Joe Kaufman is running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, which encompasses parts of Hollywood, Hallandale Beach, and select sections of Miami-Dade county. On Sunday, he put out a call to shut down “every Florida radical Muslim institution” — though he couldn’t say how he’d…
Police work is inherently difficult. Cops need to balance competing cases, are occasionally threatened, and must make decisions each day that will permanently affect the people they deal with. It’s a job that requires level-headedness, emotional resolve, and vast amounts of bravery. The job also requires getting addresses right. According…
Shoplifting is a crime. But it’s not punishable by death. And yet, after Eduardo Prieto Jr. was caught stealing DVDs for his estranged children from a Hallandale Beach Walmart in September 2012, he was ultimately shot dead by Hallandale Beach Police officers, due to what his family now claims were…
Brian Krebs went to East Grand Rapids High School with American Pie screenwriter Adam Herz. According to a 2011 New Times story, Krebs was a rowdy, drunken sod of sorts back in the day, so much so that when Herz sat down to write the classic 1999 bro-comedy, Herz reportedly based the…
Fort Lauderdale can be a rowdy place. Drink too much at Cafe Martorano, and you might end up with Journey lyrics tattooed on your neck the next morning. Drink too much at Blondies, and you could potentially get put in a sleeper-hold. But while Fort Lauderdale does have a longstanding…
It’s taken a thousand-signature petition, a mass-letter-writing campaign, widespread condemnation from homeowner’s groups, multiple lawsuits, and hundreds of angry resident complaints, but the Fort Lauderdale City Commission is finally looking a little shaken about the proposed Bahia Mar development plan. After roughly five more hours of public comments, the City…
According to a federal lawsuit filed Friday, a person calling himself “Mr. Joe” started an email campaign against Florida Atlantic University officials in 2014. The messages accused various members of the faculty of colluding with one another to keep salaries low and promote inept employees. The university this May…
Broward Sheriff’s Office Dep. Peter Peraza killed Jermaine McBean. This fact is not in dispute. McBean, 33, was shot dead while carrying an unloaded air rifle through an Oakland Park apartment complex. Court records indicate that McBean, who was black, also suffered from mental illness, and a photograph showed that…
During the coming election season, Florida voters will have to deal with one of the more devious legislative tricks we’ve seen in a while: Two upcoming ballot initiatives say they’ll make it easier for consumers to install solar panels on their homes. One of them — Amendment 4, slated for…
The newspaper business has been saved! Yesterday, it appears the long-flagging Tribune Publishing, which owns the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Orlando Sentinel, and our dear South Florida Sun Sentinel, formally vanished from the earth. Tribune was, until yesterday, a publishing compa ny designed for yesteryear, a flagging print-media behemoth…
A development group is planning to plunk two 29-story towers on the publicly-owned Bahia Mar complex on Fort Lauderdale Beach. In May, we reported that close to 30 people related to the development group bundled between $5,000 and $6,600 to each City Commissioner’s campaign in 2014 and 2015. Also, one of…
Nouman Raja, the Palm Beach Gardens police officer who shot and killed local musician Corey Jones, has been arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, as well as manslaughter, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a press conference yesterday. “The grand jury today found…
The whitefly is back. Though it looks like the sort of adorable insect that would star in a Dreamworks film, the humble whitefly is actually a god-awful invasive species that will stop at nothing to decimate crops. The bug can carry more than 111 different plant-killing viruses — a wave…
David Mech is a former porn star with an encyclopedic knowledge of First Amendment law. Ask him about, say, the differences between “government” and “private” speech, and he’ll rattle off legal statutes for ten straight minutes. Enduring multiple lawsuits will do that to a person. “Lots of people will spend…
Roger Stone may be the greatest political thug in history. He has worked in politics for decades, and yet does not seem to aspire to higher office. Instead, he sticks to the tasks he knows — spreading near-libelous rumors through anonymous sources, threatening to sue people for no good reason,…
My conversation with Gervan “G-Funk” Moise, a man who will clearly end up running the entire state of Florida, ended when he shut down the phone call. We’d been speaking for one minute. I reached Moise by phone at around 3:50 p.m. Wednesday. He announced this week that he’s running…
If Dick Cheney spent the 2000s as the Republican Party-equivalent of Darth Vader, then Karl Rove was the GOP’s dough-fingered Emperor Palpatine. Rove, the famed political strategist-turned-TV talking-head, helped organize campaigns for Rick Perry, John Aschcroft, and, most notably, George W. Bush. (I suppose Bush is Grand Moff Tarkin in…
Kodak Black does what he wants. When the cops try and pull him over for possibly buying weed, the Pompano Beach rapper peels off at 60 mph. (Probably shouting skrt! as the cops zip behind him in pursuit.) He’s not afraid to down MDMA and codeine all at once. And…
Some rappers are clearly not as “hard” as they claim to be. Ice Cube almost became an architectural draftsman. Rick Ross used to be a corrections officer. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with embarking on a rap career if you didn’t grow up in a gang. If anything,…
Much like the roaches that set up shop in your college apartment, the small cadre of Islamophobes that have infested South Florida for the last decade will. Not. Go. Away. David Rosenthal, a man convinced multiple members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office and Broward Public Schools are promoting Sharia law…
Through nearly six months of campaigning for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, former Bernie Sanders advisor Tim Canova hadn’t heard a peep from the presidential candidate. “I’ve had no contact with Bernie Sanders at all,” Canova told the Washington Post in February. (Sanders once tapped Canova to sit on a Wall…
Fort Lauderdale’s City Commissioners have voted to to allow redevelopment of the Bahia Mar complex on Fort Lauderdale beach, and a final vote is scheduled for June 7. It’s been controversial: Two major public hearings about re-zoning the property — to allow a set of skyscrapers to be built on…
