When I saw this headline — “Partners Bring Boca to Middlesex County” — I feared the worst. Because let’s face it: Lately, when you hear about a Boca business model being applied somewhere else in America, it’s because it ended in a lawsuit, if not a criminal conviction.And yet despite…
Congressman Kendrick Meek just posted the above video from CBS 4’s Tuesday newscast to his campaign’s YouTube account, and you can see why. It shows Charlie Crist playing dumb about the role that George LeMieux’s law firm, Gunster Yoakley, played in getting visas for the immigrant workers who were hired…
Broward Circuit Court Judge Dale Cohen has dismissed a motion by former Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini to dismiss the felony corruption charges against him, a spokesman for the prosecutor told Juice a moment ago.We reported on Cohen’s order yesterday, based on hearing of it from a source with knowledge…
Yes, you heard right. In the closing moments of that Capital News Service video, the reporter says that Broward County trailblazer George LeMieux “is leaving open the possibility that he’ll run for U.S. Senate in 2012,” when that darned Democrat Bill Nelson is up for reelection. Which means if his…
For Bernie Madoff, the bulls never shat. And no bull ever failed to float. We’re speaking literally, of course. Figuratively, the bullshit was mountainous and doomed to sink him. But we learned this week that his Palm Beach mansion and Manhattan penthouse were festooned with bronze bulls and that in…
Here’s what’s going on this morning in Broward and Palm Beach counties:A 33-year-old woman from Palm Beach County has died from H1N1, despite having none of the conditions that suggest she should have been at greater risk. So doctors are warning the public to get treatment in cases in which…
Seriously, that classic SNL sketch above is only slightly more absurd than the kind that is being circulated by Boca Raton’s state legislator and House leader, Adam Hasner. In tonight’s speech, Obama took on the “death panel” myth and the socialism myth and remembered to shave the Hitler mustache that…
In this week’s New Times feature, Natalie O’Neill and Lisa Rab team up for a haunting portrait of South Floridians who during the past two years have leaped to their deaths from the region’s high-rises. The deceased range from a beautiful and popular sorority girl to a lonely rich man…
That was quick. Here we expected to wait two weeks for Broward Circuit Court Judge Dale Cohen to rule on the motion to dismiss felony corruption charges against former Deerfield Beach Mayor Al Capellini — and now comes word from a well-placed source that Cohen will deny that motion.Having learned…
Back in May, Juice did a two-part series on Deon Thomas, the former high school phenom and University of Illinois star who, after a lengthy career playing pro ball, had retired to Pembroke Pines, where he had been coaching a junior varsity team and running clinics on the weekend. (part…
Citing a Marco Rubio campaign ad, St. Petersburg Times politics blog Buzz earlier today asked whether Charlie Crist had “pulled a McCain” — committing a tactical blunder that gives his opponent evidence that he’s out of touch and unfit to lead.Purely from the headline, Juice assumed that the paper was…
At tonight’s joint session of Congress, Florida will have two senators in the audience in a position to make good on a policy — health-care reform — that is the subject of tonight’s speech and that was a major part of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, for which a majority of…
That’s the trailer for Durham County, the darkest, most daring fall series by Ion, the West Palm Beach-based network formally known as Pax. As Pax, the network had aired nighttime programming from the Worship Network until it had a mainstream makeover in 2005, airing long-finished shows like Mama’s Family and…
Thanks for that, Smithers. Now that we’re in the midst of the public hearings on whether to build two new nuclear power plants on Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light is asking you to think of nuclear power as an adorable, avuncular, and perfectly harmless cartoon character.Keep Smilin’ Joe Fission…
On the day that Obama has chosen for his health-care miracle, let’s look at what’s happening on this rain-spattered peninsula.Opening arguments today in the trial of the week: Toby and Kerstin Fenn, accused of first-degree murder in the death of Elly Lorey — Kerstin’s 89-year-old mother, who had Alzheimer’s and…
Every time a Boston movie comes out, it’s thick with accents, and always the Bostonians complain that the actors didn’t quite get it. So I admire the ambition of Thom Jones, an actor from West Palm Beach who became captivated by regional accents and since making it his specialty has…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is reporting that Antonio Flores, a 24-year-old Lake Worth resident, was driving drunk and without a license when last Thursday he crashed a gold Saturn into a pole on Sixth Avenue South in Lake Worth. Today he was charged with DUI manslaughter in the deaths…
Maybe that wasn’t the housing bubble that burst in South Florida. The real supernova may have been Mark Philippoussis, the tennis star whose South Florida debauchery was an economic engine that finally ground to a halt in 2005, when he sold his Delray Beach mansion. The big Aussie who displayed…
Until lately, Dr. Harold Jonas didn’t have a demand problem. He had attracted so much national interest for the counseling and training services he offered through Sober.com, the real problem was supplying those services to struggling addicts and aspiring recovery specialists who for financial reasons couldn’t fly to Delray Beach…
As we come down the final stretch of tennis’ U.S. Open, the draws are conspicuously lacking in South Floridians. Only Serena Williams of Palm Beach Gardens has made it to the tournament’s quarterfinals.And things started so auspiciously for our local contingent. On the men’s side, Boca Raton’s adopted son Jesse…
