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Trump's Palm Beach Mansion Is Haunted by Financial Crime

By Brandon K. Thorp and Penn Bullock
May 14, 2019

In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily...
Artists: Get Subsidized

By Brandon K. Thorp
May 3, 2012

Here's the deal: If you're a Broward County person, you've been here for 12 months or more, you're at least 18 years of age, and you can prove that you're a practicing artist, there is no reason you should not soon be bathing in your fellow taxpayers' money. Show up...
Quick Path to Enlightenment

By Brandon K. Thorp
May 3, 2012

"Tantrism," as it's understood today, is a kind of yogic pantheism drawing from the evolution of Buddhism, Hinduism, and even Indian Islam influences. (As with all scriptures, their actual profundity is debatable.) According to the media materials for the Preciousness of Tantra classes at the Drolma Buddhist Meditation Center, Tantra...
Celebrate Labor

By Brandon K. Thorp
Apr 26, 2012

On May 1, 1886, unionized workers striking for an eight-hour work day assembled outside Chicago’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. As the so-called “scabs” who’d taken the workers’ places on the assembly line departed the plant for the day, the strikers confronted them, and a police garrison assigned to protect the...
Sailors at Seminole

By Brandon K. Thorp
Apr 19, 2012

Fleet Week arrived in SoFla 25 years ago, becoming a Fort Lauderdale tradition at precisely the moment spring break ceased to be one. (Sailors, as it turns out, are a lot more amiable than beer-crazy frosh.) This year, we’ve got six vessels in port and thousands of sailors taking in...

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