The man who oversees much of the state’s job-creation effort submitted his resignation late last week for “personal reasons.”It’s not clear why Department of Economic Opportunity Director Doug Darling, who was hired for the gig last July, is calling it quits, but it probably isn’t for a lack of results: The…
Earlier this month, Congressman Allen West said he was “not into name-calling, all that kind of stuff.” On Saturday, he said Democratic leadership should “get the hell out of the United States of America.” Those comments, at the Palm Beach County GOP’s Lincoln Day dinner, got plenty of play on…
Fox News likes to mock news from liberal media. Today, however, it plagiarized some.We already know what Fox thinks of New Times — when we accused Congressman Allen West of violating the flag code by taking an American flag scuba diving, Fox News rewrote a stolen headline to read, “Lib Media Says…
If you remember billionaire Jeff Greene, it’s probably from the ridiculous stories of drug-fueled excess on his party boat — a first-person account from one of his former stewardesses includes the phrases “Red Bull,” “Mike Tyson” and “oral sex” in the same sentence — but he’s back in the spotlight, this…
Deputy Sheriff Michael Collister was hired by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office in 1983. He served on the SWAT team, won awards, saved lives. In May 2010, after 27 years on the force, he was diagnosed with stage-IV bile duct cancer — essentially a death sentence. According to police, his friend…
The Republican presidential candidates at last night’s debate were dropping the names of Floridian public figures as quickly as they could come up with them. In response to a question about Hispanic Americans the candidates would consider for their Cabinets, everyone (except Ron Paul) started rattling off names ranging from…
Though the new Florida congressional district lines haven’t been finalized, candidates for office in what will be the new 27th District are starting to mobilize — former Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson, who was booted out of his District 8 office in 2010, raised more than half a million dollars between…
The Palm Beach County School District is having a rough year. Since last June, it fired one janitor when he was found naked in an orchestra closet, investigated another janitor who was discovered urinating in a supply room, had a teacher quit after being busted sleeping with a student, and…
Newt Gingrich’s stump speech at Wings Plus in Coral Springs had a lot of meat to it — he criticized President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, made fun of the media, and was heckled mercilessly for the first half of the event by a protester who was eventually…
Though a Rasmussen poll released Monday showed Newt Gingrich well ahead of the rest of the Republican presidential field, a Univision/ABC News poll released this morning revealed Florida’s Latino voters overwhelmingly favor former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.Of those polled, 49 percent went for Romney; Gingrich got 23 percent, and the…
The Republican presidential candidates can figure out a way to disagree on any topic — we saw last night they could argue about everything from Terri Schiavo to beet sugar — but there’s one thing they all have in common: None of them has any plans to go anywhere near…
Father’s Day isn’t until June, but a strong candidate for father of the year has emerged in 20-year-old Lineten Belizaire, whom police arrested early Sunday in connection with last week’s triple homicide in Lauderdale Lakes.Police say Belizaire shot and killed 21-year-old Octavia Barnett, 25-year-old Natasha Plummer, and Plummer’s 6-month-old son…
Food Not Bombs, the activists organization that feeds vegan food to homeless people to protest war, had a grand plan for a protest Wednesday. They’d protest all night to stand up against what they called the increased proliferation of Florida anti-homelessness ordinances. By the 5:30 p.m. start time, the plan didn’t…
An activist group that plants itself in Stranahan Park claims police intimidation is making it increasingly difficult to give food to the hungry and homeless.Food Not Bombs member Phill Johnson said that several activists were arrested two weeks ago as part of an effort to force the group out of…
