And you wondered why former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush didn’t want to run for U.S. Senate in 2010? That campaign would have taken time away from his superhero hobby, which will be on display this time next week.Bush is scheduled to appear on “special” edition Fox News’ Hannity — not…
No city in Broward County has high stakes development decisions like Hollywood. It’s why for the last decade it’s become an emotionally charged issue. For all the fine points that fill the debate, the argument comes down to whether you believe the city should accommodate the developer or if the…
South Florida cops have been looking for the rotten-toothed bandit for a month. Fort Lauderdale Police spokesman Frank Sousa says officers believe they found their man: a man arrested this morning, suspected of robbing the Wachovia Bank at 4875 N Federal Hwy. The suspect fits the description of the five…
For all the talk of “the crime issue” in Fort Lauderdale’s recent municipal campaign, the city’s safest, wealthiest neighborhood — on either side of Las Olas, near the Intracoastal — can lay claim to some of the region’s most loathsome criminals. Today U.S. Marshals headed to Fort Lauderdale Beach, where…
In early February, about three months after she’d been hired as editor for the Boca Raton-based luxury magazine Cravings Palm Beach, Rosalie Farnsworth began to lose faith in her boss’ willingness to pay her. After all, Howard Needle, who was the magazine’s publisher, wasn’t paying the others who worked for…
Yesterday, the Florida Governor’s Office posted this press release on Gov. Charlie Crist’s “Kids Only” town hall meeting. It contained the following statement:”It is important that our leaders hear what Florida’s youth have to say and consider their ideas to make our state better for future generations,” said Governor Crist…
State Republicans are accusing Florida CFO and likely gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink of placing politics before the safety of children who’d be victimized by sexual predators.Last week, Sink demanded that Attorney General Bill McCollum explain why he gave a no-bid contract to his own political consultant to produce public service…
Admittedly, it’s one hell of a challenge: how to transform Hollywood’s hardscrabble downtown into something architecturally iconic, timeless in its appeal and vibrant where today it’s stagnant. Well, nuclear physics is tough too, but there are experts who can do it for you.Hollywood has no objection to hiring these experts…
The answer, apparently, is to exploit Terri Schiavo one more time, as Ave Maria is doing today. The Catholic city, which lies in the swamps east of Naples and was bankrolled by a pizza delivery baron, is staging a mass in Schiavo’s honor. Because Schiavo was — before she slipped…
Freshly arrived election data, suggests that Barack Obama’s defeat of John McCain in Florida was not the product of an energized Democratic base:Updated election data shows that Florida Republicans actually turned out at a greater rate than Democrats — nearly 80 percent of Republicans voted, compared to 76 percent of…
Why didn’t the financial press adequately inform the American public that its national economy was a colossal scam? Maybe because this meltdown has given the financial press the Story of a Lifetime. They’re positively basking in it. CNBC’s enjoying record ratings — the financial news channel now out-draws MSNBC and…
I’m speaking of the Deferred Retirement Option Program that made such a lucrative payout to Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good. He’s not the only public official getting rich from this excessively generous policy. In editorials yesterday and last Sunday, the Orlando Sentinel lists officials who stand to be paid…
(Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the movie The Prestige, stop reading this post now, because I’m going to give away a crucial plot twist.)Remember that seemingly impossible trick in The Prestige by Christian Bale’s character? On one side of the stage, he closes a door behind himself while in…
Last year, Hallandale Beach City Manager Mike Good officially, and briefly, retired — a move that allowed him to cash in some 25 years of accumulated sick and vacation time. This, according to Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, is how in 2008 Good’s gross income reached the astonishingly high figure…
We’re living in a bizarro world where Republican state legislators are willing to defy loyal lobbyists and increase taxes on alcohol and tobacco, plus give serious consideration to a compact that would let the Seminoles gamble Vegas-style. And now there are increasing signs that another favorite policy of state conservatives…
After eight years of watching Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Michael Moore crack wise over the dunderheadedness of a Republican president, the arrival of a Democrat in the Oval Office means the Republican humorists get their turn.But this campaign got off to a rocky, racist start. There was the Rush…
Last November when Caryn Stumpfl accepted a job writing for a luxury goods magazine called Cravings Palm Beach, it never occurred to her that her new boss, the publisher, might have a felonious past. No, that realization came only after it became clear that she would not be getting paid…
Of all the thorny, polarizing, and controversial subjects that a state legislator must handle, Sen. Nan Rich probably didn’t think she’d have to explain the logic behind a bill that makes bestiality illegal. And to be fair, she doesn’t have to explain it to anyone — everybody else, it seems,…
The bill that would have overhauled tattoo regulation in Florida is dead. The two factions of state tattooists, who had earlier this month waged an epic, expletive-laden battle in the comments thread of this Juice post, are now on the same team, or soon to be. And together, they will…
With Charlie Crist looking more and more like the 2010 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, there’s been an uptick in intensity between the pair who might be the finalists in a race to replace him.The Florida Democrats think they’ve gotten some traction by tweaking Republicans for waste. Some of their…
South Florida’s economy depends on tourism dollars, so it’s chagrining indeed to read this report from Steve Dahl, the talk radio pioneer who for decades has shared his everyman sensibility with Greater Chicago.But Dahl was recently in Boca Raton, and in a column published today by the Chicago Tribune –…
The city of Largo is looking for an alleged con man who’s got it all. The bitchin’ nickname, “Plasma Pat.” The elegantly simple, three-step scam: 1) pretend to be a Wal-Mart employee, 2) offer customer deal on a plasma TV, 3) pocket cash. And he’s an insufferable braggart — Plasma…
