Hours before flying back to Haiti to begin a marathon final month of his campaign, Haitian presidential hopeful Charles-Henri Baker sat in an unmarked studio at the back of a Boca Raton office park, getting makeup dabbed on his face, reading lines from a TelePrompter in Creole. He was recording…
Big Brother?So, you’ve probably heard about the proliferation of red-light cameras around South Florida. You may have seen last month’s news that Fort Lauderdale was adopting the program, beginning with installation of the cameras at ten intersections. But, wait… only ten? What about those white poles and sinister-looking cameras with…
As hard as Ron Klein kicks, he’s just an itch to the illogical juggernaut that is Allen West’s campaign. Recent attack ads from Klein play a video clip in which West says to a gathering, “I’m just honored to be here today with all my fellow right-wing extremists.” There it…
Independent Senate hopeful Charlie Crist was scheduled to make an appearance at Hollywood’s Holocaust Documentation and Education Center today but canceled yesterday. His campaign has apparently rescheduled the event multiple times. Meanwhile, Crist is in Deerfield Beach this morning to accept the endorsement of Robert Kennedy Jr., son of late…
time.comIt’s a complicated ballet in South Florida today as politicians warily stump for one another, hedging bets all around. The Palm Beach Post’s George Bennett minds the choreography: First off, it’s Ron Klein, who’s campaigning with the president in Coral Gables later today. Lest too much of Obama’s socialist fairy…
Can they flip the debate?Amendment 4 to the Florida Comprehensive Land Use Plans (Still reading? Congratulations!) is fairly simple: It would require that any changes to local land-use plans, such as those requested by developers, be put before voters before approval. Unfortunately, that information is hard to come by. After…
I’ll always remember the vice-fighting cartoon heroes of my late-20th-century childhood: Fireman Gus, Detective MacGruff, Smokey the Bear, Officer Jeff… wait, Officer Jeff was actually a chain-smoking DARE officer who drove an impounded car. Anyway, the idea that the seeds for crime are planted at a young age has led…
The most exciting thing in Dania Beach — not counting jai alai — is probably the officers’ training facility at the headquarters of American Maritime Officers (AMO), a merchant marine union providing the crew for freight and military ships around the world.In 1991, bolstered by lucrative merchant-marine contracts for the…
Yep. Tired of being typecast as the “too gay to function” good guy, Sunrise native Daniel Franzese took part in the remake of the controversial, revolting, 1978 rape-revenge movie I Spit on Your Grave.”I play Stanley. He’s the voyeur who videotapes the crimes,” explains Franzese. Those crimes include all sorts…
Broward County’s thriving experiment in free-market health care — pain pill clinics — faces tougher regulations as of last Friday, when a piece of statewide legislation went into effect. The real title of the “Pill Mill Bill” is two single-spaced pages long. Suffice it to say that while the law…
If Allen “Higher Security Clearance Than the President” West wasn’t formidable enough, Ron Klein has a new enemy in his sights: the French national railway company. And now Klein, like West, is talking about Nazis.Société Nationale des Chemins de fer, or SNCF, is basically France’s version of Amtrak, except its…
The former location of VIP Family Health.An unlicensed clinic in Broward County managed to operate under the radar of county officials for months, even after inquiring about a business permit and being depicted as a pill mill on an evening news exposé.In July, Broward zoning officials got a visit from…
Just before 2 a.m. yesterday, Patrick Alexander Dell entered the Riviera Beach home of his estranged wife and her seven children, shot her and five of the children, and then killed himself as police began to arrive.Natasha Whyte-Dell and four of her children died. Another child, 15-year-old Ryan Barnett, is…
