Nancy Pelosi will appear at a news conference Monday with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to announce $1.5 million in funding for Broward Community & Family Health Centers. That money’s a tiny chunk of the nearly $800 billion federal stimulus package that passed in February. With a policy that huge, Democrats…
Celebrities — they’re just like us! If you’ve recently had your home foreclosed upon, then you now have something in common with Big Pussy. You remember him:Vincent Pastore, the actor who played the famous and tragically named Sopranos character, has a Coral Springs condo in limbo. And that’s not the…
>>> Thomas Francis 4/15/2009 4:36 PM >>>Hi Whittney,Let me start by saying that you’re doing a terrific job as the Beerfrau of Beerfest. Not an official title, I know; but certainly more fun than “Marketing Manager.” I am excited about Saturday night’s soiree, and I think Juice readers should be,…
You don’t have to tell me that a blog is a beast with a bottomless appetite. I do sympathize with other local bloggers procrastinating their next post. But only to a point. Remember: There’s a fine line between a blog and a time capsule. In this era of crumbling daily…
Hey, remember that delightful Coral Springs lady who took a shine to Sarah Palin, launched a blog for her, and — perhaps because this was so patently absurd — received some media coverage for it? And then some media coverage about that media coverage? Well, you won’t believe this, but…
John Madden, an old man who spends half the year tooling around America in an enormous, obnoxious, pimped-out house on wheels, stopping only to watch the week’s best football game while muttering semi-coherently, is retiring from that job, according to news reports.Asked for their reaction, everyone among a generation of…
They should have seen this coming. Last year, when the Sunrise City Commission chose as its new city attorney, Stuart Michelson, it guaranteed itself a future full of ethical quandaries. The latest one is whether it’s ethically appropriate for Michelson to advise a charter review board whose decisions will influence…
This time of year, the nation’s college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey — a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz…
If you’re grading the souls of fraudsters on a curve, Steven Green scores as the most sympathetic in a class full of flunkers. Green gave generously to charities for the developmentally disabled, as well as to those that assisted gay men with AIDS or struggling with addiction. He even made…
South Florida’s most exclusive real estate is crawling with feral cats who have — in a fashion that the children of a wealthy divorced couple might appreciate — been playing one of their benefactors against the other. It’s “PB Cats” versus “Island Cats of Palm Beach,” both of whom would…
Just when things had finally quieted down for uncloseted former Palm Beach Congressman Mark Foley, here comes a documentary called Outrage by notorious celluloid provocateur Kirby Dick. In advance of its debut next week at the Tribeca Film Festival, the picture is getting buzz for being controversial, if only because…
As rumors go, it was far too good to be true, and then it happened: Isiah Thomas is coming to South Florida, to coach Florida International’s basketball team. Oh, but this will make some good blog!Thomas, of course, is as brainless as a coach/GM as he was brilliant as a…
That election is this June in Iran, pitting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Religious Neanderthal Republic of Iran, against Mir-Hossein Mousavi, a “reformist” who would moderate some of the nation’s hard-line policies on human rights and in international diplomacy. That is, he’d steer it a few degrees left of the…
Bob Smith, who for 12 years served as New Hampshire’s U.S. Senator, is betting that his brand of retro-Republicanism will carry him to victory in the 2010 race to be U.S. Senator from Florida. Smith retired in Sarasota six years ago and declared his candidacy this month. If elected, he…
If you haven’t yet received this email forward, it means you don’t have enough wingnut friends.”It does not hurt to read this several times,” the note begins in bold letters. In fact, it only hurts to read it a few times. By the fourth time, the mind-numbing idiocy of it…
Hallandale Beach has a fairly quirk-tastic government. Remember the one about the city manager to whom it paid nearly a half-million last year? Good stuff. Another quirk: the commissioners habit of waiting several months, even years, to approve the minutes of past meetings. At this Wednesday’s meeting the city will…
In an article about how Bernard Madoff beat the pants off the big spenders in Palm Beach, the story of an actual pair of pants that Madoff purchased but never picked up: that’s what we in the media biz call good metaphor.Madoff placed the order with a shop called “Trillion”…
What, Hollywood? You think that America is captivated only by old-timey pirates? Poppycock! On the contrary, the nation is riveted by the story of Richard Phillips, the captain of some barge that was hijacked by Somali pirates off the horn of Africa this week. To those pirates, Phillips is the…
There’s a bona fide baseball bromance brewing between two Dominican baseball stars: home team hero Hanley Ramirez and his shortstop colleague on the New York Mets, Jose Reyes. Newsday reports that the happy couple recently shared a meal at Ramirez’s Fort Lauderdale home — though to be precise, H.R. lives…
I’m not talking about actual Panthers, but yeah, that too. I’m talking about the best Florida Panther hockey player — defenseman Jay Bouwmeester. Last night, after the team’s playoff hopes collapsed for the eighth, nearly record-setting year in a row, it brought into focus exactly how a franchise manages a…
Someone ought to give these Jeb Bush education ideas a try. Check it out: accountability for school districts by punishing and humiliating the low-scoring ones, school choice to put more pressure on public schools because they need more of that, and a statistics-based apples-to-apples comparison between schools — even when…
