When German-born Erika Biddle first set foot in Key West in 1994, she looked around and thought, “This is the only city I’ve ever visited where I’m not the most eccentric person around. Here, I’m the normal one!” Biddle had been an active Green Party member in Germany; she was…
Ethics, Shmethics. As this week’s feature story reminds us, Palm Beach’s reputation as “Corruption County” has been well earned. Two years after lawyer Bill Boose and county commissioner Tony Masilotti went to prison, we’re finally getting around to creating an ethics watchdog that might have a few teeth left in…
The wheels of justice often turn at an agonizingly slow pace. Two years after 29-year-old BSO officer Maury Hernandez was shot in the head by a felon on parole, his lawyer, Lance Block, sent the first formal complaint and two discovery requests to the Broward Clerk’s office last month –…
On September 9, 2007, a line of 40 people snaked single file through the highlands of Papua, New Guinea. Native Kaiberem villagers, perched on mountain ledges above, watched the travelers make their way uphill. It looked like an entire small town was trekking toward them through the forest. The villagers…
He’s up! He’s down! He’s up! He’s down! The Juice just received this email from Michael Koretzky, whose November 19th coup attempt at our local Society of Professional Journalists chapter caused what one local observer has dubbed a “kerfluffle.” Looks like Koretzky has stepped down and Darcie Lunsford is the…
Yesterday we told you about the coup staged at our local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists by one Michael Koretzky — student advisor to FAU’s newspaper. Koretzky marched in to the elections on November 19th with a posse of pissed-off students and friends and voted in a number…
Members of the South Florida Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists hardly knew what hit them. On November 19, student adviser Michael Koretzky of Florida Atlantic University’s student paper, The University Press, led four of his students along with a merry band of admirers to the wine bar Hollywood…
Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein says he got a pretty good laugh when he found out the hundreds of coconuts he’d mailed to Postmaster General John E. Potter had been given away to homeless shelters. “We were imagining the cafeteria at the shelter handing each poor homeless person a big…
What are the odds? Of 10 extraordinary people chosen from around the globe as the finalists for CNN’s Heroes of 2009, two of them are doing their good deeds based in South Florida. And until this Thursday the 19th, you can click here to vote for one of them, possibly…
WTF is it with the Marriott anyway? First the Delray Beach Marriott throws open its doors to CAIR and Geert Wilders, now West Palm’s Marriott will offer a cozy welcome for this year’s national NARTH conference. The National Association of Research and Therapy for Homosexuality, in case you’re new to…
An article in today’s Miami Herald about the method Scott Rothstein used to bilk his pal Ed Morse out of millions sounds like it came straight out of some Nigerian scammer’s playbook. 419 fraud, also known as “advance fee” fraud, requires that victims wire money in advance to obtain a…
It was a balls-to-balls battle, with Joey “Jaws” Chestnut squeezing out a victory over Pat “Deep Dish” Berletti at Sunday night’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas. The competitive-eating marathon was sanctioned by Major League Eating and hosted by Broward restaurateur Steve Martorano, the tattooed hulk we recently profiled…
The ACLU filed a class action lawsuit Friday on behalf of Palm Beach County students and parents, naming Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, House Speaker Larry Cretul, Senate President Jeff Atwater, and Florida Commissioner of Education Eric J. Smith as defendants. The suit charges that the State of Florida has failed…
This week’s feature follows one kind of internet scam: 419 fraud, usually originating in Africa or Asia, and the people fighting the scammers at 419Eater.com. But one of the fastest growing scams in tough economic times is the “work from home” fake employment scam, and many of these can be…
I was in the Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport, getting ready to board a flight to Lome, Togo, when my heart stopped beating. Or maybe it didn’t stop entirely. It certainly sputtered. I’ve been told I collapsed at the Air France boarding gate. The suitcase I was carrying, crammed…
This week’s New Times feature details my foray into the world of scambaiting — the practice of turning the tables on email scammers by playing along as a gullible victim — with advice from a worldwide scambaiting site called 419Eater whose main administrator lives in Broward County.In Nigeria, the people…
It probably comes as no surprise that Lake Worth residents under age 12 overwhelmingly favor Javier del Sol in today’s mayoral race. When asked why she was supporting del Sol this morning, the urchin pictured above hesitated, rubbed her toe into the ground, and answered, “I don’t know.” But we…
Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow’s Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell’s alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups. Tomorrow, Lake Worth residents go to the polls…
Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow’s Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell’s alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups. Tomorrow, Lake Worth residents go to the polls…
Immigration is a hot-button issue in tomorrow’s Lake Worth City Commission elections, in part due to the large number of undocumented residents in the city but also because of the recent flap over candidate Scott Maxwell’s alleged ties to anti-immigration hate groups. Tomorrow, Lake Worth residents go to the polls…
We spoke by phone with Scott Maxwell just minutes after the PBC Environmental Coalition ended its news conference in Lake Worth this afternoon, where speakers alleged that Maxwell, who is running for City Commission District 1, had ties to racist and white supremacist groups, specifically the Federation for Immigration Reform…
If you were a jew-hating, black-bashing, out-and-proud white supremicist, what would you name the little bun you had baking in your oven?We’ve been poking around on the web forums of our own homegrown hate group, Stormfront, lately. In part because theThe Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition has claimed…
