Florida is utterly besotted with Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow. The latest demonstration is Tebow’s being appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist to co-chair the Council on Physical Fitness. It’s gotten so bad, that I defy you to get a perfect score on the True-False test below. Click on the link…
Manny Ramirez, who slugs homers in the West when he’s not home in Weston, will get to spend some unexpected time enjoying his local digs. He’s reportedly tested positive for a banned substance and Major League Baseball is expected to announce his 50-game suspension today.The L.A. Dodger outfielder is rumored…
If you’ve noticed that Sen. Bill Nelson has an extra spring in his step lately, it’s because this week his friends in the Obama administration flushed the agency chief who has long held the top spot on Nelson’s List of People to Fire. That would be Nancy Nord, who had…
No kidding. We’ve got a deal for gambling! I’m not even inclined to be critical of its terms. Like a lot of other Floridians, I’m just so bloody sick of this issue drifting back and forth between possible and impossible. This was like teeing off on a par-five hole against…
No really, there’s money in Hollywood. It’s just that it’s concentrated on Hollywood Beach, where a Community Redevelopment Agency launched in 1997. In the years since, the agency has been flush with tax increment financing — all the tax money collected in its area beyond the base year 12 years…
Sure, it’s unfair to focus entirely on what did not happen in a legislative session, and with all the economic troubles, this one was going to be grueling no matter what. But even grading against a curve of extremely low expectations this past session was a disgrace. Again and again,…
Man, it’s going to be a long day for gorgeous men like us, isn’t it? Seems the Boca Raton police are searching for an ATM thief whose distinguishing feature is that he’s “handsome.”Which makes me, at least, a suspect. Suddenly I’m scared to drive my car, much less walk down…
Theory: Someone big and powerful at Forbes magazine — maybe Steve Forbes himself? — is feuding with some other big and powerful person who has condos to sell in Palm Beach County. And that is why Forbes magazine is beating the local economy to death with its vicious lists. At…
An investment fund chaired by longtime Republican Congressman and former Vice Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp emerged last week as a potential buyer of the Florida Panthers and their handsome revenue-sharing lease at the BankAtlantic Center. Then this weekend, Kemp died of cancer.So does this mean the deal is dead too?…
Reflecting on the long-rumored entry of Marco Rubio into the race for U.S. Senate in 2010 against the inevitable candidacy of the formidable Florida governor, one can’t help but recall that opening scene of Apocalypse Now: An underwear-wearing Martin Sheen doing drunken judo chops in some squalid hotel room in…
When I heard that there would be a lingerie football franchise in South Florida, the Miami Caliente, who would be playing their games at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, my first thought was of the terrifying possibility of a game marred by a wardrobe malfunction. My second thought (well, third…
Last week, I sparked a little feud after I questioned the motives and judgment of Rep. Adam Hasner, the House majority leader, for making public appearances with anti-Islam agitator Geert Wilders, a member of Dutch Parliament. At week’s end, I posted this letter to Hasner, seeking clarification on where his…
Every day, Andrew Sullivan’s blog, The Daily Dish, publishes a “View From Your Window.” A reader takes a shot from where he’s sitting, then sends it in. They come from all over the world. The best make Sullivan’s blog three-dimensional. Intimate. Almost voyeuristic. The worst make you angry that any…
We’re supposed to be happy that public officials in Broward are getting a primer on ethics. U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta will pay a visit to the Broward County Commission to stage an ethics tutorial (You had better be taking actual notes, Ritter, not doodles or love letters to a certain…
Xiu Ping Jiang: It’s not a household name, and it would have never been a newsworthy name except for the day when that woman’s ex-husband took two handguns to an immigration office in Binghampton, New York, where he killed 13 students before killing himself. Reporters looking to build a biography…
What a wretched weekend in South Florida sports. You’ve heard about the Heat, but what’s happened to the Marlins? One month into the baseball season, this team can’t decide whether it belongs at the top of the league or at the bottom. A seven-game win streak in mid-April was followed…
You can’t get anything past that Mark Potter. To report on the booming black market for pain meds, the NBC correspondent charged fearlessly into the belly of the beast: Broward County. At the 1:25 mark in this video, the NBC reporter accuses a local bench and one familiar-looking newspaper.Visit msnbc.com…
New Times feature article about Durham and his family is here…
During this dramatic week in Tallahassee, Delray Beach Rep. Adam Hasner starred as either the House Majority Leader or an evil “robot,” depending on your perspective. It’s astonishing that during pressure-packed negotiations, an eminent statesman like Hasner found time to bolt back home to huddle with one of the Western…
Legislation by Sunrise Sen. Nan Rich to make bestiality illegal in Florida passed the Senate this week only to stall in the House amid the chaos of trying to pass a budget in a year of financial turmoil.But you can bet Rich will introduce the bill a third time despite…
See that? Two box-office-smashing, kid-friendly movie titles made into one! And we already have a screenplay, courtesy of the real-life 13-year-old boy (in the movie he’ll be 3, probably) who drove from Boca to Fort Lauderdale, bought a ticket with his dad’s credit card, and ended up in San Jose,…
I s’pose the guy who recently accused House Majority Leader Adam Hasner of “race-baiting” (and that would be me) should resist giving lectures about decorum. But I did not question the legitimacy of Hasner’s membership in the human race. Not like some Democrat who called him a “robot” after the…
