In February, Fort Lauderdale held a public meeting about a controversial proposal to build two 39-story towers at the Bahia Mar resort area. Proving there is nothing that South Florida residents care more about than land development, the meeting stretched for a staggering eight hours, until 4:30 in the morning. More…
Boynton Beach has long been regarded as the sleepy beach community wedged between West Palm Beach and Delray Beach. It’s where everyone’s grandma seems to live and, with a population of 70,000, the kind of place where you quickly run out of things to do after 10 p.m. But that’s…
Pompano rapper Kodak Black, whose real name is Dieuson Octave, has been arrested on charges of possession of a weapon or ammo by a felon, possession of cannabis/synthetic cannabis less than 20 grams, fleeing/eluding a law enforcement officer at high speed, and disobeying a traffic device. Reports say that Hallandale…
Today, we have fresh water to drink, clean air to breathe, and sea turtles to awwwww at. But let’s be very clear: these are not givens — particularly in a state driven by Rick Scott, a Republican legislature, and constant development. In Florida, there’s practically a war on nature. Wild…
More than 20 counties in Florida have signed ordinances banning fracking, the controversial process by which water, sand, and an unnamed cocktail of chemicals are jammed into the ground, in order to extract oil and natural gas. The process has been blamed for contaminating groundwater. Around the time Broward County…
For some major exhilaration, all you need is a thin sheet of plastic unrolled in the backyard, a garden hose, and bodily momentum. Slip n’ slides are the mainstay of summer. This summer, Broward county is getting its own — and much bigger than anything you ever slid down as…
It seems that Scott Israel now has two serious challengers standing between himself and another term as Broward County Sheriff. Until this month, only one of the candidates running to defeat Israel — former cop Willie Jones — appeared to have spent much time working as a cop in South…
On Friday, 38-year-old Stacy Konwiser was killed by a Malayan tiger at the Palm Beach Zoo when she was in its “night house” and preparing for a demonstration. Her death made headlines around the world, but the zoo insisted that it did not blame, and would not euthanize the tiger…
This week, two men from Lakeland said they recorded video that included footage of the elusive Skunk Ape, a Bigfoot-type creature rumored to roam Southern swamps. The men, Mark Barton and Chris Conner, have been searching for the creature for two years and post videos of their exploits to a…
On Thursday, New Times spoke to Pansy Clayton, a nursing assistant who works at the Hillcrest Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home in Hollywood owned by Consulate Health Care, a national nursing home chain. That day, Clayton was one of hundreds of protesters demonstrating outside Consulate’s properties, claiming that…
In 2014, Fort Lauderdale commissioners passed a city ordinance that prohibited “personal property to be stored on public property.” The law states that “‘store’ means any action to place, leave, park, locate, or set an item upon the public property for a period of time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours…
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has ushered in a reluctant era of change at the sheriff’s office — when cops break the law, Israel has said there will be “no thin blue line” to shelter them. He’s pushed body cameras onto a department that clearly didn’t want them. Five candidates…
The NFL Draft is less than two weeks away, yet it’s somehow sneaking up Dolphins fans. Maybe it’s the Miami Heat being back in the playoffs for the first time since LeBron James left. Maybe it’s the Florida Panthers run at the Stanley Cup that’s distracted us. Maybe it’s the…
The poster-sized map on Bruce Mowry’s desk is scrawled with blotchy patches of red, showing elevations across Miami Beach. Everywhere 2.2 feet or lower is shaded in deep crimson. That’s the same height, incidentally, that water reached last September during the King Tide, the highest nonstorm water level ever recorded…
Yesterday, a Fort Lauderdale area woman became a pivotal figure in Asia when she critiqued a controversial politician who (like a certain American candidate) is running for president while saying and doing outlandish things — and yet, is dominating polls and drawing huge crowds to rallies. Robin Haines Merrill says…
According to U.S. Census data, there are roughly 1.8 million people living in Broward County. It’s a majority-minority country: 28 percent of those people — some 600,000 residents — identify as black or African American, and another 27 percent identify as Hispanic or Latino. As such, a local panel of…
When the Palm Beach Zoo opens on Monday after being closed to the public over the weekend, it won’t quite be business as usual. Zoo employees have been mourning the death of zookeeper Stacey Konwiser, who was killed by a male Malayan tiger on Friday. Her death made international news. …
The Unitarian Universalist Church in Oakland Park might seem an unlikely home for a school. Well-worn carpet lines the hallways, and a thicket of trees shades the lawn. Broward’s Black Lives Matter Alliance hosts its weekly meetings here, as does a group of pagans. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m…
Country music star Zac Brown admits he was part of a group of nine people partying in a hotel room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Palm Beach on the night of April 8, when four people were arrested for drugs. According to police reports, cops were called to…
Tuesday night, CNN aired a Trump Family Town Hall special, a sit-down interview/family reunion featuring Anderson Cooper speaking with Donald Trump, his wife Melania, sons Eric and Donald Jr., daughter Ivanka, grandchildren, and pretty much every available other branches of the Trump family tree. Few things of significance were said…
At this point, it’s clear that virtually all of the support for Tim Canova’s congressional campaign is coming from the same frothing section of the populace that’s pulling for Bernie Sanders. In March, two major unions — the Communication Workers of America and National Nurses United — both endorsed Canova…
During rush hour one February evening, analysts filmed 20 minutes of traffic on I-95’s northbound lanes from the Clyde Moore Overpass in Boca Raton. During that time, 2,151 cars passed through. Of those 2,151 drivers, it was later revealed that more than eight percent of drivers were driving distracted. That means…
