County leaders declared victory yesterday when Commissioner Sue Gunzburger changed her vote and agreed to a system for funding an emergency calling system. Problem is, repeatedly over the years, studies have shown these systems don’t live up to what they need to be. “There is no consistency in training, and…
Sorry, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig. We won’t hand over records that detail the inner workings of Biogenesis, the controversial Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that allegedly supplied prohibited drugs to six professional baseball players, including Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez. The reasons are manifold. History plays a role in our decision. So…
Sorry, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig. We won’t hand over records that detail the inner workings of Biogenesis, the controversial Coral Gables anti-aging clinic that allegedly supplied prohibited drugs to six professional baseball players, including Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.The reasons are manifold. History plays a role in our decision. So do…
At the news of Hugo Chavez’s death, Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles was magnanimous: “At such a difficult time, we must show our deep love and respect to our Venezuela,” he tweeted. “My solidarity to all the family and followers of President Hugo Chavez. We appeal for unity.” He is…
About 15,000 people will pull themselves through mud, climb 25-foot-high ropes, avoid barbed wire — and swim and run more than ten miles — Saturday and Sunday in Oleta State Park.”The only thing we left out this year was the alligators,” says race founder, organizer, and all-around macho loon Joe…
Taxpayers have shelled out more than $110K to Coconut Creek cop James Yacobellis for not working during a 1.5 year suspension.In the end, the department decided he should have turned on his siren while chasing a couple of pot-smoking kids.I am not kidding. Coconut Creek taxpayers got screwed. No police…
Valentine’s Day this year won’t be about love or roses.Thursday is likely to be about Heat fans — and LeBron James — crashing back to Earth.That’s the day we take on Kevin Durant’s Oklahoma City Thunder in the belly of the beast. Last night, the hot hot Heat came back…
photo by Steve Paluch via Wikimedia CommonsRyan Braun On Tuesday, a week and a day after Miami New Times published online a report describing hundreds of pages of records from the office of a Coral Gables clinic, Biogenesis, the first professional baseball players have acknowledged involvement with owner Anthony Bosch…
A story broken yesterday in New Times Broward-Palm Beach and Miami New Times has received astounding national and international attention.The piece, which employed hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to show that major sports stars had received performance-enhancing drugs from a Coral Gables clinic called Biogenesis, was featured in the…
Lance Armstrong singlehandedly changed American bicycling. He won seven Tours de France. He held off testicular cancer. He dated and about married Sheryl Crow. Not long ago, presumably after quitting with the doping, he won his first 70.3 mile triathlon in Florida, up in Haines City.He is an amazing man. No…
SpaceX, the California company that plans to help NASA and perhaps become the world leader in space travel, announced yesterday in Washington that it would send a man to space by 2015.The firm will send one of its own employees. Last year, it was the number one private firm to…
Turns out James Tracy, the Florida Atlantic University professor who theorized the Sandy Hook massacre might be a mass media conspiracy, has a history of paranoid weirdness.Students say the guy went off in class. And his academic work hints at how someone could go so off the tracks. In a…
New Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel whacked Fire Chief and Executive Director Neil de Jesus and two other top fire guys, Division Chief Robert Arrighetti, and Division Chief John Holgerson, who was in charge of fire and rescue training. Nothing against new chief and Margate vet Anthony Stravino, but this…
The Miami Herald pay wall — euphemistically titled Miami Herald Plus+ — hit yesterday.It means you get 15 articles free a month on your computer and as many as 60 each month on a mobile app. For the newspaper, it is a way to fill the gap — as more…
Cassadee Pope looked good on The Voice last night. Problem is she was a little flat on a few songs.Of course, her choice in tunes wasn’t as inspired as the guy from Minnesota who did Bill Withers with soul. And the Scottish guy had the compelling family story — small…
For the record, the killing of 20 innocent school children in Connecticut was about the most horrible thing I have heard in years. The kids, of course, didn’t deserve it — and Florida needs to act. We are preparing to issue our 1 millionth concealed weapons permit next week. And…
The board of Citizen Property Insurance met yesterday to consider important ways of trying to make its basically insolvent company financially sound. But instead of coming up with a financial plan, the wise men of the state-run windstorm insurer blamed the media — mostly the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami…
The numbers are out, and Florida tops the nation for the second straight month in foreclosures. Broward numbers have been increasing for months, and in Palm Beach: “Our foreclosure caseload continues to grow and shows no signs of slowing down,” said County Clerk Sharon Bock. “That we’ve already exceeded the number…
Now is when you step up, Mr. Mayors of Miami-Dade and Broward.Now is when you two political leaders of South Florida join forces, head to New York, and demand a meeting with Commissioner Bud Selig. You tell that twerp to nix yesterday’s trade of Marlins stars Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle,…
It’s almost 8 in the morning the day after the election and Florida still doesn’t have a winner in the presidential election. People were still voting around 2 o’clock this morning. Is anyone else embarrassed?I hope Gov. Rick Scott is. And I hope he — and his Republican majorities in…
Keiser University of Fort Lauderdale hasn’t admitted any wrongdoing.But the company/school agreed yesterday to provide free retraining — and not to mislead prospective students. That is pretty horrible stuff coming from an educational institution.As our feature story showed not long ago, many for-profit universities are under scrutiny these days for not…
Now it’s our turn. The Sun-Sentinel this morning endorsed Mitt Romney. Then the Miami Herald threw its support to Barack Obama.We don’t endorse candidates. We are just a motley crew of renegades who likes to throw darts at pictures of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Britney Spears. But we believe Mitt…
