Palm Beach financier Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty and get a life sentence.Here’s betting that Bernie’s future fellow inmates are looking forward to performing a very literal rendition of what Madoff did figuratively to his investors…
Now that we know former County Commissioner Mary McCarty managed to steer lucrative bond deals to her husband’s bond underwriting firm, it would seem high time that the county reform the way it chooses a firm for financing the bonds issued to fund major public projects. Currently, Palm Beach and…
Your favorite, gun-toting, suspended Miramar commish, Fitzroy Salesman, woke early this morning to cast his vote without the television cameras. That plan didn’t quite work.Much to the chagrin of those reporters, Salesman did not whip out a gun and tell them to “back the fuck off.” Last week, a mistrial…
Most every hockey fan enjoys the clash of a few goons, but imagine how the goons’ parents feel. Here’s an article about Boca Raton resident Gilles Roy, a project manager for a South Florida construction firm, who can hardly bear to watch his son in action.“Nobody in their right mind…
The St. Pete Times political blog, The Buzz, just posted this interview with Florida Democratic Party Chair Karen Thurman: At about the 90-second mark, Thurman responds to criticism that the party lacks a “bench” by touting Jack Seiler’s victory in the Fort Lauderdale mayoral race. If a Democrat winning election…
Finally, the end of the municipal election cycle is upon us. A few races we’ll be watching today:In Fort Lauderdale, we’ve got runoffs in three commission districts, which means that a majority of the city’s governing body will be elected today, joining mayor-elect Jack Seiler and Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom, both…
BSO just made public its interviews with James Rosa and Anthony Russo, the two 20-year-olds who were among the four charged with petty theft in connection with stolen campaign signs.The report indicates that both Rosa and Russo implicated Thomas Noland, son of Deerfield Beach mayoral candidate Peggy Noland, along with…
Screw it. Let’s slap a “gate” on this puppy.One of those arrested this morning in connection with destroying campaign signs in Deerfield Beach, 20-year-old Anthony Scott Russo, told police he “kind of sort of used to date [Noland’s] daughter when in school.” Earlier today, Noland told the Juice that the…
Deerfield Beach mayoral candidate Peggy Noland is beating back an 11th hour campaign scandal — early this morning her son 20-year-old son Thomas, a Deerfield Beach firefighter, was arrested on charges of criminal mischief for stealing campaign signs of ex-Mayor Al Capellini and others.I reached Noland just a few minutes…
It would be one thing if a South Florida paper was heralding U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek as the frontrunner in the U.S. Senate’s Democratic primary for 2010. It’s a far more auspicious thing that a Tampa Bay paper is making that claim, albeit with some hesitation. Along with Orlando, Jacksonville…
For a bill that aimed to overhaul Florida’s regulation of the tattoo industry, it sure was quiet. Stealthy, almost. Senate Bill 1130, sponsored by Hallandale Beach Sen. Eleanor Sobel, was introduced February 2. It cruised through committee, then headed to the Florida House, where it flew through committees again. It…
Oh, sure. It starts with ducks. Then it’s cats, maybe a dog. Eventually, that loses its thrill and the sick bastard upgrades to humans. So we really have to catch the Miramar Duck Killer, who struck again yesterday. From a statement released today by the Humane Society:The second duck was…
… silent Muslim? State Rep. Adam Hasner kinda freaked out when he learned that followers of the Islamic faith were going to visit Tallahassee, where he works. Also, these people were going to talk.It seems that in order to face down this menace, the Delray Beach Republican wants to organize…
That’s what the AP is reporting, citing a motion filed by prosecutors in his case…
This may come as a surprise to those who rely on the Deerfield Beach Dispatch for all their news, but the city’s ex-mayor will not be cleared, as that paper predicted in a front-page headline last month. At least, not yet. A Broward judge denied Al Capellini’s motion to dismiss…
Hey, Democratic donors of Florida! Guess how your political party has decided to spend some of your hard-earned donations? If you guessed “Buy a Florida billboard with which to cast aspersions at Rush Limbaugh,” then you are psychic, or merely a reader of Wonkette.Here is the Democratic Party web page…
South Florida has recently welcomed a visitor from a more advanced civilization: the American Northeast. Mind you, this one wasn’t captured by one of our tribes and dragged here for interrogation. His spaceship did not crash-land here. Rather, William Haseltine, a “scientist, businessman and philanthropist,” came to South Florida of…
That is the implicit message from our new president to our new director of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, W. Craig Fugate, whose appointment was announced today by the Obama White House. In his eighth year as the director of Florida’s Division of Emergency Management, Fugate was a Jeb Bush…
A display case at a Barnes & Noble in Coral Gables. If you don’t know the answer, you’re a racist. Barnes and Noble corporate has issued an apology, though it sounds like the local store management is blaming a customer.From time to time customers will move titles from one area…
Fort Lauderdale Police have released the search warrant in connection with the deaths of two British tourists last month, struck by a white Porsche that was drag-racing on Seabreeze Boulevard. It appears that LeVin and his friend, Derek Cook of Tamarac, switched cars before the accident, the Sun-Sentinel is reporting.According…
There has never been a female leader of the Florida Senate’s Democratic Caucus — and there won’t be till 2010, when Sen. Nan Rich, the Weston Democrat, assumes the role. She will get the formal designation at a press conference in Tallahassee at 10:30 this morning.”It’s long overdue,” said Rich…
OK, they cook up some zany ideas over there at the Florida Progressive Coalition Blog, but this one takes the cake: To challenge the otherwise-inevitable Charlie Crist victory in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, blogger Mark Weaver is casting Miami Beach resident celebrity Matt Damon in the role of Democratic…
