Do journalists enjoy the right to freedom of speech? Not if they work for the Sun-Sentinel. After a two-years-and-still-running battle with the Department of Children and Families, Paul Scott Abbott went public to New Times (“Take the Child and Run,” Emma Trelles, February 24) about his fruitless attempts to rescue…
A former member of the Grace Christian World Church tells us the Rev. Stedroy Williams, the pastor featured in the February 24 issue of New Times (“Preying on the Congregation,” Julie Kay), has stepped down. The change came at the urging of a bishop he invited to investigate his church…
Ain’t she sweet? To the moviegoing masses, Meg Ryan conjures stock images of hearts, flowers, a perpetually pink pout, and that screaming fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally. Hard to find fault with any of that. But to her mother (and Fort Lauderdale resident), Susan Jordan, Meg’s more…
We often wonder how so many underqualified people attain power in government. This week we have two wonderful examples to ponder. So Gov. Jeb Bush scanned the entirety of Broward County to find just the right person to fill the important and lucrative position of clerk of the courts. And…
We are charging Publix with thievery. And we’re calling for a Publix execution. As soon as our story came out last week on the deaths of five of the company’s employees at the Deerfield Beach warehouse, a current employee of Publix, apparently under orders from a store manager, stole our…
The pasty-white young man had come to the beach to bask in the warm sunshine, inhale the balmy ocean breezes, and soak in the salt water at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. He certainly didn’t plan on gulping seawater and nearly drowning that Sunday afternoon. The beach was crowded with locals and tourists; we’re…
OK, everyone who is sick of the daily news media’s coverage of the Elian “crisis,” please raise your hand. Now, how many of you have noticed that the Hispanic writers and television reporters covering the story ad nauseam have shown a bias toward the family and against the father and…
Vitamin king Carl DeSantis won kudos recently for donating $2 million to Nova Southeastern University for a new building to house its graduate business school. “It’s very important to us to have… people of this stature and respect signing on to our school,” Randolph Pohlman, dean of the business school,…
Florida Congressman Bill McCollum is not a politician anyone ever accused of being nonpartisan. As one of the thirteen Republicans who argued the case for impeachment before the U.S. Senate last year, he was having the time of his life bashing President Clinton (and with those glasses and haircut, he…
In the rather ritzy clubhouse of Calder Race Course sat Charlie Hustle (a.k.a. Pete Rose) on a recent Friday, doing what he’s now most famous for: gambling. Rose was calmly watching the ponies run on the dirt below, a stack of cash sitting in front of him on his table…
The Herald street hawker was standing in the road selling papers along with the Sun-Sentinel salesperson and another Herald seller. Hey, wait a darn minute here. Why are there two street geeks selling the same rag on the same corner? Well, that’s because there are now two Heralds from which…
An SEC judge in Washington has it all wrong. He actually contends that Broward county politicos would take advantage of a system in which it is whom you know (or whom you pay off) that runs the government, many times to the disadvantage of citizens. What an outrageous accusation. The…
When the people at TDM Research of Austin, Texas called Charlotte Greenbarg of Hollywood, they obviously tried to push around the wrong woman. Greenbarg claims she was the victim of a questionable “push poll,” and her allegation has now led to a formal investigation by the Florida Elections Commission. Greenbarg…
When the chairman of the School Advisory Board climbed on the roof of Deerfield Beach Middle on November 29, he took photographs of what he thought looked like men who’d “just gotten off the landing ship.” The men were in space suits attached to respirators and were digging up voluminous…
If you’ve been reading the heart-wrenching tales of abused and drug-addicted children that accompany the Sun-Sentinel’s pitch for contributions to the paper’s Children’s Fund as avidly as we have, you’ve no doubt been tempted to reach for your wallet and give till it hurts. After all, these anecdotes of youth…
Our attempt to publicize and invigorate the “Get Those Damn Grammys” campaign by Broward County tourist officials got plenty of notice in certain circles last week. The satire pointed out the difficulty of attempting to pull in such an international event, and we tried to poke fun at both Miami’s…
We think it’s time for Scott Cowan to take stock of his political career and then admit that he was beyond the pale in insisting to us that there was nothing wrong in paying his daughters with campaign donations for work they didn’t do. In October of last year, we…
Ah, the roar of the crowd. The chanting for more. All the finishing elements of a successful show at the Broward Center For the Performing Arts. But this clapping is not for the revival of Chicago playing inside, it’s coming from outside the hall, and it’s occurring before the performance…
It appears that while John Henry plies the political backrooms for a $400 million tax subsidy, his supporters and operatives are at the same time working other angles to make the idea of a baseball park more palatable to Broward residents. Move number one: He told the media last week…
So Jeb has a problem with the Supremes reviewing the constitutionality of killing someone with huge amounts of electricity? Governor Bush is peeved that the high court brings up that annoying Eighth Amendment and that a review will stop the state-sanctioned murders of inmates for a few months. Cruel and…
Into the boiling cauldron that is politics in Hollywood we throw two new ingredients. One is sure to raise the level of bitterness, and the other should add a touch of much-needed sweetness. Betrayal. This comes in the form of a new attack on Mara Giulianti’s campaign for mayor (nothing…
We felt the surge of the water float our car sideways before fully realizing that this was no outer band of a hurricane sweeping over the area on Friday evening. As the rainwater seeped though the doors, the abandoned cars came into view with alarming regularity. Once at home, we…
