In Washington, D.C., the St. Petersburg Times politics blog Buzz button-holed Sen. George LeMieux, who’s holding that seat for his benefactor, Charlie Crist. Here’s what LeMieux had to say about young, handsome, impeccably conservative Marco Rubio, who’s been hammering Crist over supporting the federal stimulus:It’s very easy to be a…
The headlines around South Florida:Ken Keechl was picked by his fellow Broward County commissioners as mayor, which is exciting because he’s gay and because he hasn’t been the subject of a recent criminal investigation for corruption. Progress! [WPLG]Rene Varela won the runoff for Lake Worth mayor, defeating restaurant owner and…
In a brief telephone conversation this afternoon, Nazi historian David Irving confirmed that his websites and private email account were attacked by hackers opposed to his writings of World War II. He told me that he’s been in contact with the FBI in hopes of bringing the hackers to justice…
David Irving, a British historian with controversial views of the Holocaust, whose speaking engagement last month in Manalapan was marred by a stabbing between neo-Nazis, has had his websites attacked and his email hacked by a group claiming “anti-fascist” motives.It happened on Friday, apparently, just a day before Irving’s speech…
Check out the star-studded guest list for this weekend’s conference by David Horowitz’s Freedom Center. Among them: Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Fred Thompson, Liz Cheney, and the unflushable Geert Wilders, the Dutch parliamentarian who’s back to help us fight terrorists and illegal immigrants — or does he not distinguish between…
The Florida Bar Association has ruled that Sam Goren, acting general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, did not act incompetently or violate professional ethics standards in giving advice to the board, which led to the firing of the district’s two lead attorneys and the hiring of Goren’s firm…
Let’s check out local news on this Tuesday:Which boat of Bernie’s floats your boat? The whole “flotilla” is to be auctioned today in Fort Lauderdale, with proceeds going toward a good cause: the scores of cheated investors. But mostly, attorney fees. [Sun-Sentinel]Dalia Dippolito, the Boynton Beach woman who’s accused of…
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that former Broward County commissioner Joe Eggelletion was a vice mayor under Broward Mayor Stacy Ritter. This article has also been changed to clarify Ritter’s relationship with Scott Rothstein.After the year that Broward County has had, we may all need shot…
That’s video from August 29, when Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank Ortis climbed in the ring with NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor. Considering that LT could have crushed Ortis’ skull with one swing, I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that the rolly-polly mayor is an advocate of civility and…
On the right, pictured beneath the unforgiving fluorescent light in the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office, that’s Ann Marie Fletcher, a dancer at Platinum Showgirls. Or at least she was a dancer as recently as October 30, when the Boynton Beach club was raided by police. Were it not, maybe Fletcher…
Daniel Arnodo, a 26-year-old from Coral Springs, was one of the two people killed Sunday morning in a fire that erupted in his home in the Shaker Village subdivision just north of Commercial Boulevard.The other fatality is a woman, but Broward Sheriff’s Office investigators aren’t going to name her until…
In a post Friday I quoted a former dancer who claimed that clubowner Matt Barrow was conscientious about the law and that he strictly forbade both drugs and sex with customers. She expressed doubt about investigators’ claims that Barrow and club managers were aware of and profited from the dancers’…
Just what the Rothstein investigation needed: a big dose of public pressure by people who don’t have a clue about the case but have some weird emotional need to see the already disgraced attorney slightly more humbled by being placed in a jail cell. That’s what you’ve got in today’s…
A peek at the local stories people are talking about on this Monday:Three Coral Springs teenagers are dead following a strange accident early Sunday morning, which started with a fender bender. For some reason, the car accelerated away from the scene, then flipped into the canal. [WPLG]Bob Norman got his…
This week I spoke with a former dancer at Platinum Showgirls, the gentleman’s club in Boynton Beach that was raided on the night of October 30. That raid came after a sting by undercover officers who claimed they found drug-dealing and prostitution.The dancer, who knows club management and several current…
Roldry Philia, a 34-year-old Delray Beach Police officer, was arrested late last night on charges of beating his wife. The probable cause affidavit released by the Boynton Beach Police Department does not mention the name of Philia’s wife, just that she’s 24 years old. She told police that she’d been…
A parked car, a shooting in the early morning hours: The death of Michael Frank, a 22-year-old from Lighthouse Point, sounded like it was drug-related, and that’s what Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are reporting, now that they’ve arrested Filipe Cruz, the man they believe killed Frank around 2 a.m. Thursday…
Documents recently made available by the North Broward Hospital District show that former general counsel Laura Seidman made major improvements to a legal department that — by some indications — had been full of cronyism and waste under attorney Bill Scherer. The most striking example of Seidman’s progress: She reduced…
A metaphor of a different of age, construction of the Oasis of the Seas began during a time in American history when it was still a good idea to flip Florida properties and take out a mortgage you couldn’t afford and invest with that guy whose record was so spectacular,…
