On May 18, National Football League owners will congregate at some swanky Fort Lauderdale hotel to decide, among other things, whether they should add regular season games to what is currently a 16-game schedule.The USA Today reports that one influential member of that fraternity, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, wants 18…
Don’t combine that care with public corruption…
Compromise is what distinguishes the effective, conscientious governments from the dysfunctional ones, and the lack of it has been a drag on the Florida Legislature for some time. One would think that this year’s gaping, $6 billion budget hole would make compromisers out of the stubbornest souls. Instead, legislators are…
A New York City-based freelance writer says he was stiffed out of $1,150 by Howard Needle, publisher of the now-defunct Cravings Palm Beach, a luxury goods magazine based in Boca Raton. Scott Rose says that he had a contract from Needle to be paid 50 cents per word and that…
Well, it sure looks like a sweetheart deal. In 2008, Mike Good, city manager of Hallandale Beach, collected a gross income of $422,000 and change.I say “looks” only because thus far, neither Good nor Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who signs Good’s contracts, has returned phone messages. Maybe there’s a…
The Florida House and Senate have both drafted legislation that would dramatically alter the games at Seminole casinos. Either the Tribe’s profits will take a huge leap back or huge leap forward.The House version scales back the games that the Tribe can offer, eliminating card games so that the casino’s…
West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared this evening on Hardball, the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC. She was a Matthews favorite even before she revealed this weekend that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer more than a year ago and underwent a double mastectomy as well as an operation…
Here’s one I haven’t heard before: Palm Beach County Commissioner Jess Santamaria told the Palm Beach Post that he’s so frustrated by apathy among residents that he’s thinking of walking away from public service at the end of his four-year term.”The only thing that would make me run again is…
First, the problem was that Florida tattooists didn’t have a good way to communicate with each other. That’s how hundreds of them were caught by surprise when they learned that Hallandale Beach Sen. Eleanor Sobel had introduced a bill that would overhaul regulation of the state’s tattoo industry. Now, it…
Amanda Terkel is the winner in the Blogger-Baiting-O’Reilly Sweepstakes, and she didn’t even seem to try. The Think Progress blogger wrote this post after it was announced that Fox News idiot charmer Bill O’Reilly would be the guest speaker at a fundraiser in Manalapan for the It Happened to Alexa…
This weekend, the Associated Press confirmed a story first reported by Juice: that a search dog and handler were headed to Aruba in hopes of finally identifying the location of Natalee Holloway’s remains.The AP’s story did not, however, reflect the same note of optimism that our source reported to us…
A subsidiary of West Palm-based Oxbow Corporation is facing $75,600 in fines after an accident in September at an industrial plant in Kremlin, Okla., killed one worker and left two more with severe injuries.The workers were employed with a subcontractor called Geo. P. Reintjes Co., which was also cited. The…
Around this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until this weekend that at the same…
State Senator Nan Rich has made waves with her crusade to make it illegal in Florida to have sex with animals. Not just around her Sunrise district, either. The controversy has earned Rich a future berth on Comedy Central’s Daily Show.Anxious, perhaps, about being accused of exploiting a saucy subject…
Details remain vague, but The Juice has just learned that authorities believe they have found the body of Natalee Holloway, the 18-year-old from Clinton, Miss., who vanished in the Caribbean island in May 2005.A Miami-based flight attendant for American Airlines tells The Juice that a cadaver dog was aboard a…
We’ve made some cracks over the last few weeks about how even pending felony cases didn’t stop South Florida pols from campaigning. Former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman had gun charges, while Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini was suspended after he was indicted on felony corruption charges. Neither won his race,…
A labor judge ruled this week that Nova Southeastern University went to unlawful extremes to quash an effort by the school’s custodial contractors to unionize. Among the findings by Administrative Law Judge John H. West: that supervisors intimidated employees of a custodial services firm after they circulated union literature without…
During Deerfield Beach’s recent mayoral campaign, Don Cleveland lugged a big piece of baggage: a foreclosure action in which he lost his Sunny Isles home.A troublesome issue, if only because Cleveland was fairly new in town (moved there in 2001) and had never run for office in Deerfield Beach. The…
With Americans stressing about the economy, politicians at every level are either skimping on the usual luxuries that come with elected office, or pillorying their rivals for failing to do so. But mostly, they’re trying to do both.The Obama administration, which staged a bargain basement inauguration, has come dangerously close…
Today in Washington, D.C., members of Congress are taking turns pummeling AIG Fat Cat Edward M. Liddy. His woefully mismanaged company needed billions of tax dollars to save it from failure, and yet AIG still handed out millions in bonuses to its management. It is fashionable — and appropriate –…
Not officially, she doesn’t. But reporter Scott Wyman just noticed that the Broward mayor’s picture appears on the Klenet & Associates website just as much as Klenet’s. The two are married, of course. So it wouldn’t be a scandal if, say, Klenet posted a single picture of himself with Ritter…
Lake Worth Commissioner Cara Jennings apparently has some strong feelings about Israeli aggression in Palestine, because on Sunday, she headed down to the Israeli Consulate in downtown Miami, painted her face, climbed up on some stilts, and stood by the entrance, chanting and waving a sign until police hauled her…
