Crist Reaction to New Times Best Pool: I Want to Go to There

One of the best parts of being Florida governor is access to a jet with which to indulge your most sudden, insatiable geographical impulses.For example, New Times’ eagerly anticipated Best Of Broward/Palm Beach issue hit this website on June 11. (Memorize that date — we’ll get back to it.) The…

The Cat That Got Away

In a post Friday, we described the “Houdini-esque predicament” of Charles Saltzman, a former treasurer of the Deerfield Beach cat shelter, Feline Friends. Three years after leaving that position, he’d seemingly been caught red-handed, raiding a Feline Friends-controlled bank account of more than $11,000.The funds had been willed to Feline…

Re: Stolen Elections and What Iran Can Learn From South Florida

Iran’s Foreign Ministry is trying to lure the U.S. into a bigger role in that nation’s tempestuous election aftermath by accusing Americans of egging on protests that sparked violence this weekend. [Spokesman Hassan] Qashqavi drew comparisons to American election results. “No one encouraged the American people to stage a riot”…

Breast in Show: The Hooters Swimsuit Pageant

On Saturday, the media couldn’t get into Tehran, but they sure as hell were welcome at the Hooters 2009 International Swimsuit Pageant, staged this year at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Fort Lauderdale.A rather spectacular departure from the venue’s typically high-brow fare, the night started with…

Local TV Needs Character. Meet Bogey.

Every TV news station in South Florida follows the same script: attractive people reading a teleprompter full of news that’s spectacular on video, inconsequential to the viewer and forgotten in a flash. Fine. It’s theater. I get that. But theater thrives on character, too. And this is what’s lacking in…

“Dr. Mack King Carter Blvd”: Will That Be a One-Way Street?

The New Mount Olive Baptist Church has chosen to honor its long-time pastor, Dr. Mack King Carter, by naming a Fort Lauderdale street after him. A noble gesture, considering the $3,500 fee, and an especially bold leap of faith when one considers the church’s having already invested hundreds of thousands…

Allen Stanford Busted by Feds

R. Allen Stanford, the billionaire head of Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, which kept offices in Boca Raton and Miami, among other markets, was indicted today on charges of fraud and obstruction of justice. Our sister blog Riptide has a report…

Former Hospital District Attorney Files Suit

Joe Truhe, the former associate general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District, filed suit today, alleging that in firing him last month, the public health care system violated the Whisteblower’s Act. The suit also names Commissioner Robert Bernstein and the interim general counsel, Sam Goren, accusing the pair of…

Leading GOP Senator: Rubio’s the “Favorite”

Sen. Jim DeMint from South Carolina is one of the most conservative members of Congress, but it’s still something of a coup that he endorsed the most conservative contender in Florida’s Senate race, Marco Rubio.That’s because in doing so, DeMint is defying the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which endorsed Charlie…

Hospital District Emails Reveal Lawyer’s Bid to Save His Job

Judging by Marc Goldstone’s email inbox, the week of May 11 began like any other. That was a Monday, and the general counsel for the North Broward Hospital District exchanged emails with CEO Frank Nask about attending a health care convention the first week of June. But by Tuesday May…

Will It Ever Stop? Yo, I Hope So.

Now that MC Hammer has his own reality show, you just knew the Vanilla Ice cameo was soon to follow. The Wellington white boy man makes his appearance on this Sunday’s third episode for a “huge concert” in the only state white enough to fill a stadium for the show:…

In Deerfield Beach, a Ninja Strikes

Last night the Deerfield Beach City Commission conducted a seminar on how not to deal with a buzzing gadfly. Chaz Stevens was deprived his chance to address the commission (by video), he inspired his nemesis Vice Mayor Sylvia Poitier to climb down from the dais to address the commission as…

Wasting Away in Hallandale

As Hallandale Beach inches closer to cutting a big check to build its own wastewater treatment plant, Commissioner Keith London asks that his objections be duly noted in the historical record. For starters, London objects to a $150,000 study that tells the commission what it already knows: that the plant…