When you call a cop — or meet one in a less favorable scenario — you’re probably not thinking about how he gets paid. But police officers are expensive for the local and state agencies that fund them, and in a time of “creative” cost-cutting by many jurisdictions, they’re just…
And now, in incredibly depressing news that makes you shake your fist at the sky and ask why, and realize that any pretenses we had of a symbiotic existence with nature’s creatures is pure malarkey and it’s only a matter of time until we’ve ruined the Earth, we turn to…
Sometime about a year ago, there was a strange phenomenon coursing through the airwaves. Newscasters and reporters, it seems, had been bitten by a strange bug that made them talk of witchcraft, dead babies, and masturbation. It was like Salem circa 1692: a middle-class white woman, all the while protesting…
In 2007, twin brothers Chris and Jeff George, then 27, were looking for a way to get rich. Really rich. They found it under the tutelage of the “Candy Man,” a physician who helped them start a $40 million pain-pill empire, according to an indictment against the brothers and 31…
Palm Beach State Attorney Michael McAuliffe has announced charges against multiple people in “Operation Prescription for Death,” a two-year interagency investigation surrounding the death of Joey Bartolucci, a customer of East Coast Pain Clinic who obtained prescriptions from one of the defendants, Dr. Joseph Klein.Dr. Klein provided Mr. Bartolucci with…
A little-known killer is making its way through the southern United States, according to the British tabloid The Daily Mail: a “brain-eating amoeba” called Naegleria fowleri. Victims so far include one 16-year-old girl from Florida, Courtney Nash, who reportedly died after swimming in the St. John’s river in Brevard County…
Our feature story last month about Pine Crest School continues to generate discussion and feedback from people who are concerned about the school’s future. Lately, two recent graduates came forward to talk about the secretive student groups that met with Hank Battle, the president who served for 99 days earlier…
“Do you believe that our culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?” asks author and radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen. He doesn’t think so either, and that’s why every time a sweet little granny buys his two-volume Endgame from Barnes and Noble, an anarchist…
The New York Times likes to discover things around the country, allowing hemmed-in Manhattanites to observe a little of the goings-on around our fair country without crossing the Hudson. So are born trend pieces on Portland’s coffee, Chicago’s restaurants, Pennsylvania’s Dairy Queens. As for us swamp-dwellers, an occasional huckster makes…
On Saturday afternoon, Haylee Becker, a 19-year-old volunteer with Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs who does most of the talking to the media about the local group, sat in a vegan ice cream shop on the other side of the Everglades and talked about confronting despair.Becker was leading one of…
Now that he’s finally decided to take the plunge into media interviews, one thing has become apparent: Rick Scott mumbles a lot. His Everyman tempo elides common syllables. Its like he’s nervous or not fully engaged with the nice, folksy things he says.But when he stopped by the WLRN Miami…
In last month’s cover story about Hank Battle, the former president of Pine Crest School who was placed on administrative leave after a tumultuous three months, we mentioned a growing sense of fear among the teachers who thought that Battle might take away their jobs. One of the things they…
Last Saturday around 10 p.m., young activists, Buddhists, and fire-spinners gathered to talk and sing in the backyard of a house in Fort Lauderdale that rents for $650 a month, is missing a few windows, and is a sore subject for Fort Lauderdale law enforcement.The event was an all-afternoon benefit…
Toussain Puddie, the 30-year-old former TSA screener who says he mistakenly took home a Montblanc pen belonging to car dealer Rick Case, was arraigned on Monday for grand theft charges relating to the incident. Case’s daughter filed a missing-property report with the Broward Sheriff’s Office on June 6, and Puddie…
Fresh off a late evening with the Hollywood Food Not Bombs group (sharings on Thursday in front of Young Circle Publix, around 7 p.m.), the Pulp woke up early Friday to get another side of the food-sharing story, this one from Robin Martin, head of HOPE South Florida.HOPE is a…
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti got a “soft” start to his current term: He was already sitting in for former Sheriff Ken Jenne, ousted early on fraud charges, and ran unopposed in the Republican primary. What’s more, nobody paid attention to Lamberti on Election Night — a certain African-American community organizer…
The local chapter of Food Not Bombs, an international organization that promotes food as a human right and distributes free meals, has a lot on its plate these days. Its members claim they were harassed by Fort Lauderdale police in February, and the organization’s Orlando chapter saw some members arrested…
According to campaign finance records that have belatedly appeared on the Supervisor of Elections’ website, Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti received $4,000 in check donations from auto dealer Rick Case and his family members before the 2008 election.Pulp readers questioned whether Case had been a financial backer for the sheriff when…
Update 10:20 a.m.: Dolly Gibson from the Supervisor of Elections office called to tell us the information has now appeared online. Enjoy! Nearly every candidate* who was elected to a Broward County government office in the November 2008 election has an itemized list of campaign contributors available online — with…
Two construction workers fall into the cavernous metal tank, suffering serious injuries. Five Tongan workers are among the people tasked with a $600,000 restoration and painting project. When the city announces a surprise $10 million budget shortage that it failed to report, people complain about an expensive new clock and…
Toussain Puddie used to work as a TSA security screener at Terminal 1 of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — until he told police last month that he had taken home a pen belonging to local car dealership owner Rick Case. Case decided to press charges, despite Puddie’s cooperation in returning…
A controversial shakeup at Pine Crest School, detailed in this week’s feature, started shortly after Hank Battle took the helm as president in January of this year. Teachers were leaving, and those who remained were worried for their jobs. Battle dispatched his deputy, David Bowman, to inform some teachers that…
