Our Florida legislators have some budget-cutting to do, but they also need to improve the state’s education system, which is fast becoming a national embarrassment. This will take some creativity. Republicans, as the majority party, you’re up.Adam Hasner, Republican from Delray Beach, called a news conference yesterday to herald his…
South Floridians have been hit as hard as any other region by this economic crisis, reminders of which creep into seemingly every aspect of our daily lives. Assuming that humor really is the last refuge of the damned and because curiosity is recession-proof and Cosmo-style tests are highly addictive, get…
Sorry, folks in the South Florida convention-recruitment and -staging biz. Didn’t mean to let the secret out that people who come for these conferences don’t actually go to these conferences. For most, it’s little more than a chance to get shitfaced in a new state, on the company dime.And then…
Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Fumo, the subject of a 22-week criminal trial in Philadelphia, was convicted yesterday on 137 fraud and conspiracy charges. A jury found Fumo guilty of stealing some $4 million, a sum that may have helped him pay for the $2.5 million Fort Lauderdale home pictured above,…
Lately, there has been little news about last month’s most breathlessly covered local story — the two British tourists who were killed when a drag-racing Porsche lost control and struck them as they walked along Seabreeze Boulevard. I haven’t been able to find an article with more recent information than…
Yeah, depressing isn’t it? Today’s Houston Chronicle reports on one victim of that slightly lesser (alleged) Ponzi, the Stanford Group. A North Carolina man named William Allen couldn’t close his Stanford account before the Feds froze it. Among the last things he bought before the company went Madoff? A trip…
The Palm Beach Post’s Jose Lambiet has what can only be called an enviable gig. In the frenzied field of celebrity reporting, Lambiet doesn’t need to chase. The celebrities come to him.This morning’s news of Madonna’s possible move to Wellington is like a big juicy Maraschino cherry on an already…
(Sadly, only the biggest of my fellow Star Wars dorks will catch the pun in that headline. Anyway…)On one side of this intergalactic conflict, the Florida Professional Tattoo Artists Guild. The nonprofit corporation has been active in legislative issues that affect the state’s tattoo industry since the early 1990s. More…
This whole arrest-on-felony-drug-charges thing came along just when Howard K. Stern’s legal life had finally calmed. The attorney ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith filed a lawsuit in Fort Lauderdale’s U.S. District Court in April 2007 against mega-millionaire attorney, John O’Quinn, accusing the lawyer of libel for statements O’Quinn made in…
Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper is heading back on the national pundits’ circuit now that California prosecutors have filed felony drug charges against Howard K. Stern and two doctors in connection with the February 2007 death of Anna Nicole Smith from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs. That…
Sen. John Kerry knows a thing or two about boating safety. He actually drove one around during some stupid war in Southeast Asia. Now he’s trying to bring more safety to the cruise liners, which apparently are floating anarchies. Ship staff don’t have to report the crimes that occur outside…
U.S. Senate candidate Congressman Kendrick Meek of Miami will be coming to Pompano Beach tomorrow morning to snag another labor endorsement.The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, AFL-CIO, with offices on South Andrews Boulevard, will officially back Meek’s bid for the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat to be…
Below, the first of the two-page incident report for Jeffrey Kerlikowske, the stepson of Obama nominee for drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske. In October 2002 Jeffrey Kerlikowske was booked on battery charges after his live-in girlfriend accused him of slamming her head against kitchen cabinets and throwing her 6-pound Yorkie against…
Gil Kerlikowske, chief of the Seattle Police Department, was introduced to the media yesterday as the Obama administration’s nominee to lead the Office of Drug Control Policy. Meanwhile, his stepson Jeffrey sits in a Broward County jail cell.Jeffrey Kerlikowske, 39, of Coconut Creek, has a history of selling marijuana and…
This morning, MSNBC interviewed one of the many, many victims of Bernard Madoff, who entered his guilty plea to 11 felony charges this morning so he can go to prison to die. The victim, Peter Moskowitz, asks a good question: Is Madoff being a good general, jumping on the proverbial…
Man, what a lame crop of Rush Limbaugh insults the national Democrats have selected as their finalists in the West Palm Beach billboard of hate campaign. “Americans Didn’t Vote for a Rush to Failure”Limbaugh will just say, “Well, a vote for Obama was the quickest way to failure, so technically…
Boca Raton has its own dynamic duo in Tallahassee. There’s State Rep. Adam Hasner, the Republican. And there’s Sen. Ted Deutch, the Democrat. Based on party affiliation, who would you suppose is the one who wants to play hardball with Iran? And which one is a champion of the electric…
I still haven’t heard back from Deerfield Beach City Manager Michael Mahaney, but his office just emailed a copy of the message that apparently was the basis for an investigation into whether the city’s firefighters played an improper role in the recently wrapped election.The author of the note is Deerfield…
Every single Circuit City has closed, because the Great Depression has caused us to stop buying ginormous television sets. The company hired a Fort Lauderdale man named Frank Joseph Connor II to help liquidate the merchandise at its store in Tredyffrin Township, Pa., just north of Philadelphia. But “liquidate” does…
Not 24 hours after Peggy Noland won the Deerfield Beach mayoral race, she’s already got a scandal on her hands. And no, I’m not talking about her son’s election eve arrest on charges of stealing campaign signs of other mayoral candidates. Guess that should be “scandals,” plural.Multiple sources tell Juice…
8:31 Welcome to the Juice muni elections liveblog. I will be doing the play-by-play. At my left is the color commentator, a highly flatulent greyhound who somehow managed to cast a ballot (for Al Capellini, natch) and has been flaunting her “My Vote Counted” sticker to all the other mutts…
Oh, it’s mighty tempting to go cruise the election night party circuit, but I’ve learned the hard way that venturing more than 50 feet away from my laptop causes some news bomb to go off. So I’ll be here, tonight, liveblogging the election returns. Polls close at 7, so check…
