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Update: As expected, Rush told his listeners that he’s not going anywhere and that the Politico report is just part of the “public business negotiation.” Original post: It looks like Rush Limbaugh is going to have to take his history lessons on how white people were actually awesome about slavery…

The sun came out after a long day of rain Sunday evening, lighting the stained glass windows of Hill Top Missionary Baptist church in Riviera Beach, for a rally in memory of Trayvon Martin. Well past nightfall, Martin’s father, Tracy Martin, spoke, but those present were still ablaze with quiet…

Longtime Dania Beach Commissioner Pat Flury, who resigned several weeks ago after excoriating an unknown “stalker” at a public meeting, just gave a clearer reason for her departure. It wasn’t because of that “stalker,” though he seemed to have played a part. It also didn’t involve allegations that she wasn’t…

Broward County Commissioner Martin David Kiar recently volunteered to accept the current federal minimum wage for a week in an attempt to bring more attention to the issue. His experience was eye-opening. “It was pretty tough,” Kiar, who went the week of July 15 living off the Florida minimum of…

School grades were released on Friday for elementary and middle schools in Broward and Palm Beach and — whoa, nelly — it doesn’t look good. The number of failing schools is up, while there’s a serious decline in overall grades for both districts, with A-rated schools falling from 48 percent…

So, Angie Roberts was arriving home from a bike ride Wednesday afternoon when she spotted a dude jerking off behind the bushes outside her house. When the man spotted Angie, he walked over and asked her if she had a boyfriend, like a pimp. Shockingly, Angie told him she did…

Marine scientist John Englander comes across as calm, cool, collected, and concerned. In print and in interviews, he explains, in uncomplicated, matter-of-fact language, what the future holds for coastal dwellers like us if nothing is done to address climate change. In a word, disaster. See also: Keys Hospitals Submerged by…

Hey, guess what? Congress almost grew a pair yesterday. True story. Yesterday, the most lazy-ass, do-nothing legislative body in the history of the republic voted on a law that would have stopped the NSA’s blanket phone-tapping program. And (Fuck Yeah, America!) it almost passed. South Florida’s legislators doomed the bill…

George Zimmerman “got away with murder,” Juror B29 told Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts in an interview Thursday. The juror, who goes by the name Maddy, was the only minority among the six all-female jurors who acquitted Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. Maddy tells Roberts that she feels she owes…

In case you haven’t heard, Tropical Storm Dorian is hanging out in the Atlantic heading in our general vicinity. Some forecasts are saying she might intensify to hurricane strength sometime next week, though no one is really sure if South Florida will be impacted by the storm or not. EVERYBODY…

The KVJ Show, a popular West Palm Beach morning drive radio show, surprised its huge and loyal audience earlier this week when it announced it would be signing off after 14 years on the air. The show, hosted by Kevin Rolston, Virginia Sinicki, and Jason Pennington, had been a morning…

In May, Olivia Sprauer — who now goes by Victoria Valentine James — was fired from her teaching job at Martin County High School for doing photo shoots of herself half-naked. Her termination struck a chord. She netted sweeping attention, got into the pages of the Daily Mail and Huffington…

On a scalding Saturday afternoon, nearly a dozen Miami Beach Police cars are jammed up on the lawns of a shady residential street near Mount Sinai Hospital. Cops lean against their cruisers as a mangy group of about 20 protesters spills out onto the overgrown lawn before a white, single-story…