 employees and eliminating several other currently unfilled positions (I’m hearing that number is 10)…
The changes that will occur at the Sun-Sentinel’s mother newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, look to be radical, according to an article in Crain’s Chicago Business: A version under consideration devotes the paper’s front section to consumer-oriented and entertainment features. Local, national, international and business news is consolidated in the second…
More than 300 Palm Beach Post employees have applied for buyouts and all have been accepted, according to an internal memo obtained by the Pulp. Though the newspaper announced it would cut 300 jobs, there will be additional layoffs. According to the memo: The number of applications was more than…
