Monsanto/GMO Protests in West Palm Beach and Miami on Saturday

Commie pinko libs that we are (except for El Jefe, our editor in chief — he’s a company man), we feel duty-bound to tell one and all there’s a big nationwide protest against Monsanto on Saturday, with marches slated for West Palm Beach and Miami. We feel that duty if…

Timb Returns to the Stage at Boynton Beach Arts District

A musician of many guises at a venue of many enterprises, all it needs is a coat of many colors and the evening would be positively Biblical. And with onetime local staple Timb’s taste for costumes and the theatrical, that’s not out of the question either. A fixture on the…

Hands Across the Sand 2014: Global Shout-Out for Clean Energy

An annual green event that started in Florida in 2010 now spans the globe, uniting people of many lands in a cry for energy sanity and environmental preservation. See also: – Rick Scott Says “I’m Not a Scientist” as He Continues to Ignore Climate Change Issue Hands Across the Sand…

Tea Party Speaker Larry Horist Lobbied for Red Chinese and Big Tobacco

Chicago businessman and GOP activist Larry Horist moved to Boca Raton two years ago and has started to make a splash in local right-wing circles. He’s featured speaker at tonight’s Wellington meeting of the Palm Beach County Tea Party. See also: – Tea Party: Let’s Rewrite the U.S. Constitution Touted…

New Florida Law Allows for “Social Purpose Corporations”

Wouldn’t it be nice if folks who wanted to form a Florida corporation to do good (it could happen) and turn a profit were able to incorporate without worrying about being sued for putting the good ahead of the profit? See also: Medical Marijuana: Who Will Profit? Only One “Marijuana”…

Stephen McCulloch, Fired FAU Marine Mammal Expert: Dolphins Will Suffer

This week’s grievance hearing on FAU’s firing of dolphin rescue expert Stephen McCulloch — after 16 years of high-profile service — was over almost before it began, with FAU lawyer Lawrence Glick storming from the room and threatening to call the cops to clear the room of McCulloch’s supporters. See…

FAU Hearing on Firing of Dolphin Expert Stephen McCulloch May Be Heated

The grievance hearing tomorrow in the case of Stephen McCulloch, the “dolphin gurn” fired by FAU, has been preceded by wrangling over procedure. The school has agreed to allow McCulloch to bring witnesses and cross-examine the school’s witnesses but has declared the hearing a closed-door affair. See also: – Dolphin…

GOP Failure to Expand Medicaid to Cost Florida Business Millions, Study Finds

We’ve already written about how, according to a recent study, the Florida Legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 1.27 million low-income Floridians will result in as many as six otherwise avoidable deaths a day in the Sunshine State. Now we’ve come across another study about the consequences…

Bunny Yeager to Attend Her Sexy Pinup Show in Palm Beach

An American original on both sides of the lens, Miami’s own Bunny Yeager mixes it up tomorrow among the swells of Palm Beach. How high the risqué have risen! The ’50s pin-up girl, who went on to a long career as a photographer, is in town for an exhibition of…

Dolphin Expert Stephen McCulloch Fired by FAU, Seeks Reinstatement

Stephen McCulloch wants his job back. A prominent master of the arcane art of dolphin rescue, for more than a decade, he was a leader and key force at the Marine Mammal Program at FAU’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI). On February 14, he was fired. See also: – Dolphin…

Seminoles to Protest FPL Power Plant on Earth Day

Under the banner of environmental preservation and with leading participation by the Independent Traditional Seminole Nation, Earth Day will see protests against FPL’s plans for a power plant in the Everglades on the border of the Big Cypress Reservation. See also:Welcome to the Everglades Ranch Where FPL Might Build a…

Pedophilia Rumors Roil Florida Pagan Community

Pagans are unorthodox but they do have their limits, apparently, and rumors that some of their number have crossed the line by advocating pedophilia have cast a cloud over the Florida pagan community’s big annual May Day shindig, the Florida Pagan Gathering. See also: – Local Pagans Get Down With…

Dolphin Guru Stephen McCulloch Fired; Uproar Ensues

Stephen McCulloch has gone into seclusion since FAU fired him last February from his job as program manager of the Marine Mammal Program at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. We haven’t been able to reach him or his attorneys. See also: – Navy Tests Could Kill Dolphins by the Thousands Off…

Tomorrow: Working Poor Rally Against Poverty Wages

The final, less-remembered phase of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life was his pivot from the pursuit of racial equality to economic justice — the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a turn even more threatening to the established order, gathering steam up until the date of his assassination in Memphis, where…