Tropical Storm Sandy had passed and left a clear, crisp morning as early voting started Saturday in Palm Beach County. An estimated 12,250 votes were cast countywide over the weekend, and if the 7 A.M. crowd at the Supervisor of Elections office on Military Trail was any indication, voters were…

It wasn’t just Obama and Romney who had something to say last night in Boca Raton. Hundreds of citizens (and some non-citizens) showed up to speak their minds on the election and the issues of the day. Fifteen of those who spoke out went to jail for their troubles. It…

Always easy to gore someone else’s ox, and Palm Beach County business interests have long been ready to take a knife–or a bulldozer–to Kennedy Estates, part of Jupiter’s 100-year old black community, Limestone Creek*.Developers plans for a road adjoining the neighborhood’s park (a humble enough scrub of land as it…

If Bain Capital and its kind are giant vampire squids wrapped around the face of humanity, Palm Beach is where they shit. The wealth they extract sits frozen along the waterfront here as miles of palatial estates, massive excrements of money. There’s a reason it’s called filthy lucre. Mitt Romney came to…

They were back in force again last night, some 40 strong local GOPers to cheer on the Romster at the Palm Beach Ale House. No red-white-and-blue boaters as at PrezDebate I, but balloons on the tables in red and blue with white stars. Almost cheerful enough to make up for…

This being South Florida, ya takes yer mystical experiences where ya finds ’em. So it was in a nondescript Boynton Beach medical building last Friday night that two dozen local souls gathered to get the lowdown on the much-talked-about Mayan calendar and its supposedly apocalyptic implications. In the past year…

GOP veep candidate Paul Ryan is known for his buffness and wonkery, but last night he managed an even greater feat, making Joe Biden look like a wise old man — and not that old either. Obama’s running mate was on fire, and Kid Ryan got burned.Fire Ant was back in…

“Fuck me open like a prayer book,” the poet declaimed, setting down his guitar to recite. It was Sunday evening on the grounds of an aging, pink/orange stucco home in a Lake Worth immigrant neighborhood, and the Monkeywrench Cafe — a one-time-only affair — was drawing to a close. The…

Watching The Debate in a room full of GOPers with 60 or so televisions tuned to Fox News doesn’t foster the idea that anyone other than Mittens won the evening. That opinion is to be expected. (And appears to be the consensus.) But neither does it instill the idea that…

If history were clout, the people of Kennedy Estates would wear crowns. But history is bunk, and the black enclave’s residents are mere sand in the gears to the machinery of power.Nestled away in a small grid of streets in West Jupiter, the community is a part of the historic…

“Who controls the past controls the future.” So taught The Party, the totalitarians who ruled Oceania in George Orwell’s 1984. It’s a lesson now put into practice by the Florida House of Representatives and the Archdiocese of Miami, both of them pushing a twisted version of American history in support…

Slaves, at least, got room and board. On John Textor’s digital plantation, the labor was going to pay the boss for the privilege of making him rich.For all the weeping and wailing over the demise of Digital Domain, the govt-subsidized “film school” that crashed and burned in West Palm Beach…

“We are the 99%!” The cry rings out again today in New York City, as protesters gather to mark the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the encampment in the heart of New York’s Financial District that called out the nation on its obscene disparities of wealth and power. The…

A soggy speech on a soggy day. It’s an overcast waterfront Thursday afternoon at Lantana’s Old Key Lime House, and Adam Hasner, GOP candidate for U.S. House District 22, is looking for all the world like a nicely baby-faced blow-up doll, big brown eyes and a mop of hair, slightly…

The Earth didn’t move, nor did the seas part. But the idea that President Obama’s supporters see the man as the Second Coming was never much more than a lie put forth by his enemies. The Obamanauts may be fervent, but what they see is the right man for the…

Just when things were going so well. Bill Clinton lit up the Democratic National Convention this past week. Then Barack Obama came through with a slow-building heart launcher of a speech. Yet in between the two, the news broke that under questioning by one of the right wing media’s interchangeable…

Fed-up with rampant voter fraud and not gonna take it anymore? Tired of liberal activist judges playing footsie with the likes of ACORN and making a mockery of democracy? If so, here’s a novel solution: “If you are a legal gun owner in the state of Florida and you suspect…

Last week’s chaotic, tragicomic public debate at the Ross Jewish Community Center in West Boynton Beach — “Should Jews Vote for Obama or Romney?” — featured two distinct styles of advocacy for Jewish support of the GOP. One comes from delusional innocence, the other from calculated malevolence. Team Romney –…

The fate of the Gulfstream Hotel, the faded crown jewel of Lake Worth’s historic downtown, appears at first glance to rest in the hands of the Schlesinger family of Palm Beach and Connecticut. The hoteliers/developers bought the property in 2005 but have fallen on hard times. The hotel is in…