In a cavernous warehouse on SW Second Avenue in downtown Fort Lauderdale, the newest media farce began Monday. About 20 reporters and, of course, their accountants began perusing Broward County’s uncounted presidential ballots. The count, which will eventually spread like a swarm of badly dressed locusts to every county in…
When the Florida Supreme Court ruled last week (though it now seems like a political eon ago) that thousands of uncounted ballots from across the state should be hand-counted, state Rep. Chris Smith did something completely unexpected. The 30-year-old Fort Lauderdale Democrat leaped up and embraced minority leader Lois Frankel…
“Winners and Losers” lists are for losers — you know, self-important editors’ proclamations of who benefited and who suffered during a major media event like, say, the Florida election mess. So we at New Times have eschewed that idea — with one exception. After being convicted of writing campaign checks…
As the sun rose on Monday, cops in Kevlar vests patrolled cordoned-off streets around downtown Miami’s federal courthouse. Shaded by the building where judges have deliberated the fates of Manuel Noriega and Elián González, 12 video cameras stood ready, and a few bleary-eyed newscasters blathered to their early-bird viewership. Inside,…
A name change to hide its Miami origins. A spanking new, $10 million Pembroke Pines headquarters just off Interstate 75. And now the flop of a multimillion-dollar marketing deal that embarrasses reporters and generates a national debate on journalistic ethics. It must be The Herald’s Broward-first strategy. Conflicts of interest…
When it comes to tossing taxpayer cash into the toilet, Piper High in Sunrise is tops. An audit submitted to the Broward school board this week shows Piper administrators misplaced equipment that cost $328,396 in public funds. Most of the stuff was lost (read S-T-O-L-E-N) during the tenure of principal…
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