In an area world-famous for botched balloting, New Times endorses Republican Elliot S. Shaw in Palm Beach County’s Florida House District 89. A destitute lawyer whose sanity the Florida Supreme Court once questioned, he’s the perfect candidate for SoFla’s easily misled voters. We like his chances. Even the state’s fantastically…
One of the most intriguing mysteries of the whole Election 2000 debacle is this: How many Florida voters improperly lost their voting rights because of a statewide effort to scrub felons from voter rolls? This question was at the heart of a post-election lawsuit filed against the Department of State…
On Tuesday, when Robert Wexler beats his underfunded Republican challenger, Jack Merkl, the Boca Raton congressman will get two more years of far-flung travel. As I’ve reported recently, he’s been jetting around the Middle East and Central Asia drumming up sup1port for an invasion of Iraq and the nebulous “war…
Hawk-y Slavin squawks again: This is my third attempt to castigate the Jew-hating and Israel-bashing liar Bob Norman. That’s right, you’re a liar! Norman wrote that Israel occupies other people’s land, specifically, “Israel occupies the Palestinian territories.” (“Wexler’s Travels,” October 24). That is a lie — one of many Norman…
Back in 1976, Alan “Ollie” Gelfand — a nervous, fast-talking kid with bulging eyes, long brown hair, and heat-inviting corduroy pants — was flying with buddies Kevin Peterson and Jeff Duer in a chartered plane, their eyes hungrily scanning the landscape below. The 14-year-old friends had pooled their allowances and…
Southwest Ranches is the last municipal outpost in western Broward County before the landscape gives way to the Everglades. It’s a sparsely settled gateway between the wetlands and the cramped suburbs; most of the 7500 people who live here relate more to the River of Grass than to the towers…
Robert Wexler loves to talk Turkey. The congressman from Boca Raton gobbles on and on about that troubled country, calling it a role model for all Muslim nations to follow and praising its help in the so-called war on terrorism. “Turkey is secular and democratic, and they are a steadfast…
Awakens the masses: Thank you for writing about the Lord/Jesus in the October 17 Bandwidth. I avoid local scene websites because typos make me cringe, so I never would have heard about him without Jeff Stratton’s column. It’s always good to know about people trying to wake up the scene…
A sneer builds in the corner of Howard Schnellenberger’s right eye, then slowly becomes a piercing gaze directed at the empty football field in front of him. His schedule calls for his men to practice at Eastern Kentucky University by 5 p.m. sharp, but the drizzling rain apparently didn’t get…
The scapegoat of the great 2002 election debacle has been keeping a low profile lately. In fact, since Walter Foeman walked out on a $95,600-a-year job as Broward County’s deputy supervisor of elections September 20, he has been avoiding the media, his former boss, and at least some of his…
Our elected Democrats fell to pieces last week, just as surely as if a Scud missile from Baghdad had by some miracle struck the party’s headquarters. En masse, they accused George W. Bush of wagging the dog by pushing a vote on the war during election season. They were right…
And oh how we hear it: In regard to October 10’s Undercurrents, and in the spirit of journalistic accuracy, I would like to draw your attention to the following paragraph, which the Sun-Sentinel published on September 19, 2002: “In other action, city commissioners on Tuesday: Decided to have a public…
A festive spirit infuses the cast and crew of the film Realms of Blood. After all, there’s a near-decapitation planned for later tonight. The tony Coral Springs home in which they’ve gathered is the location for the final scenes of Painkiller, one of four separate stories that constitute Realms. It’s…
When he’s in the middle of a bamboo forest, Erik Sampson hears music. Today, though, Sampson isn’t in the jungle. He’s standing before a clump of bamboo rooted inside a nine-foot-square planter fashioned from railroad ties, in a sunny part of the back yard of his five-bedroom, three-bath, $232,220 ranch…
A beloved ficus tree that sprouted from the soil back in the 1920s and boasted a 120-foot-wide canopy has fallen to a rich developer’s ax. We blame the Sun-Sentinel. And we’re none too happy with Broward Circuit Court Judge Tom Lynch. Back in July, New Times Music Editor Jeff Stratton…
Editor’s Note: This week, we publish an extended letters section dedicated only to Bob Norman’s September 26 column, “Hawking for Israel.” We received dozens of missives in response to the article, so many that we couldn’t fit them all. We will publish more in upcoming weeks. They feel we are…
“Ladies, we’ve got a special treat for you tonight,” the DJ’s voice bounds over the crowd. “He’s won our Sunday-night amateur strip contest more times than any other contestant. Please welcome… Bernie!” As the first bars of Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On” trumpet through LaBare’s sound system,…
Last week, Nathan Lipschultz sealed a gutter, repaired a screen door, installed a garbage disposal, and then headed to a meeting with two members of the Sun-Sentinel’s editorial board. He made the trek from his home in Boca Raton to the headquarters of a newspaper that he considers a citadel…
It’s official. Broward and Palm Beach counties are 100 percent in support of making war in Iraq. It seems we’re all itching for a bloodbath — or at least for bloody Baaths — in Baghdad. We’re good and snookered by the bait (Osama) and switch (Saddam), and have abandoned any…
Biased? He’s a columnist, for chrissake: I found Bob Norman’s September 26 article, “Hawking for Israel,” totally offensive. I have no problem with Mr. Norman being against the war in Iraq, since I am not convinced that a case has been made by President Bush. However, it is the ultimate…
Carol Roberts still gets THE REACTION, two years after Palm Beach County’s dangling and dimpled chads became world-beamed symbols of the 2000 presidential election morass. While W. Bush does his John Wayne thang in the White House, preparing to finish off his daddy’s business with Saddam, the formerly most-reviled villain…
With a manner strongly reminiscent of fellow Brooklyn native John McEnroe arguing a line call, Robert Wexler has made himself one of the nation’s loudest critics of President Bush. The liberal congressman from Boca Raton has made more than 100 appearances on cable television shows during the past two years,…
