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Life is always difficult for the nation’s Democratic National Committee Chair. Like the Presidency itself, chairing the party is a thankless job, one typically beset by accusations that you are inevitably driving the left-wing into the ground. Howard Dean was roundly criticized for the direction he took the party in…

Around 2 o’clock this morning, following an eight-hour gauntlet of a public hearing, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission tentatively approved a zoning ordinance that would clear the way for the redevelopment of the publicly-owned Bahia Mar property on Fort Lauderdale Beach and the construction of two 29-story towers. The ordinance will…

It was 1 a.m. Saturday, January 16, when a pair of uniformed men shook Jaiema Pierre awake. The petite 18-year-old nursing major had fallen asleep in a friend’s dorm room at the Indian River Towers on Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus. “What year is it?” one of them asked…

The Hoot is a new independent publication at Florida Atlantic University. On March 21, the site published a story headlined “FAU Student Government Legalizes Recreational Marijuana on Campus.” An FAU Board of Trustee member was quoted linking marijuana use to AIDS, and the school’s dining hall was hailed as the…

Last year, a New Times investigation found that the city of Hallandale Beach had executed 38 SWAT raids since 2006. Thirty-three of those were located within the city’s poor, majority-black neighborhood, and none of the raids led to major drug busts. But one May 2014 raid killed 34-year-old Howard Bowe, Jr…

Alan Amron’s living room on Evernia Street in West Palm Beach is barely wider than the dark sofa that dominates it. The kitchen is too small to eat in, so a tiny round table is crammed into the living room. It’s unclear whether two people can eat there at once…

A former Broward Sheriff’s officer has been out of work for almost nine years, claiming he can’t perform everyday tasks.  Video (obtained by New Times) shows otherwise, and Nicolas Carreno, 45, was arrested last week on charges of insurance fraud. Investigators in the Broward Sheriff’s Office fraud division say Carreno,…

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The constitution states “neither shall any person be eligible to that office [of president] who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years.” But last June, Elijah Manley decided to run for president anyway. The Fort Lauderdale High junior was only 16 (but has since turned 17). He…

A $429.6 million Powerball jackpot hit on Saturday night. In years past that would have been big news. But after that $1.6 billion record run-up in January, it’s only a brief. That’s a problem organizers of the two national lotteries, Powerball and MegaMillions, are facing more and more. We have…

For quite some time now, Broward County has been besieged by a contingent of Islamophobes who claim our local police departments, schools, and city governments have been “overrun” by “terrorists” looking to institute Sharia law across America. Notable among these: Joe Kaufman, the lead Republican running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz…

Yesterday, people affiliated with the All Saints Catholic Church and soup kitchen protested the city of Oakland Park by interrupting a culinary event at city hall and staging a protest they called “Jesus and the Tax Collectors.” Parishoner Arthur Carl Kanev explains that Jesus loved “the injured, the crippled, the…

For just $69, you, too, can receive some sound advice this month from a disbarred lawyer, who went to jail for his involvement with one of the largest Ponzi schemers in American history. Don’t all sign up at once! Steven Lippman, 54, spent two years in jail for helping famed…

I once, in the 8th grade, got into a slap-boxing fight on a trampoline, with a kid who was about a foot taller than I was. The fake fight turned into a real fight, which then turned into me running inside with blood streaming from my nose. I have since…

Rules about casino licenses, slot machines and gambling protocols should be left to those with a longtime background in such matters, argues state Senator Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach. Four of the past five years, Sachs has proposed that Florida create a gaming commission. Each time, her bill has died before…

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