A glance at the headlines this Wednesday.In Broward County’s most ethics-challenged city, the ethics code survived the night. [Sun-Sentinel]A former Boynton Beach commissioner has an ethics crisis of his own as the Palm Beach State Attorney’s Office investigates allegations that David Katz took payments from tow-truck companies competing for city…
Deerfield Beach Commissioner Bill Ganz is entering his sixth month in office, and he still finds his colleagues unpredictable. He thought the city’s ethics code was safe. “I was as surprised and dismayed as anybody to find out it was on the agenda to be repealed,” he said this afternoon,…
A few hours before she takes her place at the dais and asks commissioners to strike down the Deerfield Beach ethics code, Mayor Peggy Noland rolled a shopping cart through the aisles of Winn-Dixie and spoke with Juice about why the code has to go. In short, because it’s a…
She’s young, beautiful, and married to a rich heir destined for a career in politics, but if Anna Pettersson-Loeb’s friends were jealous of her before, they’re not today. By virtue of her husband’s high profile as a candidate for Florida Senate, Pettersson-Loeb’s arrest on DUI charges is newsworthy. Buddy Nevins…
So what kind of right-wing wacko would endorse the amateur propagandists who produced the advertisement above? Adam Hasner, of course.According to Aaron Deslatte’s column in the Orlando Sentinel, the Boca Raton-based legislator and House majority leader was spotted peddling this material:Last weekend, at the Republican Party of Florida’s quarterly business…
A 59-year-old man was struck and killed by a car just after midnight today on A1A in Fort Lauderdale, according to a police department news release.Daniel Colotte was riding a bicycle north at the 1100 block of A1A near the Bahia Cabana and Yankee Clipper hotel at around 12:17. The…
The statement below arrives courtesy Deerfield Beach blogger Bett Willett, a co-president of the Original Save Our Beach Committee, which has closed ranks to oppose the city commissioners’ apparent back-sliding on ethics reform. Willett asks other supporters to attend tonight’s meeting with paper plates that say “Ethics YES.”Although, let’s hope…
Bruce Watters is a jeweler and “pillar of the community” during the week and a faith healer on the weekend. That’s right — the kind who summon the Holy Spirit, lay their blessed hands upon the lame and command, “Stand up in the name of Jesus!”His story, which appeared in…
There’s your new, unelected U.S. senator, Florida, in his former role as pseudojournalist. I don’t throw that term around lightly. It’s just that in “Topic One” and “Topic Four,” our Broward-based correspondent George LeMieux has sources that can give us a huge helping of inside dirt — namely, himself and…
Your Tuesday in South Florida news:Police questioned Bruce Strachan, the suspect in a triple homicide in Lake Worth, through the night, and we can expect an update this morning on that case. [WPBF]In a period of agonizing service cuts, a consultant says West Palm Beach can cut 52 jobs in…
The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office is reporting the arrest of Bruce Strachan, the ex-con wanted in connection with a triple murder this past weekend in Lake Worth. He was arrested less than an hour ago in Delray Beach without incident.Strachan, 25, will be charged with first degree murder in the…
The editorial sections of major Florida newspapers are furious about Crist’s pick of George LeMieux for U.S. Senate. But in their rage — or maybe it’s modesty — they forgot to mention how complicit their papers are in LeMieux’s selection.After all, Crist’s office was playing by the book, releasing LeMieux’s…
On the day before the Deerfield Beach Commission will vote on whether to repeal its ethics code, Commissioner Joe Miller is the one wildcard.Past remarks make it possible to predict how the four other members of the commission will vote. Check out the minutes of the March 3 commission meeting,…
Venus and Serena Williams have been either training for tennis championships or winning them since they were old enough to walk. Nearing 30 years old, they still live with their dad in the family’s estate in Palm Beach Gardens. This makes their life stories fascinating — but it also makes…
Judging by this agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting, Deerfield Beach commissioners are ready to fling their ethics code out the window after just two and a half months. The idea belongs to Mayor Peggy Noland, who needs an ethics code worse than Michael Beasley needs a Twitter editor.The paper-thin excuse…
I suspect someone on West 43rd Street in Manhattan lost a boatload condo flipping. Why else is the world’s leading newspaper so determined to embarrass Broward County? Just a week after the New York Times gave multimedia treatment to the delirious ramblings of health-care worrywarts in Sunrise Lakes — a…
Anyone got Shatner’s number? Because isn’t he the guy to call when looking to unlock the poetry contained within a true conservative’s Twitter posts? So please channel the voice of the Emmy Award winner and master thespian as we read from Marco Rubio’s Twitter page. The most recent post:To those…
On what’s unofficially the last week of summer, here’s what’s in the news:Florida’s U.S. senator designate, George LeMieux, did not fall for an effort by Alan Mendelsohn, the Hollywood ophthalmologist and Charlie Crist fundraiser, to lure the administration into admitting complicity in the Mutual Benefits fraud, according to investigators in…
The political story of the week was Gov. Charlie Crist naming Broward homeboy George LeMieux to the open seat in the U.S. Senate. After some initial shock, we recovered our wits. Lisa Rab got this report from Fort Lauderdale City Hall, where Broward big shots lined up to congratulate the…
