It’s been a landmine-filled week for Jeb! so far, on both of his two supposed strongest fronts: outreach to Hispanics and education “reform.”See also:-Jeb Education Group Benefiting Corporate Funders?-Jeb Won’t Stop Talking About Run for President On Monday, he got up on the Today show and 180’d his previous immigration…
Unappeased by Friday’s charade of a “public forum” with FAU President Mary Jane Saunders, students opposed to the school’s pimping out naming rights to its athletics stadium to private prison operator GEO Group are using spring break to plan a spring offensive.See also:-FAU Is a $6 Million WhoreIn an email…
Speaking at a public forum today, in a twilight zone of denial, a meek and robotic FAU President Mary Jane Saunders stonewalled all questions of morality from critics of her school’s stadium naming rights deal with GEO Group, the global private prison operator. “It’s a done deal,” she told the…
After Florida Atlantic University students flooded her office and staged a sit-in, university president Mary Jane Saunders agreed under pressure to hold a forum to discuss the planned sale of stadium naming rights to private prison operator GEO Group. But Saunders cherry-picked the moderator — and the political science professor…
FAU’s tone-deaf decision to grant global private prison operator GEO Group naming rights to the school’s athletics stadium has turned into a public relations disaster. But it may yet prove to be a teachable moment — for school administrators as much as for students.See also:-FAU Is a $6 million Whore-Inside…
A leading supporter of West Palm Beach City Commission candidate Shanon Materio has warned voters that a Materio loss will expose the city to the danger of having an Operating Thetan (member of the Church of Scientology) in a position of leadership. Not only that, the warning goes, the miscreant’s…
It was hard not to feel sorry for FAU President Mary Jane Saunders on Monday afternoon, confronted in her office with an impromptu occupation by some 40 students protesting the school’s decision to grant naming rights for the FAU football stadium to the notorious private prison operator GEO Group.See also:-FAU…
Heads should be rolling in the offices of FAU’s Board of Trustees, as the affront to decency of the school’s climbing into bed with notorious private prison octopus GEO Group turns into a well-deserved public relations disaster. The Board doesn’t surrender the pink on the cheap, at least. They scored…
A bouquet of reactionaries and crackpots will blossom at a “Freedom Academy” on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on March 9. They’ll be there to explain why the “foundations of liberty” rest on the ability of corporations to rape the environment and bust up unions, enriching the rich and…
They were asked not to politicize the issue. And so far, they’ve succeeded. State legislators both Dem and GOP from throughout South Florida gathered this week to educate themselves (and the public, who can watch it here) on climate change, its impact on our region and what, if anything, can…
The people united will often be defeated, sad to say. But labor union members yesterday took some measure of satisfaction from Palm Beach County commissioners’ response to workers’ complaints about unfair treatment by Kellogg Brown and Root, the many-tentacled global corporate octopus formerly helmed by war criminal former VP Dick Cheney.See…
Right Wing wild card Roger Stone may throw his hat in the ring of the 2014 Florida governor’s race. The ace in his hole: marijuana. He wants to legalize it, and gay marriage. How serious is he? It’s always a thin line with Stone, who so revels in outrage it’s like…
South Florida has no shortage of pornography, being right down there with California’s San Fernando Valley as a center for the porn film and video industry, and with a full palette of related activities on the side: titty bars, escort services, you name it.But as to the pornography of everyday…
After he left the governor’s office in 2008, Jeb Bush set up an education nonprofit group, and last week, The Nation charged that Bush “could be using his education reform crusade for personal gain.”The dust-up began when the union-affiliated research group In the Public Interest (IPI) used the Freedom of Information Act…
We tried to get some comment this week from the attorneys representing Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Barry Cohen, a famously outspoken liberal who’s facing some of the most transparently bogus ethics charges ever to go before the Florida Supreme Court.No dice. Neither Scott Richardson nor Donnie Murrell, grizzled veterans…
Citizen activists pushing for a state law mandating the labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods in Florida remain hopeful. And active. The legislator actually drafting a statute is still onboard. But she’s also on the fence.See also:-Should Genetically Engineered Food Be Labeled?Big Food’s use of bioscience to transfer genes among…
When Palm Beach County two years ago awarded a subsidiary of Kellogg Brown & Root a share of a $668 million contract to build a new waste treatment facility, the company’s anti-union ways were no secret. But KBR’s was the cheapest of three competing proposals, so commissioners gave the firm…
I-95 in South Florida is America’s most dangerous highway. That’s pretty well known. Why?Sure, it’s the only major north-south highway in an overbuilt, unsustainable megalapolis, driven daily by the aged, the undereducated and the uncouth. But the cause lies even deeper than that, at the core of the Flori-duh mentality,…
The ladies of the Palm Beach Gardens Women’s Club are perturbed. They are resentful and suspicious of our county’s environmental activists and their anarchist tendencies. Naturally enough.In alliance with the City of Palm Beach Gardens, the club is celebrating Arbor Day today, gathering at 9:30 this morning for a tree…
We’re not sure which phrase best describes the Max Planck Institute’s response to our questions about its treatment of the hundreds of animals it holds captive and on whose nervous systems it experiments. Perhaps “Nothing to see here. Move along.” Or “We ask the questions.” We’re not happy with either.See…
It was not as thrilling as, perhaps, the sight of Dick Cheney on trial for war crimes, but Wednesday’s meeting of the South Florida chapter of weepoid conspiracy monger Glenn Beck’s 9-12 movement was quite the satisfying experience. This was particularly so as they met under the looming shadow of…
[jump] In an email to New Times, Planck Chief Operating Officer Ivan Baines stated that its research–regarding “fundamental questions about the biology of the brain”–cannot be done by computer simulation and “requires the use of laboratory animals.” He stated that the institute “is and has always been committed to maintaining the…
