Former mayoral candidate and compulsive activist Earl Rynerson has been looking for dirt in the office of new Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler. Who knew he’d find it in his own mailbox?Judging by his blog post yesterday, Rynerson can barely contain his excitement over having received a form letter from…
That’s video from Saturday’s Netroots Coalition meeting in Miami Beach, where State Sen. Dan Gelber acknowledged his intention to leave the U.S. Senate race. Miami-Dade Democratic activist Larry Thorson posted it last night on the Daily Kos, along with his congratulations for the Democrats avoiding a nasty primary battle, so…
It’ll be weeks, at least, till we learn how Gov. Charlie Crist intends to respond to the politically explosive packet of material he received last week from the North Broward Hospital District. It’s the report of a former assistant U.S. Attorney retained by the North Broward Hospital District Board to…
The literal treatment of a music video strewn with metaphor. Now can we do this with the rest of the Eighties videos, please?…
Last week, the Hollywood Commission considered a measure that would have broadened the “cone of silence” rule for city officials. They rock the cone in Miami — click here and scroll down for a definition. Basically, when the city puts a project out for bid, the contenders and their supporters…
The Federal Aviation Administration has been investigating Gulfstream International Airlines in Fort Lauderdale ever since operator error was blamed for the February 12 crash of a flight bound for Buffalo, N.Y. The regional operator has come under fire for allegedly falsifying flight logs and letting pilots fly without sufficient rest…
Specifically, Sen. Bill Nelson, Charlie Crist, Kendrick Meek and Republican fundraiser-slash-rodeo enthusiast Ron Bergeron. They were joined by a national political dignitary, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. They all hopped on airboats — Bergeron drove one of them, man’s man that he is — and went traipsing around the Great Swamp…
The political point was a bit convoluted, as we discussed yesterday, but this afternoon PETA hotties made good on their promise to take a shower on West Clematis. The animal rights group has used this stunt in a whole bunch of cities as a way to call attention…Oh, hell with…
It’s no fun to write a letter alleging corruption and send it to the Florida Ethics Commission or the Broward State Attorney. No, if you really want to make a splash, announce the allegations during the public comment period for an unrelated ethics case. Especially one that’s attended by a…
For 15 years, Leslie Stanford from Columbus, Ohio, had been working. She owed that employment, in part, to a diploma she earned at a correspondence school in Coral Springs. She had paid the so-called Clarmont School $200 admission, performed whatever assignments it sent in return, and in exchange the Clarmont…
Brian Holmes, a 24-year-old from Delray Beach, is accused of sucker-punching a clerk at an Upper Darby, Pa., gas station and then taking $100 out of her cash register. It seems to have been a crime of opportunity for a guy who had a cocaine and Oxycontin habit and who…
By the conclusion of yesterday’s long, rancor-filled meeting of the North Broward Hospital District’s Board of Commissioners, it seemed as though everybody just wanted to move on.Did Commissioner Joseph Cobo commit ethics violations? Well, gee, the district’s own investigator Martin Goldberg says — if I can paraphrase his 43-page report…
Deon Thomas is a Chicago hoops legend. In college, he was one of the University of Illinois’ all-time basketball greats. For the past decade-plus, he’s been a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star. Now, he’s a J.V. coach in the Broward ‘burbs. Specifically, Thomas tutors freshmen and sophomores who play for…
At only 21 years old, Hillary Dobbs of Palm Beach (and Sussex, N.J. — among other homes) is now a veteran of the same horse-jumping world where two years ago she was a prodigy. This week the daughter of the grumpy CNN financial anchor goes up against an 18-year-old who’s…
Consider this a prequel to this morning’s post about the Boca business dealings of Howard Needle. That post begged the question: Where did Needle get the original electronic cigarette that proved such a valuable tool for luring an investor like Richard Gladstone? It’s a story that Ron MacDonald can tell…
Hot chicks. Nude. Showering. In public. The prospect is so dazzling…well… it’s damned hard to focus on the political point. But if you can pry yourself away from that photo, we’ll give it a try.Before we get to that, it behooves me to mention the time and place. This PETA…
During a lengthy meeting this morning that saw roughly 40 speakers testify in favor of embattled Broward Health Commissioner Joseph Cobo, his fellow commissioners voted unanimously to send the investigative report alleging potential ethics violations to Gov. Charlie Crist. The Florida governor appoints commissioners to preside over the North Broward…
During the 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. George W. Bush vowed that if elected, he would nominate a Hispanic Supreme Court Justice. It certainly didn’t hurt his popularity in Florida’s Latin American community, and that was a race close enough where little things made a world of difference. Of course, he…
That’s the sarcastic lead-in by John Rabe, of Coral Ridge Ministries, who today is criticizing the sensitivities of South Florida’s gay community, on the alert for hate crimes after two gay men were beaten — one nearly to death — in separate robberies last month.Rabe, a YouTube successor to the…
The national conservative blogosphere is in no mood for moderation, and recently a video has circulated reminding them what they’re fighting for in Florida. That’s former Speaker Marco Rubio’s farewell address to the Florida House in 2008, before he became the underdog candidate for U.S. Senate. As such, it’s seen…
On a holiday weekend for honoring those who would put themselves in harm’s way for the good of the nation, it’s a relief that Officer Paul Kempinski will survive his encounter with a man armed for war. The Coral Springs cop was wounded Saturday while chasing Yancy Polk, fleeing a…
