If this study is true in claiming that there really is a relationship between a nation’s high temperatures and its lack of prosperity, then shouldn’t that apply to American states? If so, that bodes badly for this here peninsula.It’s “a huge effect,” Olken says. The difference between a country that’s…
They’re coming. In swarms. From north to south. The killer bees, capable of assuming sphere shapes and terminating humans, with extreme prejudice. Yes, before they struck the Broward Correctional Institution yesterday, the little bastards wreaked havoc in St. Lucie County. A few months ago, the TC Palm fielded a report…
But this dude will be able to buy one sweet-ass toupee after he wins his lawsuit against the Age-Defying Surgical Center in Fort Lauderdale, which he claims denied him service based on his medical condition. Maybe even the Sam Donaldson model, seen at left.You can bet the center is gonna…
“I didn’t come here looking for a job,” attorney Sam Goren said May 14 at an emergency meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s Board of Commissioners. In the moments before, commissioners had relied upon Goren’s legal counsel in determining that their general counsel, Marc Goldstone, should be fired. Now…
To piggyback on a Fred Grimm column in the Herald and a Smashed Frog blog post — as well as the article that started it all, in our sister paper — I’ll venture a prediction that recent concerns about draconian laws regulating sex offenders will have the opposite effect on…
The recent arrival of Lu Hardin as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University is yet another instance of a wayward soul landing in South Florida in hopes of escaping an unsavory past. Whether you’re a disgraced college president like Hardin or a disgraced basketball executive like Isiah Thomas or an…
After Charlie Crist annihilated Marco Rubio in the most recent round of fundraising for the U.S. Senate campaign, the boyish former House Speaker needs a game-changer. You know, someone who can bolster his maverick persona. Maybe someone who, like Rubio, gives Republicans hope that there’s a younger, more attractive generation…
Don’t kill yourself on Wednesday. Among other things, it’s a total cliche. A recent study finds that that day is the most popular one to kill yourself. Of those who do the deed, 24.6 percent do it on Wednesday. Saturday is a distant second at 14.4 percent, with Monday at…
Documents recently released by the North Broward Hospital District show that its chairman decided his board didn’t have a corruption problem so much as a Martin Goldberg problem. That’s the name of the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district’s Board of Commissioners to investigate allegations that…
West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her personal battle against breast cancer, and in the war against the disease, she just won a purple heart. Last night in Washington, D.C., during a softball game whose proceeds went to breast cancer, Wasserman Schultz fractured her leg and sprained her ankle…
I don’t reckon there’s many of you who remember Oliver Sipple. He was the troubled gay man who never wanted to be famous — and wasn’t, really — even though he deserved to be. If for no other reason than for his knack for accidental encounters with major historical figures…
In an era of unprecedented financial insecurity for the state that Charlie Crist governs, the aspiring U.S. senator achieved an unprecedented financial windfall. During his campaign’s most recent quarter, he raised $4.3 million.That combination isn’t lost on Adam Smith, political editor of the St. Petersburg Times. He muses:Just think what…
Larry Bird had Magic Johnson. Muhammad Ali had Joe Frazier. Roger Federer has Rafael Nadal. To make Coral Springs’ Alexis Thompson a national sports icon, she’ll need a nemesis, and she may have found one in Alison Lee. They’re both 14-year-old golfers, and this past weekend’s slug-out at the U.S…
Someone please tell Money Magazine that South Florida has not been swallowed by the ocean (yet). How else could the editors not name a single town in this region to its list of the best towns to live in America? In fact, the nation’s fourth-largest state doesn’t get a single…
MCNA Dental Plans, a benefits system based in Fort Lauderdale, wanted a $20 million contract from the managed care group that administers Medicaid spending in Kentucky. State Sen. Julie Denton, a former dental hygienist, wanted a job. They both got what they wanted.Now I’m not saying that there was a…
Meet Travis McGee, the world’s next aspiring action hero. They can’t all leap from the pages of fiction into celluloid as gracefully Ian Fleming’s James Bond, but what the hell? The studios love the prospect of a franchise, and with 21 novels available for adaptation into screenplays, they could churn…
A guess: That’s the first airline safety video you watched voluntarily. To conclusion. (Those who didn’t missed the bare bum!). Ah, so now you have? Such is the power of the prospect of nudity. On this blog, we’ve teased our own local airline, Spirit, for its using sex to get…
Sam Goren, acting general counsel for the $1 billion North Broward Hospital District, took that job despite having conflicts of interest, according to statements Goren himself made to a district investigator months before Goren assumed his new position.The investigator, Miami attorney Martin Goldberg, was hired by the board to look…
He can’t legally drive down the Glades Parkway in his hometown of Weston, but 15-year-old Gabby Chaves has a half-million dollar Formula BMW race car that he’s driven at speeds of 150 mph en route to being the league’s youngest champion ever.Weston, apparently, is where the U.S. hides its world-class…
Deon Thomas, the former University of Illinois basketball star who had retired in South Florida and who started a new career coaching junior varsity at The University School in Fort Lauderdale, just landed his first collegiate coaching job. Thomas is the new head basketball coach and athletic director of Lewis…
A law firm retained by Deerfield Beach to evaluate reports of ethics violations has opened an investigation into the conduct of the city’s vice mayor, Sylvia Ferguson — formerly Sylvia Poitier. But the same firm dismissed three other ethics complaints against Ferguson, saying they failed the “prima facie” standards set…
What is it about the deaths of celebrities that brings out the worst in mankind? Broward residents got a gruesome look at this phenomenon after Anna Nicole Smith died. But the Michael Jackson case was bound to be an even bigger, more bizarre circus. So before it gets too topsy-turvy…
