As anyone with cable news knows by now, there will be a public memorial for Caylee Anthony tomorrow in Orlando. Caylee’s grandmother Cindy asked the Orlando Sentinel to publish this eulogy in advance of the funeral. Notice that Cindy Anthony specifically invites only “those with the purest of hearts and…
The original episode of COPS (AKA The White Trash Oscars) was filmed 20 years ago in Broward County, and tonight Broward Sheriff’s Office is back on the air. Our boys are on at 8:30 on the Fox affiliate, WSVN Ch. 7. Called the “Back to Broward: Special Edition” episode, the…
Remember when I told you that a riot at the Pecos, Texas prison run by a Boca Raton company, had ended with a “positive outcome”? I was wrong. That’s what I get for relying on the guarantees of the Geo Group, which probably should have delayed claiming victory until after…
The physician assister of suicides, Jack Kevorkian, lives for the limelight, and he got an extra big ego boost yesterday. First he got the chance to rant and rave at KCBS’s Carey Codd. (Great interview, Jack — you totally didn’t sound like a street preacher that time!)Then he climbed up…
Maybe Hollywood Commissioner Beam Furr is right that an ordinance to ban private commissioner meetings with lobbyists is “unconstitutional.” But it’s still a shrewd move by Mayor Peter Bober and Commissioner Heidi O’Sheehan to champion the legislation. Or rather, to force their less savory colleagues to effectively vote for lobbyists…
Starting February 18, television signals are scheduled switch to digital, meaning that people with analog televisions (read: the elderly) who don’t have converter boxes would lose their signal. But today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to push conversion back to June. President Obama is expected to sign that bill…
Fort Lauderdale-based AutoNation, which has been battered by the recession like the rest of the auto industry, will have a majority shareholder — ELS Investment Inc. That’s Eddie Lampert, a financier who’s made his billions by identifying companies who have ruined their potential through mismanagement. Lampert swoops in, demands competency,…
Not the riot in Pecos, but this is what one looks like. Perhaps the only thing harder to contain than a prison riot is the embarrassment that comes after a prison riot. But still. Boca Raton-based Geo Group has done a ham-handed job spinning the riot that broke out Saturday at…
How conservative is Larry Cretul, the new speaker of the Florida House? So conservative that he once coerced an abortion provider into committing a crime. It all started back in 1997, when Cretul was a commissioner in Marion County. An abortion doctor, Dr. James Scott Pendergraft, was threatening to open…
The governor says it’s “more than likely” he will run for reelection as governor rather than seeking the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Mel Martinez, as has been rumored. Weak, Charlie! You’ve left yourself acres of wiggle room. And the attempt at changing the subject to your chat…
I’m not so sure high school security guards should have tasers in the first place. And I definitely don’t think they should be unleashed on a couple 18-year-old women, like happened yesterday at a high school in Pompano Beach. The goofy guy on the left is enough to subdue the…
No. Sen. Mel Martinez says he won’t leave his post early, and he’s too busy to deal with your scurrilous rumors, Media. He is whipping up an economic stimulus plan that will rescue the nation from economic despair, thank you very much.It will be a smashing success and Republicans and…
When Fifty Cent rapped about dealing drugs and surviving a hail of bullets, he had credibility. The Game claims his from having ‘banged with the Bloods during a Compton upbringing. So you’d think dealing drugs and a federal penitentiary stay would confer industry advantages to a 30-year-old West Palm Beach…
After the hero vanquishes the villain, it’s usually our cue to leave the theater. And so it is with Hollywood politics. Peter Bober (right), the fresh-faced, sweet-talking protagonist who in lieu of a Bat-mobile drove a Segway, toppled the tyrannical regime of Mara Giulianti a year ago. Say what you…
Barabaro’s brother, Nicanor (above), will make his racing debut tomorrow at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, exactly two years after the death of the horse that won the hearts of a nation. Or at least the sentimental half.It’s a good thing horses can’t understand the pressure of expectations… Can they?After the…
House Speaker Ray Sansom stepped down today. He’s the one who lobbied to win state funds for a college, which then gave him a $110,000 job — a chain of events that Sansom would have us believe were unrelated. Sansom has said he “welcomed” an investigation, which is good, because…
OK, I’m exaggerating a little. But are you telling me this team couldn’t have scored a couple touchdowns against the Detroit Lions? Next Wednesday is National Signing Day, which is to college football fans what Christmas is to 8-year-olds. It’s the day when high school seniors sign a letter of…
Man, I turn my head for one day (to work on some print edition goodies) and all hell breaks loose in that 2010 Senate race. Democratic Rep. Allen Boyd is out. Democratic State Sen. Dan Gelber is in. Attorney General Bill McCollum is out. It’s such a free-for-all that even…
Today’s Herald quotes Broward school officials who say that in this year’s budget talks, “everything is on the table.” That might mean fewer high school sporting events or no more bus rides to magnet schools. Or even cutting one class out of the students’ daily schedule. Desperate measures for desperate…
See you in Fort Lauderdale, hot stuff.I’ve been seeing an awfully lot of Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals paraphernalia in the Fort Lauderdale area. Two possible explanations:The locals are jumping on the bandwagon now that these teams are Super Bowl-bound.Steelers and Cardinals fans are flocking to South Florida because they’re…
Today’s local section of The New York Times tells the story of Blanca Bohorquez, who emigrated from Bogota with friends and family two years ago, settling in Coral Springs, where she hoped to learn English. In Coral Springs, the family found a house to share, Ms. Bohorquez a job at…
I will venture a guess that Jack Seiler, Dean Trantalis, and Steve Rossi all have some familiarity with porn. The difference between those three candidates and the fourth candidate for Fort Lauderdale mayor is a paper trail: Earl Rynerson’s credit card statements contain charges that can be traced back to…
