In keeping with the long and storied tradition of blaming the managers and never, ever the decision-making by the ownership and front office, the Miami Marlins have announced that they have fired manager Ozzie Guillen. Marlins baseball operations President Larry Beinfest released a statement: “After careful consideration following the disappointment…
Back in July, Wayne Treacy was found guilty of attempted first-degree murder after he attacked 15-year-old Josie Lou Ratley with his steel-toed boots after she taunted him by making fun of his dead brother in a text. Ratley suffered permanent brain damage after the attack. The prosecution presented text messages…
Back on October 9, the Broward County Commission debated on instituting a Wage Recovery Ordinance that would help unpaid workers recover their wages when their employers don’t pay the correct amount (or, in some case, don’t pay period). The vote was delayed until Tuesday, October 23, at 2 p.m. This…
The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council, a group dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, have released their list of candidates they’re endorsing. Among them, President Barack Obama, West Palm Beach Attorney and police officer Dave Kerner, Susan Bucher, Patrick Murphy, Alcee Hastings,…
Round three of the presidential debates was last night. And people who went in expecting to have their asses blown off with the two candidates going at each other for a final climactic showdown were mildly disappointed. No asses were blown off here, unfortunately. The main take-aways from the debate:…
As the lights came down in the debate hall at Lynn University, the co-chairman of the Commission on Presidential Debates, Frank Fahrenkopf, took the stage.See Also:- Live Blog: Rumble in Boca 2012, Obama and Romney Presidential Debate! – Photos: Final 2012 Presidential Debate at Lynn UniversityHe thanked us all for…
It wasn’t just Obama and Romney who had something to say last night in Boca Raton. Hundreds of citizens (and some non-citizens) showed up to speak their minds on the election and the issues of the day. Fifteen of those who spoke out went to jail for their troubles. It…
Move over Jonah Lehrer, Gerald Posner, and Jayson Blair. There’s a new plagiarist in town.Last week, New Times revealed that a help-wanted ad on Craigslist from a nonprofit in Pensacola for a Bigfoot researcher was a well-crafted prank. We tracked down Tyler Reeves, the alleged brains behind the ad, and…
Always easy to gore someone else’s ox, and Palm Beach County business interests have long been ready to take a knife–or a bulldozer–to Kennedy Estates, part of Jupiter’s 100-year old black community, Limestone Creek*.Developers plans for a road adjoining the neighborhood’s park (a humble enough scrub of land as it…
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As we noted earlier, we’ve invaded Lynn University for tonight’s third and final presidential debate. As get ready to live-blog tonight’s nuttery for you, please enjoy the photos of things we’ve spotted so far, including a Budweiser taste testing booth for the media (woo-hoo!) and John Kerry looking slick (awwwwriiighht!!)…
NBA.com took their annual general manager survey recently and, according to the consensus, the Miami Heat will repeat as NBA champions, this time beating the L.A. Lakers. The thirty GMs of the NBA were asked 57 questions with topics ranging from who will win the MVP, to best off-season moves,…
Mitt Romney is keeping his distance from Rick Scott, but Rick Scott isn’t keeping his distance from Mitt Romney today, making the rounds outside the debate hall and stumping for Romney and the Republican ticket.Here’s a shot we got earlier, on the road leading to the hall:Then, suddenly, Rick’s uber-nemesis…
… and it’s only 4:00. We’re finally on the internet here in the media center, where hundreds of journalists from around the world are already milling about, teetering on flimsy folding chairs, wrestling each other for spaces at the tiny work tables, and going absolutely berserk at the sight of…
In case you haven’t heard, there’s this presidential debate thing going on at Lynn University in Boca tonight. And, as you might expect with these things, traffic is going to be a bit of a pain in the butt. Between 6 a.m. Monday and 2 a.m. Tuesday, Boca Raton Police…
Gary Root, a 71-year-old registered Republican from Naples, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge after he protested Obama in the most sarcastic way ever. Root was apparently unhappy with being taxed, so he went over to his local Democratic Party headquarters and threw a penny at the workers inside the…
Marco Rubio went on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, and did that thing that GOPers do when they don’t like what Obama did, but instead of offering their own solution, they just bitch and whine and say dumb things. This time around, Charisma Boy! decided the best…
If Bain Capital and its kind are giant vampire squids wrapped around the face of humanity, Palm Beach is where they shit. The wealth they extract sits frozen along the waterfront here as miles of palatial estates, massive excrements of money. There’s a reason it’s called filthy lucre. Mitt Romney came to…
The former director of boys’ lockup Thompson Academy, Renza “Craig” Ferguson, resigned under a cloud of suspicion in March. Staff members had made allegations that he was transporting young male inmates off campus and bringing them home to shower. See also: – Our cover story on abuse at Thompson Academy…
On Friday morning, WPLG Channel 10 News ran a story of a blimp with the words “America Needs Romney” emblazoned next to a giant drawing of Mitt Romney’s face on the side of the airship. “Flying high in the polls,” the lede in the story began, “Mitt Romney was also…
This evening, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will look to destroy one another in an epic battle of banter at Lynn University in Boca. It’s a safe bet that moderator Bob Schieffer won’t throw too many curveballs and the questions will be similar to everything that’s already been asked in…
The guy who Richard Nixon cheated out of the presidency is gone.George McGovern died Sunday at age 90. His loss in 1972 was the first presidential race I remember,. He was gonna get us out of Vietnam. He was gonna remake America. He wasn’t Richard Nixon. I grew up in Minnesota,…
