Michelle Obama Will Bring Becoming Tour to the BB&T Center in Fort Lauderdale

Michelle Obama — former First Lady, lawyer, university administrator, and now, hugely celebrated author — has just announced that the Becoming Tour: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama has added new stops on its U.S. leg along with future appearances in Canada and Europe. The additional tour dates announced this morning include a stop at the BB&T Center in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, May 10, 2019.

Republicans Are Already Trying to Stop Felons From Voting

The best news for Democrats from the recent midterm elections was that Florida’s racist and ridiculously difficult road to voting rights restoration for felons was overturned  — you know, the one that stopped one in five black voters from casting ballots. Now it looks as if Republicans don’t want to…

In Wake of #ThisIsOurLane, Broward Medical Professionals and Nonprofits Team Up to Distribute Gun Locks

Jackie Rosen lost her only child to suicide in 1986. Mitch Rosen was just 24 years old. 32 years later, Rosen has funneled her grief into the Florida Initiative for Suicide Prevention Inc., or FISP. She serves as the Executive Director/CEO and one of the founding members of the nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide through education and resource. The group’s latest venture is signing onto Broward County’s League of Women Voters’ nonpartisan gun safety campaign: Lock It Up!

South Florida QAnon Cop Gets Demoted From SWAT Team

This past Friday, Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT member Matt Patten wore a QAnon conspiracy-theory patch while greeting Vice President Mike Pence at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Today Patten was reprimanded and demoted from the SWAT team and BSO’s Office of Homeland Security.

New Lawsuit Challenges Rick Scott’s Last-Minute Help to Big Sugar

Rick Scott has been a friend to the deadly red tide that has killed millions of fish, fouled beaches in Southwest Florida, and even endangered Miami’s multibillion-dollar tourist industry. He has cut environmental regulation and limited crackdowns on sugar companies that dump fertilizer into the groundwater, which is the root…

“Impossible” Wages Keep Broward Airport Employees Working Through the Holidays

Every Thanksgiving, Stevenson Tibel shows up at Fort Lauderdale International Airport for his work as a wheelchair attendant, in a job that pays him so little he can’t afford to miss a single shift. On a day of family and celebration, Tibel will be working while his wife and ten-year-old son are eating Thanksgiving dinner, just like he has for the past six years. He has no other choice but to work through the holidays.