Tanya Tweeton, an activist with the SouthEast Florida Sierra Marine and Water Quality Team, was seated in the hall outside yesterday’s Broward County Commission meeting, chatting nervously with three friends. The County Commission was set to vote on an ordinance to ban fracking, the process by which water, sand and…
A weekly newspaper, the South Florida Gay News, has long been distributed on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton – a public institution. But according to SFGN’s editor Jason Parsley (a graduate of FAU), earlier this month, “My delivery guy showed up to FAU and realized there…
A battle is heating up between rich owners of waterfront property and boaters who, instead of docking, use anchors to keep their boats cheaply in the Intracoastal Waterway. The rich have argued that boaters ruin their view — especially ones that have abandoned decrepit vessels. Many boaters, however, contend that…
Last year, a New York Times investigation that showed that a large portion of luxury, multimillion-dollar homebuyers in that city were foreign nationals with dubious backgrounds who were dumping money into American real estate to evade the prying eyes of their home governments. The U.S. government announced two weeks ago…
For the last two years, there has been a campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. A proposed constitutional amendment that would have legalized it nearly passed in 2014, when 58 percent of voters supported the amendment, just two points shy of the 60 percent threshold. It was a devastating…
Fort Lauderdale is the city that made headlines worldwide in 2014 when officers arrested a 90-year man for feeding the homeless in definace of a city ordinance. But cities around the country have been enacting laws to make life uncomfortable for homeless people and drive them away. The latest municipality…
Dr. Nabil el Sanadi, who was the CEO of Broward Health (formerly Broward General Medical Center), died by suicide Saturday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced. The doctor was found dead from a gunshot wound in a bathroom in his condominium lobby in Lauderdale-By-the-Sea, where he and his wife Lori owned…
According to federal court documents, two people are alleging that infamous eye doctor Salomon Melgen left them blind in one eye. Melgen, a Palm Beach County eye surgeon, was arrested in April for bilking Medicare out of more than $100 million. His alleged scheme was simple: convince elderly patients to…
Wayne Huizenga used to live at 516 Mola Ave., on the manmade finger islands known as Las Olas Isles. His two-acre homesite was once advertised as “the largest assemblage of waterfront property in Fort Lauderdale.” His old house sat on a little peninsula surrounded by the New River and the…
People in more northern climes are probably ROFLMFAOing at us, but Broward County has declared a “cold weather emergency” from Saturday evening until Monday morning, according to a media release from the county. A news release said temps would be in the 40s, while the National Weather Service published…
In 2004, Fort Lauderdale attorney Bradford Cohen was a candidate on the second season of The Apprentice, a reality TV show in which Donald Trump evaluates candidates’ business skills and offers the winner a job within his organization. In episode two, Cohen won a challenge and so, per the rules,…
Jim Hall is an epidemiologist at Nova Southeastern University, and Broward County’s most prominent expert on synthetic drugs. He says flakka, the drug that law enforcement experts say has ravaged Broward County in the last year, is changing. Typically, flakka was made from a chemical called a-PVP, which was mostly…
It is with great sadness that we announce that after three years of giving Fort Lauderdale a funky, inspiring space for learning and communing, Makers Square Makerspace will be closing its doors, with a final blowout scheduled for February 13. Since opening in 2013, the toolshop/bar/social club/arts and event space…
Eight years after it began, the dust is finally settling on the Scott Rothstein Ponzi scheme that rocked Fort Lauderdale. In December, TD Bank executive Frank Spinosa, the final defendant, was sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud. One key player, Ovadia Levy,…
Your momma didn’t want her baby to grow up to be a cowboy, an English or a theatre major… and based on a recent report, she was right. You should skip college and get a certificate to become a paramedic. A recent report called “Labor Market Experiences After Postsecondary…
Now that the dust has settled following the Miami Dolphins’ hire of Adam Gase as their new head coach, we can take a step back and speculate on what his hire means going forward. It seems every day Gase is adding a new member to his coaching staff. As the…
Coral Springs police today warned that residents are reporting of a phone/email scam in which con artists pretend to be representatives from the Internal Revenue Service and threaten to arrest the victim unless monies are paid. Coral Springs police announced via Facebook: “Over the past few days, there are have…
On Monday, an estimated 200 or so motorcycle, ATV and dirt bike riders surprised their fellow drivers — and, apparently, law enforcement officers — in Broward and Miami-Dade counties as they rode through city streets in packs. In Broward, riders were reportedly spotted in Davie, Pompano Beach, Hallandale and Fort…
Around 2 p.m. December 8, Jesús María Villalobos, a 16-year-old with a big frame and a bigger smile, pulled on his headphones and left his room in Delray Beach for a nearby gym. He walked north along the train tracks until he was near the intersection of Linton Boulevard and…
As a destination for luxury real estate, Broward county is often overshadowed by Miami. But over the last five years, new real estate developments have sprouted up throughout the county. With the Fort Lauderdale area no longer a tacky spring break destination, rich people have flocked to Broward county to…
TV cameras encircled Pam Bondi outside Bennett’s Fresh Roast, a quaint shop a block from the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, one more stop on a statewide tour in the fall of 2014 with Gov. Rick Scott. Bondi flashed her trademark high-wattage grin, shook her blond locks into place, and…
In 2011, senator Bernie Sanders asked Tim Canova, who was then teaching law in California, to sit on his Wall Street-reform advisory panel alongside renowned economists like former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz. This, Canova says, gives him the right to be a bit critical…
