Last week, the Florida Democratic Party — and Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz — took some serious heat after it banned upstart congressional candidate Tim Canova from using the party’s voter data files, which help candidates research and contact supporters. But the Florida Democratic Party reversed its decision yesterday, party…
Bouncers live unglamorous lives. At best, they’re forced to stand sober as happy-go-lucky partygoers dance in front of them. At worst, they’re forced to wrestle knives out of patron’s hands. But the security staff at Blondies — the immensely popular Fort Lauderdale beach bar also known as Dirty Blondes —…
On Friday, a Miramar drug dealer was sentenced to 10 years in prison for importing fentanyl, a powerful surgical painkiller that is sometimes cut into batches of heroin. The drug, which the dealer in question had imported from China, has been tied to scores of deaths in “heroin-heavy” cities like…
When the sun sets, Jytte Nielsen and Mark Morgan often grab a beer and meander out to their backyard, which sits next to a massive tract of undeveloped wetlands in Miramar. From there, they can see a small pond with ibises, osprey, and turtles. They retired here six years ago…
Drones are objectively cool. They are flying robots that do our bidding, whether that means shooting high-res video from thousands of miles in the air, or dropping off our Amazon packages on time. The ‘bots are relatively cheap, which is a blessing for consumers everywhere, but an absolute nightmare for…
This feels like a bit of political deja vu. Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz serves as chair of the Democratic National Committee. As such, she’s supposed to support Democratic candidates for office at all levels of government. But in December, she blocked Bernie Sanders’ campaign from accessing the DNC’s voter…
Jesse Cosme, a Black Lives Matter activist in Broward County, says his team of activists arrived at Donald Trump’s rally in Boca Raton on Sunday to peacefully protest in the Sunset Cove Amphitheater’s parking lot. “We were handing out popsicle sticks that said, ‘Love Trumps Hate’ on them,” Cosme says…
Andy Murray is melting in the Florida heat. It’s the final round — set three, game one — of the Miami Open, the biggest tennis tournament in Florida, the second-biggest in America, and, for at least a little while longer, the fifth-biggest in the world. The match is even at…
In his lifetime, Chad Johnson has been a six-time Pro Bowl NFL receiver, a man known as “Chad Ochocino,” a reality television star, and, apparently, a person who couldn’t pay his mortgage. Johnson, who owned a mansion in Davie, Florida until last week, seems to have run into some financial…
It’s standardized-testing season in Florida’s public schools, which means that parents, grandparents, students, teachers, administrators, and classroom goldfish are probably in a bad mood. Every March and April, public school students grades 3-11 must take take a test — this year it is the Florida Standards Assessments, which is the new-ish…
Tim Canova, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University who once advised Bernie Sanders on Wall Street reform, is now running a grassroots campaign to take Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s seat in Congress. He’s using virtually the same message Sanders has relied on in his fight with Hillary Clinton: claiming that…
In case viewers at home weren’t aware that last night’s Democratic debate — the final one before primary seasons ends — was taking place in South Florida, Hillary Clinton decided to whip out some heavy-handed Spanish midway through the contest. When debate moderator Karen Tumulty asked Clinton whether Donald Trump,…
Last year, two off-duty cops were involved in a domestic violence dispute when Stephen Degerdon, then a police officer in Coral Springs, violated a court order and entered the home of his estranged wife, a police officer for the city of Davie. When a neighbor called the Broward Sheriff’s Office,…
On Craigslist’s “Missed Connections” page, lovelorn South Floridians who’ve become smitten with total strangers shout into the void, praying to meet their lost loves again before departing from this mortal coil. After an exhaustive, yet unscientific, study of existing “Missed Connections” posts, an inordinate amount of people seem to be falling…
When a grand jury in December indicted Broward Sheriff’s deputy Peter Peraza for killing a civilian, his boss Scott Israel told the New York Times there “is no Thin Blue Line here.” His people, he said, would have to answer to him if they shot unarmed civilians. Since Perazas’ trial…
The Everglades is a dangerous place. The list of animals able to kill you is comically large: One must stay on the lookout for pythons, alligators, bobcats, panthers, and even bears, not to mention mosquitoes, which can carry anything from dengue fever, to West Nile virus, to Zika. When human…
The bathroom sinks at Mar-A-Lago, the $14,000-a-year private club Donald Trump owns in Palm Beach, are plated with gold. Last night, after washing his hands, a TV news cameraman took out his phone and snapped a photo of the faucet. Another reporter, wearing an orange lanyard, walked up next to…
A highly controversial bill Florida’s Senate Appropriations Committee shot down last week could return for a vote again today, after Senator Lisbeth Benacquisto, R-Fort Myers, moved to “reconsider” her vote during last week’s meeting. The bill in question – SB 318 – may be the most widely debated bill of…
Gary Kollin, a civil rights attorney in Fort Lauderdale, is currently suing the Broward Sheriff’s Office, and deputy Jason Dorsett, for wrongful arrest, based on an incident in Parkland on April 11, 2013. Kollin had called police for help kicking his ex-fiancee’s sister out of the ex-fiancee’s home. But when…
The Florida Senate Appropriations Committee voted 10-9 yesterday to shoot down a highly controversial bill that would have, in essence, banned local communities from regulating fracking, the controversial process by which water, sand, and undisclosed chemicals are pumped into the ground to extract oil and gas. The bill, SB 318,…
Vaporizer pens are the most high-tech way to inhale most everything nowadays: tobacco, marijuana. The vaporizer industry is in its “Wild West” stage at the moment: Companies like G-Pen, which are endorsed by the rappers Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg, have made hand-over-fist money in the last few years, and…
A 23-person company headquartered in Boca Raton is currently looking to expand its facilities, and add an estimated 17 new jobs over the next three years. To help “convince” the company to stay in Boca, both the city and the state of Florida have been considering awarding the company $85,000…
