It’s over — the election, that is — and we’re already back to business as usual in Palm Beach County: favorable official treatment of questionable businesses, hypocritical maneuvering by powerful lawyers, and rampant dissembling by deep-pocketed merchants of crap.What’s that you say? Election Day is Tuesday? Don’t kid yourself. The…
Words that are rarely combined in common nomenclature: parking garage, art, and intellectual property. But somehow a strange showdown on South Beach has brought them all together for local photographer, Hester Esquenazi. Who knew taking pictures of the 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage, which has become one of the most-photographed…
During the 2008 elections, early voting lines went long. So then-Gov. Charlie Christ extended early voting, allowing more people the chance to vote. That was pretty much when the Republicans started to hate him because a lot of them blamed Obama winning Florida on that move. Because everyone being allowed…
Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter tells New Times she plans on filing an assault complaint against Tom Lauder, a blogger for the local conservative website RedBroward. Allegations that Lauder printed out a fake press pass and has been harassing voters at an early-voting site in Coral Springs first surfaced on rabble-rouser Chaz…
While Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was busy raping little boys in the shower, his bosses apparently not only looked the other way but tried to sweep the whole thing under the rug. Because nothing ruins the hallowed sanctity of a university with a long, rich tradition like telling authorities little…
Arguments were heard in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta in Florida’s appeal of a lower court Thursday on the decision halting enforcement of a 2011 state law mandating drug tests of applicants for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Basically, the law says that those who…
According to John Heyman of CBS Sports, the Miami Marlins have hired former Florida Marlins catcher Mike Redmond to be their next manager to eventually be fired by Jeffrey Loria. Heyman reports that it’s a three-year deal…
Now that all the candy’s been handed out and the toilet paper cleaned off the trees and the egg yolk scrubbed off of front doors, it’s time to see who our next president is going to be. While presidential Halloween masks are probably the most unoriginal, uncreative, and lamest of…
Keiser University of Fort Lauderdale hasn’t admitted any wrongdoing.But the company/school agreed yesterday to provide free retraining — and not to mislead prospective students. That is pretty horrible stuff coming from an educational institution.As our feature story showed not long ago, many for-profit universities are under scrutiny these days for not…
Looks like Cooper City mayoral candidate Gary Ross can start planning that victory party early. His opponent, Gary Laufenberg, tearfully announced he is dropping out of the race. The reason: Laufenberg is basically taking the bullet for campaign aide and family friend Ryan Shrouder after he was caught stealing a…
Polls are tight in Florida as the presidential election mercifully grinds down to its final days, and anything can and will happen in the Sunshine State, because that’s just how we roll. A Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News Poll have Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a virtual tie in…
We’ve been predicting it for months, and new data from the Department of Health now confirm it. Whooping cough cases are the highest they’ve been in Florida for the past decade, and probably a lot longer than that. As of Tuesday, there have an astonishing 515 cases around the state, according to DOH…
Earlier this month, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama spent most of their second debate falling over each other to prove who cares more about middle-class voters. “The middle class is getting crushed,” Romney said. “That’s what this election is about. It’s about who can get the middle class in this…
Are you ready for Tuesday’s election? Having flashbacks to 2000, when Florida’s sleazeball recount decided the election of George W. Bush? Well, as likely as not, we in Florida will choose the president again this year. With 29 electoral votes up for grabs, ours is by far the largest swing…
According to a letter Jose Lambiet of Gossip Extra reportedly came across, Rep. Allen West said he wanted his wife to be his “porn star.” The handwritten letter, which Lambiet says was written by West in Iraq in 2003, reads like a Penthouse Forum letter, as West allegedly tells his…
As if early voting wasn’t a butt-hurting experience already. Broward voters who have hit up the Tamarac Branch Library to do some early voting have seen their cars towed away from a strip mall across the street after after being forced to park there due to a full library parking…
Rick Scott’s decision to opt out of participating in the expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program in Florida could cost public hospitals billions and billions of dollars. This according to a new study by the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (whom we’re sure will get called…
Lost in the hoopla that was the amazeballs that was the Miami Heat championship ring and banner pregame ceremony was NBA Commissioner David Stern taking a moment to remember the victims of the recent storm that hit the North Atlantic by calling it Hurricane Katrina. “Before we begin, I know…
If you’re among the 1.4 million Floridians who have decided to vote via absentee ballot this year, your voice might not get heard. Because FLORIDA! Also because PAY ATTENTION. Basically, because we live in the Voting Fuckup Capital of the World, absentee ballots have been known to go to the…
By now, more than 2 million people have already voted in Florida, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the state’s voters and trouncing early concerns that voter-suppression measures would stymie turnout. We already knew how bogus concerns over voter fraud were, but does the same go for our trepidation regarding voter…
A set of motions filed Monday night delayed the resentencing of reggae singer Buju Banton on a federal gun charge.One motion again asked for the judge to reconsider resentencing Buju, while the other requested an entirely new trial on all charges based on New Times reporting that indicates a juror…
The Miami Heat kicked off the 2012-12 season last night by first getting its championship rings and then by sticking a foot into the Celtics’ assholes. ‘Twas a glorious night indeed. And while traditionally ring ceremony games have been a snoozer, mainly because the team getting the rings were still…
