In about 90 ten minutes, the Deerfield Beach City Manager’s Office will have a meeting in the second-floor conference room of City Floor to review a new batch of bids among restaurateurs who would fill a precious piece of real estate at the end of the city’s pier.Last month, city…
Carla Borrego was a netball prodigy in Jamaica, but she left the sport and moved to Fort Lauderdale, where she tried to play a game similar to netball — except with a backboard. That is, basketball. At 6-foot-4, she dominated the opposition at Broward Community College, leading to a berth…
Drive slowly through this week’s New Times feature lest your propeller slice the mountainous flesh of the Manatees. Gus Garcia-Roberts gets close to the men whose jiggling performance art captivates Florida Marlins’ fans during the sixth-inning stretch.For those also inclined to forge a career from an expanding waistline, New Times…
Used to be, the young people would flock to Fort Lauderdale and clash with the old. It was called “spring break,” and the mighty beast was slew in the ’80s, according to the carbon dating of fossil remains. Now the old flock to Fort Lauderdale for the young. We know…
Suspended Broward County School District member Beverly Gallagher was a deeply flawed but still sympathetic figure three years ago when she gave New Times’ Bob Norman the amazing interview that was the centerpiece for this article.Norman had busted her cold, finding that Gallagher had landed a job with the Community…
It was Corruption Wednesday in Broward County. Thursday’s got a tough act to follow.Lacking celebrities in Broward, the paparazzi must chase corrupt politicians, leading to scenes like the one that occurred yesterday afternoon with the Family Gallagher. [Sun-Sentinel]The corruption charges should not be allowed to drown out a far lesser…
I suppose it’s a deck chair on the Titanic, but check out this page of then-Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman’s campaign finance treasurer’s report from 2005. In the two boxes on the top, in the column that requires the name and address of the campaign contributor, Salesman wrote, “Fund Raiser” and…
One of the puzzling parts of the criminal complaint against former Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman is why Salesman, if he was truly bent on helping crooked contractors get city work, didn’t shoot for the moon. Why not reel in a contract for more than a million dollars? After all, Salesman…
That was the $64,000 question at this afternoon’s press conference. Based on the affidavits filed in the criminal complaints, we know that the investigation — nicknamed Operation Flat Screen by agents — began in approximately April 2005. And it started with then-Miramar Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman, who has much to regret…
Over on Pulp, Bob Norman’s reporting that Broward County Commissioner Josephus Eggelletion was arrested this morning and that former Miramar City Commissioner Fitzroy Salesman may be next. UPDATED: Pulp confirmed the Salesman arrest. And now the FBI’s accusing Broward County School Board Member Beverly Gallagher, according to the Sun-Sentinel. More…
After a nude, 91-year-old Lake Worth man stopped a thief Saturday morning, he was cheered. Maybe it wasn’t the ticker tape parade Robert E. Thompson recalls from when he returned from World War II, but his deed was celebrated in all the Florida papers, and the tale even reached New…
In an era of Ponzi schemes and collapsing markets, let’s be sensitive to the greedy ultra-rich and the big businesses who, to their credit, have learned to become budget conscious. They got burned; they’re humbled. But they’re still proud — and still pretty damn rich. So for the record, they…
Here’s what’s brewing in Broward and Palm Beach this Wednesday morning:The Broward County Commission finally passed its budget, but not without ransacking some of the major arts and culture events. [Sun-Sentinel]Hollywood managed to pass a budget that called for just 13 layoffs and a tax hike that was smaller than…
South Floridians reside in one of the nation’s most expensive health-care markets, in a state rated among the nation’s worst for uninsured patients. Yet the North Broward Hospital District is the picture of financial health — at least judging by the presentation made by accountants for the $1 billion health-care…
The blue van above is thought to have been used in the robbery of a Brink’s Security office in Dania Beach this afternoon. According to Broward Sheriff’s Office, a Brink’s employee sustained a gunshot wound in the robbery, which occurred at the Merrill Industrial Center. The thieves must have had…
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress is the latest victim in the government’s campaign to lock up successful Floridians. Today the Lighthouse Point resident began serving a two-year prison sentence for shooting himself in the thigh at a New York City club. The incident occurred in November 2008,…
It’s been one of the talking points in the battle for major health-care reform — for all our medical technology, Americans have a lower life expectancy than that of other developed countries. Like Europe, where people smoke like chimneys. Far more than Americans do. So what gives?Today’s New York Times…
The bodies of all four passengers thought to be aboard the plane that crashed Sunday in the Everglades have been recovered, according to a Broward Sheriff’s Office release.BSO still isn’t identifying the victims of the crash, though it’s evident that it’s a Fort Lauderdale money manager and his wife, son,…
Never has there been a bank robber so mild-mannered, so sloppy about revealing his face, and so strangely uncatchable. And he just struck again in Boca Raton, where the camera caught his face square. How is it that we’ve not caught this guy yet?…
Just posted to Youtube, that’s the first of a six-part History Channel Gangland episode that aired in July about Top 6, the gang-slash-record label thought to have a role in violent clashes in Lake Worth and Boynton Beach, where its conflict with gang rivals has been the bloodiest. It’s a…
