In 1961, Dr. Jack Fishman applied for a patent on nalaxone, a powerful drug that he created during his part-time work at a New York pharmaceutical lab. The substance safely reverses overdoses for users of opioids such as heroin and prescription painkillers. Hospitals and emergency responders clamored to have it…
On the four-month anniversary of Corey Jones’ death, his friends have reported on social media that a memorial made in his honor has been vandalized and burned. It is located on Interstate 95 and PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, where Jones was fatally shot by a Palm Beach Gardens…
A bar without $12 cocktails, iPads, or valet parking is a rarity these days in South Florida. So Grady’s Bar and Grill— a family-owned Fort Lauderdale watering hole that hasn’t gotten fancy since opening 76 years ago — is special. But as the Real Deal reported yesterday, the bar and…
About 4,000 confidential records — the purported home addresses of police officers, lawyers, and judges — have been published on the website PBSOTalk.com, and the former owner of the website is blaming it on Russian computer hackers. Mark Dougan is a former Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office deputy. After leaving the…
The City of Fort Lauderdale has a $311 million annual budget, and $95 million of it — 30 percent — is earmarked for the police force. The police get significantly more than any other city department. And yet, according to an agenda item for tonight’s 6:30 p.m. commission meeting, Fort Lauderdale…
Three-year-old Ashton Bradshaw suffers from cerebral palsy and other developmental issues. She’s wheelchair-bound, can’t sit up without a back brace or go to the bathroom by herself, and is nearly blind. Her care costs thousands of dollars each month, much more than Ashton’s 36-year-old mother, Davia Bradshaw, can afford. It…
Last time ’90s pop punk band Smash Mouth was in the news, their lead singer was so furious that he had to be subdued by security after someone threw a slice of bread at him onstage. That was in June, and made for some pretty great video. Now, Smash Mouth…
For the past three years, Dr. Hansel Tookes, a 34-year-old medical resident specializing in infectious diseases, has fought to bring a needle-exchange program to South Florida. With the spike in heroin use, a needle exchange is desperately needed here, Tookes says—especially since Miami-Dade and Broward counties have the highest rates…
Monalisa Weber is a former probation officer for the Florida Department of Corrections. She worked with hundreds of offenders, helping them fill out paperwork and meet court dates. After six years she grew frustrated and resigned—noticing that most offenders didn’t know their rights and that the tiniest infraction while on…
Last week, we mused about eight ways Fort Lauderdale has changed for the better, highlighting social justice, the FAT Village art walk, and Uber. But as with any performance review, we get the back-patting out of the way, and then move on to the constructive criticism. All that swanky can’t cover…
Armed with a scuba tank and speargun, Christian Mathisen has been plunging deeper than 100 feet into South Florida’s waters for the last 20 years. Based out of Jupiter, Mathisen says he has spent nearly $90,000 acquiring the necessary permits to legally spearfish commercially. He makes a modest living selling…
In 2007, then-Governor Charlie Christ appointed Matthew Destry as a criminal judge in Florida’s 17th Judicial Circuit, serving Broward County. Shortly after, Brian Greenwald, then a public defender, was assigned cases that came before Destry. For three years, Greenwald witnessed Destry develop his reputation as the toughest sentencer in the…
Broward’s buses are rarely on time, and even if they were, schedules are confusing for users and hard to find online. Since only some stops have bus shelters, riders are left waiting indefinitely — often sweating or drenched on the side of the road. The biggest complaint is that a…
The people of Fort Lauderdale need a pep talk. There’s not a whole lot of Fort Lauderdale pride (and, no, we don’t mean the kind parading from Wilton Manors). It’s most pronounced at college orientation, when someone asks where you’re from. It’s a paralyzing moment for any Fort Lauderdale-bred college…
The great warrior king of 17th century India, Shivaji Maharaj, fought off Europeans and their imperialist ambitions. To protect a group of islands in the Arabian Sea, Maharaj designed a series of stone walls that snake the perimeters of the islands. It kept the Europeans and, somewhat unintentionally, the ocean…
For the last two years, there has been a campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. A proposed constitutional amendment that would have legalized it nearly passed in 2014, when 58 percent of voters supported the amendment, just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold. It was a devastating…
Wayne Huizenga used to live at 516 Mola Ave., on the manmade finger islands known as Las Olas Isles. His two-acre homesite was once advertised as “the largest assemblage of waterfront property in Fort Lauderdale.” His old house sat on a little peninsula surrounded by the New River and the…
In 2004, Fort Lauderdale attorney Bradford Cohen was a candidate on the second season of The Apprentice, a reality TV show in which Donald Trump evaluates candidates’ business skills and offers the winner a job within his organization. In episode two, Cohen won a challenge and so, per the rules,…
As a destination for luxury real estate, Broward county is often overshadowed by Miami. But over the last five years, new real estate developments have sprouted up throughout the county. With the Fort Lauderdale area no longer a tacky spring break destination, rich people have flocked to Broward county to…
Aaron Wormus is the Chief Technology Officer of HedgeCo Vest, a hedge fund company located on Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach. Every day on his way to work, Wormus would pass a section of the old Florida East Coast railroad tracks and an overgrown area around it. Wormus,…
Everybody knows climate change is a threat – but is it a threat your house? And if so, exactly how much of a threat? Albert Slap had an idea: compiling data into a program so that individual South Florida homeowners could go online and search their property’s risk of sea-level…
A young black man was shot in the head during a traffic stop at 11 a.m. Saturday at Southwest Ninth Street and Avenue D in Belle Glade, a working class city in western Palm Beach County. . Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw spoke at scene this afternoon and stated that…
