So it looks like our serial cat-killer is probably not human after all. Nor is it the alien Chupacabra. Rather, it’s most likely a roving pack of bloodthirsty murderous dogs. Is this supposed to make us feel better?Juice reported last month that Broward’s Animal Care and Regulation Department has been…
No true political wonk goes 24 hours without checking fivethirtyeight.com, except maybe the people in Congressman Kendrick Meek’s senatorial campaign, because seriously, campaigns run on hope.Last week, the site’s wunderkind blogger, Nate Silver, devised a new metric (always with the metrics, this one) for analyzing a governor’s popularity. Silver took…
With Gossip Girl star Blake Lively attending its grand opening party Thursday night, the W Hotel of Fort Lauderdale looked to make a big splash on the celebrity headline circuit. But it seems the luxurious scene was stolen by a single paparazzo who mistook Lively for a cud-chewing beast of…
Even a White House trying to stave off a Great Depression and a nuclear war in the Middle East has found time to talk about whether Conan will sink or swim as the new host of The Tonight Show. So we may as well tackle this issue on Juice with…
Despite what you might have read in recent blog reports, it looks like we won’t get any official word on the candidates to be the region’s top prosecutor till next week. So say a couple of sources in the loop on this process.Here’s a document that lays out the rules…
For much of the past week since the May 27 meeting of the North Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners, Juice has been trying to reach the doctor who offered that meeting’s most fascinating testimony.Dr. Richard Glick’s remarks seemed to illustrate exactly how entrenched is the local health care system’s…
Maybe there’s method in the seeming madness of Adam Hasner’s right-wing associations. The House majority leader from Boca Raton sparked controversy in late April when he took a break from the state budget to make public appearances with anti-Islam Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Based on exit polls from elections yesterday…
Since the Major League Baseball debut of Fort Lauderdale native Anthony Swarzak, Southport Raw Bar has turned into the best place in South Florida to watch a Minnesota Twins game. At least on every fifth day.On days when Swarzak starts, as he did Wednesday, a banner out front welcomes a…
The Broward State Attorney’s Office has opened a criminal investigation of North Broward Hospital District Commissioner Joseph Cobo, based on allegations he used his public office for advantage in his private firm, Florida Medical Management Consultants.Cobo, of course, was investigated by a former assistant U.S. prosecutor, Martin Goldberg, who found…
Tomorrow is the deadline for applying for the job of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Unfortunately for eager bloggers, not a creature is stirring. Over this past week, Juice has phoned South Florida attorneys thought to be candidates for the nomination. None of them agreed to be…
It remains to be seen whether the serial cat killer grabbing airtime on local television news is the real thing or media-fueled hysteria. Now that a mutilated cat has turned up in Broward County, let’s try to be careful about conflating a serial feline killer with a serial human killer.Here’s…
Few politicians had as much stake during Barack Obama’s speech today in Cairo, than Palm Beach County-based U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, an early supporter of the president’s 2008 campaign and whose efforts to convince Jewish voters to cast votes for Obama helped deliver Florida to the Democrats.Wexler has tried to…
It was only a matter of time (seven months, apparently) before Vanity Fair called in its high-society contacts to offer the authoritative account of what Bernard Madoff did to its advertisers, subscribers, and the tradition of American royalty that its pages celebrate each month. Of course, that’s not quite the…
Tomorrow at 2 p.m., the North Broward Hospital District will have an “emergency” meeting. According to the announcement the purpose is for “discussion and possible action regarding the report of Martin Goldberg,” the former assistant U.S. Attorney who was hired by the district to investigate possible ethics violations by Commissioner…
A tipster claiming knowledge of the North Broward Hospital District’s investigation of Commissioner Joseph Cobo recently suggested Juice take a closer look at one of the most damning passages in the report: that Cobo allegedly used his power as a commissioner to do favors for a prospective client of his…
Monday marked the start of hurricane season in South Florida, but it seems a few youngsters in the region couldn’t wait for an actual hurricane to start the looting. BSO reports:Last night, at approximately 2:42 am, Deerfield Beach Deputies responded to Deerfield Beach Elementary in response to a silent alarm.Upon…
It’s been years since the television cameras stopped rolling, but Mike “Bogey” Boguslawski, the television icon who turned consumer reporting into performance art, is still plying his trade — now in South Florida. A household name in Southern California, Bogey’s gruff confrontational style endeared him to audiences in the late…
Remember the Boca Raton couple who had their dead dog cloned? Well, it’s been five months, and the Otto family’s puppy is growing up in a freakily familiar fashion. Lancelot’s the original. And the clone is Lancelot Encore. The St. Pete Times talked to Nina Otto for an article in…
With all the Boca-based financial fraud lately, one’s liable to wonder about the characters who occupy that town’s upper crust. But with Father’s Day coming this month, let’s consider exempting one member of that society from our suspicion: Kenneth Blum, Sr.The 82-year-old co-founder of United Health Care and former chairman…
Joe Truhe, former associate general counsel of the North Broward Hospital District, who was fired along with the district’s general counsel May 15, has sent a letter to hospital commissioners demanding that they investigate Sam Goren, the attorney who became the interim general counsel.In a letter dated June 1, Truhe…
If Jacksonville U.S. Rep Corrine Brown should become U.S. Sen. Corrine Brown, can we expect a whole crew of city (and state and possibly federal workers) to come to her home to stop the next tropical storm? After all, it’s pretty ridiculous that she had to call “several” times during…
